Takeo Kimura

江戸時代に花開いた性文化を今に伝える門外不出の奥義書があった―06年の出版以来、増刷を続けるベストセラー「江戸の性愛術」（渡辺信一郎著/新潮社刊）で紹介された、いにしえの性技指南書「おさめかまいじょう」の驚くべき内容を余すところなく映像化！豊潤で奥深く、過激な性愛の秘技と叡智が現代によみがえる！！ 廓、いわゆる女郎屋の主人が記したと考えられている「おさめかまいじょう」には、遊女を“おさめ”＝管理し、“かまい”＝指導する方法が、“じょう”＝箇条書きにされている。これらは秘伝の家宝として伝承され、広く世間に知られることのない貴重な書物となった。そのなかには、あらゆる客の性癖や嗜好に応えるための様々な秘技や、快感を高める秘法や秘具の使い方、四十八手を思わせる交合体位「三十六種」などが事細かに解説されている。そんな、江戸時代のHOW TO SEX本とも言える「おさめかまいじょう」の全てを完全映像化、『?技法編』『?三十六種編』の２巻組というボリュームで描き切ったのが本作。あなたも、江戸の風情ある悦楽の世界に遊んでみては如何だろうか。

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

Arata Furuta plays a disgruntled saleryman fed up with being stepped on at home and at work, decides to get revenge on those who do bad things by killing them, only to gain a group of followers.

クローン技術が発達した近未来の日本。不慮の事故で殉職した宇宙飛行士・高原耕平は合法的にクローンとして蘇る。 しかし記憶のコピーに失敗したために記憶障害を起こし、幼い頃に自分のせいで双子の弟・昇を死なせてしまった記憶ばかりが頭から離れなくなる。 クローン再生の失敗を隠蔽したい影山所長らはひそかにクローンの耕平に安楽死の薬を投与する。病院を抜け出したクローンの耕平は、宇宙服を着た自分の死体（の幻）を見つける。 そしてそれを死んだ昇と思い込み、母親・洋子のもとに届けようと故郷をめざすが、投与された薬によって息絶える。

映画学校の学院長・木室創は、才能ある一人の学生・村上大輔のことが気になっていた。ある日、大輔は戦没画学生の記録を目にし、木室の前から消息を絶ってしまう。一方、木室の自宅では妻のエミ子が戦争で心の傷を負ったままふさぎ込んでいた。そんなとき、木室に精神病院に入院中の大輔からの手紙が届く。

映画学校の学院長・木室創は、才能ある一人の学生・村上大輔のことが気になっていた。ある日、大輔は戦没画学生の記録を目にし、木室の前から消息を絶ってしまう。一方、木室の自宅では妻のエミ子が戦争で心の傷を負ったままふさぎ込んでいた。そんなとき、木室に精神病院に入院中の大輔からの手紙が届く。

ある地方の町。地元の美術学校に通う19歳の青年みるめは、同校で非常勤講師になった39歳の女性ユリに好意を抱く。ユリから絵のモデル役を頼まれたみるめは、やがて彼女とアトリエで関係を持ってしまう。以来みるめはユリに夢中だが、彼に片想いしていた同級生えんちゃんは2人の関係を知ってショック。そんなみるめは偶然から、ユリが他の男性と結婚していると知って愕然となり、ユリとの関係を終わらせようと決心する。

ある地方の町。地元の美術学校に通う19歳の青年みるめは、同校で非常勤講師になった39歳の女性ユリに好意を抱く。ユリから絵のモデル役を頼まれたみるめは、やがて彼女とアトリエで関係を持ってしまう。以来みるめはユリに夢中だが、彼に片想いしていた同級生えんちゃんは2人の関係を知ってショック。そんなみるめは偶然から、ユリが他の男性と結婚していると知って愕然となり、ユリとの関係を終わらせようと決心する。

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The brilliantly colored images have an avant-garde charm while hiding the sadness of the war, and will grab the viewer's heart.

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The brilliantly colored images have an avant-garde charm while hiding the sadness of the war, and will grab the viewer's heart.

