A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush reminiscent of Miike’s 13 Assassins, although pre-dating that incident by 160 years, the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation.
Tennoji
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
Yoshiyuki Kawashima
国際連盟を脱退し国際的に孤立していた日本は、国内でも政治不安、恐慌や経済不況が蔓延し国民の不満が高まっていた。 こうした状況を憂い憤っていた一部の帝国陸軍青年将校達はひそかに企てていた現政権を取り巻く元老、重臣を粛清し天皇陛下中心の国政を実現すべく昭和維新を実現すべく昭和８年2月２１日ついにそれぞれの部隊を巻き込んで決起するが、国民を正義に導くはずの彼らの行動は次第にその思惑とはかけ離れた方向に陥っていく。
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
ゴジラシリーズ第16作。ゴジラ生誕30周年記念として前作から9年振りに制作された。1975年まで制作された「昭和シリーズ」との繋がりはなく、第1作(1954年)「ゴジラ」の直接の続編としてリブートされた、俗に言う「平成シリーズ」の第1作。大黒島沖で遭難した漁船の生存者・奥村は荒れ狂う嵐の中で巨大な怪物の姿を目撃していた。奥村を救助した東都日報の牧は生物学者・林田の助言を求めるが、林田は30年前に帝都を襲撃し東京湾で葬られたゴジラが目覚めたと推測。はたしてゴジラは復活していた。ソ連原潜を沈め、静岡井浜原発に現れると放射能を吸収し海へと消えたゴジラ。だがそれは破滅へのプロローグでしかなかった。
Home Affairs Minister Isomura
ゴジラシリーズ第16作。ゴジラ生誕30周年記念として前作から9年振りに制作された。1975年まで制作された「昭和シリーズ」との繋がりはなく、第1作(1954年)「ゴジラ」の直接の続編としてリブートされた、俗に言う「平成シリーズ」の第1作。大黒島沖で遭難した漁船の生存者・奥村は荒れ狂う嵐の中で巨大な怪物の姿を目撃していた。奥村を救助した東都日報の牧は生物学者・林田の助言を求めるが、林田は30年前に帝都を襲撃し東京湾で葬られたゴジラが目覚めたと推測。はたしてゴジラは復活していた。ソ連原潜を沈め、静岡井浜原発に現れると放射能を吸収し海へと消えたゴジラ。だがそれは破滅へのプロローグでしかなかった。
弘前中央署に、札幌署から堂垣内と佐藤の二人の刑事が訪ねて来た。彼らの依頼は、二年前札幌でおきた現金輸送車襲撃事件の証拠として残されたりんごの種の品種分析である。早速、片山刑事が二人をりんご試験場に案内したが、りんごの種から品種分析することは不可能であった。失意の二人を誘って入った喫茶店は、片山が今朝出会った少年たけしの母親・澄江の店であった。
Chuichi Nagumo
昭和15年、船大工の小田切武市は、ひとり息子の正人が海軍兵学校に合格したと聞き、大喜び。一方、考古学者の本郷は、長男の英一が自分の反対を押し切って海軍少尉となったのに引きかえ、次男の真二が自分と同じ学問の道に進むと聞いて、ほっと胸をなでおろす。翌年、日本はハワイの真珠湾を攻撃して太平洋戦争が勃発。たえず死と隣り合わせにある英一は、恋人の陽子と結婚するが、彼女に指一本触れることなく戦場に舞い戻る。
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Yoshio Yamamori
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
Hayashi Razan
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！
