Keisuke Noro

プロと学生が共同で映画を企画・製作していく」ことをテーマとした京都芸術大学（旧京都造形芸術大学）映画学科によるプロジェクト“北白川派映画芸術運動”により製作された北白川派第７弾作品。熊本県の天草を舞台に、オレオレ詐欺の旅を続ける青年と、彼を孫として迎え入れた老女の奇妙な心の交流を描いた人情ドラマ。主演は「佐々木、イン、マイマイン」の藤原季節と、本作が遺作となった原知佐子。監督は「カミハテ商店」の山本起也。 　オレオレ詐欺を重ねながら各地を転々としている青年。天草の寂れた商店街で一人暮らしをしている老女の艶子に孫のふりをして電話をかける。その後、艶子はお金を受け取りに現れた青年を孫の将太として迎え入れる。こうして２人の奇妙な共同生活が始まり、いつしか青年はここでの暮らしに居心地の良さを感じ始める。そんな中、地元ＦＭ局のパーソナリティを務める清らが、天草の昔の映像や写真を集めて、映画館での上映会を企画し、ひょんなことから青年もその準備を手伝うことになるのだったが…。

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.

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.

A model must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.

慶応3（1867）年11月13日。雨降る京都の街並みを走るひとりの男がいた。彼の名は、坂本龍馬。土佐藩を脱藩して海援隊を組織し、薩長同盟の斡旋にも尽力した彼の奔走のおかげで、ひと月前の10月14日、大政奉還がついに実現。日本の体制は大きく変わりつつあったが、それを快く思わない連中が、龍馬の命を付け狙っていた。龍馬の元の同志である陸援隊隊長・中岡慎太郎も、龍馬を自らの手で殺すかどうか、大いに悩む。

Japanese crime film

Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

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.

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

A crime film from 1966

力強い男の友情と、それを見守る清らかな乙女との交流を、おなじみの名コンビ舟木と和泉で描きあげる青春歌謡巨篇。

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...

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…。

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 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 group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

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.

Japanese comedy film.

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

紙幣印刷用のスカシ入り和紙十億八千万円相当が強奪され、運転手二人が殺されたという臨時ニュースに、拳銃の腕は無敵だがガラスの音に弱い“ガラスのジョー”こと近藤疑次は部屋を飛び出した。同じころ“週刊犯罪”の編集長・通称“計算機の啓"は、古いグラビアに載っている、贋金づくり日本一“坂本名人”の顔をにらんでいた。もうひとり、ニヤリと笑ってジムを飛び出したのは、通称“ブル健”こと芹沢健。三人の目的は、スカシ入りの紙を盗んだ連中に、贋幣の名人・坂本老人を高く売りこむことだ。肝心の坂本名人は、二日後に東南アジアから帰国予定。その日、羽田空港で顔を合わせたガラスのジョー、計算機の哲、ブル健の三人は顔なじみのためギョッとしたが、素知らぬ顔。ところがようやく姿を現した坂本名人は、ポーカーフェイスの秀、ビッグの修という二人の殺し屋に車で連れ去られてしまった。二人は、和紙輸送の運転手たちを殺した張本人だ。ジョーは秀の持っていた特殊拳銃を手がかりに、平和ビルの一室をつきとめた。だがそこには秋山とも子という若い美人がひとりだけ。彼女はパリ行の貯金をするために電話番のアルバイトをしている学生だった。そこにジョーの乗り込みを探知していた相手から電話がかかり、彼女もクビになってしまった。ジョーのせいで失職したと、どこまでもついてくるとも子に、さすがのジョーもがっくり。その頃、キャバレー・アカプルコの秘密の地下室では、坂本名人がせっせと銅版を掘っていた…。

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

Japanese action film.

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

Motomu Ida movie

高校の空手部員・英次は正義感に燃える好青年。愚連隊に対抗するため、友人たちを誘い街をパトロールしていた。これを快く思わない新界興業は、乾分のトメやゲンに嫌がらせをはじめるが...。和田浩治扮する正義に燃える学生が、霧笛のの空手で街の愚連隊をなぎ倒す娯楽アクション巨篇。

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.

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.

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.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

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。

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

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.

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?

背中にギターを背負った「流し」の男が函館に降り立つ。用心棒として彼を雇った地元のボスは、土地再開発のために住民を立ち退かせるよう彼に指示する。そんなある日、港で密輸取引を行ったボスは、取引相手と彼を同時に始末しようとする。

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.

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。

1959 Japanese movie

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.

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.