Ken Yoshizawa

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death.

Masaya Kakei vive agónicamente una vida universitaria que está lejos de ser ideal. Un día recibe una carta de Yamato Haimura, un vicioso criminal que ha asesinado a muchos jóvenes y ha sido condenado a muerte en nueve de sus casos. "Quiero que pruebes que hay otros culpables en un caso". Masaya comienza a investigar por su cuenta la verdad del incidente.

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.

A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying “Granny, it’s me,” he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Pretending as her grandson, he settles down in the town. He gets used to his friendship with young villagers, the sound and landscape of Amakusa, and the old lady’s everyday life.

After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman opens up a beauty salon. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable situation.

Thirty years after aboy's disappearance, a journalist revives interest in the case, which in turn compels the victim's brother to look for this woman's daughter in the snowy hinterlands of northern Japan. This sets off a series of events that causes the brother and the woman's daughter to glimpse the truth that has been concealed by their vague and painful memories.

In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are not making movies, they spend their time smoking, drinking alcohol, scouting for actresses and looking for material for their next film. When filming begins, everybody immerses themselves into the production and will do everything on the filming set from running, shouting to acting.

En un pequeño pueblo donde los niños han estado desapareciendo y los adultos cercanos a ellos, mueren de manera sospechosa tres días más tarde de la desaparición. La investigación sobre las desapariciones recae sobre el periodista local Shunya Ezaki que comienza a investigar las misteriosas muertes. Mientras tanto, la novia de Shunya Ezaki, Nahomi Harada, trabaja en una escuela de kindergarten. La madre de un niño no lo recoge en la escuela y Nahomi Harada lo lleva con ella. Entonces aparece un hombre misterioso y el niño bajo el cuidado de Nahomi pronto desaparece.

Es la historia de tres chicas de compañía que viven en Ikekuburo, Tokio. Trabajan en el mismo servicio de escorts mientras sienten la soledad de la vida urbana.

“Hana-Dama”—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the “Hana-Dama” continues to blossom profusely somewhere in the world. The story is set in a film theater, the facility keeps on closing one after another during recent years. The last day has come to a film theater which has been maintained by a film-loving owner, the staff, and their unique audiences. The symbol of human desire, “Hana-Dama,” blossoms at the theater and instigates people’s erratic behavior. Upon facing its closure, tremendous chaos that will be noted in the history of Japanese film takes place within this film theater.

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking inside the building.

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society.

Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to join the school's calligraphy club. Shinko is impressed by Teacher Yatsushiro's (Kazuki Namioka) words. Teacher Yatsushiro is the one who takes care of the calligraphy club. Shinko decides to join the calligraphy club.

Intenso drama donde un soldado regresa a casa con honores, pero tiene los miembros amputados. Su esposa deberá honrar al país cuidando, también íntimamente, de un marido al que a penas puede reconocer.

A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee

Kenji Takeda is back after five years in prison. In the meantime, the yakuza society has disappeared and has been transformed into a world of betrayal!

In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tries hard, she cannot get on with her husband, either verbally or emotionally. After a year, she flees her snow-country husband with only the clothes on her back and sets out in search of work in Toyko. She wanders through Toyko asking for help in churches and at the Philippine Embassy. She needs to find work to earn enough money for a flight home. She finally finds a job and a place to stay with a Chinese man who is sympathetic to her situation. He introduces her to two of his Japanese neighbors who, when they hear Fey's life story, immediately decide to help her find her Japanese father whom she has never met.

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.

Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he cannot resist embracing her. A sensual film of love and jealousy, directed by and starring Kazuhiro Sano.

Sho is a loner who works at a small factory. He has no friends, hardly associates with his work-mates and is regarded as a weirdo because of his love for gun models. One day he buys a real gun from a local yakuza. This boosts his self-confidence and he overcomes his insecurities and presents a bouquet of flowers to Eiko, who lives in a classy apartment and with whom he had fallen in love.

El detective Azuma es un policía solitario de métodos expeditivos que se ve envuelto en asuntos turbios al intentar salvar a su amigo y compañero corrupto Iwaki, que suministra y se abastece de sustancias confiscadas por la policía. Cuando una organización criminal de narcotraficantes yakuza asesina a su amigo y secuestra a su hermana, Azuma inicia una violenta y despiadada forma de justicia.

A nurse investigates a sex trafficking ring after a woman commits suicide in her office.

Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu.

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1972.

Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female sex workers, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.

Roman Porno from 1972.

La película se centra en las acciones de un movimiento revolucionario. Una facción, con un líder llamado October, asalta un depósito de armamento americano y toma varias bombas de mano. Durante la huida, varios soldados son asesinados y October se queda ciego por una explosión. Es declarado incapaz por los líderes del movimiento y envía a Winter's February, líder de otra facción, para recoger el resto de bombas de October...

Beginning in the 1960s, a story is told of the sex and romances of eight young people wandering into adult life.

With her wedding only one day away, Mina (Mari Tanaka) spends a night with her former lover Ozaki (Kinji Takinami) at a highway motel on the outskirts of Yokohama. On her way back from her last adventure, Mina’s car hits a hippie-like youth called Ryo (Ken Yoshizawa). Shocked by the accident and, moreover, left alone by Ozaki, who hated to be involved in the trouble, Mina places the unconscious youth in the back seat and drives toward a lake...

Desensitized and dissatisfied, a young yet jaded sexual veteran sets out on a journey of self-discovery while teetering on the threshold of womanhood. Yasuko is taking part in an orgy when she realizes that she has lost all feeling - not just physically, but emotionally as well. Now, with the weight of responsibility and adult expectation weighing down on her shoulders, Yasuko attempts to better understand how she could be so empty at such a tender age.

A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...

From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.

A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster.

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. The subtext intended by Adachi informs the rest of the film – that there is a world of difference between direct action politics, and merely talking the talk.

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet.

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target...

Pinku from 1968

A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an uninteresting study on authority, patriarchy and conservatism vs. free love and youth culture.

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.