Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Standing in the way of Hojo and Asami is Secretary-General Isaoka, and a new enemy, the Russian Mafia. The magnificent war between front and back society has finally reached its climax! What is the incurable disease that hit Asami when the secret bond between the two was revealed? Two men work to transform their lives and reshape Japan.
Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.
Deputy Chief Norimoto Isaoka
Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, Hojo and Asami share the same past; both of them were survivors of the Killing Fields of Cambodia. With the aggression and survival instincts they learned in the Cambodian jungles, Hojo and Asami strive in both the Yakuza and political world to reform Japan into their own sanctuary.
Police Chief
Un hombre es llevado a una institución mental después de intentar asesinar a su novia. Dos médicos dicen que su problema se debe a que los defectos mentales se transmiten de generación en generación.
Stall Owner
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
En la segunda mitad del siglo XVI había muchos jefes militares con hambre de poder, todos ellos a cual más sanguinario buscaban someter a su propia soberanía al país entero. Uno de los más crueles era Hideyashi. Ordena a su comandante enviar al poblado a Monachi para destruir su clan y el magnífico grupo de Guerreros Ninja, obteniendo así uno de los mejores tesoros del Gran Japón. Sólo un niño queda con vida de la gran matanza, sólo un niño que volverá diez años después, convirtiéndose en el terror de Hideyoshi.
Takashi Nakagami
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
Reporter Tatsuya Iwado
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
Kawata
Kumi Taguchi es una modelo que deja a su novio boxeador después de que sufra una lesión. Ella conoce y se casa rapidemente con Hideo, el heredero de un imperio corporativo. El padre de Hideo, Takehiko, desea a Kumi. Takehiko envía a su hijo lejos, aparentemente en un viaje de negocios, pero en realidad para que pueda ser asesinado por los esbirros de Takehiko. Takehiko seduce a Kumi, pero se siente frustrado cuando ella se niega a realizar sexo oral con él. Enfurecido, Takehiko obliga Kumi someterse a una cirugía en la que su clítoris se transfiere a la garganta, lo que requiere que se dedique al sexo oral con el fin de tener un orgasmo. Hideo, el hijo supuestamente asesinados, regresa después de haber pagado a sus asesinos. Hideo dispara y mata a su padre, pero Kumi coge la pistola y mata a Hideo para que pueda heredar la fortuna de la familia.
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Miyashita
Un grupo terrorista coloca una bomba en un tren bala que recorre el trayecto Tokio-Hakata. El Hikari 109 explotará si el tren baja de 80 km/hora. Pero un operador del tren (Sonny Chiba) se encargará de intentar salvar a los pasajeros.
Hayato Maejima
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
Yoshita Kitani
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Lawyer
Drama basado en una historia real que gira en torno a una mujer que pasa nueve meses tratando de recuperar el cadáver de su marido, luchando sin desfallecer contra la burocracia y la indiferencia gubernamental a lo largo de todo el proceso.
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
Priest Kakinuma
Después de la misteriosa muerte de su madre, una joven entra en un convento para averiguar lo que pasó. Tan pronto como la puerta se cierra, las monjas comienzan a torturarla. Además, tiene que hacer frente a un arzobispo que odia a Dios y una madre superiora lesbiana.
Chujo
Japanese crime film.
Renzo Mutaguchi
Sonny Chiba es Takuma Tsurugi, un mercenario experto en artes marciales que es contratado por un grupo de yakuzas para secuestrar a la hija de un millonario fallecido, la cual ha heredado toda la fortuna de su padre. Pero cuando los yakuzas se niegan a pagarle lo prometido. Takuma decidirá proteger a la niña y enfrentarse a los temibles yakuza.
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Masuo Shimazaki
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
Inspector Goda
Tras cumplir su venganza y acabar con Sugimi, Matsu es enviada nuevamente a prisión donde pasará mucho tiempo aislada. Un día tras ser violada por unos guardias por orden del director, escapará con otras reclusas, y buscará vengarse del alcaide. Segunda entrega de la saga Sasori.
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
Warden Goda
Nami Matsuhima es una mujer que se enamora completamente de Sumigi, un policía corrupto. Sugimi buscando ascender en su carrera, convence a Nami para que se infiltre en un clan yakuza que quiere detener. Tras lograr su objetivo, Sugimi se olvida de ella, que se siente traicionada e intenta asesinarle. Como consecuencia, Matsu acaba en la cárcel, donde sufrirá todo tipo de torturas y abusos por parte de los guardias y prisioneras, mientras trata de escaparse para poder completar su venganza. Primera entrega de la saga Sasori.
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
Historia de un hombre pobre, lujurioso, que pone intercambios con un shogun estudioso y llega a un festín con todas las concubinas que desea.
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.
Bizennokami Yagyû
Primera en una serie de adaptaciones al cine de imágen real del famoso manga escrito por Kazuo Koike y dibujado por Goseki Kojima. Narra las aventuras de un ronin que deambula por el japón del shogunato Tokugawa acompañado de un niño. Esta película narra los orígenes del personaje y también es conocida por su título literal:"Lone Wolf and Cub: Child and Expertise for Rent".
