Kotobuki Hananomoto

El film de debut de Akio Jissoji acerca de una relación incestuosa de dos hermanos de una familia tradicional que vive cerca de Kyoto, es el perfecto ejemplo de la plasmación del pensamiento budista en el cine, realizada con una fotografía cautivadora y unos rompedores planos secuencia.

Film from 1967.

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

Jiro está cansado de ver cómo su madre ejerce la prostitución con extranjeros. El chico vive junto a su madre y otras prostitutas en un pequeño burdel situado junto a la base aérea americana de Yokota. Cansado de los acontecimientos, Jiro planea robar una jugosa cantidad de dinero a su tía, prostituta de lujo, pero lo que inicialmente sería un sencillo robo, desembocará en una oleada de violencia. Polémica película sobre un hombre perturbado, que provocó el arresto de su director por parte de las autoridades japonesas.

A drama depicting a girl's suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a villain skilled in the art of sorcery. Hakuraku-Ou had long been seeking a Tiger Seal which, together with the Dragon Seal in his possession, would reveal the location of a huge ancestral fortune. But on the very night that the Tiger Seal was found, it was stolen by Tomomitsu, Ginnosuke's chief. When the two brothers receive the Dragon Seal from their father just before his death they determine to go to Death's-Head Castle, in order to recover the Tiger Seal.

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the time.