Movies: Teruo Wakatsuki

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki...

1962 Japanese movie...

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series....

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and th...

Japanese comedy film....

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son....

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considere...

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle....

An early film by Kon Ichikawa...

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Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner....

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure....

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo....

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A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life....

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura...

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato"....