Jun Tazaki Movies

Japanese film.

Japanese film about motorcycle racing.

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

1967 Japanese movie

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from...

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

1961 Japanese movie

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.

Japanese film.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for drug dealing. Initially unaware of this, he falls...