Shûjûrô Kurita

A man survives a double suicide attempt, while his girlfriend does not.

「ママ、びっくりしないで、泣かないで、落着いてね。そう、わたしは旅に出たの。ただの家出じやないの、旅に出たのよ（つづく）」の書き出しで始まる。16歳の少女が、男出入りの多い貧しい絵かきの母と女ふたりの家庭や、学校生活が憂うつになり、家を飛び出したところから物語は始まる。舞台は四国。少女の実家も四国。海辺伝いに、四国遍路の旅に出た少女がママに宛てた手紙に託すかたちで、多感な青春の断面を四国の自然描写を織り込みながらみずみずしい筆致で描かれている。家出であり、旅でもあり、遍路でもあり、漂泊でもある、天衣無縫な自由きままな旅であり、常に母への手紙という形で描かれる。それは常に一方通行で、母からの復路はなく、すべてはモノローグである。

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Pinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of temptation.

斎藤耕一監督による、人気グループ・サウンズ歌謡映画シリーズ第三弾。

Rainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the islands of Hawaii as it weaves the story of two star-crossed lovers--Hideo (Yukio Hashi), an aspiring photographer from Japan, and Reiko (Jun Mayuzumi), a beautiful Sansei Cherry Blossom contestant from Hawaii--who are drawn together by destiny, yet appear to be fated to be apart. Will the sun set on their young love, or will it be the dawn of a new relationship?

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly dies, and the Kawashima-ya family fortune is rapidly changing. However, the depravity of Kichisaburo does not subside...

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

A musical romance.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

Japanese comedy film.

After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched after Masuo sells his pigeons to her. However, after his scam is revealed, can these feelings truly remain the same?