Actor
Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
Emma Daio
不義によって産まれた娘が、成長して母親と同じ罪を犯してしまう。死後、彼女は地獄に堕ち、七大地獄を目の当たりにする。業の恐ろしさを描いた幻想劇。
Kokichi Asakura
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
昭和二十五年に起った天銀堂殺人事件の容疑者、元子爵椿英輔は忌わしい嫌疑を恥辱としてか信州で自殺をとげたが、夫人[火禾]子は今尚英輔の幻影に悩まされていた。令嬢美彌子の頼みで名探偵金田一耕助は一夜椿邸で行われた目賀博士の砂占いに列席した。集った人達は[火禾]子、美彌子、目賀博士の他、[火禾]子の叔父玉虫元伯爵と妾菊江、[火禾]子の兄新宮利彦と妻はな、道楽息子の一彦、椿家執事木下善四郎、書生三島東太郎などであったが、博士の占い通りその夜玉虫伯爵は何者かに殺害された。耕助は英輔の日記の空白を手がかりに神戸に赴き、以前英輔が別邸の管理人植辰の妹お駒を尋ねる目的があった事を調べ上げる。お駒も既に殺害されていたが、お駒の養子宗二郎が失踪している事と、妙光院の痣とり地蔵尊の裏面に彫られた文字から秘密を嗅ぎ出し、急拠東京へ引返す。しかし椿邸では新宮利彦が殺されていた。居並ぶ人々の前で三島青年が動揺しているのを見届けた耕助は逮捕状を携えて再度椿邸の門を潜るが、一同は鎌倉の別邸に行った後だった。その頃鎌倉では新宮利彦と[火禾]子の間に兄妹姦淫の子として生れた三島青年実は宗二郎が、目賀博士と[火禾]子に詰めよっていた。驚いた[火禾]子は青酸カリの盛られた鎮静剤を飲んで一瞬にして絶命。直後到着した耕助は一同の前で始めて事件の顛末を発表した。－－今から二十数年前、[火禾]子は兄利彦に犯されて一児を生み落し、叔父玉虫伯爵はその子を宗二郎と名付け植辰の妹お駒に預けたが、椿家財産横領を企む目賀博士は宗二郎が幼年で死んだ後、植辰と謀ってその子治雄の片腕に火焔太鼓の痣を彫りつけて宗二郎に仕立て上げ、椿家乱倫の実状を明かして復讐を誓わせたのである。かくて真相を知らぬ治雄を三島東太郎の仮名で椿家の書生に送りこんだ目賀博士は英輔に[火禾]子の行状を告げて自殺に追い込み、その亡霊の恐怖を利用して玉虫伯爵、利彦、お駒、[火禾]子と次々に殺害したのである。鋭い耕助の推理と植辰の証言に、目賀博士は拳銃を取って乱射するが、耕助の反撃に挫け、遂に警官に捕われた。...
Kira
「柳生一族の陰謀」の深作欣二と萬屋錦之介が忠臣蔵に挑んだ大型時代劇。様式美にとらわれないドキュメンタリータッチの作風で描く。 吉良上野介に対し刃傷に及んだ浅野内匠頭が切腹させられ、赤穂はお家断絶となり、領地を召し上げられてしまう。大石内蔵助は家臣たちから誓紙血判を集め、仇討ちの準備を始める。
Denjiro Hasimoto
舞台は昭和25年。終戦直後、米軍占領下の北九州・小倉。エスカレートする岡源組と橋伝組のヤクザ抗争を解決するため、警察署長の提案で抗争に代えてヤクザ対抗野球大会が(平和的に)開かれることになる。主人公、岡源組の加助は、橋伝組の攻撃を頭を使って抑えるが、痺れを切らした橋伝組は、秘密兵器の銀次を登板させる。彼は女がらみで指を詰めさせられヤクザになった投手であり、彼の投げる魔球に一転岡源組は苦戦を強いられる。
Head of Mizoguchi City
東北奥地で村民のほとんどが殺される虐殺事件が発生。山中で訓練をしていた自衛隊特殊部隊の味沢は偶然そこに居合わせて犯人を殺し、唯一生き残った村の少女・頼子を救う。やがて退職した味沢は頼子を養女にし、保険外交員として暮らす。そんなある日、彼は暴漢に襲われた女性記者・朋子を救うが、彼女は町を牛耳る実業家・大場の不正を暴こうとしたために命を狙われていた。一方、味沢には彼を虐殺犯と疑う北野刑事が付きまとう。
Hideyoshi Hirayama
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.
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.
Shoji Taguchi
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
Akama
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！
Tajima
Japanese crime film.
Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the town and the shopkeepers in the shopping arcade were troubled by it. Chotaro poses as a journalist and uses his words of wisdom to suggest that pen is mightier than the sword, so they create a mini-comic magazine and launch a campaign to expel the gang.
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
Torao Yoshinari
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?
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.
Masaichi Tomoyasu
「仁義なき戦い」シリーズの実録トリオ、主演・菅原文太、監督・深作欣二、脚本・笠原和夫がやくざと癒着した警察と政界の腐敗ぶりを鮮烈に描き出した衝撃作！実在に起こった事件に材をとった生々しい迫力で、県警・市政・やくざが三つ巴となって欲望と悪徳の駆け引きに溺れていく様を映し出した、暴力映画の傑作。悪徳だが人間味あふれるベテラン刑事・久能に菅原文太、彼と手を結ぶ組長・広谷に松方弘樹、狡猾なエリート刑事に梅宮辰夫、元やくざの市議会議員に金子信雄といった豪華演技陣が勢揃いしている。
1950年（昭和25年）秋、広島県呉市の極道組織・山守組組員の三好万亀夫は、組の命令で対立組織の浅田組長を襲撃する。この事件で三好は懲役11年の刑にて服役。三好の服役の間に山守組は大きく成長するが、組内は組長・山守義雄と若頭・青木尚武とが対立し、幹部組員の難波茂春や坂上元もそれぞれの思惑で行動するようになる。山守と青木は刑務所の三好にそれぞれ面会を求め、互いに相手の中傷をして自陣営へ引き込もうと画策する。
Warden
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.
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.
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
Yamamori
広能組・打本会の連合と山守組との広島抗争は、警察による組長クラスの一斉検挙、いわゆる「頂上作戦」によって終息に向かう。打本会は解散し、広能組長・広能昌三は網走刑務所に収監された。一方、山守組側では逮捕されるも未決保釈となった最高幹部・武田明が広島に散在するやくざ組織に大同団結を呼びかけ、市民社会からの厳しい視線をかわすため政治結社「天政会」として統一組織を立ち上げた。しかし天政会は、会長・武田明、理事・江田省一らの主流派と副会長・大友勝利、幹事長・早川英男らの反主流派とに分かれ一枚岩ではなかった。
Yoshio Yamamori
1963年（昭和38年）、東京オリンピックを翌年に控え高度経済成長の真っ只中にある市民社会は、秩序の破壊者である暴力団に非難の目を向け始めていた。しかし広能昌三の山守組破門に端を発した広能組・打本会の連合と山守組との抗争は、神戸を拠点に覇を争う２大広域暴力団・明石組と神和会の代理戦争の様相を呈し、激化の一途を辿っていた。
Kakutarô Shinohara
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual abuse is endemic. The tables are turned on the principal and sanctimonious teachers as well as an American priest when the adult evildoers are publicly humiliated and exposed before the entire student body.
Yoshio Yamamori
昭和35年の広島市繁華街、白昼にやくざの杉原が殺される。所詮、ばくちのもつれによる殺しだが杉原は病気療養中の村岡組長の舎弟であり、彼の死で村岡組の跡目が空席となる。組の継承は組長から直盃を下ろされた者のみ資格があり順当にいけば村岡舎弟である打本昇[打本組]のはずだが、杉原の仇を討たないため周囲から推されずにいた。
Senzo Ogata
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.
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
Hadano
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...
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.
Yoshio Yamamori
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。
Shigeru Satô - The President of The School
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).
Visitor of the Shoe Polishing
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls set their sights on one thing: revenge. Miki Sugimoto stars as girl boss Komasa, the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Kanto Gypsies who possesses more than enough brains to match her killer looks.
Yamamori
敗戦直後の広島県呉市。闇市の食堂でレコードを聞いていた広能昌三のもとへ友人が怪我をして駆け込んでくる。刀を振り回している暴漢に襲われたと言い山守組へ連絡を頼まれた広能は事務所におもむき大勢で現場に駆けつけ、広能は暴漢を射殺するが逮捕され刑務所に収監されてしまう。
二大ポルノ女優の杉本美樹と池玲子がセーラー服で男も顔負けの“女子高総括”を見せる！女子高生たちによる女教師輪姦、売春、凄絶なリンチといったショッキングなシーンとアクション・お色気をふんだんに盛り込んだ、衝撃のポルノアクションシリーズ第1弾！
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There’s also a subplot about a mad scientist type who needs vaginal juices to create a potion designed to turn Japanese girls black.
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
Chief of Police
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet tough geisha, becomes the boss. But will she be able to confront a yakuza gang trying to take over the area?
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the ninth and last film in the Duty of Brotherhood series.
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Boss Ohya, the nightclub owner
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
生まれは横浜、育ちは鑑別所。北は北海道、南は九州まで、女だてらに全国を練り歩き、付いた通り名は「ハマグレおリカ」。ノーブラ・シースルーにジーンズも颯爽と、新宿を根城に暴力団相手に派手なアクションを繰り広げる。人気爆発！藤圭子が唄う「圭子の夢は夜ひらく」の主題歌をバックに東映若手女優が一堂に会して色気とパンチとアクション満開で競う「ずべ公番長」シリーズ第1弾！
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
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.
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
昭和23年、復員して故郷新橋に戻ってきた末広勝治は、駅前で若い日本人の女が進駐軍兵士に連れ去られようとしたところを助けたため、MPに逮捕され北海道米軍刑務所へ送られた。勝治はそこで通訳のジミーや中国人の王と親交を深める。4ヵ月後、再び新橋に戻った勝治は、石津組と華僑連合の対立の中で徐々に頭角を現すようになり、いつしか露天商から銀座の顔役と称される程になった。
Suetsugu
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
Suyama
ボクサーを夢見て上京した男性。彼は、トレーニングに励みながら楽団の音楽にも触れ、充実した日々を送る。しかし、楽団のリーダーが暴力団に脅迫される事件が発生。自らの大切な人々を守るため、彼は復習を決意する。
牡丹の刺青に女を封じた男勝りの度胸と啖呵。日本映画史に燦然と輝くヒロインが誕生！藤純子の代名詞となった任侠シリーズ第1弾。博徒・矢野組の組長だった父の仇を討つため、女博徒となって旅を続ける竜子。“緋牡丹のお竜”の異名を取る彼女は、あるいざこざに巻き込まれたところを片桐という博徒に助けられ、彼に惹かれていく。
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.
Tokuyasu
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
Denbei
Shinagawa
ここは、とある温泉街。お徳という女将がキリモリする、あんま芸者の置屋・浜中。“今夜も特技でガッチリ稼げ”との合言葉で進軍したのは、超ボインの富丸、セックスアピール抜群の雛奴、処女膜手術の好きな蔦子、股にカニの刺青をほどこした玉栄、おスペのうまい梅子、ヌードが売りのすみ、そして現役処女の純情可憐な千代･･･と、選り取りみどり。そんなセクシーあんま芸者たちが集まれば、ピンク色の事件が勃発するのもあたり前！野球拳ストリップ大合戦、ブルーフィルム隠し撮り事件、ナマグサ和尚の性狂育事件などなど、毎日がテンヤワンヤのセクシー・ラッシュ！これはもぅ、たまらない!!
Sojun
A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan members oppose and Ishido is elected. When Matsuda is freed, he doesn't accept this decision.
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
昭和十二年、召集令状を受取った島村は、ライバルの榊原一家と大乱闘を演じた後、入隊した。暴れ者の島村の名は連隊中に知れ渡った。しかし、彼は中隊一の剣の使い手酒巻に散々打ちのめされた。酒巻は榊原一家の代貸だったのだ。ある日、榊原は島村の留守を狙って殴り込みをかけ、それに酒巻も公用外出の名目で参加した。
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Shurinosuke Asahina
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Head of Department
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
Itagaki
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Ushimatsu Fujii
The film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu (Watari), the drifter, and the girls he loves but can never quite bring himself to settle down with. To make matters even more atmospheric, our story is set in a picturesque harbor town. Yoshida is Tetsu's double-crossing rival who pays in the end with his life. Fairly superficial, but the tone isn't particularly light; in fact, it is downright melancholic, which is the picture's salvation. The emphasis on Tetsu never being able to escape his criminal life despite his tender side, the downbeat undercurrent of cynical gang activity amidst the sunset-dappled waves, actually makes this an entertaining sequel. However, Suzuki's irreverent surrealism is replaced by Morinaga's Monet-like impressionism.
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
A crime film from 1966
Aoki
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
女子大の学生、佐藤ノエミのあだ名はキャンパス一一〇番。キャンパスとは校庭の意味で、事あるところにいつもパトカーのように現われて鮮やかに事件を解決するからである。粋で、おしゃれで、冒険好き、適当に正義派で人情家、気はやさしくて、しかもおじいちちゃんの仕込みで合気道二段の達人。相棒の重タンクのような松子と組んで、女子大生亡国論に大フンガイのあげく、かくしテープレコーダーをハンドバックに、手あたり次第に体験的反論を集めに歩く。しかもそれが趣味と実益をかねたボーイハントのアバンチュールにもなるという。最初にハントされた西村君は、人生に理想と情熱を持ち、電子計算機のようにテキパキと正確に状況判断をし、心もち左翼的な生活態度を持ち、ややぶじょう者でもある。
青春の息吹にむせる、すこぶる生きのいい現代娘のスカッと胸のすく夢と冒険の行状記である！
1966 film directed by Kudo.
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…。
Dôjin Hiki
特撮で放つ大忍術アクションの決定版！天に轟き大地を揺るがす四大怪獣・巨竜、大がま、大ぐも、大わしを東映京都撮影所の特撮陣が見せる一大スペクタクル。悪家老・結城大乗の謀叛によって滅びた城主の若君・雷丸が蟇道人のもとで忍術を修得。自雷也を名乗り、強敵・大蛇丸を向こうにまわして大忍術合戦を展開する。
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.
Matsui
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Unosuke
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
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.
Kenji Yamakoshi
グラマー女房の浮気に悩まされる小柄な亭主が、浮気の相手から500万円をユスリ奪ったことから続発する事件を、エロチックなムードで描いたコミック・スリラー。
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!
Kansuke
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for many people. A masterpiece of historical drama, full of breathtaking thrills and action.
Industrial espionage gets in the way of love and marriage for factory worker Katayanagi.
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of a mysterious note written by his father, Inspector Sena, held a clue to the inspector's murder 18 years ago. As Ukyunosuke continues further with his investigation into the conspiracy to uncover the truth behind his father's death, he must confront those eager to take his life. The great Okawa Hashizo shines in one of his signature roles bringing the ultimate conclusion of this epic tale of murder and revenge!
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
Kawazu
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
Kumagai
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Sôichi Ozawa
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....
Inspector Kumagaya
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.
A crime film released in 1962
Kozo Haraguchi
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth of mother's hands. It seemed that joy settled in their house again. But one day a storm caught the fishermen at sea. Father did not return... Father's friends, fishermen, tried to help the widow, who was left with two children. But the money was still not enough. And then Kazuo decided to become a fisherman. After all, he was now the eldest in the family...
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.
Strife between competing lumber mills.
On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
A 1961 crime film.
Katsumata
エースのジョーこと宍戸錠が初主演したコメディ・アクション。ギャンブルと女に目がない早射ちガンマンに扮して、相棒役の二谷英明と息の合ったコンビぶりをみせる。監督は『渡り鳥』シリーズの斎藤武市。
Mishima
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
Mishima
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.
Kirihara Gôchô
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Kyosuke Takita
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother who prays for his brother's happiness while becoming a gangster to the old yakuza.
Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whenever Wilson comes, Yasuo spends his time in the tea-shop "La Gana." Yasuo is asked by his brother Shigeru to teach French to Akiko, a young girl who is studying French songs. Yasuo then learns that he is the winner of an essay contest and will be offered a scholarship to study in France. Akiko, is now pregnant and Yasuo promises to break with Yuriko.
Akitsu
背中にギターを背負った「流し」の男が函館に降り立つ。用心棒として彼を雇った地元のボスは、土地再開発のために住民を立ち退かせるよう彼に指示する。そんなある日、港で密輸取引を行ったボスは、取引相手と彼を同時に始末しようとする。
Funakoshi
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.
Shinichiro Kuraki
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.
Kawai
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially greeted by the effusive welcome of his family, spiteful whispers also reach his ear about an adulterous affair carried on, in his long absence, between his wife and a famous drummer. With Hikokuro’s honor imperiled by rumor, his family insists on a formal investigation into the veracity of the gossip. Through the combined testimony of many witnesses, a tale unwinds around the visits of a traveling musician hired to tutor the family heir, the spurned attentions of the man who started the rumor, and the ultimate truth behind the accusations. The conclusion of events prove as much an indictment of bushidō as it is of the reluctant parties involved. Adapted from a 1706 play by Chikamatsu Monzaemon and based on a true case.
Tachio Kinumaki
Toru Sakyo, the critic
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Denbei
幕末の混沌とした時代、にぎわいを見せていた品川宿の遊郭旅籠の相模屋にひとりの町人・佐平次が訪れる。女郎のおそめを気に入り豪遊するが、実は佐平次は一文無しだった。その翌朝、佐平次は金がないことを若い衆に打ち明けるが、口八丁でその場に居座ってしまう。そして金を返済するためと相模屋で番頭まがいの仕事を始めた佐平次は、下働きから女郎衆、遊郭に出入りする人々のトラブルを持ち前の度胸と機転で解決してみせ、さらにお礼の金をしっかりためこんでいた。また、相模屋に逗留し攘夷の計画を練る長州藩士の高杉晋作、久坂玄瑞らとも交友を深め、いつしか佐平次は遊郭内で一目置かれる存在になっていく。
Japanese drama film.
Kosaku Mori
山間の小駅。この駅の灯だけが、真暗闇に侘しく光っていた。ホームには、水害で不通になった列車が立往生。午前二時を指す時計の掛かった駅の待合室には、傲慢そうな重役夫妻、セールスマン、男女学生、オンリーさんの夏子、老夫婦、小粋な三十女と愛人、家出した田舎娘など足止めをくった乗客でごった返していた。この騒ぎから取り残されたように静かに佇む乳呑み児を抱いた時枝の側には、一本の手錠でつながれた刑事と殺人犯・森が立っていた。一同はバスで次の駅まで出ることになったが、いよいよ出発という時「銀行を襲撃して現金二千万円を奪った二人組のギャングが、この方面に立ち廻った形跡がある」という悪い知らせが入った。 動揺した乗客は次々とバスを降り、十四名を乗せたボロボロのバスが暗夜の中を出発した。ギャングと山崩れの恐怖に怯える夜が明けると、一同には明るさが戻ったが、時技と森だけは暗い表情を崩さなかった。行く手には、とうてい渡れそうもない朽ち果てた橋。しかしバリバリと音をたてながら、バスは危うくも橋を渡りきった。さらにバスが進むと、前方に青年が飛び出してきた。バスに乗り込んで来た二人連は、大きなボストンバックを提げていたー。
Reiji Ajioka
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of war. Furukawa Takumi of “Backlight” is adapted and directed by Daiichi Ishino. Filmed by Yoshio Mamiya, “Smuggling of the body”. The main performers are Sachiko Sakai since the “Zoi Family”, Hiroyuki Nagato of the “Next door bride”, Shoji Yasui of the “Sentimental wife”, Takatoko of “Crying, the last Japanese fighter”, “Blue angry” Noriko Katsura, Shinzo three of "actress (1956)", Masao Oda, Nobuo Kaneko, Toru Abe, Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Misako Tsubouchi.
