Kazutaka Okada
Espectacular blockbuster basado en el trepidante manga de Nobuyuki Fukumoto acerca de una organización que recluta a gente asediada por las deudas para someterles a juegos que sirven de pasatiempo en vivo para burgueses podridos de dinero. La organización funciona como un reino, y aquellos que pierden pasan a ser esclavos de por vida, condenados a trabajos forzados en el subsuelo. Kaiji es uno de los pobres diablos sin fortuna que cae en las garras de esta peculiar mafia, terminando como esclavo. Pero él es bastante más listo que la gente con la que están acostumbrados a tratar.
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back the distance created during the long years in which they took each other for granted... Love Letters sent from husbands to wives and from wives to husbands, quietly voice their unspoken appreciation for each other over the years that they have shared. The original idea comes from the postcard project "Love Letters at Sixty" which has brought a wave of sympathy to the precious emotions shared by many married couples.
Father Togawa
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test.
(segment "Echoes")
This horror anthology is featuring nine independent episodes, each 30 minutes long, that are revolving around bad karma and terror.
Tenkai Nankôbô
Azumi, joven huérfana, es acogida por un anciano guerrero del Japón feudal, maestro de artes marciales, que la entrenará junto a otros nueve jóvenes en el dominio de las mejores técnicas del combate de sable. Tras muchos años de perfeccionamiento, los diez compañeros, convertidos en guerreros asesinos, tendrán que enfrentarse a la prueba definitiva: derrotar a un ejército de despiadados tiranos feudales. Premios:
War between North Korea and Japan
Narrator (voice)
Japón, siglo XIX. En el templo Nishi-Honganji, la milicia Shinsengumi está seleccionando nuevos reclutas para convertirlos en guerreros samurais. El comandante Isami Kondo y el teniente Toshizo Hijikata son los encargados de supervisar el proceso de adiestramiento que exige que cada aspirante se enfrenté a Soji Okita, el mejor hombre de la milicia.
Lawyer
Schoolgirl Kuniko is kidnapped by a middle-aged man Iwazono when she is jogging. He tells her that he had a failed marriage which leaves him a deep and everlasting scar in his mind. He kidnaps her in search of a perfect marriage and intends to lock her in the room and 'educate' her to perform perfect sex where body and soul are united.
Dr. Faust
Short anime adaption of the Osamu Tezuka manga Neo Faust.
Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II
Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to benefit their loved ones back home, they are unprepared for the hardships of war. Through their shared trials and sacrifices, they grow closer as friends, and hope to return together to better days. This movie was released in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of WWII.
The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda), a racing tipster for a sports paper. In this sequel to 1993's The Wicked Reporter, Matsuzaki befriends a mysterious old bettor at the track named Tokudaiji (Kei Sato). The man turns out to be a well-connected millionaire and invites Matsuzaki to his home... While the sequel covers the familiar territory of gambling and gangsters, Mochizuki also attempts to tactfully approach such subjects as gender dysphoria, transvestism, and infidelity.
Bored Hatamoto film
Nemoto
Rie y su amante y socio Kishin dirigen una agencia de detectives privada de bajo perfil en París. Después de que el rico Okuyama los contrata para seguir el rastro de su amante francesa Lorraine porque piensa que está teniendo una aventura, Kishin, será seducido por esta mujer fatal y se verá inmerso en un submundo de ricos empresarios japoneses. Al mismo tiempo, Rie ees deseada por Okuyama, quien parece tener una agenda oculta propia.
Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane
Detective
Película de corte biográfico sobre el escritor Nagai Kafu (1879-1959), un hombre que fue conocido en su tiempo por su condición de Don Juan y frecuentador de prostíbulos, que fueron los principales escenarios de sus novelas, hasta el punto de hacerse fotógrafo pornográfico para poder estar más introducido en aquel mundillo y conocerlo mejor. En una de esas visitas al distrito rojo de Tokio, Nagai Kafu conoce a Oyuki, una prostituta de quien se enamorará.
A black comedy about a former Rock'n'Roll singer, who becomes the mayor of Tokyo.
Iseya
Un burdel en una zona rural es el punto de encuentro habitual de diversos ronin, samuráis sin amo que desahogan en la bebida y las chicas sus frustraciones. Alcohol y pasión no suelen combinar bien con espadas y gente desesperanzada, el conflicto está servido.
Inoue Kawachi-no-kami
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle in a series of duels that could change the destiny of Japan.
