Kiyoshi Saeki — Director (54)
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Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
博徒仁義 盃
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 博徒仁義 盃
A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of course, before the tale is finished he is forced by the utterly nefarious, heinous villains to once again pick up a sword and join fellow anti-hero Sugawara in wiping out Evil.
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Henchmen (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
代貸
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 代貸
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.
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Romance Freestyle (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
恋愛自由型
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Hibari Misora / Ken Takakura …
other title: 恋愛自由型
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
戦後派お化け大会
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yōko Sugi …
other title: 戦後派お化け大会
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
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Sasaki Kojiro, Part 2 (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
佐々木小次郎　后篇
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Chiyonosuke Azuma / Shinobu Chihara …
other title: 佐々木小次郎　后篇
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered the ultimate happiness in life when he is reunited with Tone, the love of his life. However, his days of happiness are overshadowed by an upcoming duel with his fateful enemy Miyamoto Musashi.
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A Gambler's Certain Death (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
必殺博奕打ち
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Koji Tsuruta / Isamu Nagato …
other title: 必殺博奕打ち
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.
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Hibari the Traveling Performer (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ひばりの母恋いギター
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Hibari Misora / Eitarō Shindō …
other title: ひばりの母恋いギター
Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickly dashed as her father, having married into a wealthy family, wants nothing to do with her. Will Kimie be able to regain her father’s love?
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Cantankerous Edo (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大江戸喧嘩纏
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Hibari Misora / Hashizo Ōkawa …
other title: 大江戸喧嘩纏
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular couple... Misora Hibari and Okawa Hashizo. Along with the great Otomo Rytaro as Tatsugoro the fire chief, they keep Edo safe as part of the famed Megumi Fire Squad.
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Code Between Brothers: All New (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
新兄弟仁義
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Saburo Kitajima / Kenji Imai …
other title: 新兄弟仁義
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
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A Martial Crowd (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
花笠若衆
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Hibari Misora / Hiroko Sakuramachi …
other title: The young boss / Hanagasa Wakashu …
As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princesses are separated. Yukihime, who was sent away to be raised by a yakuza family in Edo, returns home after many years to settle an old score.
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Brothers Serving Time (1969) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
懲役三兄弟
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Bunta Sugawara …
other title: 懲役三兄弟
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
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Man in the Storm (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
嵐の中の母
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Yaeko Mizutani / Hatae Kishi …
other title: 嵐の中の母
Returning from wartime China, Keiichi reunites with his mother Inako and adopted sister Tomi. He becomes drawn to Tomi’s beauty, and his mother appears supportive. But Keiichi soon meets Tsuneko, a former wartime nurse who has borne his child. Faced with a summons to stand trial for wartime atrocities, he entrusts Tomi and his son to Inako, then voluntarily turns himself in—believing he must answer not just to Japan, but to the world’s conscience.