Movies: Asao Koike

  • 1968
    Living Skeleton

    Living Skeleton (1968)

    Living Skeleton

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    A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths......

    Living Skeleton
  • 1968
    Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

    Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy (1968)

    Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy

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    A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines....

    Tokugawa: Woman's Genealogy
  • 1983
    The Yoshida School

    The Yoshida School (1983)

    The Yoshida School

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    Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political ...

    The Yoshida School
  • 1981
    Swan Lake

    Swan Lake (1981)

    Swan Lake

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    The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ......

    Swan Lake
  • 1962
    Akitsu Hot Springs

    Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)

    Akitsu Hot Springs

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    Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically...

    Akitsu Hot Springs
  • 1969
    Inferno of Torture

    Inferno of Torture (1969)

    Inferno of Torture

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    Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confr...

    Inferno of Torture
  • 1983
    The Geisha

    The Geisha (1983)

    The Geisha

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    Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between fa...

    The Geisha
  • 1980
    The Revolt

    The Revolt (1980)

    The Revolt

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    When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a ...

    The Revolt
  • 1974
    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

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    Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ...

    Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
  • 1970
    The Revelation of a Geisha

    The Revelation of a Geisha (1970)

    The Revelation of a Geisha

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    After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim ...

    The Revelation of a Geisha
  • 1972
    Zatoichi in Desperation

    Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)

    Zatoichi in Desperation

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    After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them....

    Zatoichi in Desperation
  • 1983
    Confessions of a Wife

    Confessions of a Wife (1983)

    Confessions of a Wife

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    A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition....

    Confessions of a Wife
  • 1979
    Down with The Big Boss

    Down with The Big Boss (1979)

    Down with The Big Boss

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    In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld....

    Down with The Big Boss
  • 1967
    Zatoichi Challenged

    Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

    Zatoichi Challenged

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    Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal porno...

    Zatoichi Challenged
  • 1960
    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial (1960)

    The Sun's Burial

    6.51960HD

    In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's g...

    The Sun's Burial
  • 1964
    Flora on the Sand

    Flora on the Sand (1964)

    Flora on the Sand

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    One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later,...

    Flora on the Sand
  • 1963
    The Symbol of a Man

    The Symbol of a Man (1963)

    The Symbol of a Man

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    In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves...

    The Symbol of a Man
  • 1975
    Main Line to Terror

    Main Line to Terror (1975)

    Main Line to Terror

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    Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan ...

    Main Line to Terror
  • 1981
    Fifth Movement

    Fifth Movement (1981)

    Fifth Movement

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    When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, sa...

    Fifth Movement
  • 1969
    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (1969)

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

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    This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history....

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations