Bontarō Miake
Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.
- Title: Bontarō Miake
- Popularity: 1.886
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 1906-10-15
- Place of Birth: Shimane Prefecture, Japan
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- Also Known As: 見明凡太郎, Бонтаро Миакэ, Bontarô Miyake
Actor. Born 1906, died 1987.
1 1952 HD
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
1 1957 HD
The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.
1 1962 HD
1 1955 HD
1 1945 HD
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.
1 1962 HD
The salaryman is the object of admiration in the world. Because there is no more carefree job than this, this cheerful song comedy is set to the hit...
1 1953 HD
Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako
1 1950 HD
Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.
1 1962 HD
1962 Japanese movie
1 1960 HD
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...
1 1953 HD
1 1948 HD
1948 Japanese movie
1 1953 HD
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
1 1960 HD
The title of the film reflects the custom of writing poems and lyrics on paper lanterns. The film tells about the difficult relationship between the...
6.8 1973 HD
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he...
7.4 1954 HD
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
1 1962 HD
1962 Japanese movie
5.7 1960 HD
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
1 1956 HD
The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...
1 1930 HD
Surviving fragments of a film by Tomu Uchida.
1 1961 HD
1 1964 HD
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...
1 1962 HD
1962 Japanese movie
1 1965 HD
7 1973 HD
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...
1 1956 HD
An exciting film about thugs, in which murders and drugs, justice and resentment explode in the dark city of Tokyo with the help of guns and violence.
6.7 1955 HD
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...
1 1966 HD
1 1971 HD
7.4 1939 HD
Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.
6.2 1951 HD
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
4.9 1969 HD
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...
1 1950 HD
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi
6 1955 HD
Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
6 1957 HD
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.
5.1 1957 HD
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...
5.1 1956 HD
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...
6 1955 HD
Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...
1 1956 HD
In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...
1 1955 HD
A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this...
7.8 1953 HD
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
6.6 1960 HD
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
1 1952 HD
7 1961 HD
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their...
1 1959 HD
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular....
1 1957 HD
Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.
1 1958 HD
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
1 1970 HD
1 1945 HD
1945 Japanese movie
1 1966 HD
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
1 1956 HD
Momoko and Asako are half sisters, daughters of the famous architect Tsuneo Mizuhara, who also have another half sister in Kyôto, Wakako, whom...
1 1962 HD
1962 Japanese movie
1 1964 HD
Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming...
3 1960 HD
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...
1 1948 HD
Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.
1 1934 HD
A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"
1 1963 HD
Comedy drama film
1 1954 HD
A young scriptwriter with a yakuza upbringing, an iron-fire dancer, a young painter, and a pure-hearted downtown girl fall in love in Asakusa in this...
6 1929 HD
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual...
1 1929 HD
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
1 1952 HD
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and...
1 1947 HD
Mysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is...
1 1931 HD
The first part of a fascinating melodrama based on Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...
1 1931 HD
The second part of the melodrama based on the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the action of which is transferred to the era of the Meiji...
1 1962 HD
1962 Japanese movie
1 1936 HD
Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They...
1 1936 HD
1 1934 HD
1 1948 HD
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil
1 1948 HD
1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2
1 1952 HD
Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
1 1945 HD
1945 Japanese movie
1 1969 HD
7.3 1954 HD
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...
7.5 1958 HD
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...
1 1945 HD
1945 Japanese movie
1 1947 HD
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...
1 1946 HD
Ex-war financier Kuraishi Kinnosuke is visited by a ghostly face in the middle of the night telling him to return the 5.5 million yen jewel he stole...
1 1961 HD
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...
7.3 1962 HD
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
6.7 1966 HD
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...
6 1970 HD
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...
6.3 1963 HD
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
1 1969 HD
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps...
1 1947 HD
Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.
1 1959 HD
In a rural district of Tokyo, the owner of a farm is abandoned by his two daughters who are attracted to the life of the big city.
1 1963 HD
Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui)...
