Meiko Kaji

街の小さな法律事務所で働く雇われ弁護士・ 筧史朗 【シロさん】 （西島秀俊）とその恋人で美容師・矢吹賢二【ケンジ】（内野聖陽）。同居する二人にとって、食卓を挟みながら取る夕食の時間は、日々の出来事や想いを語り合う大切なひととき。ある日、史朗の提案で、賢二の 誕生日プレゼントとして「京都旅行」に 行くことになる。しかし、この京都旅行をきっかけに、二人はお互いに心の内を明かすことができなくなってしまう…。 そんななか 、史朗が残業を終え商店街を歩いていると、偶然、賢二を目撃する。その横には見知らぬ若いイケメンの青年（松村北斗）が…！さらに小日向大策（山本耕史）から井上航（磯村勇斗）が居なくなったと相談を受け…。 穏やかであたたかい毎日が一変。当たり前だったはずの 平凡でゆっくりとした日常を取り戻すことはできるのか― シロさんとケンジの今後の人生を揺るがす、物語が始まります

In Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by ‘night watch’: staying up all night with the deceased, incense burning throughout, to ensure their safe passage to the afterlife.

下町の片隅で暮らす短気ですぐカッとなる三上は、強面の見た目に反して、優しくて真っ直ぐすぎる性格の男。しかし彼は、人生の大半を刑務所で暮らした元殺人犯だった--。一度社会のレールを外れるも何とか再生したいと悪戦苦闘する三上に、若手テレビマンがすり寄り、ネタにしようと目論むが...。三上の過去と今を追ううちに、逆に思いもよらないものを目撃していく--。

大日新聞記者の阿久津英士は、既に時効となっているあの未解決事件を追う特別企画班に選ばれ、取材を重ねる毎日を過ごしていた。　一方、京都でテーラーを営む曽根俊也は家族3人で幸せに暮らしていたが、ある日、父の遺品の中に古いカセットテープを見つける。 「俺の声だ―」 それは、あの未解決の大事件で犯人グループが身代金の受け渡しに使用した脅迫テープと全く同じ声だった。

Sawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of his sick father Hideo, but is rejected by his father. Tatsuya meets Jinbo and Yui, who work as mediators between Japan and Nepal. He joins the Nepalese community through them, and while his world expands through these encounters, he also learns of the difficulties of foreigners living in Japan. Shot in the town where many Nepalese actually live, this drama casted authentic epalese as actors. The title “Masala” refers to a mixed spice, and is also used as a metaphor here for the diverse society.

中村吉右衛門主演の人気シリーズの最後を飾って、2016年に二夜連続で放送されたスペシャルドラマの後編

中村吉右衛門主演の人気シリーズの最後を飾って、2016年に二夜連続で放送されたスペシャルドラマの前編

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours in revealing a disorderly politics of gender. The essays explore deviancy in richly diverse media. Mountain witches, murderers, performance artists, cartoonists, schoolgirls, and shoppers gone wild are all part of the terrain.

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his lord’s commands. This is the tragic story of one such loyal samurai, whose love for his family forced him to make the ultimate choice of disobeying the wishes of his lord.

Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily.

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with his hands full may have caught a break, it may be a falling out among the thieves.

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for help for Gen'an.

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.

Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish missionary in Japan. Brother Zenon was known for his charity work for victims of war and the poor in Japan.

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

The meeting of the two greatest legends in Japan - Magistrate Toyama, the crime-fighting official with the cherry blossom tattoo on his shoulder, and Kunisada Chuji, the yakuza protector of the common man! When a local magistrate is murdered by a group of vagabonds, Toyama is ordered to arrest Kunisada Chuji. In his investigation, he meets Kunisada's wife, who is all too familiar to Toyama, and casts doubt on his guilt. Furthermore, there seems to be a larger conspiracy being carried out...

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, who never would pause to help the common man winds up befriending an orphan boy and a mysterious woman, and getting involved in a feud between two families, but finds out there is a high power behind the curtain who pulls their strings.

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.

President Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku Ohwada), who happened to be interviewing nearby, rushes to the site. According to his secretary Masae, Ito's ex-wife's younger brother Yoshimoto visited and he started arguing with Ito, but he suddenly escaped. Kenzo asks Kyosuke Kozu (Masaomi Kondo) to investigate. It turns out that Ito's son Takashi, who was killed, is enrolled in Kyosuke Kamizu's university. When Kyosuke Kamizu met at the university, his mother-in-law, Yoko, aimed at his father's fortune and said, "I think he teamed up with designer Kawahara ." Yoko has a relationship with Kawahara, and Ito, who died, was confused because she had an affair with her secretary, Masae. Takashi is said to have already left home and is living on his own.

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

総合病院の院長・戸谷信一は、妻とは別居中で、横武たつ子、藤島チセのふたりの愛人を金づるとしていた。たつ子もチセも夫とに嫌気が差していることから、戸谷はその夫たちを殺害。さらに、殺害に共謀した婦長・寺島トヨの存在も邪魔になり…。

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.

抗争事件を追い続け、十年のキャリアを誇る敏腕刑事“黒岩竜”。だが彼は、警察と暴力団の黒い癒着を知り、正義と狂気入り混じる異常なまでの暴力と愛に、自ら身を落としてゆく...。暴力戦争から政略戦争へと政策転換する現代やくざ社会とそれを取り締まる警察官僚機構――その狭間ではみ出していく一匹刑事の凄絶な生きざまを、冷酷かつハードなタッチで描く衝撃作！

13歳にして売春宿に売られた少女が、苛酷な運命に耐えたくましく生きつづける姿を描く。四国の山奥で祖母とふたりで暮らしていた少女りん。13歳のとき、祖母が死に、瀬戸内海の小さな島に売春婦として売られる。やがて初潮を迎えたりんは客をとらされる。以来、りんは狂ったように働きつづけた。

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

舞台は1968年（昭和43年）6月、門司港にて旅人の黒田修次は大和田組幹部で友人の楠鉄弥のために敵対する共栄会会長の正木巌を銃殺し、服役する。7年半の刑期を努めた黒田は楠を尋ねるが、そこには薬物中毒で大和田組を破門された、廃人同然の楠の姿があった。

昭和12年。刑務所で同じ釜の飯を食った錠吉と玄造がともに出所。錠吉は、兄貴分を殺した仇敵を捜し求めて、売春宿に身を落とした兄貴分の女房を訪ねるが、既に彼女は死亡。そこで出会った売春婦のサキエから、自分を助けてほしいと頼まれた錠吉は、折しもその売春宿に遊びに来ていた玄造と一致協力して、サキエを足抜けさせることに成功する。やがて3人は、ひょんなことから知った海底に沈む財宝探しに夢中になる。

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.

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.

さそりこと松島ナミは、鬼警部・児玉の執拗な捜査により逮捕された。だが、護送中に事故が起きてナミは脱走した。負傷したナミを手当したのは、ヌードスタジオの照明係であり、元学生運動過激派のメンバー・工藤であった。工藤は警察のリンチにより、片足が不自由になっていた。2人はいつしか犯罪者意識で通じ合う安心感を覚えるようになるが、2人に嫉妬した工藤の愛人のみどりは密かに警察へ通報する。

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。

刑務所から脱獄し、街を逃走中の松島ナミは、地下鉄の車内にいるところを刑事の権藤に見つかり、手錠をかけられるが、ドスで相手の腕を切り落とし、血まみれの腕と手錠を自分の手首にぶら下げながら、なおも必死で街を逃げ回る。ナミは、中川ユキという若い女性に助けられ、彼女と親しくなるが、ユキは不幸な身の上の売春婦だった。その一方でナミは、彼女の正体を知る鮫島カツという悪女に捕まり、監禁される事態となる。

1950年（昭和25年）、広島市。無銭飲食により博徒大友組・大友勝利のリンチを受けた復員兵・山中正治は、村岡組組長・村岡常夫の姪で未亡人である上原靖子によって手厚く看病される。その縁で山中は村岡組組員となるが、ふとした事から靖子と男女の関係となり、それが村岡組長の逆鱗に触れ山中は若頭・松永の指示で九州へ逃れる。しかし九州での和田組組長射殺事件により山中の名は裏社会で大きく轟くこととなり、山中は広島への帰参を許され、靖子との交際も村岡組長の認める所となった。

女囚さそりこと松島ナミは法務省巡閲官の目前で、刑務所長の郷田の隻眼めがけ、尖らせたスプーンの柄を突き刺した。女囚逹への憎悪を燃やす郷田は、石切場の重労働を与えた。ナミは、郷田の企みにより看守の辻らに凌辱される。看守らの隙を突き彼らを殺害し、ナミ、大場ら女囚逹７人は脱走を図る。

関東は花の東京新橋育ち、姓は樋口、名はナミと発します”ドスのきいた口上で颯爽と登場、前作の玉突き博奕から花札賭博師へと装いも新たに大活躍するご存知、銀蝶シリーズ第二弾！父親の復讐のためにヤクザな世界に身を投げ打った主人公・緋ざくらナミを梶芽衣子が演じ、蝶をあしらった和服を着こなし、手際よい札さばきを見せる。

女子刑務所からの脱走を企てたナミと由紀子だったが、二人のもくろみは失敗に終わる。ナミは刑事の杉見と恋人同士だったが、麻薬のおとり捜査に使われた上、杉見に裏切られてしまった。ナミは復讐のため杉見を襲うが、逆に逮捕されてしまったのだ。ナミは刑務所で他の女囚から嫌われていたが、唯一、由紀子とだけは親しかった。ある日、刑務所で暴動が起こり、由紀子が射殺されてしまう。

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.

華やかな装いと紫煙の中に咲き乱れる銀座の夜の花園。さみしく閉じる店、華やかに開店する店がある中で、久美の経営するクラブ“葵”は、彼女の魅力で今日もにぎわっている。二年前、女の意地で愛しながら別れた男・修平のことなど忘れた久美は、今は町工場の経営者で、妻子ある花井という男を愛していたし、彼女の店では腹違いではあるが妹の淳子も働いていて、平穏な日々を送っていた。そんなある日、久美はチーフバーテンの坂本から、淳子が愛している男と一緒に暮らしていることを知らされた。まだまだ子供だと思っていた妹に恋人がいると知った久美は早速淳子のアパートを訪れたが、そこには運命のいたずらか、二年前に別れた修平の姿があった…。

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.

Pinku from 1971.

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

A 1971 crime film

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.

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate half-breeds. When one of the girls start dating a half-breed, they start a terror campaign to take all of them out of town. Mako and her gang fight back, helping their new friend Kazuma find his long gone sister.

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious leader, he and his posse make plans to rob her partner.

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

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.

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car from Daihoji Senzo hit a child and left. Upon hearing this, Shogoro Chiba's boss tried to pay for the medical treatment of Kenbo, but Senzo ordered his child Gentaro to claim damages to the car and ruined Shogoro's gambling house.

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...

昭和初期の湯治場上州鹿沢。芸者・志満は、追われた旅の博徒・柿沢高次を救った。二人の間には愛が芽生えた。しかし志満は、温泉を仕切る向田組の若棟梁・向田周吉の許婚だった。その頃、湯元の権利を狙っていた本堂組の源蔵、万蔵の父子は、高次を追ってきた太平組の太市ら兄弟と結託して、向田組の勧進賭博で、周吉に恥をかかせた。

昭和初期。関東一円の親分衆が結束して作った“関東連合会”の世話役の座の後任をねらう阪東組は、前世話役宮前の二代目大介が、正統な後任世話役と認められているところから、大介をいかさま賭博で陥し入れようとしていた。が、大介は、阪東の雇った老いかさま師根岸が、恋人槙江の店に来たことから、事情をすべて知っていた。が、大介は、渡世の義理といかさま承知で花会に向った。その頃、何も知らぬ芳松は、大介の危機と組に知らせた。大介に好意をもつ蒔田組の辰次がそれを聞き、賭場にかけつけ、いかさまを暴いたことから、花会は斬り合いになり、辰次をかばって、阪東の弟英次を刺した大介は、刑務所送りとなった。悔む辰治。が、その辰治の目に、根岸の般若の刺青が写った。それこそ、二十年間捜し求めた父である人の証拠だったのだ。が敵である根岸には、何も言えなかった。一方、大介のいない宮前組では、宮前は、阪東組に殺され、その後も嫌がらせが続いた。まもなく大介は出所。ちょうどその頃根岸は仲間をかばい、阪東の手にかかっていた。父の仇と阪東に斬りこむ辰次。後を追う大介。二人の怒りの刃は、遂に阪東の命を絶ったのだった。

Film from 1969.

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.

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

浜川智子 タイピストの鏑木敬子は、恋人の三木順造から身体を求められ困っていた。敬子の妹・敏子は、結婚まではと、かたくなに身を守る彼女に「ズレてる」と言う。その頃、順造は順造で、友人の今村から、その意気地のなさにハッパをかけられていた。

Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Film from 1967.

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. One day, he decides to arrange a marriage between his only son, Junkichi and the daughter of an even more powerful family. Sobei, hoping to benefit from this union, soon discovers that his son was in love with a lower class girl.

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

Japanese drama film.