Yōko Kozono

First film produced by Nikkatsu Children's Films.

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Motomu Ida movie

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

深夜の映画館で常番の老人が殺された。河上刑事は、折しも危篤状態を脱した一人息子を病院に見舞い、つきっきりで看病している妻をいたわっていたところだが、署からの急報で現場へ急行した。瀕死の老人の口から「マツウラ」の言葉を聞いた河上刑事は映写技師見習の松浦進を指名手配した。捜査が進むにつれ、松浦には林田恵美子という女がいることが判った。河上刑事はアパートに恵美子を訪ねた。彼女は語った－－進さんの母は若いころ男の人に捨てられたんです。それ以来、進さんは世をひがんで生きるようになったんです－－河上刑事は、その言葉に強くうたれた。数日後、恵美子のアパートに進が忍んできたが、一目逢うなり進は非常線をくぐって逃げ去った。その夜、妻子のいない家に戻ってきた河上刑事のもとへ一人の男がふみ込んできた。それは進だった。－－あんたは俺の親父なんだ－－蒼白になった河上刑事に、進は、明日九時二十分の新潟行列車に乗って逃げるから一緒に来いと恵美子に報せてくれと頼んだ。翌朝、上野駅に河上刑事が現れた。彼は進と恵美子が来るはずの列車に乗りこんだ。何両目かのドアをあけた河上刑事は進を見つけた。彼は懐から辞職願を取出し、進に云った。－－お前は私の息子だ、私も一緒に責任をとろう－－進の顔が泣き笑いのように歪んだ。次の駅で父と子は列車を降りた。

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura.

Japanese comedy film.

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves.

森鴎外の同名小説を、八尋不二と依田義賢が共同で脚色し、溝口健二がメガホンをとった文芸作品。特に美術と撮影はレベルが高く、ヴェネチア国際映画祭で銀獅子賞を受賞した。美しいラストシーンは、ゴダールが「気狂いピエロ」において引用したことでも知られる。 　平安時代末期、農民を救うため将軍にたてついた平正氏が左遷された。妻の玉木、娘の安寿と息子の厨子王は越後を旅している途中、人買いにだまされ離ればなれになってしまう。玉木は佐渡に、安寿と厨子王は丹後の山椒大夫に奴隷として売られた。きょうだいはそれから十年もの間、奴隷としての生活を続けるが、ついに意を決して逃げ出すことにする。しかし追っ手に迫られ、安寿は厨子王を逃すため池に身を投げるのだった。

A young woman becomes president of a business.

田舎出身の佐竹茂吉は、社長の親友の娘で上流階級育ちの妙子と結婚した。妙子は一等車での旅行や野球観戦などで遊び回り、茂吉は妙子の嫌いなタバコ「朝日」を吸い、出かけるときは三等車に乗り、酔って帰ってはお茶漬けを食べていた。茂吉と妙子の溝は深まるばかり。妙子が同級生の住む神戸へ旅行している間に、茂吉の海外出張が決まり、妙子に連絡がつかないまま茂吉は日本を発ってしまう。

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.