Koji Kiyomura

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.

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.

En un momento crucial de su vida financiera, Gondo, un hombre de negocios, recibe la noticia de que su hijo ha sido secuestrado, y el rescate exigido es una cantidad de dinero similar a la que necesita para cerrar una importante negociación. Gondo está dispuesto a pagar el rescate hasta que comprende que los secuestradores se han equivocado y se han llevado al hijo del chófer. Ahora deberá decidir si el dinero es más importante que la vida del niño.

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...

El joven Sabu trabaja en una empresa portuaria como lacayo del patrón de personal, a quien profesa lealtad absoluta después de que éste le salvara la vida en la guerra cuando él tenía cuatro años. Cuando los trabajadores se declaran en huelga y empiezan a promover la creación de un sindicato, Sabu será el encargado de silenciar las protestas por medio de la violencia, sin ser consciente de las terribles consecuencias que ello acarreará.

Un ambicioso oficial que desea destruir a un honesto gobernador, ordena a sus secuaces que lo capturen junto a toda su familia. A pesar de sus intentos de huída, el gobernador es capturado y muere en prisión. La madre también muere, pero se transforma en grulla. Robin y su hermana tienen algo más de suerte: son vendidos como esclavos al intendente Sansho. Robin trata de escapar de la crueldad a que son sometidos, pero su hermana cae en un río donde se convierte en sirena. Robin con la ayuda de sus amigos animales, un perro, un oso y un ratón, tratará de recuperar las posesiones arrebatadas y poner fin al tráfico de esclavos de Sansho. Estilizada adaptación del cuento clásico "El intendente Sansho", que ya había filmado Kenji Mizoguchi en 1954.

Tras ser derrotados por los rusos, Kaji y los pocos hombres de su unidad que han sobrevivido emprenden una larga marcha en un intento desesperado de llegar a territorio amigo. Tras sortear no pocas dificultades, Kaji se ve obligado a rendirse y es enviado a un campo de prisioneros en Siberia.

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.

Japanese film.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.