The best Hideyo Amamoto’s comedy movies

Hideyo Amamoto

Hideyo Amamoto

02/01/1926- 23/03/2003
Today we present the best Hideyo Amamoto’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hideyo Amamoto’s movies.

Kill!

Kill!
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 22/06/1968
  • Character: Gendayu Shimada
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman

The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
7/10
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

What's Up, Tiger Lily?
5.8/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 02/11/1966
  • Character: Cobra Man
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.

Oh, Bomb!

Oh, Bomb!
7/10
During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

Rainbow Kids

Rainbow Kids
6.7/10
A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to demand as ransom, and a strange interchange of roles takes place.

Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy

Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
5.6/10
The Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see third-generation cat-burglar Lupin as an obstacle, countless assassins are sent to kill him on sight and kidnap his girl Fujiko! Can Lupin get the loot before the Maccherone gang, rescue Fujiko, and stay alive at the same time?

Lost World Of Sinbad

Lost World Of Sinbad
6.2/10
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the throne and marrying the king's beautiful daughter. Along the way, with the help of some courageous rebels and a lustful wizard, he must overcome the powers of a bewitching witch, a band of ruthless pirates, and the castle's Imperial guards. He must also free those kidnapped into slavery and restore the king's reputation.

The Red Spectacles

The Red Spectacles
6.5/10
Summer 1995. With the arrival of the "Age of Cats", the former Kerberos police unit is now disbanded. However one member remains, a stray dog who returns to his old roost after a three-years exile. This wild dog no longer has a master, but now the "Young Lady of Fate" will guide him on his journey...

Red Lion

Red Lion
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 10/10/1969
  • Character: Dr. Gensai
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials.

The Human Bullet

The Human Bullet
7.3/10
A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.

The Adventure of Robocon

The Adventure of Robocon
Feature film adventure of Robocon and his pals.

The Killing Bottle

The Killing Bottle
6.8/10
In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of Buddhabal. ISP Agents Carter and Kitami are assigned to the case. When the Prime Minister arrives in Tokyo for a friendship visit, Carter and Kitami are on hand to protect him. On hand, too, are assorted ZZZ blackguards. Several attempts on the Prime Minister's life fail, until finally the ZZZ introduces a new device designed to eliminate not only the Prime Minister but the ISP Agents as well: THE KILLING BOTTLE, then, is a pocket-sized container filled with a substance that can expand to thousands of times its size and throttle its victim, then disappear leaving only the corpse.

The Age of Assassins

The Age of Assassins
7.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 04/02/1967
  • Character: Shogo Mizorogi
A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.

My Soul Is Slashed

My Soul Is Slashed
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/06/1991
  • Character: Servant
A hospital accidentally gives a man Count Dracula's blood while trying to save his life. A year later, he's back from the dead, trying to right the wrongs of his life while trying to resist the urge to become a vampire.

Key of Keys

Key of Keys
5.7/10
Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi is the fourth instalment of five films in the "Kokusai himitsu keisatsu" series. The film is a parody of James Bond-style spy movies, and was used by Woody Allen, along with footage from the third instalment, in one of his first films, "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", in which the original dialogue is redubbed in English to make the plot about a secret egg salad recipe.

Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai

Hakata Movie: Chinchiromai
A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.

Westward Desperado

Westward Desperado
7/10
Follow-up to Desperado Outpost (1959) sees Japanese soldiers seeking the flag of a defeated regiment in China.

Temptation

Temptation
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/09/1957
  • Character: Kyozo Ikegami
Shokichi, a shop owner and middle-aged widower, could never forget your first love. The second floor of the shop is an art gallery where his avant-garde daughter and other young people gather. One of these becomes a successful painter, and one day Akiko appears in the gallery with the painting titled Woman. Shokichi surprised to find that the "woman" is actually his first love, and Akiko is like the image writing it.

Bungakusho satsujin jiken: Oinaru jyoso

Bungakusho satsujin jiken: Oinaru jyoso
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/01/1989
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Weather Woman

Weather Woman
5.6/10
Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.

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