Meiko Kaji — Actor (62)
I Shall Not Forget (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
忘れるものか
other title: 忘れるものか
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to find out what she knew. Okabe investigates Yosuke's death, but someone kills the people who provide clues one after another. Okabe follows Rumi, a woman at a bar who was close to Yosuke, to Mt. Hiei, and to his surprise learns that Yosuke is still alive.
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夜の牝 花と蝶
other title: 夜の牝 花と蝶
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Gambling Den Desire (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
鉄火場慕情
other title: 鉄火場慕情
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!
A Warm Misty Night (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
夜霧よ今夜も有難う
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka
other title: 夜霧よ今夜も有難う / Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8 (1988) [Movie] TMDB
探偵神津恭介の殺人推理8
director: Yukio Noda actor: Masaomi Kondo / Yōko Moriguchi
other title: 探偵神津恭介の殺人推理8
President Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku Ohwada), who happened to be interviewing nearby, rushes to the site. According to his secretary Masae, Ito's ex-wife's younger brother Yoshimoto visited and he started arguing with Ito, but he suddenly escaped. Kenzo asks Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo) to investigate. It turns out that Ito's son Takashi, who was killed, is enrolled in Kyosuke Kamizu's university. When Kyosuke Kamizu met at the university, his mother-in-law, Yoko, aimed at his father's fortune and said, "I think he teamed up with designer Kawahara ." Yoko has a relationship with Kawahara, and Ito, who died, was confused because she had an affair with her secretary, Masae. Takashi is said to have already left home and is living on his own.
Women's Police (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
女の警察
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Yukiyo Toake
other title: 女の警察
Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.
The Killer (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暴力団 乗り込み
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Meiko Kaji
other title: 暴力団 乗り込み
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations.
This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms (1969) [Movie] TMDB
朱鞘仁義 鉄火みだれ桜
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Hiroko Ogi / Meiko Kaji
other title: 朱鞘仁義 鉄火みだれ桜
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...
Yakuza of the Present (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
現代任侠史
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Meiko Kaji
other title: 現代任侠史
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.
Blood Shed (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状
other title: 日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.