昭和20年、東京大空襲で両親を亡くし、兄夫婦と暮らす悦子は縁談を勧められる。相手は密かに想いを寄せる明石少尉の親友、永与少尉。当日、緊張のあまりしどろもどろになりながらも、真摯な愛情を示す永与に悦子は好感を抱く。数日後、悦子は明石の特攻隊出撃が決まったことを知らされる。

Made for in 2005, this video interview features director Seijun Suzuki and production designer Takeo Kimura. These longtime collaborators discuss the making of GATE OF FLESH.

3年前広島に落とされた原爆で家族や友を失い、一人暮らしをする美津江の前に、突然亡くなったはずの父が現れる。彼女は父に勤務先の図書館で会った青年の話をする。

A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored from then on, as if looking at them from the inside. He travels to a homey village, meets a potential fiancée, then a more sensuous and mysterious stripper.

O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

In the sixties, director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017) was the great innovator of Japanese cinema. Extremely creative and eccentric, his narrative world is strongly influenced by Kabuki theater. His testimony crosses with that of his collaborator and close friend, artistic director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918–2010). Between the two of them, they remember how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.

An assassin fends off numerous attacks from her comrades, who are trying to move up in rank by killing off the competition.

1994年6月27日夜、長野県松本市で何者かによって毒ガスがまかれ、多数の死傷者を出す大惨事が発生した。やがて、事件の第一通報者で被害者でもある一市民が殺人容疑で家宅捜査をうけ、マスコミによって瞬く間に犯人に仕立て上げられてしまう。1年後、地元の高校の放送部では事件の冤罪報道を検証するドキュメンタリー・ビデオを製作することになった。

Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsutomu manages to have his way with her. Coming from a broken home, he is frightened by love, so he cruelly allows her to wake up alone. A month passes and a more grown-up Tsutomu returns. The lovers joyously reunite and move in together. All is blissful until both notice a strange sore on Mitsu's arm. The doctors diagnose it as leprosy. Without telling Tsutomu, Mitsu checks into a leper sanitarium. Hanging out with society's pariahs gives her much insight. She discovers the old lepers to be wonderful people. In turn, Mitsu becomes their source of joy and renewed hope. Still, she misses her Tsutomu. One day, the doctors inform her that they erred and that the sore is not leprosy. Happily she heads back to her true love until she realizes with a guilty pang that to return to him would mean unhappiness for her newfound friends

謎の失踪を遂げた父の行方を探す女怪盗団キャッツ・アイと、彼女たちの命を狙う秘密結社との壮絶な戦いを描いたアクション。監督は「海ほおずき　Ｔｈｅ　Ｂｒｅａｔｈ」の林海象。北条司による同名ベストセラー・コミックを、林と土屋斗紀雄が脚色。撮影を「人間椅子」の長田勇市が担当している。主役の3姉妹にふんするのは、「花より男子(1995)」の内田有紀と映画初出演の稲森いずみ、「ＢＡＤ　ＧＵＹ　ＢＥＡＣＨ」の藤原紀香の3人。

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.

川の近くにある古びた家には、ピアノ講師の一太郎とその異母弟で無職のタケシ、そして二人の父の愛人の連れ子であるツグオの三人が暮らしていた。一週間後に取り壊しが決定しているその家に、いとこのサケ子が現れた。彼女はみんなの引越を手伝いに来たのだった。だがタケシに好意を抱いていたサケ子の登場は、タケシの恋人の玉子も巻き込んで、複雑な三角関係が交差する事態に発展してしまうのだった。

Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."

A group of Japanese tourists try to forget their pasts and find themselves in India.

Broke, his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers

明治も終わりの頃。奉公先の旦那の手がついて妾となったものの、旦那の死により縁を切られ、生まれたばかりの娘・お種も里子に出し故郷に戻ってきたお浪は、士族であった父の病気と多大な借金のため、深川州崎遊郭の大店『大八幡』に身を売り、楓という花魁となっていた。三年ぶりに故郷に戻ってきたお浪は、お種が里子先でひどい仕打ちを受けていると婆やのおさわから聞かされ、店のお松の知恵を借り、年期を延ばして借金を重ねる。

Ammonites were a kind of snail-like precursor to today's mollusks, common in the seas of the Cretaceous period, many millions of years ago. They are among the most commonly found fossils, so they must have been extremely plentiful. In this meditative and largely unstructured first feature, a young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a disturbing and mysterious letter from her. As he travels, he remembers his childhood fixation with rocks, nurtured by his mother, and his very strong affection for his sister.

