Kazuko Inano

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Horror film based on the story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.

Hanzo y sus ayudantes detienen a un par de ladrones que confiesan haber saqueado un cadáver. Al encontrar el cuerpo deduce que ha sufrido un aborto y sus investigaciones le llevan a un convento regido por sádicas monjas que se dedican a ofrecer novicias a nobles para ser torturadas de mil maneras.

En esta intrincada película, se explora la naturaleza de las actrices y sus métodos de actuación. Las vidas de tres actrices son completamente desnudadas, a través de escenas de sus vidas sacadas de entrevistas a cada una de ellas. Todas han sufrido experiencias traumáticas que contribuyeron en la exploración de sus trabajos dramáticas. Una de ellas fue violada por su profesor, otra tuvo un padrastro que abusó de ella, y la tercera experimentó una parálisis de sus cuerdas vocales por una causa desconocida.

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

Eros y Masacre es la biografía del rebelde socialista de principios del siglo XX Sakae Osugi, y de las tres mujeres que compartieron su vida: Hori Yasuko, su mujer; su segunda amante, la celosa Itsuko Masaoka, una militante feminista; y Noe Ito, su tercera amante, una importante activista social y novelista. Paralelamente a la historia de Osugi, la película sigue las aventuras sub rumbo de dos estudiantes radicales de los 60: la ninfómana Eiko y el impotente y pirómano Wada, explorando teorías políticas e ideas sobre el amor libre mantenidas por Osugi. Fantasean sobre la Era Taisho, y Yoshida alterna y mezcla continuamente la línea entre la fantasía y la realidad hasta que las dos líneas argumentales se entremezclan. Yoshida, como su contemporáneo Godard, acepta que una película es un artificio y juega con el espacio y el tiempo.

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

The story of a selfless mother and her family throughout the decades, from th 1920's to the 1960's.

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.

Una noche, mientras estaba en el observatorio de la Torre Marina, el vendedor de cosméticos Ichiro Iki entabló una conversación con una joven desconocida, Akiko. Invita a Ichiro a un hotel donde hacen el amor, pero parte sin siquiera intercambiar nombres. Una semana más tarde, tienen un segundo encuentro casual en el observatorio y regresan a su hotel, donde Akiko le ruega a Ichiro que le dé a su hermana Kyoko el infierno absoluto. Akiko se resiente de su hermana por dar una conferencia sobre castidad, mientras que se dedica a la actividad promiscua ...

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.