The best Shizuo Chûjô’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Shizuo Chûjô’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Shizuo Chûjô.
Fires on the Plain
7.9/10
In the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
7.1/10
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
A Geisha's Diary
7.3/10
A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman, but as a complete person.
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
5.5/10
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs. Is the killer invisible or possibly some other incredible creature?
Black Test Car
7.1/10
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
5/10
Blood Type: Blue
6.2/10
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
Bronze Magician
6.8/10
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).
Vixen
6.9/10
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyoko Kishida), Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.
Dangerous Cops
5.4/10
When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.
Dangerous Cops Pt.3
4.2/10
Taka and Yuji find evidence in a 15-year-old case, but the statute of limitations expires in four days and they're hunting illicit gun manufacturers.
Love and Greed
7.5/10
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
Dangerous Cops Again
6.1/10
Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.
Superexpress
6.4/10
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.
Gateway to Glory
7/10
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Sweet Seventeen
Okoto and Sasuke
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
Punishment Room
7/10
Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Black Report
6.9/10
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
The School of Spies
7.1/10
Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.