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small religious group run by Buddhist nun Chishu-bo who claims to be the 68th descendant of famed 11th century poet Izumi Shikibu. The members of her sect regard her as a living saint. Yet instead of balming his soul, she riles his libido by playing a sexual cat-and-mouse game with the fragile Toyoichi. When she does bed him, it leads to a miracle healing -- followed by a terrible calamity.

伝説の黄金の国ジパングを巡って、七つの刀を持つ無敵の男、地獄極楽丸の活躍を描く冒険活劇。とある古墳内より黄金の剣を盗み出した盗賊・地獄極楽丸。しかしその剣の正体は伝説の国・ジパングへの鍵となる物だった......。

戦時下の昭和19年に富山に疎開した東京の少年と地元の少年の友情と葛藤を描いたドラマ。柏原兵三の小説を藤子不二雄Aが漫画化、これを篠田正浩監督が映画化した。昭和19年10月、戦局が悪化の一途を辿る中、東京の小学5年生だった風間進二は、富山に縁故疎開することになった。ひ弱な優等生タイプの進二は学校ではよそ者扱いを受ける。そんな進二にガキ大将の武が近づいてきた。徐々に打ち解ける二人だったが、権力を誇示する武は学校では進二に冷たく接するのだった……。

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

殺人を犯して記憶喪失におちいった青年・呉一郎は、精神科医・若林のもとで治療を受けていた。若林の言によると、正木敬之という博士が呉一郎の担当医だったが、治療の途中で死亡したという。呉一郎は正木博士の残した論文に目を通すが、気がついたとき、死んだはずの正木博士が現れる…。

明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。

インタビュアーの仕事をこなし、中学生と小学生のふたりの息子と暮らしている榎本登起子。単身赴任中の夫から愛人がいることを告げられる。やがて、離婚を決意し、そのことを子どもたちにも伝える。子どもたちも登起子の気持ちを理解し登起子をバックアップしていく。

太平洋戦争末期に実際に起こった米軍捕虜に対する生体解剖事件を描いた遠藤周作の同名小説を、社会派・熊井啓監督が映画化した問題作。敗色も濃厚となった昭和20年5月。九州のF市にも毎晩のように米軍機による空襲が繰り返されていた。医学部の研究生、勝呂と戸田の二人は物資も薬品も揃わぬ状況下でなかば投げやりな毎日を送っていた。

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.

An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.

長距離トラックの運転手、ゴローとガンがとあるさびれたラーメン屋に入ると、店主のタンポポが幼馴染の土建屋ビスケンにしつこく交際を迫られていたところだった。それを助けようしたゴローだが逆にやられてしまう。翌朝、タンポポに介抱されたゴローはラーメン屋の基本を手解きしタンポポに指導を求められる。そして次の日から「行列のできるラーメン屋」を目指し、厳しい修行を始める。

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An executive with a large industrial corporation finds his job and his future is on the line when his firm is beset by labor troubles at the same time severe financial mismanagement has been discovered. As the executive looks for a way out of his situation, he becomes involved in a ménage à trois relationship with two fellow employees, a woman and another man. As real life becomes all the more unpleasant, the businessman and his lovers become deeply attached to one another as he explores sides of his sexual nature he's never been able to investigate in the past.

Japanese drama film.

Sayo is running a travelling BDSM show with her husband, where she plays the bottom, and gets increasingly bored with her life. During their tour in Kyoto, they are arranged by a well-off couple who ask for a private show, without knowing that they will eventually be forced for the "real thing". Scripted by Chiho Katsura using the pseudonym Eizo Uji.

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quizzical reporter follows the case for years, but the basic question remains unanswered: was the victim killed by members of the burgeoning Communist movement in Japan, or was the death stage-managed by the authorities in hopes of discrediting the Communists?

