Keiichi Uraoka

Ammonites were a kind of snail-like precursor to today's mollusks, common in the seas of the Cretaceous period, many millions of years ago. They are among the most commonly found fossils, so they must have been extremely plentiful. In this meditative and largely unstructured first feature, a young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a disturbing and mysterious letter from her. As he travels, he remembers his childhood fixation with rocks, nurtured by his mother, and his very strong affection for his sister.

北海道・静内の小さな牧場。ここである日、一頭の仔馬が生まれる。伝説の名馬ゴドルフィンの血をひくこの仔馬は、“オラシオン（祈り）”と名付けられ、元気に育っていく。やがて、オラシオンは和具工業社長・和具平八郎に買い取られる。ある悩みを抱えた平八郎はオラシオンに自らの夢を託すのだった。

明治４５年。実業家の渋沢栄一は、東京の町を軍事面からだけではなく霊的にも守護する“東京改造計画”を始める。しかし、東京の壊滅をたくらむ謎の男・加藤保憲は平将門の霊を呼び覚まそうとする。大正１２年、加藤は関東大震災を起こすが、文豪の幸田露伴らの努力によって東京壊滅に失敗する。東京は渋沢らの手によって急速に復興するが昭和２年、加藤が再び東京に現われる。しかしそれを妨害しようとする面々が現われる。

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

吉村茂と鈴木信二は幼い頃からの親友同士。高校3年の夏、そろそろ卒業後の進路を決める時期。茂はひとつ年下の菊地春代に、真二は中学で一緒だった寺島瞳に片想いしていた。ある日、茂は瞳に真二のことを話すが、逆に茂のことが好きだったと打ち明けられ…。

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.

現職刑事を夫に持つ柿内園子は、食器店で銀のスプーンを万引きしている現場を、OLの志藤光子に目撃されてしまう。事を公にしたくない園子は求めに応じ、光子と関係を持つようになるが、徐々に自ら快楽を求めるようになっていった。夫の剛は自分と体を重ねようとしない園子に疑いを持ち、部下を使って妻を尾行させ、光子の存在を突き止める。園子と光子を問い詰める剛だったが、二人は関係を認めようとしない。だがある日、園子は光子を家に連れ込み、男一人女二人の生活が始まるのだった。

瀬戸内海のある島を舞台に起る、連続殺人事件を追う金田一耕肋の活躍を描く。横溝正史の同名の小説の映画化で、脚本は「幸福号出帆」の清水邦夫、監督は「夜叉ヶ池」の篠田正浩、撮影も同作の宮川一夫がそれぞれ担当。

幕末もいよいよ押し迫り、明治への改元を2年後に控えた慶応2年。横浜港の沖合で難破・漂流し、アメリカ船に助けられてかの地へ渡っていた貧しい農家出身の源次が、6年ぶりに日本に帰国。彼の留守中、恋女房のイネは、病身の老父によって売られ、いまや両国の見世物小屋で、裸を売り物にした芸をしながら生活していた。その両国界隈には、見世物小屋や売春宿の元締め・金蔵、元旗本の古川ほか、さまざまな連中がたむろしていた。

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

A Young couple find a boad buried under a beach,and are taken to another world where they must face a Deadly cult who want to sacrifice them.

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.

佐木隆三の同名ノンフィクションを、「神々の深き欲望」の今村昌平監督が映画化。5人を殺害し全国を逃走した男の、犯罪を積み重ねた生い立ち、数々の女性遍歴と父との相克を描く。日豊本線築橋駅近くで専売公社のタバコ集金に回っていた柴田種次郎、馬場大八の惨殺死体が発見され、現金41万円余が奪われていた。やがて、かつてタバコ配給に従事した運転手・榎津厳が容疑者として浮かんだ……。

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.

兵隊帰りの若者は、40歳すぎながらまだまだ若くみえる人力車夫の妻と関係を持つ。26歳も年が離れていることを知りつつ若者との関係を断つことのできない女は、ついに若者と共謀し夫を殺害、井戸の中に投げ捨てる。しかしそれから、夢の中で車夫を見たという者が現れ、やがて妻や若者の前にも車夫の亡霊が姿を見せるようになる。

A Documentary on the Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.

