Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

港町税務署のやり手調査官・板倉亮子は、管内のパチンコ店の所得隠しを発見したり、老夫婦の経営する食品スーパーの売上計上漏れを指摘するなど、地味な仕事を続けている。そんなある日、実業家・権藤英樹の経営するラブホテルに脱税のにおいを感じ、調査を行うが、強制調査権限のない税務署の業務の限界もあり、巧妙に仕組まれた権藤の脱税を暴くことができずにいた。 そんな中、亮子は強制調査権限を持つ国税局査察官（通称「マルサ」）に抜擢される。着任早々に功績をあげ、やがて仲間からの信頼も得るようになった亮子。ある日、権藤に捨てられた愛人・剣持和江からマルサに密告の電話が入る。亮子は税務署員時代から目をつけていた権藤の調査を自ら進んで引き受ける。亮子の努力が実を結び、権藤に対する本格的な内偵調査が始まる事になった。暴力団、政治家、銀行がからんだ大型脱税との戦いが始まった。

粟津環は堂本組若頭補佐で粟津組組長の妻である。気丈な彼女は、服役中の夫・等に変わり組を守っていたが、堂本組総長が急死した。関西を拠点に全国的に勢力を持つ堂本組は、傘下組員二万人の暴力団で、粟津組はその直系である。堂本組の跡目相続人は、故人の遺言によって若頭の柿沼に決定した。これを不満とする舎弟頭の蔵川は、同補佐の小磯らを引き連れて朋竜会を結成したが環はあくまで堂本に忠誠を尽し、小磯の誘いを拒否する。

Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!

柴田錬三郎の原作を「眠狂四郎円月斬り」の星川清司が脚色「座頭市あばれ凧」の池広一夫が監督した眠狂四郎シリーズ四作目。撮影もコンビの竹村康和。 狂四郎は隠れキリシタンの飾り職人・鳥蔵から志摩を守ってほしいと頼まれる。

[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo (Ichikawa) and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies of samurai maneuver for battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has killed his smuggling partner, fears that the shogunate will discover his illegal activities. He learns of evidence that will prove his guilt. Meanwhile, his partner is not dead, and, assisted by a master of Shorenji boxing, is looking for revenge and for his loot. The Kaga leader sends the beautiful Chisa to enlist Nemuri's aid. The unexpected happens: the hard-bitten Nemuri falls in love. Can he protect her, topple the criminals, and avoid the boxer's deadly skill?

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).

人気痛快時代劇シリーズの第４作。上州・下仁田にやってきた座頭市。折しもその地では、地元の若い親分・佐吉の二代目の襲名披露が近く行なわれようとしていた。市が投宿した旅籠の娘のぶは、佐吉と恋仲にあったが、のぶの養父・島蔵は、かつて先代の親分と諍いを起こした末、やむなくカタギの旅籠の主人となった過去の宿縁があり、今なおやくざ渡世に未練を残していた。矢切の東九郎は、そんな島蔵をたきつけて、佐吉の襲名披露を兼ねた花会を邪魔しようと企む。

戦国の世の雑兵、負けて逃げるは卑怯者、討たれて死ぬのはあほう者。昨日は南軍、今日は北軍、旗色まかせの雑兵たちがまき起こす爆笑の渦…！

Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him any more, attempts to kill him, but without success. Saburouta is rescued by his niece, Keisuke at the last moment. Keisuke is a a good-for-nothing. Since that event, he always turns to his uncle when he needs money. Recently Keisuke feels his uncle isn't as generous as he used to be, he suspects that Saburouta has found out the illicit relation between Keisuke and his uncle's young mistress, Ohasu.

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

Three stories about the relationship between men and women: "Playgirl" (Masumura/Shirasaka), "Company No. 2" (Yoshimura/Kasahara), and "San Nyotai" (Kinugasa/Shindô).

The womanising master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives to regret this laziness when he falls in love with the daughter of a higher class samurai and is informed on their wedding night that he must defeat her before their marriage can be consumated....

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsenhumi out of admiration for its leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

娘さんよく聞けよ！　山男にほれるなよ……皆様おなじみのダーク・ダックスのヒットメロディにのせて、街に学園に、そして雄大な山岳を背景に、若人のみが知る青春の哀歓を清々しいタッチで描く！

Kaidan directed by Katsuhiko Tasaka.

釈迦の生誕から入滅までを壮大なスケールで描いた歴史スペクタクル。世を憂えて修行の道に入ったシッダ太子は、悪魔の誘惑を退けついに悟りを開く。だが彼に嫉妬するダイバ・ダッタは、バラモンの法力を以て、シッダ太子と仏教徒を様々な方法で迫害していくが......。

Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!

A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!

瀬戸内海の真只中、江田島の海軍兵学校は日本海軍揺籃の地であった。太平洋戦争も激烈をきわめて来た昭和十七年十二月、石川竜太郎は海軍兵学校に入学し、兵学校での分隊生活が始まった。ある日、自習室に集められた石川ら分隊の新入生は、分隊伍長の佐田を中心とする生徒から激しく叱責されたが、反発した村瀬真一は、気の荒い上級生の小暮になぐられる。石川は村瀬と小暮にどこか魅かれるものを感じていた。

Japanese drama

A young delinquent wants to avenge his sister from a college student who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the student's sister to make him suffer the same fate.