8.1 1954 HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
1 1953 HD
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru...
1 1952 HD
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...
1 1963 HD
In 1963, Funaki Kazuo's debut song of the same name was released and then it was adapted to a movie based on Kenji Tomishima 's novel “Shake to...
5.5 1952 HD
Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a gentle heart. Soichi's wife, Kuniko is devoted to...
1 1928 HD
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
1 1955 HD
7 1967 HD
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
1 1970 HD
A sweet and melancholy story that depicts, with beautiful sentimentality, the day when a dreamy and lovely young girl first discovers love in the...
6.3 1951 HD
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...
5.5 1938 HD
An early example of the Japanese war film, closer to documentary realism than the kind of propaganda produced at the height of the Pacific War. "A...
6.5 1950 HD
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
1 1965 HD
5 1933 HD
A sad love film where the action takes place in Kyoto, in a trading house.
6.05 1978 HD
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in...
1 1952 HD
6.9 1933 HD
Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...
6 1967 HD
1 1961 HD
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
1 1961 HD
Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
6.4 1960 HD
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
1 1967 HD
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
1 1966 HD
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin,...
1 1968 HD
Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
6.3 1957 HD
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
1 1958 HD
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
1 1931 HD
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931
1 1968 HD
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
6.6 1957 HD
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together...
6 1967 HD
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
5 1969 HD
Story of love, jealousy and hatred among waitresses of a deluxe bar.
1 1963 HD
Ryokichi Ibuki is a clerk who learns company "top secrets" and becomes an industrial blackmailer. Kaoru Koizumi, a confidential secretary in love...
1 1962 HD
Yukiko Shiba, a doctor, and Akira Sakai, a composer and musician, are lovers. Their love is a forbidden one. He is married, with children. She is a...
5.9 1961 HD
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
7 1961 HD
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
1 1948 HD
1 1941 HD
This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film...
1 1965 HD
A young man is determined to have as many affairs as possible but not to get married. One of his conquests is of a different mind however. For she is...
5.5 1957 HD
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...
5.8 1960 HD
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...
1 1964 HD
1 1964 HD
1 1964 HD
Two sisters live with their family. The elder is reserved; the younger lively. Yet, the former is first engaged and all goes well until the young man...
7.2 1970 HD
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
1 1967 HD
1 1959 HD
Japanese drama
6.9 1962 HD
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.
6.2 1962 HD
Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such...
6.7 1949 HD
When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...
4 1958 HD
The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...
1 1937 HD
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
7 1964 HD
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.
1 1953 HD
Film directed by Saeki Kozo with Wakao Ayako.
6.5 1966 HD
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is...
1 1957 HD
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
1 1964 HD
1 1958 HD
1 1953 HD
Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako
7 1956 HD
1 1963 HD
The case of the counterfeit bills that spread all over Japan.
1 1963 HD
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
1 1942 HD
Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...
1 1942 HD
1 1937 HD
1 1959 HD
The final film in Shimizu’s thirty-plus year career, Image of a Mother remains true to Shimizu’s central themes as a young boy must learn...
1 1958 HD
5 1958 HD
1 1959 HD
A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.
1 1937 HD
One of Uchida’s early sound films, Unending Advance is based on a curious story by Yasujiro Ozu, in which an examination of the quotidian...
1 1961 HD
Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.
1 1964 HD
A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
1 1942 HD
1 1956 HD
7.657 1956 HD
The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.
1 1959 HD
1 1950 HD
A timely masterpiece that boldly reveals women's secrets on the issue of when abortion is acceptable...
6.5 1957 HD
Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is...
1 1959 HD
1 1959 HD
1959 youth comedy.
1 1957 HD
1 1958 HD
1 1957 HD
1 1958 HD
1 1960 HD
Detective Goto, who had sniffed out drugs as the culprit behind the murder of an elderly woman, was run over and killed while pursuing the culprit....
1 1958 HD
1 1948 HD
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin investigating this mysterious crime at the...