Reiji Ajioka
Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
Kido
A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.
Japanese drama film.
Ryûri no kishi
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. The victim is a woman who's said to have had sexual relations with the defendant. Four intertwined witnesses; a critic, Shirou's employee, a singer, and his wife, are all called to the stand. His destiny now lies in their hands.
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Nobuko is a widow who lives with her daughter-in-law Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings.
Haraguchi, the painter
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Akira Mimura
Sonejiro sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo’s father is introduced to Sonejiro, good will turns evil, and all happiness is at stake.
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.
Tokuji Funabashi
An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.
成瀬巳喜男監督が川端康成の同名小説を映画化した原節子の代表作の一つ。鎌倉を舞台に、老境に入った男が、同居する若く美しい息子の嫁に抱く複雑な心模様を丁寧に描く。
鎌倉で息子夫婦と暮らす尾形信吾は、老いを感じ、寂しさを感じる日々を送っていた。息子・修一の浮気に耐える嫁の菊子を不びんに思う信吾は、いつしか菊子にひかれるようになるが、やがて菊子の妊娠がわかり…。
Sugio Kawanabe
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
士官の財布を盗んだとして、木谷は陸軍刑務所に二年間服役。出所した木谷は軍の内務班に復帰した。班の内部では班長をはじめ古参兵たちが、初年兵をいじめていた。特に一等兵の會田は大学出ということもあり、日常的に暴力を受けていた。しかし木谷だけはそんないじめには加担していなかった。會田は木谷に好意を寄せ親しくなるが、木谷が野戦送りの人員に選ばれることを知ってしまう。木谷が刑務所へ送られたのも、野戦送りの人員に選ばれたのも、すべては派閥争いによるものだった。
Mitsuo, son of Kanji
市役所の市民課長・渡辺勘治は30年間無欠勤のまじめな男。ある日、渡辺は自分が胃癌であることを知る。命が残り少ないと悟ったとき、渡辺はこれまでの事なかれ主義的生き方に疑問を抱く。そして、初めて真剣に申請書類に目を通す。そこで彼の目に留まったのが市民から出されていた下水溜まりの埋め立てと小公園建設に関する陳情書だった……。
The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa Akira and starring Mifune Toshiro as the famed swordsman who must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member. Told mostly in flashback as the avengers await the arrival of their quarry, this film displays true heroism in the face of fear as most of the combatants, while of the samurai class are not skilled swordsmen. They contrast sharply with the true warriors involved in this battle. Araki Mataemon (Mifune), who was not only a direct student of Yagyu Munenori, but the founder of his own sword style under the Yagyu name is a powerful force ready to assist his brother-in-law against the murderer's allies that include not only another noted sword teacher, but the deadly spear of Katsumi no Hanbei.
Kashima
Ebihara is a budding novelist entangled in a complicated web of relationships with three women from three different generations: Kazue, a coquettish teenage war orphan who tries to offer herself for money but is instead taken in by Ebihara, Koyabu, a middle-aged woman who has spent much of her life as the kept woman of a wealthy man, and Teruko, the modest daughter of Ebihara's former teacher who comes to rely on him after the death of her father.
