地上げ屋同士の熾烈な攻防戦が吹き荒れるバブル期の東京。オフィスビルの建設ラッシュを機に、政治家・建設業者・商社・銀行が結託して巨額の利益を上げんと欲望を燃え上がらせていた。 そんな中、代議士の漆原は天の道教団の管長・鬼沢に目をつける。鬼沢は宗教を隠れ蓑に風俗業など数々の商売をし、さらにヤクザを操り地上げの嵐を吹き荒らしていた。しかもそれらの商売による収益を宗教法人に入金して課税を免れていた。 「宗教活動以外での所得は課税対象となる」という税法を盾に、やり手査察官・板倉亮子をはじめとする国税局査察部・通称マルサは鬼沢の内偵調査を行う。亮子は大蔵省のエリート官僚・三島を引きつれ鬼沢の身辺調査に入るが、教団信者やヤクザ達の妨害に遭い、調査は難航。ようやく脱税のシッポを掴んだマルサは強制調査に着手し、鬼沢の取調べが行われるが、鬼沢は頑として脱税を認めず、逆ギレして地上げの正当性を主張する。 そんな中、鬼沢の手下が射殺される。査察部は脱税を隠蔽するために鬼沢が「トカゲの尻尾」のように切り捨てたのではないかと疑うが、やがて鬼沢本人が狙撃される事件が発生。危うく難を逃れたが、鬼沢も「トカゲの尻尾」、つまり使い捨てられる駒でしかなかったのだ。 鬼沢の地上げした土地ではビルの着工を前に地鎮祭が行われる。鬼沢を背後で操って自らは手を汚すことなく利益を得た大臣・代議士・企業幹部が談笑する。その姿を少数の同僚とともにフェンス越しに隠れて見つめていた亮子は、やりきれなさに唇を噛む。 一方、鬼沢は自分の墓に巨額の財産を隠していた。最後に笑ったのは鬼沢であった。
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Last of the three Nikkatsu films focusing on AV-idol Hitomi Kobayashi.
Doctor
A sex-comedy starring rock star Michiko Komori.
Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Kyôsuke Nakamura
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.
Japanese comedy film.
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan, who had scooped him out of his misery during the time of the medical accident. At times of war, the two rekindle an old flame.
Ryûzô Asai
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...
Customsman B
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?
1959 Japanese movie
1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, who followed the whereabouts of the distressed aircraft. It is an adaptation of the prize-winning broadcast drama recruited by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Week in 1958. The original author was Tsuneyuki Mori.
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Endô
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
