Best movies of Meiko Kaji

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hideki Takahashi, Tatsuya Fuji, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Keiichi Ozawa,

A ninkyô saga featuring Matsubara who inadvertently becomes oyabun of her clan after father's death.

Actors : Shin'ichi Mori, Meiko Kaji, Yumiko Nogawa, Ryôtarô Sugi,
Directors : Katsumi Nishikawa,

According to a very short description in Uni-Japan Film Monthly, these three pictures are based on ideas from Mori's songs. It should noted that singer Mori also had a similar recurring ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Hisashi Igawa, Ryûdô Uzaki, Sachiko Hidari,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

A rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a ...

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Saburô Hiromatsu, Yûji Hori, Asao Koike,
Directors : Mio Ezaki,

A decently-executed but fairly routine, contemporary ninkyô programmer.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ...

Actors : Mieko Harada, Meiko Kaji, Natsuko Kahara, Mihoko Nakagawa,
Directors : Yasuzô Masumura,

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world, when her grandmother dies.

Actors : Meiko Kaji, Makoto Satô, Tatsuya Fuji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. This also has one of underrated and comparatively-unknown-in-the-west composer Kaburagi's most exciting and memorable ...