Ruriko Asaoka Movies

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage....

Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground

Strife between competing lumber mills.

As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of...

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr....

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

The "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayahsi) smashes a counterfeiting ring. Second in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor...

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

An ex-pro boxer makes his living as a drummer in cabaret.

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months...