Screenplay: Isao Matsumoto

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Isao Matsumoto. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Brutal Tales of Chivalry

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Yoshiko Mita · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items...

6.6

21 votes

6.6

21 votes

6.4

23 votes

Killing Machine

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

5.8

64 votes

5.8

64 votes

Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment

1977 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Chia Lun · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Shindô

Plot Blood for Money! Sonny Chiba is "Golgo 13", a cold, calculating, ruthless assassin, working for the U.S. drug syndicate. His assignment: "take-out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His only obstacle: a...

5.7

128 votes

5.7

128 votes

The Blazing Valiant (Burning Brave)

1981 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Tooru Dobashi

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Hiroshi Katsuno · Kazue Ito · Hikaru Kurosaki

Plot Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once...

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The Chivalrous Life

1967 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Takashi Shimura · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Plot Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know Sakamoto, the leader of a yakuza group, and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza...

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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

1977 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Junji Kurata

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

Plot 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...

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Outlaw Corps

1969 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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International Gangs of Kobe

1975 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

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The Return of the Desperado

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man with the Dragon Tattoo

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Sumiko Fuji · Kyôsuke Machida

Plot The fifth in a powerful series about brutality, duty and honor, staring the legendary Takakura Ken. Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After...

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Those Swell Yakuza

1988 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Takanori Jinnai · Yumi Asou · Hideo Murota · Shirô Itô

Plot Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.

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Delinquent Boss

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Tatsuo Umemiya · Hayato Tani · Reiko Ohara · Koji Nambara

Plot Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

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Okinawa jû-nen sensô

1978 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Sonny Chiba · Yumiko Nogawa · Makoto Satô

Plot After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take...

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Ishimatsu the Faker

1976 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Linda Yamamoto · Bunsaku Han · Asao Koike

Plot An itinerant merchant becomes an unlikely hero.

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Gokudo kyojo tabi

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

1976 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Mitchi Love · Masafumi Suzuki · Masako Araki

Plot Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. In order to help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into...

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