Noboru Nishio

Japanese drama film.

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

小池一雄&上村一夫コンビによる同名劇画を、藤田敏八監督が鮮血飛び散る派手な演出でダイナミックに描いたバイオレンス・アクション。文明開化華やかな明治初期を舞台に、母から託された怨念をはらすために、修羅の道を歩く美貌の殺し屋・雪を描く。鬼才クエンティン・タランティーノ監督が『キル・ビル』でオマージュを捧げ、雪の庭園での決闘を見事に再現。ルーシー・リュー演じたオーレン・イシイはお雪がモデルだという。主演・梶芽衣子の魅力が光り、カルト的人気を誇る作品。

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was murdered.

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.