(voice)
Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western faction, he was instumental in establishing the Sat-Cho Alliance dreamed of by Sakamoto Ryoma. After the fall of the Tokugawa, Saigo rose to major prominence before falling in disfavor. In 1876 Saigo Takamori resigned from his government post and went back to Kagoshima. He founded a local military school and dissatisfied samurai gathered around him in large numbers. In late 1876 it came to an open conflict when samurai rebels raided and occupied ammunition and weapon depots of the central government. The samurai rebels urged and proclaimed Saigo Takamori as their leader. While the Tom Cruise movie fictionalized Saigo’s life story, this is history come to life in the most exciting rendition with an all-star cast that is not to be missed!
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.
Narrator (voice)
This film describes how the Hopi and Navajo tribes in the southwestern United States have responded to the resource colonization of their lands that have been repeatedly plundered for plutonium and uranium, or—in their words—“carving out the earth’s vital organs.”
Hitoshi Awazu
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Chief Editor Gondo
Originalmente lanzado en Japón como "The Return of Godzilla" en 1984, esta es la reeditada y re-titulada "Godzilla 1985". Añadiendo nuevas imágenes de Raymond Burr, esta decimosexta película de Godzilla ignora todas las secuelas anteriores y sirve como un seguimiento directo de "Godzilla King of the Monsters" de 1956, que también presentó escenas con Burr editadas en "Godzilla" de 1954. Esta película restaura el tono más oscuro del original, ya que somos testigos de la destrucción nuclear de un lagarto gigante que aterroriza a Japón.
Daishi Shimoyama
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Nakajima
On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."
Chief Editor Gondo
Despúes de treinta años del primer ataque del dinosaurio mutante, el mismo periodista vuelve a enfrentarse a Godzilla.
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
Yoshino
Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya [Snack Bar] Choji with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate. Eiji once had a girlfriend by the name of Sayo, but she is supposed to be happily married to a pasture owner in the countryside. Then, suddenly one day Sayo shows up at Choji before opening. Sayo is still in love with Eiji. The story expressively portrays the lives of random Choji customers and the daily interaction between Eiji and Shigeko, while also focusing on the feelings between Eiji and his past girlfriend Sayo.
Police Inspector
Arrested and interrogated by the police for a murder, Kiyoshi Ôkubo remembers his past and ends up confessing to several murders. Inspired by the true story of the serial killer who raped and killed eight women in Japan in 1971. The case moved the whole country.
Police Chief
A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.
Narrator
Docudrama sobre los juicios a los que fueron sometidos los militaristas japoneses tras ser acusados de crímenes de guerra durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Narrada por Kei Sato.
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Dentist
Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he is attracted to the woman, he says nothing to her. They are later in the same examining room. When he is given an anesthetic, he begins to imagine a series of scenes in which the woman undergoes various forms of sexual abuse, including rape and torture. When the artist recovers from the anesthetic, he finds clues showing that he may not have been hallucinating.
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Endo
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the author of the killings “walks like a dead man”. Kashiwagi runs into Date, a former correspondent in the Vietnam War. There, Date discovered hell and something snapped in his mind.
Ichiro Hamada
Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
Narrator (voice)
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a geisha and later rescuing her from committing suicide, Col. Miyagi allows her to move in with him. Over time, the two grow close, but in spite of Kaoru's growing feelings for him, Col. Miyagi is unable to bring himself to return her love. On the night of his deployment to war, Col. Miyagi finally admits his feelings for Kaoru, but will they ever be able to enjoy a peaceful life together now that a very violent and bloody military revolt is under way...
The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
Dr. Ichikawa
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Gorô Onodera , Military Commentator
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
Shimizu
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it.
Shoichi Katsuda
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
Sekino
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.
Nogami
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.
T.V. Director Fukami
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.
An NHK adaptation of the famous manga by Moto Hagio
Teramitsu Abara
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Director Fukami
Thriller about hijackers taking control of an oil tanker and threatening to blow it all up in Tokyo Bay.
Prison Guard
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
Koide, Chief of Police
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.
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?
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!
Psychiartist
tyobei(Izuya)
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?
Shobei Hamajima
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.
Magistrate
Vigésimo quinta de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Después de más de veinte años, Zatoichi regresa a su pueblo natal donde conocerá a una hermanastra. Por otro lado, un viejo amigo de la infancia, se está aprovechando de los granjeros del pueblo para enriquecerse. Una vez más Zatoichi tratará de imponer la justicia con sus propios medios.
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Yohei
Unas barcas dedicadas al contrabando descienden por el río Nakagawa hasta una isla, donde se esconde la mercancía antes de venderla. Allí está la célebre y temida taberna de Fukagawa, cuartel general de una banda de peligrosos contrabandistas. Durante mucho tiempo, no sólo ha sido un lugar intocable para la policía, sino que ha contado incluso con su connivencia. Sin embargo, la llegada de nuevos policías constituye una amenaza para la impunidad de la banda, que se verá obligada a tomar precauciones.
