Akiko Koyama

A unique black comedy set in Ginza Cinepathos, a long-established movie theater that closes at the end of March 2013 while being familiar to movie fans with its retro appearance and unique lineup. Unique guests visiting the theater draw a human pattern during breaks.

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the beautiful girl with whom they went to school as children.

Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.

Un viejo conductor de carro-taxi está casado con una bella joven que cada noche le baña, le da masajes y le ofrece sake. Una noche, el joven amante de la mujer mata al marido y esconde el cadáver en un pozo aislado. Pasan tres años y el fantasma del muerto aparece.

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

In a rural village with a poorly understood but long standing curse from the Dog God, outsiders from a major Tokyo mining corporation scouting for uranium destroy a small shrine and crush a dog under their jeep wheels. After one of the mining company employees marries the daughter of a prominent member of the village, the Dog God’s wrath boils over and people start to die. The village girl and mining company employee start a new life in Tokyo, but the Dog God possesses her and she is deemed mentally ill. The couple returns to the village to perform an exorcism, but it is unsuccessful. As the body count accumulates, the cause of and remedy for the curse becomes more opaque.

Una pareja de amantes vive una historia de amor llevada hasta límites inimaginables. La pasión se ha adueñado de ellos. El sexo ha pasado a ser lo único importante de sus vidas. Las ansias de la mujer por poseer a su hombre parecen inagotables y crecen cada día más hasta llegar a confundir el placer con el dolor.

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

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.

Nami, líder de una banda juvenil, mata a un ejectuvio miembro de una organización yakuza debido a un conflicto territorial y es enviada aprisión. Cuando sale de prisión tres años mas tarde, llega a un salon de billar, y a través de Ryuji, comienza a trabajar como anfitriona en Ginza, donde se hace muy popular.

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.

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".

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.

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.

Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of Pearl Harbor dominant in Nakano Spy School.

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.

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..

Cuatro estudiantes de provincias están en Tokyo para hacer los exámenes de selectividad. Desilusionados con la generación de sus padres, ven el futuro sin esperanza. Su respuesta consiste en ir por la calle cantando canciones obscenas. Una prostituta japonesa les explica que esas canciones no siempres son divertidas, a veces pueden ser muy tristes. Las fantasías de los cuatro protagonistas se centran en una chica rica que conocen de vista y a la que planean violar.

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

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.

A promotional film for the automobile manufacturer Isuzu Jidosha directed by Nagisa Ôshima - an anthology of three stories.

Ésta es una de las dos películas de Oshima sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La presa muestra las enormes diferencias que existían entre los japoneses durante el conflicto bélico. Un piloto de raza negra es abatido y encerrado en un almacén de un pueblo japonés, donde los niños que lo encontraron lo tratan con una gran crueldad. Su raza se convierte en foco de interés para los vecinos, que apenas han tenido contactos con las gentes del mundo occidental.

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.

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.

A case of mistaken identity in which a woman assumes the role of widow to a man killed in a train accident.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

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.

Japanese romantic comedy film.

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.