Ryuzo Nakanishi

Based on the novel Tottòi by Gianni Padoan. Sardinia is abundant in beautiful beaches and mysterious caves which are known as the habitat of a peculiar kind of seal on the verge of extinction. After moving to this island, Tottoi, fascinated by nature, visits different beaches and caves everyday. When he finds a seal cub and its mother in an isolated cave, he is surprised by the humorous movements and innocence of the cub and the dignity of its mother. Tottoi soon becomes attached to the seals, but his secret is revealed to heartless adults. In the name of preservation, a plan is developed to capture them for an aquarium. Now the dignity and pride of the wild seal are in danger. No matter how painful for Tottoi to be separated from his small friends, he must fight for the welfare of the wild mammals and let them go free into the sea.

Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on a trail of death and destruction.

上野動物園在職中はカバ担当の飼育員として知られ、退職後は東武動物公園の初代園長となり『カバ園長』の愛称で親しまれた西山登志雄を描いた作品である。西山の声はクレージーキャッツのハナ肇が演じた。

The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is hired from France to solve cases linked with the famous criminal Arsène Lupin.

第二次世界大戦下、オランダのアムステルダムにある隠れ家で、ナチスから逃れ身を潜めて精一杯に生きようとしたユダヤ人の少女アンネ・フランクと、その家族の軌跡。アンネ・フランクの生誕50周年を記念し、世界的なベストセラー「アンネの日記」を元に制作されたアニメーション。アンネの実父オットーへの取材を行い、現存するナチスの収容所の映像やオランダの景観などの実写映像もふんだんに盛り込まれている。

北海道の大雪山。サーカスから逃げたヨーロッパ狼デビルは、樺太犬テツとの間に5匹の子犬をもうけ山の中で育てていたが、人食い熊ゴンに襲われて殺されてしまう。しかし子犬の1匹は牧場の娘・早苗に救われて、タキと名づけられ人間に育てられることになった。狼の血を引くタキは周囲に馴染めず、カネトとヨシトの猟師親子に預けられるが、やはり自然の中へと帰っていく。その後幾多の試練を経験して成長したタキは、仲間の野犬たちと共にゴンとの宿命の対決に挑む。

スターウォーズブームの中製作された、映画「海底軍艦」の宇宙版リメイク。1980年代、世界各地でUFO騒ぎがおき、また電波障害により大混乱が発生した。これを宇宙からの侵略の前兆と捉えた国連宇宙局・宇宙防衛軍 (UNSF) は、宇宙防衛艦の設計建造を滝川正人に依頼、一方で隊員の訓練を開始した。しかし次第にその騒ぎは収まり、滝川は平和な地球には必要ないとして宇宙防衛艦の建造を中止、退任してしまった。 1988年秋、再びUFO騒動と大規模な通信障害が発生。国連宇宙局の三好は宇宙防衛艦「轟天」を完成させる使命を帯び、滝川を説得するため日本に帰還する。滝川は消極的だったが、彼を暗殺しようとした刺客から三好、室井、冬木によって救われる。さらに、宇宙ステーション・テラが「巨大なローマ船」という通信を残して爆発。国防軍は滝川に轟天の建造の再開と乗員の編成を要請する。 敵のUFOヘル・ファイターによって世界各地の大都市と地上の国連軍基地が壊滅状態となる中、滝川は隊員達を再招集、太平洋マウグ島で轟天の完成を急ぐ。侵入した工作員の妨害も排除しつつ轟天は完成、地球上を飛び回っていたヘル・ファイターを全滅させ、侵略軍の前線基地がある金星へと進撃を開始する。しかしその途中、三笠の遺体に扮して侵入した敵兵によって滝川の娘・ジュンが拉致されてしまう。三好は冬木達とともに、敵艦の心臓部爆破とジュンの救出のため大魔艦に潜入する。

Car mechanic Yuya (Shinya Fubuki) dreams of becoming a race driver. His daily routine – working with cars, and collecting pictures of his idol Niki Lauda – is interrupted by the appearance of an exotic girl (Mei Yokomoto) and troublesome car maniacs.

Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.

Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.

Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

南洋のオベリスク島にやってきた探検隊は、その地でガッパという怪獣の子供を発見した。彼らは研究のため、子ガッパを日本に連れ帰る。そして子供を奪われた親ガッパたちが、子供のテレパシーをたどり日本に上陸してくる。防衛軍はただちにこれを迎撃するが、ガッパは熱線を吐いて街を壊滅状態に追い込んでいく……。

A crime film from 1966

Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.

Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

高校の空手部員・英次は正義感に燃える好青年。愚連隊に対抗するため、友人たちを誘い街をパトロールしていた。これを快く思わない新界興業は、乾分のトメやゲンに嫌がらせをはじめるが...。和田浩治扮する正義に燃える学生が、霧笛のの空手で街の愚連隊をなぎ倒す娯楽アクション巨篇。

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.