In the late Taisho era. Umeshima Jinbei, the president of the Kanto Umeshima Kai, divided the area into the Kuroda family to the south and the Takeuchi family to the north in order to protect the security of Kame no Ii, which had opened up in place of the Yoshiwara brothel that had been burnt down in the earthquake, and had the Kuroda family rule their respective territories. Chichibu Yasaburo, the small head of the Kuroda family, had a good reputation as the mainstay of the family and was trusted by his boss Mankichi, but Furuno, who was in love with Mankichi's daughter Mie, who was in love with Yasaburo, informally informed the Takeuchi clan and took out Mankichi's seal and borrowed money from Takeuchi in the name of Yasaburo to line his pockets.
Sakurada Kazuomi, Grandfather
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.
Murase / Ochiai
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.
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.
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
Thriller about a Japanese-American CIA agent (Kayama) in Japan.
Iyemon
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.
Priest
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?
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.
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Tōshūsai Sharaku
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.
Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
Suzuki
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un soldado duramente golpeado por un oficial superior se queda sordo. Después de la guerra, se convierte en inventor y se encuentra a su antiguo oficial en la oficina de patentes. Pronto descubrirá que sigue siendo un hombre violento.
Masanobu Kurosawa
Y Chong - iru
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.
Ichiro Yasui
Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.
Raiko
Una mujer y su nuera son atacadas y violadas por un grupo de samurais, que las asesinan cuando prenden fuego a la cabaña en que ellas viven. Poco después 2 mujeres muy parecidas a las muertas entran en escena atrayendo a samurais solitarios hasta su casa con oscuras y vengativas intenciones.
Prison warden
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.
Secretary Mizumo
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sentenced to be disbanded. Eleven of the best samurai of the clan refuse the sentence and are willing to give their life for justice.
Otoko
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
Doctor
A man sets out to search for his brother among the survivors of Hiroshima after an anonymous letter.
Sakagami Shuzen
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money.
Yuzo Gondo
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Nishida
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.
Eisuke Oyamada
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 hombre joven regresa a la isla en la que fue torturado cuando era niño. Fue enviado allí para que no revelase la identidad del policía militar que asesinó a su familia. Durante 20 años ha planeado la venganza contra el sádico guardián que torturaba a los castigados en la isla. Una vez allí, conoce a la hija del guardián, que le asegura que su padre ha cambiado por completo.
Boss Gonzo
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.
Kamo Serizawa
El samurái Ryonosuke siente una insana fascinación por el poder mortal de su katana y va por la vida acumulando cadáveres, con o sin motivo. Eventualmente lo contratan como mercenario, pero incluso cuando está sin trabajo, no tiene inconveniente alguno en matar por puro placer.
Hatamoto Serizawa
En desacuerdo con sus padres, Otsuya huye de su hogar para refugiarse en los brazos de Gonji, quien termina vendiéndola en una casa de geishas. Allí, un maestro del tatuaje dibuja sobre su hermoso cuerpo una inmensa araña. Como si el espíritu del insecto tomara posesión de la joven, el deseo irreprimible de venganza se transforma en el centro de su vida. Como la viuda negra tatuada en su espalda, Otsuya arruina la vida de todo hombre que se cruce en su camino.
The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
Secretery Kanbe
Hanpei es un joven samurái gentil que ama las flores. Un día, es testigo del rápido desenvainado de la espada de un anciano. Está tan impresionado que se convierte en alumno del anciano. Pronto, la habilidad con la espada de Hanpei llamó la atención de su señor. El señor le ordena asesinar a un hombre...
Police inspector
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.
Takanosuke Nojiri
Los años de guerra llegan a su fin en un Japón unificado bajo el Shogunato Tokugawa. El espía Sasuke Sarutobi, cansado del conflicto, desea la paz pero otro importante espía llamado Tatewaki Koriyama planea abandonar al shogun por un clan rival, convulsionando el oscuro mundo de los espías.
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.
Izo
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Ghost samurai (segment "Chawan no naka")
Filme basado en cuatro historias del escritor Lafcadio Hearn. "Pelo negro": un samurái no soporta a su mujer y la abandona por una princesa. Años después vuelve a casa para realizar un terrible descubrimiento. "La mujer en la nieve": dos leñadores se refugian de una tormenta de nieve en lo que parece ser un cobertizo abandonado. "Hoichi": el fantasma de un samurái le pide a un músico ciego que toque una balada en la tumba de su señor. "En la taza de té": un samurái se asusta ante la visión de un hombre reflejado en su taza de té.
