Masami Kuzû

Japanese crime film

The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star in this rare Monkees and Beatles inspired secret agent movie. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps!

Un asesino del crimen organizado es contratado para llevar a cabo una misión. Es conocido como el Número 3, y pronto se verá en vuelto en una especie de conspiración en la que están metidos una extraña y fascinante mujer, y más asesinos. La caza comienza, y enseguida sabremos quién es el Número 1 de la Organización, todo un ejemplo a seguir, y sobre el que algunos incluso aseguran que no existe, que es un invento para meter miedo.

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

«Phoenix Tetsu» es un asesino a sueldo reformado que ha seguido el ejemplo establecido por su jefe, aparentemente arrepentido de su trabajo. Una vez alejado del mundo de la delincuencia, Tetsu se encuentra vagando por las calles de Tokio, eludiendo, a la par que esperando, una muerte segura a manos del villano Viper. Tan solo le queda la compañía de su novia, cantante en un nightclub.

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

‘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?

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.

Harumi se ofrece voluntariamente como “confort woman” en el frente de Manchuria durante los meses previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Allí deberá prestar sus servicios profesionales a cientos de soldados, aunque con dos de ellos forjará una relación especial. Un relato de amor trágico, enfrentado a los códigos militares en tiempos de guerra.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Aclamado y tórrido drama de alto contenido erótico. Prestigiado por la crítica por ser Suzuki uno de los directores japoneses que rompió los modelos clásicos al tiempo que varios realizadores hacían lo mismo en Europa, el film, no exento de un notable sadomasoquismo y mucha naturalidad en la filmación del arte del amor, narra la historia, en el Tokyo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de una prostitutas japonesas que cobijan a un criminal, por el cual acabarán todas suspirando.

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.