Mio Ezaki — Director (14)
Black Strait (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
黒い海峡
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Yukiyo Toake
other title: 黒い海峡
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.
Women's Police: Part II (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
続・女の警察
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Tatsuya Fuji
other title: 続・女の警察
Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...
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.
Dangerous Games (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
女子学園 悪い遊び
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Junko Natsu / Jiro Okazaki
other title: Girls' Junior High School 1: Bad Habit / 女子学園 悪い遊び
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yakuza. And more!
The Dragon of Macao (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
マカオの竜
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Yukiyo Toake
other title: マカオの竜
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
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.
The Harbor of No Return (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
帰らざる波止場
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Takashi Shimura
other title: 帰らざる波止場
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.