Movies: Chieko Matsubara

  • 1966
    Tokyo Drifter

    Tokyo Drifter (1966)

    Tokyo Drifter

    7.11966HD

    After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gu...

    Tokyo Drifter
  • 2002
    Dolls

    Dolls (2002)

    Dolls

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    Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by...

    Dolls
  • 2017
    Our Meal for Tomorrow

    Our Meal for Tomorrow (2017)

    Our Meal for Tomorrow

    6.22017HD

    A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she ...

    Our Meal for Tomorrow
  • 1968
    Outlaw: Black Dagger

    Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968)

    Outlaw: Black Dagger

    6.41968HD

    A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the...

    Outlaw: Black Dagger
  • 2019
    A Long Goodbye

    A Long Goodbye (2019)

    A Long Goodbye

    6.92019HD

    Mari and Humi learn from their mother that their father has dementia on his 70th birthday. They help prepare their mother for his farewell and prepare themselves for the emotions to follow....

    A Long Goodbye
  • 1965
    Taking the Castle

    Taking the Castle (1965)

    Taking the Castle

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    The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage...

    Taking the Castle
  • 2023
    Natchan's Little Secret

    Natchan's Little Secret (2023)

    Natchan's Little Secret

    6.52023HD

    When three drag queens, Virgin, Moririn, and Zubuko, learn that their mentor and former drag queen, Natchan, has died suddenly, they take it upon themselves to keep the secret of her sexuality from her bereaved family....

    Natchan's Little Secret
  • 2007
    Yellow Tears

    Yellow Tears (2007)

    Yellow Tears

    4.52007HD

    The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the paint...

    Yellow Tears
  • 1980
    The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation

    The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation (1980)

    The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation

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    A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Matsubara). The wife finally kills him, but......

    The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
  • 2014
    Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy

    Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy (2014)

    Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy

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    Pikanchi Half is a spin-off of the two previous movies in the Pikanchi series, showing the five friends, now in their 30s, having a reunion as they are running into problems with family and work...

    Pikanchi Half: Life is Hard Tabun Happy
  • 1976
    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

    6.41976HD

    The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars....

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
  • 1966
    Black Tight Killers

    Black Tight Killers (1966)

    Black Tight Killers

    6.51966HD

    Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to ...

    Black Tight Killers
  • 1964
    The Flower and the Angry Waves

    The Flower and the Angry Waves (1964)

    The Flower and the Angry Waves

    6.91964HD

    A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant....

    The Flower and the Angry Waves
  • 1970
    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny (1970)

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

    6.61970HD

    The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria....

    Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
  • 1964
    Cruel Gun Story

    Cruel Gun Story (1964)

    Cruel Gun Story

    6.51964HD

    Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million ye...

    Cruel Gun Story
  • 1968
    Eternal Love

    Eternal Love (1968)

    Eternal Love

    01968HD

    The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister....

    Eternal Love
  • 1976
    Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

    Truck Rascals in Fever Heat (1976)

    Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

    01976HD

    The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful desi...

    Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
  • 2008
    Gu Gu, the Cat

    Gu Gu, the Cat (2008)

    Gu Gu, the Cat

    6.82008HD

    Asako, a comic book artist in her early forties, is devastated by the death of her precious cat, Saba, which kept her company for over 15 years, as her assistant Naomi watches on with concern. Naomi is a young woman in her early twenties, who has her...

    Gu Gu, the Cat
  • 1963
    Itsudemo yume o

    Itsudemo yume o (1963)

    Itsudemo yume o

    01963HD

    This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor....

    Itsudemo yume o
  • 1967
    My Sweetheart

    My Sweetheart (1967)

    My Sweetheart

    01967HD

    It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a...

    My Sweetheart