Tōru Abe Movies

1961 gangster film.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

A blockbuster youth action film that explodes with the charm of Maiko Guy and Akira, based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō...

1945 Japanese movie

Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in...

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese war movie.

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have...

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympics in a single scull (a single-seater...

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super...

Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the...