Takamaru Sasaki Movies

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

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...

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...

Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Fifth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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...

Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

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...

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...