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

旅に出た、士官学校教授の青地豊二郎と友人の中砂糺。その途中、彼らは弟の葬式に出席してきたという芸者の小稲と出会う。それから1年、中砂から結婚の報を受けた青地は、彼の家を訪ねることに。だが、妻だという園が小稲とうり二つであることに驚かされる。やがて、園は生まれたばかりの娘を残して逝去。中砂の様子を見に行く青地だが、今度は小稲が乳母として娘を抱いていることに驚く。

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

昭和30年代初頭。町の信用金庫に勤める20歳の楯男には、シナリオ作家になるという夢があった。そんな楯男にとってひそかに想いを寄せる存在が幼なじみの涼子だった。しかし、涼子には恋人がいて、どうすることもできない楯男は、隣家の精神異常の娘と寝てしまう…。

女性史研究家・三谷圭子は、“からゆきさん”のことを調べる過程で天草で小柄な老女サキと出会った。サキがからゆきさんと確信した圭子は、彼女が経験した過去を聞き出すため、共同生活を始める。やがて、サキはその重い口を少しずつ開いて、あまりにも衝撃的な生涯を語り始めるのだった……。

A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

昭和初期の湯治場上州鹿沢。芸者・志満は、追われた旅の博徒・柿沢高次を救った。二人の間には愛が芽生えた。しかし志満は、温泉を仕切る向田組の若棟梁・向田周吉の許婚だった。その頃、湯元の権利を狙っていた本堂組の源蔵、万蔵の父子は、高次を追ってきた太平組の太市ら兄弟と結託して、向田組の勧進賭博で、周吉に恥をかかせた。

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

飯の炊けた匂いが好きな殺し屋ナンバー3、花田は殺しの依頼を遂行し損ねて逆に組織から追われるハメになるのだったが…。

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

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

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

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

やくざ、上級生、くそ喰らえ！女なんていちころや！大胆奔放、青春を生きるなんでもこいの悪たれ野郎！昭和初期、大阪南部に生まれ育った鈴木重吉は、中学校の風紀委委員からクラスメイトが滅茶苦茶な制裁を加えられたことに怒りを爆発させる...。

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

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

米軍占領下にある終戦後の東京。焼け跡ビルを根城にするおせんを筆頭とした街娼の集団は、闇市を闊歩していた。唯一の肉親だった兄を病で亡くし、外国兵に強姦された少女マヤはおせんたちの仲間になることを決意するが、グループには厳しい「掟」があり…。

米軍占領下にある終戦後の東京。焼け跡ビルを根城にするおせんを筆頭とした街娼の集団は、闇市を闊歩していた。唯一の肉親だった兄を病で亡くし、外国兵に強姦された少女マヤはおせんたちの仲間になることを決意するが、グループには厳しい「掟」があり…。

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

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

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

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain momentum in the war is for the air force to gather its most brilliant pilots into an elite squadron and use the unit to pinpoint attacks on the Americans. Disrespected by the kamikaze pilots who think the "non-suicidal" pilots are afraid, the unit redeems itself by stunning victories. But success leads the military leaders to expect too much of the unit, and new orders portend disaster.

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).

A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.

トニーこと赤木圭一郎の最高の一本。霧にむせぶ港町横浜を舞台に、不慮の死をとげた親友の謎を探る男・赤木圭一郎と、親友の恋人・芦川いづみとの淡いロマンスを絡めたミステリー・ロマン。

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo Jima" asking the people who were close to him about his character and the painful memories off all those involved.

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original work. Jiro, who had been unable to rehabilitate because of the stigma of having criminal record, stopped by at his favorite bar. There, Shimamoto was waiting for him, and Jiro was offered a job to carry certain things. Jiro was attracted by the large amount of reward and finally accepted the task. The car driven by Jiro was investigated by a police officer on the way, but Shimamoto shooted the police officer and orders to help Jiro escape at full speed...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers. While she is In Izu selling camellia oil, she meets a young student, Katō Yutaka, who asks her to let him take her picture. The peddlers also meet a jazz band, and when Midori sings a song, teased by the band's star singer Nanjō Haruo, the band members are enraptured by her beautiful voice. She eventually joins the band and quickly becomes a popular jazz singer.

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.

Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. In the film all three daughters become involved in some sort of complicated relationships. The sisters and their attached Men are deliberately designed as allegorical figures on the changing social conditions. A wonderfully funny, sometimes droll comedy between Nara and Tokyo, Adagio and Allegro, Yesterday and Today - in search of a morning.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.