Screenplay: Norifumi Suzuki

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


Red Peony Gambler

1968 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

6.9

25 votes

6.9

25 votes

Eleven Samurai

1966 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Junko Miyazono · Koji Nambara · Isao Natsuyagi · Kô Nishimura

Plot It is the early 19th century in Japan. Nariatsu, a high ranking official and son of the former Shogun, is engaged in an animal hunt. In his reckless pursuit of...

6.7

62 votes

6.7

62 votes

Samurai Wolf II

1967 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

6.3

47 votes

6.3

47 votes

Sex and Fury

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Christina Lindberg · Akemi Negishi · Ryôko Ema

Plot Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and...

6.1

243 votes

6.1

243 votes

Convent of the Sacred Beast

1974 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Yumi Takigawa · Emiko Yamauchi · Yayoi Watanabe · Ryouko Ima

Plot After the mysterious death of her mother, a young woman chooses to enter a convent to find out what happened. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the...

5.5

78 votes

5.5

78 votes

4.9

30 votes

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Sumiko Fuji · Yoshi Kato

Plot Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyô-den" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.

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Sister Street Fighter

1974 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Hayakawa · Sanae Ôhori

Plot Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he...

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Family Obligations

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

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Girl Boss Guerilla

1972 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

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Torakku Yarô: Bakusô Ichibanboshi

1975 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kin'ya Aikawa · Masumi Harukawa · Kyôko Okada

Plot The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventure of two truck drivers. Tojiro and his best friend Kinjo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other...

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Mankiller

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

1969 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Seizaburô Kawazu · Hiroshi Nawa · Bin Amatsu

Plot Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she...

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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread

1974 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Tamayo Mitsukawa · Michiyo Bandô · Hisako Tanaka

Plot This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks...

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Roaring Fire

1981 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Mikio Narita

Plot Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been...

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Guys Who Never Learn

1987 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Direction Azuma Morisaki

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Hitoshi Ueki · Shingo Yamashiro · Rumiko Koyanagi

Plot Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

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Direction Tai Kato

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Toru Abe · Kanjuro Arashi · Tadashi Katô

Plot Direct sequel of the 3rd movie. Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

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Trucker Yaro IX: A 5000 Km Run (Truck Rascals 9)

1979 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kin'ya Aikawa · Masumi Harukawa · Miyuki Ono

Plot Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan’s place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.

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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Bin Amatsu · Junpei Arishima · Daisuke Awaji

Plot A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants...

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