Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Direction Sugako Hashida

Cast Ayako Kobayashi · Yûko Tanaka · Nobuko Otowa · Pinko Izumi

Synopsis (297 Episodes) The series follows the life of Shin Tanokura during the Meiji period up to the early 1980s. Shin was called "Oshin", which is Japanese archaic cognomen. In Japan, the annual average audience share was 52.6%, with a peak...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Shingo Yamashiro

Synopsis Kinji Fukasaku's revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to deglamorize the traditional cinematic portrayal of organized crime, instead painting...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Hiroki Matsukata · Kunie Tanaka · Eiko Nakamura

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Takakura · Tsunehiko Watase · Eiji Okada · Keiko Oginome

Synopsis Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Hiroki Matsukata · Nobuo Kaneko · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Synopsis The sixth chapter of Battle without honor and humanity it's a new beginning of the story.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Noboru Andô · Kenji Imai · Akiko Kudô

Synopsis A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seizo Fukumoto · Meiko Kaji · Hideo Murota

Synopsis The Owada clan sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers...

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Atsuko Asano · Naomi Zaizen

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tsunehiko Watase · Tatsuo Umemiya · Shun Ueda

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Reiko Oshida · Nobuo Kaneko · Junzaburo Ban · Yumiko Katayama

Synopsis Juvenile delinquent Rika gets released from the reform school and ends up protecting the debt-ridden father of her friend from local gangsters.

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Glenn Ford · Robert Vaughn · Masao Kusakari · George Kennedy

Synopsis A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. The only survivors are scientists in Antarctica, who desperately try to find a cure and save what is left of the planet from further destruction.

Direction Haruhiko Mimura

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yûko Tanaka · Mikijiro Hira · Yoichi Ito

Synopsis Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the...

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinobu Otake · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis WOMAN’S KARMA—LIKE THE OCEAN, CALM BUT SUDDENLY WILD AND ANGRY. Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tsunehiko Watase · Mayumi Nagisa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Tomoyo Harada · Mitsuko Baisho · Tsunehiko Watase

Synopsis Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once...

Direction Junji Kurata

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Nobiko Sawa · David Freedman · Shôtarô Hayashi

Synopsis A Japanese village is menaced by a plesiosaur from the depths of the sea. Meanwhile, deep in a cave of ice, a prehistoric egg begins to hatch. The plesiosaur and the mystery creature hatching from the egg seem destined to...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Miki Sugimoto · Hideo Murota · Takuzo Kawatani

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Takao Kataoka · Keiko Matsuzaka · Junko Miyashita · Mariko Fuji

Synopsis A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Yoshie Ichige · Pinko Izumi · Shingo Tsurumi

Synopsis Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets...