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Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.
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Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.
Self - Filmmaker
日本映画黄金期を代表する伝説的俳優、三船敏郎（1920-97）の生涯と作品について解説する。
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Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.
Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.
Sadao Nakajima
京都・太秦にある、日映撮影所。そこに所属する香美山清一（福本清三）は、斬られ役として長年大部屋俳優を務め、無数のチャンバラ時代劇に出演してきた。ある日、およそ半世紀にわたって放送されていたテレビ時代劇「江戸桜風雲録」が打ち切りになり、後番組として若年層向け時代劇がスタートするが、そこにはベテランたちが活躍する場はなかった。そんな中、香美山は伊賀さつき（山本千尋）という新進女優と出会い、殺陣の師匠となって彼女に指導をしていくが……。
Himself
The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed, and many important actors and directors of the genres are interviewed. Former real yakuza boss turned actor Noboru Ando, Takashi Miike, Sonny Chiba and many more get a chance to speak.
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関西の極道組織“侠心会”の会長・東野は、会長の座を、娘婿である内藤組組長・内藤政治に譲ることを決意。しかし、政治は愛人と浮気を重ねたり、ギャンブルで多額の借金をこしらえるなど、てんでだらしがなく、ついに愛想を尽かした妻の敦子から三くだり半を突き付けられる始末。そんな彼に代わって組を切り盛りしているのは、若頭の昇とその妻沙知子だった。そんなある日、沙知子のかつての恋人・神原が10年ぶりに姿を見せる。
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帯に誓いのドス一本、留守を預かる女の一途!日本映画が生んだ最高の人気ヒロインシリーズ「極道の妻たち」。岩下志麻に代わって見事な極妻ぶりを見せた高島礼子主演による待望の第2弾!そして今回高島姐さんを大いに盛り上げるのが斉藤慶子、東ちづるの二人。まさに現代の極妻にふさわしい三人が、時に鮮やかに、時には激しく“極道を愛した女”を演じる。
舞台は京都。西日本最大のヤクザ一家の系列に身を置き、服役中の夫(佐川)に代わって組を仕切るのが極妻・拝島久仁子(高島)。夫をだし抜いて跡目を狙う男たちを敵に回し堂々と立ち向かう。そんな久仁子に力を貸すのが、拝島組の若頭・半沢(原田)の女房・しのぶ(斉藤)と久仁子とは幼馴染みで、半沢の愛人でもあるクラブママ・飛鳥(東)である。愛する夫のため、全てを賭けて闘う女の行方は!!
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大阪南部を縄張りにしたヤクザ組織・井出組の傘下の秋葉組組長・秋葉吟二が、何者かによって殺された。三ヶ月前、リゾートホテル建設という大事業に手を出していた秋葉は、取引先の信用金庫のトラブルから融資を打ち切られ、苦しい状況にあった。しかし、信用金庫の理事長が50億もの隠し財産があるという情報を秘かに掴んだ彼は、それをネタに一発逆転を狙っていた。彼が殺されたのは、そんな矢先の出来事だった。秋葉を殺した犯人・玉城が捕まり、彼が秋葉殺しを指示したのが井出組長だと自供した為に井出が逮捕された。
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日本の極道界の頂点に君臨した坂松組三代目組長が死んでから3年が過ぎ、その跡目を継ごうと名乗りをあげたのは、若頭の海原泰明と舎弟頭の佐渡拓磨のふたりだった。しかし、新興勢力の海原に比べ、バブルで弾けてしまった佐渡は各方面に借金などがあって分が悪い。佐渡は昔のよしみから、“北陸の女帝”の異名を持つ洲崎組組長の洲崎香矢に運動資金を提供して貰うことにした。香矢が佐渡側についたことで、香矢の亡夫の舎弟でありながら現在は海原派に身を置く神鳥組組長・神鳥亮平は、難しい立場に追いやられるだろうと胸騒ぎを覚える。
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Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.
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Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his military success led to the ultimate unification of the country. This historically accurate portrayal of Nobunaga’s life and times is highlighted by many of Japan’s biggest stars, most notably Watanabe Ken in the lead role. Bloody realistic fighting, massive battles, and castle intrigues all drawn from historical sources bring this 2 part drama to new heights in storytelling.
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Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.
Director
尼崎の藤波組では二代目の急死により霊代の加奈江が事実上の統率をしていた。加奈江には妹の頼子と、雅美、直也という二人の子供がおり、頼子の夫は現在拘留中の若頭・松岡、雅美の夫・宗田は本部長、そして直也は最近組を興し藤竜会の会長になっていた。松岡が出所となり、加奈江は三代目に松岡を立て、二代目霊代からひこうとしていたが、その矢先に松岡は射殺されてしまう。
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After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
Director
The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quarters at Edo castle) and acted as nursemaid to Tokugawa Iemitsu, the future 3rd Shogun is chronicled in this historical drama. Intrigue and suspicion abound as the two brothers Iemitsu and Tadanaga vie for the post of Shogun, while behind the scenes the remnants of the defeated Toyotomi faction, lead by Lord Ishida Mitsunari attempt to discredit the Tokugawa Shogunate and regain their former position as rulers of the nation. The hidden battles between Shogun Hidetada's wife and mistresses of the 'Ooku' come to light as they force the two brothers into a life or death struggle.
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時の将軍である徳川家光は次男の徳松を溺愛し、長男の竹千代を亡き者にしようとしていた。竹千代は幕府の刺客に襲われるが、腕に覚えのある浪人たちに助けられ事なきを得た。元服式のため江戸城への出仕を命じられた竹千代は、石河刑部ら浪人たちに守られながら江戸城へ向かう。道中、幕府の刺客たちが次々に現れ、浪人たちは命がけで竹千代を守り続けるのだった。
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The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.
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吉原遊廓では借金に縛られた娘たちが六年の年季が明けるまで春を売っていた。久乃がここ吉原の“中梅楼”に遊女として売られてきたのは十八歳の春。明治の末のことである。中梅楼には花魁の筆頭とも言うべき、お職の九重をはじめ、二番太天の吉里、三番太天の小花に次いで、菊川などさまざまな遊女がそれぞれ艶を競っていた。
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The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
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The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Director
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman to be awarded the Order of Culture. The title refers to the masterpiece bijinga ("picture of a beautiful woman") that Uemura painted at the age of 61. The main character, Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at housework, attends art school and at age 15 receives the name Shōsui (from the characters for "pine" and "green") from her teacher. The crown prince of England purchases one of her works, propelling her to fame overnight. The novel portrays the remainder of her stormy life, during which she is impregnated by her teacher and raises a fatherless child; through it all she devotes herself to her painting, undaunted.
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Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
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Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
Screenplay
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
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When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
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Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.
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An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.
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Jun has come to Tokyo from his family home, an island which resembles a ship. He works in a machine shop and is attempting to develop a career as a cartoonist in his spare time. When he travels around the town by subway, he has grown into the habit of groping female passengers in a sexual way. They never denounce him, and many seem to respond very favorably, moaning in apparent ecstasy. However, when his girlfriend sees him doing this, she denounces him to the police. The woman he was groping at the time refuses to press charges; indeed, she says that what was happening was nobody's business. Still, Jun's girlfriend leaves him. He goes to his father's grave to pay his respects, but somehow cannot find it. On his way back, he sees a number of men molesting a woman and does nothing to stop them. Eventually his girlfriend comes back to him, and his indulgence in train-groping tapers off.
