Yūsuke Watanabe

Japanese director active in both film and television productions.

Works

Monkey

Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent by Buddha, and getting these scriptures will bring peace to the people of the world.

Release Date1978-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count16

Tennō no Ryōriban

A biographical series about Tokuzō Akiyama, who served as the imperial cook, from his youth until he became the chief cook of the Ministry of the Imperial Household.

Release Date1980-10-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count19

Vote Count1

Underwater Murder

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.

Release Date1958-07-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?

Release Date1973-09-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

A Devil of a Gentleman

Release Date1963-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Talio

Mami Shirasawa became a lawyer at the age 20, but she does not get any cases to work on.One day, Mami finally gets a case. The client was sexually assaulted by a man, who is the son of an owner of a large construction company.Mami and Swindler, Kensuke Kuroiwa happen to team up and take revenge on the man who assaulted the client.

Release Date2020-10-09

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count7

Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case

Dobu, an Edo samurai, is tasked with investigating a string of noble murders in Kyoto, disrupting his routine in Shimotani.

Release Date1982-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles

The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles

The drama depicts in the late Edo period in Nagasaki, Hiramatsu takes up Nagasaki bugyō`s head post. He likes alcohol and women. Furthermore He is always willing to accept a bribe from villains so they consider it is easy to manipulate him. But he is just pretending to be idiot and he kills villains who escape justice despite their crimes.

Release Date1975-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count26

Female

Release Date1964-11-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Cross-Currents

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

Release Date1972-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Karate Cop

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Release Date1982-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Night Scandal

Release Date1964-07-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Professional Killers

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

Release Date1973-06-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Night Scandal in Japan

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori. - Pulpinternational

Release Date1964-03-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Japan Beauty Story: A Woman Among Women

Release Date1975-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Highschool Scramble

Release Date1982-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Gun Demon Without Form

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe.

Release Date1964-03-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Everybody, Let's Go!

A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company looking to start a new route, they even get involved in a disappearance and a murder...

Release Date1967-08-05

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

春だドリフだ全員集合!!

Release Date1971-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Secret Love

Release Date1966-12-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Black Cat

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Release Date1965-02-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Karate Cop 4

Release Date1985-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ankoku gai jingi

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.

Release Date1965-06-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

祭りだお化けだ全員集合!!

Release Date1972-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Blackmail

Release Date1963-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Code of Ruffians

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.

Release Date1965-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

It's a Psychic, Gather Everyone!

Release Date1974-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Madcap Mixup

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

Release Date1969-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々

1962 Japanese movie

Release Date1962-01-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Female Detective Yuko Kasumi

Female Detective Yuko Kasumi

A popular suspense series in which a female prosecutor, Yuko Kasumi, solves difficult murder and arson cases in Yokohama and Shonan, by putting herself in the victims' shoes and judging their "hearts".

Release Date1985-10-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count10

Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

Release Date1976-02-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Beauty Wandering Story

Release Date1977-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Ghost of the Pearl Divers

Release Date1960-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count4

Our Miyo-chan

Owner and workers of a tiny medicine factory fall in love with a lovable girl.

Release Date1969-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Fun on the Run

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Release Date1970-12-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Curry Rice

1962 Japanese movie

Release Date1962-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

I am the Judge

1962 Japanese movie

Release Date1962-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Keiyaku kekkon

1961 Japanese movie

Release Date1961-01-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

喜劇 深夜族

Release Date1969-08-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain

Release Date1962-09-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rajo to satsujin-meiro

Japanese crime film.

Release Date1959-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Judo Queen

1959 Japanese film directed by Morihei Magatani for Shintoho.

Release Date1959-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

ドリフターズですよ!盗って盗って盗りまくれ

Release Date1968-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

A Circus Girl

Japanese drama film.

Release Date1966-02-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen

A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite trying his hand at various jobs, success eludes him, and he unexpectedly ends up in Osaka's Shinimamiya district. With empty pockets, he stumbles upon an invitation to the 'Gokuraku Toruko' establishment, becoming a patron. Led by the enchanting Ibohachi, he becomes entangled with the charismatic hostesses, including the captivating Tama. This leads him to infiltrate Tama's apartment complex, Sakura-so. Within its walls reside a colorful cast of characters, from hostesses Chie, Akemi, Yukari, and Kayoko to the quirky parasites like Masao, Tetsuo, Arima, and more. Seeking a fresh start, He embarks on a journey as a 'parasite,' but things take unexpected turns...

Release Date1971-08-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Hangyaku no Tabi

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 Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...

Release Date1976-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Shinjuku baka monogatari

Japanese film from 1977.

Release Date1977-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

チョットだけョ全員集合!!

Release Date1973-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

やればやれるぜ全員集合!!

Release Date1968-01-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Age of Japanese Guerrillas

Kinta (Nabe Osami) is Japanese by birth, but raised by a Chinese man. He stowsaway to Japan to see his girlfriend Yukiko but gets picked up for vagrancy in Shinjuku and thrown in jail. Helped by a yakuza and a prostitute, he goes on a search for Yukiko but winds up on a journey of sexual discovery.

Release Date1968-08-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sex, Gamble and Big Money

Release Date1972-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Quiet Dawn in the Front

Japanese war film.

Release Date1959-09-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

ドリフターズですよ!特訓特訓また特訓

Release Date1969-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case

After two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu suspects a hidden mastermind influencing the magistrate.

Release Date1983-02-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Private Detective DOBU 1

Dobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were killed in a shrine, and Dobu found out that those three had a grudge on a timber whole seller, Hinokiya. He reunited with Zirokichi (Takeo Chii), one of his friends and Nezumi Kozo (a thief) , and he infiltrates Hinokiya together.

Release Date1981-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Japan Beauty Story

Release Date1974-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case

After six exiles return to Edo, four are mysteriously killed. Two survivors, Kosuke and Kingo, lead a search to uncover a hidden motive behind the murders.

Release Date1982-11-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

ツンツン節だよ全員集合!!

Release Date1971-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

ザ・ドリフターズの極楽はどこだ!!

Release Date1974-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô

Release Date1970-10-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

ズンドコズンドコ全員集合!!

Release Date1970-08-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

大事件だよ全員集合!!

Release Date1973-12-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

舞妓はんだよ全員集合!!

Release Date1972-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

桃色の超特急

1961 Japanese movie

Release Date1961-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun

Umi ni kakeru Niji: Yamamoto Isoroku to Nippon Kaigun

The tumultuous life of the fallen Isoroku Yamamoto is depicted, along with his family, friends, and subordinates, his bonds with the women who loved and watched over him, and the sorrows of the nameless people who have disappeared in the torrent of history.

Release Date1983-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Seducer of the Night: Terror in the summer resort, bloodsucking fangs for blonde beauties

A vampire stalks a female editor as she pursues a case in Kofu that took place at the villa of a writer of bizarre novels in Karuizawa.

Release Date1982-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Bride of the Ghost Lake

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai investigate another strange mystery.

Release Date1979-10-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector