Cast: Frankie Sakai

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Plot 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 business rival, a young, capable...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Ken Ogata · Rentarô Mikuni · Mayumi Ogawa · Mitsuko Baisho

Plot Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over Japan, but somehow he...

Direction Jerry London

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Toshirô Mifune · Yôko Shimada · Frankie Sakai

Plot TV Series (1980). 10 episodes. John Blackthorne, an English ship pilot, whose vessel wrecked upon the Japanese coast in the early 17th century is forced to deal with the two...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Sachiko Hidari · Yôko Minamida · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot When man-about-town Saheiji (the beloved comedian Frankie Sakai) finds himself unable to pay for a bill at a brothel, he is forced to remain there to work off his debt....

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Frankie Sakai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Kyôko Kagawa · Ken Uehara

Plot Shipwreck survivors are found on Beiru, an island previously used for atomic tests. Amazingly free of radiation effects, they believe they were protected by a special juice given to them...

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Keiju Kobayashi · Yôko Tsukasa

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Chikage Awashima · Reiko Dan

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Chikage Awashima · Daisuke Kato · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka · Hideki Takahashi

Plot In 1973, Shochiku Studios released Tai Kato's updated two-part version of Miyamoto Musashi, this time with Hideki Takahashi in the title role. In Part I we see the young would-be...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Eitarô Matsuyama · Junzaburo Ban

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Asami Kuji · Machiko Naka · Keiko Sawai

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôko Enami · Mikio Narita · Makoto Satô · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ayako Wakao · Sô Yamamura · Jun Fujimaki · Frankie Sakai

Plot Koen is a geisha who has intimate relationships with several men at once. One of them, the mature Tsutsui, proposes to set a step to a change of exclusivity.

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Sô Yamamura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Isuzu Yamada · Mie Kitahara

Plot WWII is at an end. Baby boomers are in full bloom. Minister Araki is introducing a healthcare bill that aims to establish “Birth Control Consultation Centers” across Japan. As his...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Reiko Dan · Yumi Shirakawa · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Koji Shima

Cast Frankie Sakai · Eiji Funakoshi · Mariko Kô · Hikaru Hoshi

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Eijirô Tono · Sachiko Hidari · Nobuko Otowa

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Reiko Dan · Nobuko Otowa · Keiko Awaji

Plot Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are forever looking...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Frankie Sakai · Tatsuya Mihashi · Kaoru Yachigusa

Plot The story of three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes and the wife of an officer - all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War...