Fumio Watanabe Movies

  • 1972
    The Lucky Status Symbol

    The Lucky Status Symbol

    The Lucky Status Symbol

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    Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After...

    The Lucky Status Symbol
  • 1982
    Kidnapping Blues

    Kidnapping Blues

    Kidnapping Blues

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    A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does...

    Kidnapping Blues
  • 1971
    Patience Has An End

    Patience Has An End

    Patience Has An End

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    Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

    Patience Has An End
  • 1968
    The Bad Boss

    The Bad Boss

    The Bad Boss

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    The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

    The Bad Boss
  • 1956
    Fountainhead

    Fountainhead

    Fountainhead

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    A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

    Fountainhead
  • 1957
    Elegy of the North

    Elegy of the North

    Elegy of the North

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    ​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

    Elegy of the North
  • 1971
    The Gambling Nun

    The Gambling Nun

    The Gambling Nun

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    A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

    The Gambling Nun
  • 1972
    A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

    A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

    A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

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    Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

    A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
  • 1967
    The Hoodlum Priest

    The Hoodlum Priest

    The Hoodlum Priest

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    The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

    The Hoodlum Priest
  • 1958
    Maria of the Ant Village

    Maria of the Ant Village

    Maria of the Ant Village

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    Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

    Maria of the Ant Village
  • 1970
    Thugs of Shinjuku

    Thugs of Shinjuku

    Thugs of Shinjuku

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    Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...

    Thugs of Shinjuku
  • 1974
    The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

    The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

    The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

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    Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

    The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
  • 1974
    It Was a Faint Dream

    It Was a Faint Dream

    It Was a Faint Dream

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    Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine....

    It Was a Faint Dream
  • 1967
    Dissolution Rites

    Dissolution Rites

    Dissolution Rites

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    Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the...

    Dissolution Rites
  • 1970
    Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

    Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

    Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

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    An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

    Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
  • 1977
    High Seas Hijack

    High Seas Hijack

    High Seas Hijack

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    Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

    High Seas Hijack
  • 1958
    The Invisible Wall

    The Invisible Wall

    The Invisible Wall

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    Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

    The Invisible Wall
  • 1956
    Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress

    Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress

    Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress

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    Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

    Shochiku Festival: All-Star Lineup – Studio Express / The Birth of an Actress
  • 1962
    Four Sisters

    Four Sisters

    Four Sisters

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    A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

    Four Sisters
  • 1972
    Shōwa Gokudōshi

    Shōwa Gokudōshi

    Shōwa Gokudōshi

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    Shōwa Gokudōshi