Movies: Tōru Abe

  • 1981
    The Imperial Navy

    The Imperial Navy (1981)

    The Imperial Navy

    6.31981HD

    A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War....

    The Imperial Navy
  • 1944
    Jubilation Street

    Jubilation Street (1944)

    Jubilation Street

    6.31944HD

    The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye....

    Jubilation Street
  • 1974
    The Last Samurai

    The Last Samurai (1974)

    The Last Samurai

    7.81974HD

    The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gent...

    The Last Samurai
  • 1977
    Ballad of Orin

    Ballad of Orin (1977)

    Ballad of Orin

    7.11977HD

    A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her....

    Ballad of Orin
  • 1963
    Kanto Wanderer

    Kanto Wanderer (1963)

    Kanto Wanderer

    6.31963HD

    Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang ...

    Kanto Wanderer
  • 1963
    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    6.91963HD

    After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face...

    Zatoichi the Fugitive
  • 1975
    Gambling Den Heist

    Gambling Den Heist (1975)

    Gambling Den Heist

    6.71975HD

    After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor....

    Gambling Den Heist
  • 1957
    Man Who Causes a Storm

    Man Who Causes a Storm (1957)

    Man Who Causes a Storm

    6.71957HD

    Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to mak...

    Man Who Causes a Storm
  • 1964
    An Outlaw

    An Outlaw (1964)

    An Outlaw

    4.81964HD

    Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal....

    An Outlaw
  • 1960
    The Blind Menace

    The Blind Menace (1960)

    The Blind Menace

    6.51960HD

    This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi....

    The Blind Menace
  • 1960
    The River Fuefuki

    The River Fuefuki (1960)

    The River Fuefuki

    7.51960HD

    In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followe...

    The River Fuefuki
  • 1969
    Trapped, the Crimson Bat

    Trapped, the Crimson Bat (1969)

    Trapped, the Crimson Bat

    6.41969HD

    Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival. While longing to live and love like other women, she realizes t...

    Trapped, the Crimson Bat
  • 1958
    Underworld Beauty

    Underworld Beauty (1958)

    Underworld Beauty

    5.41958HD

    The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss...

    Underworld Beauty
  • 1979
    Run Truck Rascal, Run!

    Run Truck Rascal, Run! (1979)

    Run Truck Rascal, Run!

    01979HD

    Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love....

    Run Truck Rascal, Run!
  • 1965
    Hoodlum Soldier

    Hoodlum Soldier (1965)

    Hoodlum Soldier

    7.31965HD

    A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train....

    Hoodlum Soldier
  • 1966
    Rampaging Dragon of the North

    Rampaging Dragon of the North (1966)

    Rampaging Dragon of the North

    61966HD

    The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to...

    Rampaging Dragon of the North
  • 1971
    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971)

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack

    4.51971HD

    In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the...

    Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
  • 1965
    Abashiri Prison

    Abashiri Prison (1965)

    Abashiri Prison

    7.11965HD

    Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in t...

    Abashiri Prison
  • 1945
    Otome no iru kichi

    Otome no iru kichi (1945)

    Otome no iru kichi

    01945HD

    Japanese war movie....

    Otome no iru kichi
  • 1953
    Love Letter

    Love Letter (1953)

    Love Letter

    6.71953HD

    A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people....

    Love Letter