The best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s crime movies

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

20/11/1917- 28/01/1970
Today we present the best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’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 Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s movies.
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Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth
7/10
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Cruel Gun Story

Cruel Gun Story
7.2/10
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rei. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Black Tight Killers

Black Tight Killers
6.8/10
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 07/07/1963
  • Character: Nishiwatari
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Tiger of the Sea

Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

The Rambling Guitarist

The Rambling Guitarist
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeWestern
  • Release: 11/10/1959
  • Character: Detective Numata
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6/10
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 of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge

A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

Red Pier

Red Pier
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 23/09/1958
  • Character: Matsuda
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

A Turning to Hell

A Turning to Hell
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1959
  • Character: Matsunaga
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
6.9/10
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.

The Guitarist from the Sea

The Guitarist from the Sea
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.

The Fugitive

The Fugitive
An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original work. Jiro, who had been unable to rehabilitate because of the stigma of having criminal record, stopped by at his favorite bar. There, Shimamoto was waiting for him, and Jiro was offered a job to carry certain things. Jiro was attracted by the large amount of reward and finally accepted the task. The car driven by Jiro was investigated by a police officer on the way, but Shimamoto shooted the police officer and orders to help Jiro escape at full speed...

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