Akira Yamanouchi

Filmed in a documentary style six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and dismal environment is contrasted against the emotional being of the patients, their visitors and relatives and the outside world, which they will never again survey.

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.

江戸北町奉行所の同心で、その切れ味鋭い頭脳と精力絶倫ぶりから“かみそり半蔵”との異名を取る板見半蔵。ある日、江戸市中で無宿人狩りが行なわれ、半蔵は、島送りにされていた重罪人の人斬り屋・三途の竿兵衛が島破りをしてどうやら江戸に潜んでいることを知る。竿兵衛の愛人・お美乃を捕らえた半蔵は、自らの男性的魅力で彼女を陥落させて、今回の事件の裏に大奥にまで広がる意外な悪事が秘められていることをさらに知る。

国内最大の激戦となった沖縄戦の全貌を圧倒的な迫力で映像化した戦争大作！太平洋戦争で日本が経験した唯一の国内戦として多数の犠牲者を生んだ悲劇の沖縄決戦を、岡本喜八監督が壮大なスケールで描いた戦争大作。１９７１年の沖縄返還協定調印という当時の時局を背景に製作された。敗色濃厚な日本軍は、連合軍を沖縄で食い止めるため、大量の兵力を注ぎ込んだ。しかし連合軍の空爆によって、沖縄第三十二軍はあえなく四散、やがて米軍の上陸をゆるしてしまう・・・。

ゴジラシリーズ第11作。当時社会問題となっていた公害問題を前面に打ち出し、サイケデリックな映像を取り入れた異色作。ヘドロで汚された駿河湾の河口で巨大なオタマジャクシに似た生物が見つかり、さらには怪物によるタンカー事故が相次いで発生。海洋学者の矢野は、怪物がヘドロと宇宙鉱物から生まれた生命体であると推察する。謎の怪物ヘドラは主食であるヘドロを求めて工業地帯を襲撃し、次第に巨大な怪獣へと変貌していく。硫酸ミストをまき散らし深刻な公害被害により人々が次々と倒れていく中、富士山麓にてゴジラとの決戦が近づく。

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.

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.

富山県黒部川上流に関西電力が建設する第四発電所。現場責任者には北川が任命され、資材運搬用のトンネル掘削は熊谷組が担当することになった。熊谷組の岩岡源三の息子である剛は父の強硬なやり方に反発し設計技師となっていた。現場に赴いた剛はそこで体力が衰えてしまった父と、熱心に工事に打ち込む北川の姿を見て、工事に参加することにする。やがて工事現場では山崩れが起こり大量の水が流れ込んだ。北川は自分の娘が白血病に冒されたことを知るが、工事現場を離れることができなかった。

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

‘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?

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

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

The Ginza Whirlwind (Akira Kobayashi) attempts to solve a murder.

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

横須賀、ドブ板通り。水兵相手のキャバレーが立ち並ぶ一角で売春ハウスを営んでいた一家は、取り締まりで商売が立ち行かなくなり、豚の飼育を始める。そんなある日、幹部から死体処理を頼まれた元客引きの男は、世話をしている豚にその死体を食わせてしまう

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, and was assassinated by a rightist prior to his opposition speech.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

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.

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.

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.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's colleague, the bus driver Fujita. When he causes an accident one day, Seitaro testifies against him due to his moral scruples, thus getting his company into trouble.

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming model.

Shuzenji Monogatari (The Mask and Destiny) is based on a 12th-century Japanese legend. An abortive royal romance leads to an escalating series of tragedies. The central character is a Japanese monarch who would prefer to live a humble existence as a maskmaker. Unfortunately, events -- and destiny -- are against him. When first released, Shuzenji Monogatari was held in far lower esteem than such recent Japanese films as Gate of Hell and Samurai. Nevertheless, the film was selected as an entry at the Venice Film Festival, possibly on the strength of its excellent production values.

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in trouble because he had a bonus of 10,000 yen more.

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.

Nobuko Otowa won the Blue Ribbon Award for the Best Actress for this among other films.

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.

A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

A teacher at a Japanese school tries to hide his outcast upbringing.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

Waiting woman