Movies: Junkichi Orimoto

  • 1981
    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy (1981)

    The Imperial Navy

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    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....

    The Imperial Navy
  • 1980
    May Love Be Restored

    May Love Be Restored (1980)

    May Love Be Restored

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    A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk....

    May Love Be Restored
  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

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    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

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    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1985
    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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    A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970....

    Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • 1984
    The Return of Godzilla

    The Return of Godzilla (1984)

    The Return of Godzilla

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    After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the story to light are suppressed by the Japanese government amid growing political tensions between the...

    The Return of Godzilla
  • 1964
    Three Outlaw Samurai

    Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

    Three Outlaw Samurai

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    Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's gua...

    Three Outlaw Samurai
  • 1985
    Godzilla 1985

    Godzilla 1985 (1985)

    Godzilla 1985

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    Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves as a direct follow-up...

    Godzilla 1985
  • 2014
    0.5 mm

    0.5 mm (2014)

    0.5 mm

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    Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on the street. She survives her first night by striking up an ambiguous fr...

    0.5 mm
  • 1978
    Message from Space

    Message from Space (1978)

    Message from Space

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    The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each ...

    Message from Space
  • 1978
    The Fall of Ako Castle

    The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

    The Fall of Ako Castle

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    This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, ...

    The Fall of Ako Castle
  • 2013
    The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

    The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (2013)

    The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji

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    Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part o...

    The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
  • 1974
    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

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    While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power....

    Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
  • 1981
    Station

    Station (1981)

    Station

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    A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers....

    Station
  • 1955
    Forever a Woman

    Forever a Woman (1955)

    Forever a Woman

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    Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of...

    Forever a Woman
  • 1976
    Yakuza Graveyard

    Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

    Yakuza Graveyard

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    A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice....

    Yakuza Graveyard
  • 1966
    Samurai Wolf

    Samurai Wolf (1966)

    Samurai Wolf

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    This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without ...

    Samurai Wolf
  • 1977
    Hokuriku Proxy War

    Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)

    Hokuriku Proxy War

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    In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada,...

    Hokuriku Proxy War
  • 1975
    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

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    The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are batt...

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
  • 1977
    New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X

    New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X (1977)

    New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X

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    A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of ...

    New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X