Setsuo Kobayashi

En el siglo XVIII, durante una noche de luna llena, una luz cegadora aparece en un bosque de bambú cerca de la capital japonesa. Un artesano y su mujer encuentran un precioso bebé en una cuna de oro, llevando en sus manos una brillante bola de cristal. El artesano vende la cuna de oro y construye una mansión lejos de la ciudad para esconder a la niña de los ojos de los demás, ya que crece tan rápidamente que todo el mundo dudaría que es humana. Pronto se extiende el rumor de la belleza de una misteriosa joven llamada Kana, y tres nobles, incluyendo un joven ministro, desean hacerla su esposa. Una noche, cuando la luna está completa, el cristal de Kana comienza a brillar y emite un inquietante sonido. Es un mensaje de su hogar, la luna. Kana debe partir la próxima noche de luna llena...

A young man starts off on a quest for happiness and is told to head south by a wise astrologer. He later arrives at an ancient castle where two mysterious women live, Tsuki and Yuki. Both women fall in love with the young man. Meanwhile, the young man must face his destiny.

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

Tokubei es un joven comerciante locamente enamorado de una prostituta llamada Ohatsu. Las circunstancias están en contra de la pareja de enamorados, mientras que Ohatsu tiene que terminar de pagar su deuda ejerciendo la prostitución, a Tokubei le quieren concertar un matrimonio de conveniencia.

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Follows the fluctuating fortunes of three ronin in feudal Japan who wander from castle to castle, selling their services to whichever lord will fill their rice bowls. Though they use the servants' entrance, they still feel themselves bound by the samurai code of Bushido; and this tension leads to tragedy.

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

A 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind to become a hostess, a boy approaches her with kind and gentle manners...(Also occasionally known in English as “Play”)

Yumi Ishikawa (Mari Atsumi) is nineteen and a popular geisha. Orphaned when a child, Yumi she was raised by Shizuko, the madame of a geisha house. Yumi is impulsive, out-going. And although she cannot claim to be good at Japanese dancing or playing musical instruments so necessary to a geisha, she is a whizz at go-go and will dance the hula at parties. But before becoming a full-fledged geisha, Yumi must go through the ceremony of the "mizuage", when a budding geisha surrenders her virginity to an experienced man who makes her a woman. Takida, a rich money-lender, is chosen for Yumi's mizuage but she offers herself first to Keiichi (Ryo Tamura), who she really loves although she knows that his world and hers are too far apart for a successful marriage.

A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyoko Kishida), Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.

Un escultor ciego obsesionado con la "belleza" de la piel femenina, Michio (Eiji Funakoshi), vive recluido junto a su madre (Noriko Sengoku) en un estudio lleno de reproducciones parciales o totales de mujeres. Decidido a crear su obra magna, secuestra a una bella modelo, Aki (Mako Midori), y la retiene hasta que esta accede a posar para él.

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

On his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie. Enraged, he decides to outdo his father in terms of immoral behaviour.

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.

A fines del período Edo, el doctor Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835) se transforma en el primer médico en realizar una operación mediante el uso de anestesia general. La esposa y la madre del médico se convierten en rivales en la búsqueda de su afecto a punto tal de servir como conejillos de indias en sus experimentos.

Basado en una novela de Junichiro Tanizaki. Comedia sobre un oficinista puritano que se ve inmerso en una relación en plena década de los 60 con una joven amante con una inclinación por el baile y romance.

Toramatsu is a very enthusiastic policeman. Believing that the police should help others he is dismissed the force when his pistol is stolen while doing one of his good deeds. He saves a child from drowning, restores it to his mother, then finds that someone has run off with his gun and later uses it to kill. Then he breaks up a group of hoodlums attacking a young girl named Mieko, and the police, his former friends, deciding he has gone too far, decide to sue him. On top of this the girl gets hurt and, consequently, a child from the kindergarten where Mieko teaches is kidnapped on his way home. Impersonating a policeman he tracks down the gangsters and rescues the boy. Due to this he also uncovers a scandal which allows the police to make a long due clean up in the political world. As a reward for all of this he wins the regard of the girl but now faces a stiff prison sentence for impersonating the policeman he had been and which, at heart, he truly remains.

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. The series gets cited on lists of action yakuza films or woman avenger films, but once the films are actually viewed, it is quickly obvious they are not generally about action except in the nominal sense of acts of gambling. And while Ogin is in fact sometimes motivated by revenge, she is not as a rule a martial artist or a killer, & this series tends to place its female hero as far away from the "action babe" method as she can get. Ogin is an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling. She is samurai-like in that she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer, much as a samurai might go on his "warrior's pilgrimage" to become Japan's number one swordsman.

Sakura Nishi es una joven enfermera enviada en 1939 a un hospital de campaña en China durante la guerra chino-japonesa. Impactada por la inhumana violencia de la guerra en su tarea sanitaria, trata de entender, ayudar y, en la medida de sus posibilidades, humanizar a quienes se hallan inmersos en esa guerra, incluido el doctor Okabe, cirujano del que depende.

En el Japón de los años cuarenta, un grupo de universitarios con brillantes calificaciones son elegidos para romper todo vínculo con su vida anterior y formar el servicio de espionaje japonés.

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

Un joven objetor de conciencia intelectual se ve obligado a servir en el ejército japonés en Manchuria. Se une a un ex gángster tonto en un esfuerzo por desertar robando un tren.

Third film in the "Inu" series.

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.

Sonoko es un ama de casa que decide inscribirse a unas clases de arte para paliar el aburrimiento de estar sola en casa mientras su marido Kotaro trabaja. En esas clases, Sonoko conoce a la modelo Mitsuko, de quien acaba enamorándose. En esa relación lésbica intervendrán tanto el marido de Sonoko como el prometido de Mitsuko, lo que motivará la aparición de una serie de triángulos amorosos y el surgimiento de unos celos bastante destructivos.

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!

Mientras representa una obra de kabuki haciendo un tour con su compañía teatral, un actor descubre a los tres hombres que empujaron al suicidio a sus padres veinte años atrás. Planeará una tranquila venganza. (FILMAFFINITY)

The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned director in his own right) Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko (Ayako Wakao) is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up. (Also occasionally known in English as “Inflamation”)

Obscure Masamura film shot in 1961

Ayako Takigawa tiene que defender su inocencia ante un tribunal, acusada de la muerte de su marido en extrañas circunstancias. Los indicios sugieren un oscuro triángulo amoroso.

Kaze es un productor de televisión casado y un mujeriego desvergonzado, que tiene nueve amantes al mismo tiempo. Todas sus mujeres están hartas de su indecisión e incapacidad para comprometerse, y se reúnen conspirando para asesinarle.

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.

Duro relato antibélico que narra la desesperada situación, abocada a la derrota, que sufrió el ejército japonés en Filipinas, en 1945, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. (FILMAFFINITY)

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.