
Akira Takahashi
Actor · 1934 – 2011 · Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Japanese actor. Appeared in well over 100 Nikkatsu films during his career.
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Movie3.4DramaMiss Yamagami is beautiful with a willowy figure and slender legs. She seems out of place teaching in an all boys school. The young school marm is fully aware of her power over the impressionable boys in school and it satisfies her vanity. She stirs up their nameless longings until they are carried away and resort to acts on which Miss Yamagami had not counted on.
Movie5.0ThrillerOn the eve of her wedding and while cheating with another man, a woman gets involved into a dangerous new world of experiences.
Movie5.1RomanceDramaThe film depicts the relationship between a beautiful teacher and a male teacher, popular among female students, an excellent student who tells the teacher about his feelings using an answering machine, and a high school student who bets on whether she can have a relationship with a male teacher. This is the debut full-length work by Hideo Nakata.
Movie4.3DramaThrillerTwo high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
Movie7.1DramaRomanceAn unsatisfied married woman reconnects with a friend who has been engaging in peculiar sexual practices with her own artist husband.
Movie3.8CrimeA nurse is framed for medical malpractice. In prison she meets the boss of their cell who is in for a crime of passion. They both have a reason to escape... revenge.
Movie5.0DramaA sexually unsatisfied housewife gets into a world of trouble when her meetings with an old friend are discovered.
Movie6.2HorrorThrillerThe life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper yet mysterious descent, whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture.
Movie5.0DramaA backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.
Movie5.6ActionCrimeA serial rapist takes on a young protégé while being pursued by a homosexual gang.
Movie4.3HistoryDramaTaken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
Movie5.6DramaHorrorSachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them.
Movie6.9CrimeDramaWhen the boss of a yakuza clan in 1920s Osaka is assassinated, Oryu, his mistress, vows revenge. Her search for the killer takes her out of the city. The old boss' son proves a poor leader, only interested in Omitsu, his high-class girlfriend. Yajima, the second-in-command, is taking advantage of the situation to accumulate power for himself...
Movie4.8DramaKizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to the media, Yumeji goes to Kizaki. Kizaki then proceeds to rape and torture Yumeji, who was his true desire all along.
Movie4.0DramaSecretary Sayo does some corporate snooping for her boyfriend, an upstart executive with a rival company. But she gets busted by the CEO. Poor Sayo is captured and taken to a private torture chamber in the corporate mansion. While the secretary gets punished, the bossman's son becomes infatuated with her beautiful white skin and he assumes the disciplinary responsibilities. Between the floggings, stretchings, and wooden-horse tortures he finds time to cover her body in an elaborate tattoo.
Movie4.5DramaHorrorAn impotent husband hires a photographer, a professional S&M mistress, and his driver to kidnap his wealthy but unfaithful wife. After she is photographed while being sexually abused, she is blackmailed into giving control of her estate to her husband. Confined to the basement, she suffers an endless series of humiliations and indignities. But fate has some cruel twists in store...
Movie6.7DramaRomanceVolunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
Movie5.8ComedyAn erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands.
Movie5.0ThrillerDramaAn arrogant and privileged lady of wealth finds she is in need of a loan. The man who offers to help her was a former chauffeur who she had mistreated and fired. Seeing his chance for revenge he captures her and subjects her to various humiliations and abuse.
Movie6.6DramaCrimeIn the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
Movie2.0A film adaptation of Koichiro Uno's original work that depicts the madness and debauchery that unfolds in a nurses' dormitory where men are strictly prohibited.
Movie5.5ThrillerDramaShizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult toy store owner, to train his wife to become sexually submissive.
Movie7.2ThrillerCrimeAfter botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Movie6.8RomanceDramaA young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
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TV9.5Crime
TV7.0MysteryCrimeAt first glance Haruse Kiina is a completely normal 29-year-old. However, Kiina is the head of a special investigation unit nicknamed "Beppan" which deals with strange cases. With an unorthodox approach to solving crimes, she draws on her exceptional memory and powers of observation, and gets so absorbed in the pursuit of these cases that she forgets to eat or sleep til she solves the mystery.