Writer
関ヶ原の戦いに敗れた真田幸村は、高野山麓に身を潜めながら、天下統一を成さんとする徳川家康の首をうかがっていた。そんな折、父の昌幸が家康の策にかかり命を落とす。幸村は、打倒家康のため全国から腕利きを集めるべく、戸沢白雲斎のもとを訪ねるが、家康への協力を拒んだために、既に服部半蔵に殺されていた。師を亡くした猿飛佐助が仲間に加わり、白雲斎の残した“草の者”人名帖を頼りに、次々と忍びの者たちが幸村のもとへ集められた。かくして、ここに真田十勇士が結成された！
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関ヶ原の戦いに敗れた真田幸村は、高野山麓に身を潜めながら、天下統一を成さんとする徳川家康の首をうかがっていた。そんな折、父の昌幸が家康の策にかかり命を落とす。幸村は、打倒家康のため全国から腕利きを集めるべく、戸沢白雲斎のもとを訪ねるが、家康への協力を拒んだために、既に服部半蔵に殺されていた。師を亡くした猿飛佐助が仲間に加わり、白雲斎の残した“草の者”人名帖を頼りに、次々と忍びの者たちが幸村のもとへ集められた。かくして、ここに真田十勇士が結成された！
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In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
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In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Director
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
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日本・アジア勢力圏を拡大する首領の前に、もう一人の首領が立ち塞がる。果てしなき野望は中央政財界にまでおよび...。
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When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
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When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
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A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
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Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
Director
昭和46年12月。本土復帰を翌年に控えた沖縄では、本土系暴力団の沖縄進出に対抗すべく、大城（大城朝光理事長）派と、対立関係にある国頭（国頭正剛理事長）派が互いに手を結び、「沖縄連合琉盛会」を結成した。だが、外部に向っては、「琉盛会」は一致団結したものの、その内部、国頭派系内部で紛争が持ち上がった。
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事故で会社をクビになったテストドライバー・速水は、友達の美代子と宝石泥棒を計画。数日後、まんまと宝石を盗んだ二人は、警察の追っ手をくらますため別々に逃亡。作戦は成功したかに見えたが、速水の乗るバスに、警察に追われる銀行強盗が乗り込んできたことから、事態は一変。駆け出しの女優、主婦、ホステス、小学生、チンドン屋、宝石泥棒を巻き込んで、逃げるバスと追うパトカーの壮絶なカーバトルが始まった！非常線を砕いて狂走するバス、緊迫と戦慄に包まれた乗客たち。狂気の狭間でエスカレートしていく人々の恐怖は、奴らを二重三重の犯罪へと巻き込んでいく――!!
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事故で会社をクビになったテストドライバー・速水は、友達の美代子と宝石泥棒を計画。数日後、まんまと宝石を盗んだ二人は、警察の追っ手をくらますため別々に逃亡。作戦は成功したかに見えたが、速水の乗るバスに、警察に追われる銀行強盗が乗り込んできたことから、事態は一変。駆け出しの女優、主婦、ホステス、小学生、チンドン屋、宝石泥棒を巻き込んで、逃げるバスと追うパトカーの壮絶なカーバトルが始まった！非常線を砕いて狂走するバス、緊迫と戦慄に包まれた乗客たち。狂気の狭間でエスカレートしていく人々の恐怖は、奴らを二重三重の犯罪へと巻き込んでいく――!!
Director
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
Screenplay
小岩大五郎と六条勝男は、不況に強い葬儀屋や屎尿処理業を次々開業して軌道に乗せた。しかしペテンを働かす三井住友の策略に嵌って権利を全て手放し、三井に社員として雇われる羽目となる。多角経営に乗り出した三井は念願のキャバレー「竜宮」の権利を手に入れ、限界ギリギリのサービス"ジャングルバンプ"で大繁盛。
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小岩大五郎と六条勝男は、不況に強い葬儀屋や屎尿処理業を次々開業して軌道に乗せた。しかしペテンを働かす三井住友の策略に嵌って権利を全て手放し、三井に社員として雇われる羽目となる。多角経営に乗り出した三井は念願のキャバレー「竜宮」の権利を手に入れ、限界ギリギリのサービス"ジャングルバンプ"で大繁盛。
Director
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
Writer
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
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Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
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Director
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Director
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
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Director
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
Screenplay
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
Director
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
Screenplay
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a nihilistic ronin on the verge of self destruction. Blood gushes and limbs fly for anyone who stands against Saburai as he instills the Way of the Bohachi.
