Riichirō Manabe Movies
- 1956

Hungry Soul
Hungry Soul61956HD
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s...
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- 1960

Night and Fog in Japan
Night and Fog in Japan6.3651960HD
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists'...
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- 1969

Lone Rebel
Lone Rebel01969HD
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a...
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- 1959

Street of Love and Hope
Street of Love and Hope6.61959HD
A young scammer sells pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest and tries to find a good job for him.
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- 1970

Terror in the Streets
Terror in the Streets7.51970HD
Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom,...
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- 1973

Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life01973HD
Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for...
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- 1956

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District71956HD
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...
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- 1961

A Wife Confesses
A Wife Confesses6.5161961HD
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a...
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- 1961

The Catch
The Catch6.31961HD
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to...
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- 1967

Lightning
Lightning01967HD
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- 1956

Summer Storm
Summer Storm6.51956HD
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
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- 1970

Midnight Virgin
Midnight Virgin2.6671970HD
Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close,...
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- 1963

League of Gangsters
League of Gangsters7.51963HD
A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom...
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- 1975

The Gate of Youth
The Gate of Youth91975HD
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...
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- 1959

A Turning to Hell
A Turning to Hell01959HD
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...
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- 1958

The Shop Curtain
The Shop Curtain01958HD
Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.
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- 1968

Song of Vengeance
Song of Vengeance51968HD
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...
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- 1967

Hawk of the Harbour
Hawk of the Harbour01967HD
A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.
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- 1969

Exiled to Hell
Exiled to Hell01969HD
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...
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- 1972

Sword and Flower
Sword and Flower01972HD
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...
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