Hachi
Mientras su hijo, Kichi, está en guerra, una mujer y su nuera sobreviven matando a samuráis que se pierden en su pantano y luego vendiendo los objetos de valor que encuentran. Ambos quedan devastados cuando se enteran de que Kichi ha muerto, pero su esposa pronto comienza una aventura con un vecino que sobrevivió a la guerra, Hachi. La madre lo desaprueba y, cuando no puede robarse a Hachi, intenta asustar a su nuera con una misteriosa máscara de un samurái muerto.
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord.
Kinjiro Takeuchi
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for many people. A masterpiece of historical drama, full of breathtaking thrills and action.
Shogo
The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too poor to afford that luxury. Even when a kind friend agrees to help out, Goichi's father refuses to give in to his son's request for an education. Instead, he sends Goichi off to work as an indentured servant for a cold-hearted merchant and his family. As tragedy strikes and the suffering of the young boy increases, he begins to look for some way out of his bleak situation.
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
Otaguro
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…
Katsumaki
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him into a small town besieged by a violent group of brigands. In a kind of homage to Kurosawa's 7 Samurai, the townspeople have been unable to defend themselves and Inaba sets out to teach them how to stand up for themselves. Meanwhile the vile Lord Yasumasa has sent the 4 finest swordsmen in the clan out to hunt Inaba down and kill him. Led by the magnificent Ichibei (Konoe), a master of weaponry in his own right, everything points to an ultimate showdown between the former friends in a battle to the death.
Dr. Koiguchi
Tamiko es una madre divorciada de su segundo marido, después de haber enviudado del primero durante la II Guerra Mundial. Su hijo Toshio se está quedando ciego; le han diagnosticado un tumor cerebral. Ella no tiene dinero para la cirugía y se lo pide a Yoshie, su madre. Yoshie se niega pero acuerda un matrimonio con otro pariente soltero, Tajima, a condición de que él se haga cargo del pago de la operación.
Takamoto
A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei must stop the evil plot of Lord Hayato-no-sho, who secretly plans on overthrowing the Shogunate. This is the most exciting film in the long-running series about one of the greatest swordsmen in Japanese history. Konoe Jushiro gives one of his finest performances in this classic tale.
Saburobei Konoe
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.
A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.
Hachizo
Un capitán de barco y su sobrino se disponen a zarpar hacia una isla para realizar un trabajo con el que ganar algo de dinero para el próximo festival del pueblo. Les acompañan Hachi, un peón amigo de Sankichi, y Gorosuke, una buceadora que quiere aprovechar el viaje para vender parte de su pesca. Pero antes de llegar a su destino, una gran tormenta les deja a la deriva..
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the Yagyu Secret Scrolls. The two scrolls are held in separate locations to assure their safety. Within them there is information other than the techniques of the Yagyu Shin-kage style. They contain a secret that could throw the country into turmoil. Clan founder Yagyu Sekishusai had split the scroll into two parts to prevent its contents from being known to the public. This is Jubei's toughest assignment yet as he puts his life on the line to save the nation!
Masakazu
Un samurái pide permiso para practicarse el Seppuku (o Harakiri), ceremonia durante la cual se quitará la vida abriéndose el estómago al tiempo que otro samurái lo decapitará. Solicita también poder contar la historia que le ha llevado a tomar tan trágica decisión.
Reporter
Un minero vaga en busca de trabajo, acompañado de su hijo de corta edad. En este deambular llegará hasta un extraño pueblo fantasma, donde solo vive una mujer que regenta una pequeña tienda. Allí es atacado por un misterioso hombre de traje y guantes blancos...
A dark tale of murder and revenge set in old Kyoto.
Takeyama
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.
En el año 1637, en Shimabara durante la era Tokugawa, los campesinos cristianos oprimidos se rebelan contra el Shogunato bajo el amparo del carismático líder Shiro Amakusa.
Cop
En su lecho de muerte, un rico empresario anuncia su intención de dividir su fortuna entre tres hijos ilegítimos que se encuentran en paradero desconocido. La situación es propicia para que un grupo de abogados elabore un plan para apoderarse del dinero sirviéndose de impostores y del chantaje.
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
Shinji Tsuda
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.
Tamio Yamada
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Ieraishan Tatsu
The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.
Sakamaki
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.
Iwai
Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.
Sakaguchi, doctor
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.
Akira Matsuko
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.
Shinjô Ittôhei
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.
