Masao Kosugi

A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

La película trata sobre una famosa leyenda del estanque Yashaga, en la que un hombre busca a un amigo desaparecido misteriosamente, un cuento mágico en el que aparecen criaturas extrañas, una princesa desconsolada, y un pacto que no se puede romper. Los conflictos entre la fe y el escepticismo, y entre la obligación social y un dinamismo deseo personal de la narrativa hacia una conclusión dramática en el mundo de lo real y lo surreal, chocan inevitablemente.

Un ex samurai abandona su épico modo de vida para convertirse en líder de una pandilla de ladrones.

Japanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.

Japanese action film.

Japanese crime film.

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.

Youth movie.

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.

Japanese crime film.

A sentimental drama about aspiring artist, Eiji, who rescues a blind girl. His friends Goro and Minoru and the blind girl's sister Kazue are a happy group until Goro steals money from Kazue's purse. Goro is arrested and his friends start bothering Eiji. To escape their harassment he changes jobs. But then he becomes the victim of an unexpected accident.

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

Teenage film

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.

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

Set against the background of a giant newspaper company. A girl reporter on the staff of the newspaper witnesses the accidental killing of one of the top executives, whose wife is having an affair with the head of the company.

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.

Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...

Coming of age/high school sports drama.

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

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 flying-angel pattern and in this way brings much pleasure to her patron. A young hoodlum named Shinnosuke also covets the tattooed maiden. He, decorated with the design of a famous thief, finally gets to her and she responds as she rarely does with her older lover. Also in love with her is a young girl named Okimi who has herself tattooed with a courtesan design just to please the older woman. Having done so, however, she becomes fair prey to the tattoo-loving Tonomura who loses no time in seducing her.

Two rival groups of gangsters vie for control of a tiny port town in northern Japan. Daisuke, a member of the older of the two gangs, and Kosuke, a hoodlum in the newer gang, both fall in love with the daughter of an inn proprietor, even though she evinces more interest in improving the town than in their romantic advances. Eventually, the two hoodlums come to respect her efforts and decide to join forces in ridding the town of all gangsters. The two men succeed in restoring peace to the town and, rejected by the innkeeper's daughter, they leave town as friends.

Los años de guerra llegan a su fin en un Japón unificado bajo el Shogunato Tokugawa. El espía Sasuke Sarutobi, cansado del conflicto, desea la paz pero otro importante espía llamado Tatewaki Koriyama planea abandonar al shogun por un clan rival, convulsionando el oscuro mundo de los espías.

Tiempo atras, Ôki, que está entrando en la mediana edad, tuvo una aventura con Otoko, una chica de 16 años. Se quedó embarazada, pero el niño murió al nacer, y la relación se detuvo en ese instante. Tiempo después, Ôki se convirtió en un famoso escritor, debido a una novela sobre esta historia de amor. Otoko, por su parte, se hizo famosa como pintora. Pero nunca olvidó el doble trauma y se hizo lesbiana. Su estudiante favorita y amada es la bella Keiko. Veinticuatro años después de su historia de amor, Ôki viaja de Tokyo a Kyoto para encontrarse con Otoko. La reunión es educada, escondiendo las sombras emocionales. Keiko tiene un plan: seducir a Ôki, quedarse embarazada, tener el bebé y dárselo a Otoko.

La película cuenta la breve vida de Hachiro Kiyokawa, un ambicioso ronin de finales del siglo XIX japonés. Kiyokawa, un personaje misterioso y experto luchador, se mueve entre las dos facciones enfrentadas (el Shogun y el Emperador) para luchar por sus propios fines.

Muraki es un yakuza recién salido de la cárcel. Hastiado con el rumbo que ha tomado su organización, conoce a Saeko, una enigmática joven interesada en el juego y las sensaciones fuertes.

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Japanese comedy film.

El joven Sabu trabaja en una empresa portuaria como lacayo del patrón de personal, a quien profesa lealtad absoluta después de que éste le salvara la vida en la guerra cuando él tenía cuatro años. Cuando los trabajadores se declaran en huelga y empiezan a promover la creación de un sindicato, Sabu será el encargado de silenciar las protestas por medio de la violencia, sin ser consciente de las terribles consecuencias que ello acarreará.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

Keiko y Saeko son una pareja de hermanas que ayudan económicamente a sus padres trabajando en una fábrica local. Además, tienen que aguantar la carga de un padre chapado a la antigua, que presiona a Keiko para que se case con un buen partido y así salve el negocio familiar. Ella se siente atraída por un compañero de trabajo pobre, pero también desea seguridad económica.

Hatsuko, una joven a punto de graduarse en el instituto, sufre un accidente de motocicleta mientras acompañaba a su novio Fusao. El doctor que la atiende en el hospital resulta ser un viejo conocido de su enviudada madre.

Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.

Un empresario de la construcción contrata a un grupo de asesinos profesionales para que liquiden a una periodista que está investigando los negocios turbios que se trae entre manos.

En 1960, el impacto político que la revisión del Tratado de Seguridad entre Estados Unidos y Japón causa en la sociedad japonesa hace que Shimojo, un joven despreocupado que vive temerariamente, abandone el movimiento estudiantil y a sus compañeros, y empiece a interesarse en organizaciones terroristas.

Shirai es un joven saxofonista a quien le acaban de dar la oportunidad de demostrar sus habilidades. Esa misma noche conoce a Mitsuko, una chica desesperada tras enterarse de que su amante está casado. Shirai le ayuda a encontrar trabajo en un club nocturno, pero se muestra confuso al respecto de sus sentimientos hacia ella.

A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.