Shōbun Inoue Movies

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.

1962 Japanese movie

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss...

1962 Japanese movie

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

1962 Japanese movie

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

The humorous tale of Jimbei, a miller, and his wife Osen who live in complete happiness. But Osen's beauty attracts numerous would-be lovers among...

1962 Japanese movie

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...

The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship trio, the Nikis, but sustains an injury. In the...

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.