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A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
Director
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
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Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their seperate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...
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Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their seperate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...
Writer
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her...
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Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her...
Director
関西を拠点にする広域暴力団・天祐会は、九州へ新たに進出すべく、血気盛んなチンピラを鉄砲玉として宮崎へ送り込むことを計画。近ごろ不運続きの冴えないチンピラ・小池清が、その役を割り振られることに。拳銃とともに100万円もの大金を渡された清は、宮崎の繁華街に単身乗り込んで派手に暴れ回るが、地元の暴力団組織は、しばらく彼の様子を静観。それをいいことに、清は本来の役目も忘れて大いにはしゃぎまわるのだが…。
Director
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?
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Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
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A look at sex in Japan, that covers underground gay life, transvestites, sex change operations, tattoos, and S&M.
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A classy 70's flick about the importance, traditions, popularity and ways of Japanese bathing.
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A classy 70's flick about the importance, traditions, popularity and ways of Japanese bathing.
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After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
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After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
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Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
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Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
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A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.
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This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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Film with Junko Miyazono.
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Early Japanese mondo film, also known as Mondo Grottesco.
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Pinku from 1968.
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Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
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In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.
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Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
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A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Original Story
「日本侠客伝 白刃の盃」の中島貞夫の同名原作（『平凡』連載）を、自身と、「任侠柔一代」の金子武郎が共同で脚色し、「兄弟仁義 関東三兄弟」の山下耕作が監督した歌謡時代劇。撮影は「お尋ね者七人」の鈴木重平。
Adaptation
「日本侠客伝 白刃の盃」の中島貞夫の同名原作（『平凡』連載）を、自身と、「任侠柔一代」の金子武郎が共同で脚色し、「兄弟仁義 関東三兄弟」の山下耕作が監督した歌謡時代劇。撮影は「お尋ね者七人」の鈴木重平。
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The Domain: White Blade
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A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
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A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
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Part one.
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Part one.
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A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
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A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
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時は元禄。幕府の財政が困窮し老中は米価の値上げを図るが、江戸っ子たちが騒ぎ始めたため、直参旗本赤柄組に取り締まりを命じる。しかしそれもうまくいかなかった。老中は町奴と旗本を喧嘩させて、それを口実に取り潰そうと目論むのだが…。
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時は元禄。幕府の財政が困窮し老中は米価の値上げを図るが、江戸っ子たちが騒ぎ始めたため、直参旗本赤柄組に取り締まりを命じる。しかしそれもうまくいかなかった。老中は町奴と旗本を喧嘩させて、それを口実に取り潰そうと目論むのだが…。
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The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.
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Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa
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A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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桜吹雪の刺青と胸のすくような啖呵でおなじみの“遠山の金さん"を鶴田浩二主演で描いた娯楽時代活劇。
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Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.
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Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.
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In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of five Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in hopes of continuing the bloodline. Princess Sen and the five female ninja escape from Osaka castle by blending in with the handmaidens. Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu who was supposed to rule all under the heavens was informed of this secret. So Ieyasu orders five samurai of the Iga Ninja clan (brought by Hattori Hanzo) to stop the Toyotomi bloodline by killing the Kunoichi ninja. An attack of ninja magic arts unfolds in a battle of the sexes.
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In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of five Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in hopes of continuing the bloodline. Princess Sen and the five female ninja escape from Osaka castle by blending in with the handmaidens. Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu who was supposed to rule all under the heavens was informed of this secret. So Ieyasu orders five samurai of the Iga Ninja clan (brought by Hattori Hanzo) to stop the Toyotomi bloodline by killing the Kunoichi ninja. An attack of ninja magic arts unfolds in a battle of the sexes.
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In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