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Kamematsu Kamei
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Un estudio fascinante sobre la época de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y de la postguerra en Japón, a través de los ojos de un joven perteneciente a una familia poderosa. Es quizá el trabajo más autobiográfico del director. En efecto, Oshima creció durante esa época, en circunstancias similares, y era descendiente de una importante familia de samuráis.
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
Head of Kikuna Clan
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
Baba
Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look.
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
Michio Yamada, reciente graduado escolar, es enviado a Tokio para trabajar como empaquetador de fruta en unos grandes almacenes, como parte de un programa gubernamental. Incapaz de asentarse y echar raíces, y tras haber cogido una pistola de una casa en una base naval estadounidense, su vida va dando tumbos hacia la delincuencia. Paralelamente se muestra su dura infancia en un hogar pobre y desestructurado del Japón rural.
Segunda parte de la exitosa 'Yakuza Deka'. En esta ocasión el agente Hayata (Sonny Chibba), experto en artes marciales, se infiltra en dos de los más peligrosos “gangs” del mundo del hampa japonés, para acabar con ellos y llevarlos ante la justicia. Los problemas surgirán una vez la verdadera identidad de Hayata es descubierta por uno de ellos.
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
Moritaya Seizo
La historia se desarrolla durante el período de Mizuno Tadakuni (1793-1851). El Señor Mizuno era un moralista extremo y trató de proscribir cualquier cosa más o menos placentera. Su razonamiento era que cosas como obras teatrales, novelas populares, comidas caras, pinturas, etc ... contribuían a la decadencia de la moral nacional.
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
Father
Aparentemente menos experimental que otros trabajos anteriores, contiene, sin embargo, una violenta carga política. Shonen sigue los caminos de Koshikei al cuestionar el trato que existe en Japón hacia los marginados y los pobres. Entendida como una secuela de su documental Diary of a Yunbogi Boy, hecha unos años antes para televisión, Shonen es uno de los films más profundamente humanistas de Oshima.
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
Film with Junko Miyazono.
A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
Karo Kin
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Japanese crime film
Himself
Birdie, un joven ladrón de libros, es sorprendido mientras roba por una supuesta dependienta llamada Umeko, que lo lleva en presencia del dueño de la librería. La noche siguiente los dos jóvenes hacen el amor, pero Umeko, que es virgen, se queda desilusionada. A partir de ahí inician la búsqueda del placer sexual y para ello recurren a un sexólogo, mientras un grupo de actores debaten sobre las claves del placer. El film, que empieza en blanco y negro, mezcla arrebatos de color, música popular, sexo, psicoanálisis y surrealismo.
Shigekichi Karasawa
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asakawa, and this indirectly throws a spanner into the works as far as Isamu's burgeoning success as a kickboxer. When Asakawa 's HQ is burned to the ground by Karasawa's men, Asakawa tries to kill Karasawa - which, of course, leads to his own gruesome death. Isamu goes on the rampage with his sword, wiping out Karasawa and men.
Ambientada en el Japón del Período Edo, la película narra tres historias distintas que tienen como nexo común la tortura en dicha época.
Iwasaki
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
Koga
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Seiichiro Sawada
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.
Dokumushi
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
The Domain: Severed Relations
Eiji Katasawa
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Education Officer
Koshikei relata las vicisitudes de R, un joven coreano que es acusado de violar y matar a dos mujeres y, por tanto, condenado a morir en la horca. Pero algo falla en la ejecución: R sobrevive y se queda amnésico. El comité organizador decide que, para que la ejecución sea eficaz, primero hay que conseguir que R recuerde quién es y lo que ha hecho.
A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Hayato Gondo
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Gorô Hyôdô
Shimamura
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. The series gets cited on lists of action yakuza films or woman avenger films, but once the films are actually viewed, it is quickly obvious they are not generally about action except in the nominal sense of acts of gambling. And while Ogin is in fact sometimes motivated by revenge, she is not as a rule a martial artist or a killer, & this series tends to place its female hero as far away from the "action babe" method as she can get. Ogin is an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling. She is samurai-like in that she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer, much as a samurai might go on his "warrior's pilgrimage" to become Japan's number one swordsman.
Inspector Haraguchi
En el Japón en ruinas de la postguerra, Eisuke, un hombre desgraciado que va dando tumbos por la vida, conoce a Shino, una joven que trabaja como criada en una residencia y que vive sumida en la pobreza. Pero Shino deja de ser el objeto de sus deseos cuando Eisuke conoce a la mujer del señor Inagaki, el dueño de la residencia.
Un chico del Norte de la isla de Hokkaido caza una mariposa de Nagasaki que solo aparece en el Sur del archipielago. Sus profesores creen que ha comprado el insecto en una tienda y le acusan de haber engañado. Mientras, una larva de la misma mariposa comienza un a veces cómico y siempre improbable viaje desde el Sur hasta el Norte. En su viaje, la larva aparece yuxtapuesta en una serie de historias de amor fallidas, traumáticas memorias de la guerra, operaciones de contrabando y corruptas tramas políticas. La película termina donde empezó, en Hokkaido, donde la red del chico atrapa a otra mariposa.
Hanawa gang member
Nagisa Oshima utiliza el género "pink" para enmascarar una alegoría acerca del materalismo del Japón de posguerra (el título traducido significa "Indulgencia"). Katsuo Nakamura interpreta a un hombre que, tras haber matado al violador de la joven alumna de la que está enamorado, es chantajeado por un funcionario de Agricultura que ha malversado cien millones de yenes y le hace guardar una parte del botín de un robo mientras él cumple una sentencia de cárcel.
Tatsuo Sakurai
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
1962 Japanese movie
Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With nowhere to go, the two wander around, befriending a cosmetics salesman and a kind waitress who give them beer. This biting social satire starring two memorable grandmothers, scripted by Yôko Mizuki, picked up on Japan’s aging population problem far ahead of its time.
Manao Horiuchi movie
Taiichi Kimura
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.
Football
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.
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...
Tsuneo Sugiyama
Tras la muerte de Miwa, sus mejores amigos deciden hacerse cargo del futuro de su viuda Akiko y de su hija Ayako. Todos creen que la mejor solución es casar a la joven, pero ésta rechaza uno tras otro a todos los candidatos que le presentan; así que deciden casar primero a la viuda.
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Haruaki Nozawa
Se celebra la boda entre Reiko y Haruaki, miembros de dos generaciones de movimientos estudiantiles revolucionarios. Irrumpen en la celebración Ota, compañero de lucha de Reiko y buscado por la policía, y Akumi, un militante considerado desaparecido hace tiempo. Afloran discusiones políticas y tensiones. Rodada con un estilo teatral, combinando flashbacks, fueras de campo, fundidos en negro y largos planos secuencia.
Yasuo Kawamura
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
Yosehei
En un barrio de chabolas de Osaka, Hanako se dedica, durante el día, a la compra de sangre que luego vende a compañías cosméticas y, durante la noche, trabaja de prostituta. Cuando su socio en la compra de sangre se le insinúa, Hanako le responde que su relación sólo es profesional. En efecto, Hanako es una mujer de negocios que intenta ganarse el respeto de tres bandas rivales.
La primera película de Yoshida trata de la vida de unos jóvenes estudiantes en un contexto de jazz, vacío espiritual y aburrimiento. La trama es sencilla: un inútil (good-for-nothing) de un barrio pobre se enamora de la joven secretaria del padre de un rico amigo suyo. La mujer siente simpatía por él y trata de llevarlo por el buen camino.
Akimoto
A Makoto, que todavía va al instituto, la salva del ataque de un hombre un estudiante universitario llamado Kiyoshi. Al día siguiente, él intenta aprovecharse de la situación y se acuesta con ella, aunque luego la rechaza. Pero ella no se resigna e insiste en volver a verlo. Comienza así una relación entre ambos: ella lo sigue a todas partes y se va acostumbrando a sus actos delictivos.
A young woman is attacked by a serial rapist and murderer whom her detective father is investigating. Though she survives, the impact of the event creates increasing discord and agony for her and her loved ones.
Story of girls in a Japanese reform school.
A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.
Sanbô
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Forzado a unirse al ejército japonés durante la contienda, Kaji es enviado a Manchuria. Allí entabla amistad con un soldado que simpatiza con el comunismo. Tras una breve visita de su esposa, Kaji es enviado con su unidad al campo de batalla, del que muchos de sus compañeros nunca regresarán.
Yuji
El título original de este film era "El chico que vendía palomas", pero los productores lo cambiaron por "Calle de amor y esperanza", contra los deseos del director. Un joven llamado Masao, huérfano de padre, vive con su madre enferma y su pequeña hermana. Para mantener a su familia, Masao trabaja como limpiabotas y como vendedor de palomas. Como son palomas mensajeras, vuelven con él una y otra vez de modo que puede revenderlas.
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.
Sugiura
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying the joys of youth, but she was filled with a feeling that something was missing.
Comedy about the trials and tribulations of youth.
Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Ichiro Nagamura
A un hombre de negocios sus amigos le piden constantemente consejos sobre el matrimonio, la vida conyugal y la vida familiar. Su serenidad y sus agudos análisis le permiten encontrar el consejo oportuno para cada situación. Sin embargo, cuando él mismo tiene que afrontar una delicada situación que afecta a su hija mayor, tropezará con grandes dificultades para encontrar una solución al conflicto.
Nishida
Nishida, un estudiante pobre, se instala en una miserable pensión, situada cerca de una base aérea americana. La casera es una viuda acostumbrada a la vida de los bajos fondos. La prostitución y el mercado negro son las constantes de la zona y de la vida de sus habitantes.
Tatsumi Furuse
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.
