Movies: Norikatsu Hanamura

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers....

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scan...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu....

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair....

1962 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series....

1962 Japanese movie...

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidatio...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....

1962 Japanese movie...

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before...

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison....

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Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself....

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. He contacts the newspaper about it, but the editor dismisses him, saying he's gone mad and doesn't ...

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep u...

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist"....