昭和11年。料亭の女中定は店の主人に心惹かれ、情事を重ねるようになる。その情事が男の妻に知れてしまい、二人は駆け落ちを決行する。快楽におぼれる日々を重ねるうちに定は男を永遠に手放したくないと思うようになり、ついには男を自分だけのものにするため首を絞めて殺害し、さらには男の陰部を切り取ってしまうのだった。

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

A Swiss nun falls in love with a Japanese engineer.

仕事一筋だった一鬼建設社長の一鬼太治平は、初めて仕事を離れヨーロッパの周遊旅行に出る。途中、一鬼は体の異変に気づき、医者に診てもらう。数日後、判明した結果は癌だった。しかも、あと一年の命だった…。

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.

Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.

丹波篠山の旧家の三男の淳は、家を守ることを母に言いきかせられ、忠実に働きつづけていた。実の母がお手伝いとも知らず。一方、財産の山林を手放し、自分たちの代で終わりにしようとするのが、長男・康と次男・徹。長男夫婦は、康の淡白さに妻・夏子は不満が募り、ある時、住み込みの書生とお手伝いとの情愛を目撃し、淳を誘惑していく…。

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

農業とエロチシズムを二本の柱として、単純再生産を基本としたユートピア集団の実現を計る人物と、偶然そこにまぎれ込んだ新左翼系の男女学生四人が中心となり、恋人交換、暴行、サディズムなど、さまざまな型の性を描きながら、よりよく、われわれが抱いている日本そのものへのアプローチを試みた作品。脚本、監督は「無常」でコンビを組んだ石堂淑朗と実相寺昭雄。撮影も同作の稲垣涌三がそれぞれ担当。なお、イナガキ・スコープというワイド版が一部使用されている。

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...

Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.

万引き常習犯の祖母、戦争犯罪人の父、ウサギを偏愛する妹。駄目な家庭に育ち、いつも家出を考えている“私”と恵まれた環境に身を置く“彼”。行き場のない鬱屈とした情熱を持て余した“私”は奇妙な人々と出会い、幻想と回想の入り混じった街を放浪する。

Iwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of the Foreign Affairs Division in re-investigating the case of a foreign drug addict's death at the request of Kubo.

Based on Shinichi Mori song

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has always been aroused against barriers before him.

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and another, younger boy. The adults pretend to be injured by autos in crowded traffic, blackmailing the fearful motorists with threats to call in the police.

城南学園演劇部の大女優的存在の田代信子は、水谷たちのグループから、シンデレラのように仰がれていた。やがて、卒業公演を終えた信子と水谷たち五人は永遠の友情を誓って卒業していった。それから一年、信子はコマーシャル・タレントとして頭角をあらわし、見合いの話が絶えなかった。そんな時いつも妨害に現われたのは、水谷グループの面々だった…

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.

Light comedy about three high-school girls on the campus.

男を求めてさまようネジ子は、路上で男と出会い海岸へ行く。しかし男は自殺願望があり、ネジ子を抱こうとはしなかった。そこへ制服姿の男たちが現れ、武器の入った箱を運び出すところを、ネジ子たちは目撃してしまう。二人は男たちに連れ去られ、郊外の廃墟であるアジトに監禁される。アジトにはヤクザの出入りのために雇われた男たちがいたが、出入りは中止になり、ヤクザはいなくなってしまった。

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.

This ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on photographs that Oshima took during his two-month research trip to South Korea in 1965 during which he was haunted by his encounters with impoverished street children in Seoul. The voice-over comprises diary entries from a six-year-old Korean boy and Oshima’s own reflections on Japanese-Korean relations, a controversial subject that he revisited in his later films Sing a Song of Sex and Death by Hanging.

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, moonlights as a hostess at a bar. One of the regulars, Eiji Kitami, invites her out on a date. Still only 19, she goes along out of curiosity and ends up spending the night at a hotel where she gives herself to him. They begin a passionate love affair and move in together, after which Yoshie begins skipping work at the factory and rarely returns to her family home. Before long, Eiji’s demeanor changes and he begins to constantly ask her for money. Despite claiming to be a businessman, he is actually a local thug, and his inability to pay his dues to his gang leads him to force Yoshie into prostitution.

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...

「川は流れる」の柳井隆雄、それに石田守良と今井金次郎が加わって共同で脚本を執筆、「川は流れる」の市村泰一が監督したメロドラマ。 八十八夜－－お茶どころ静岡では新茶摘みにもっとも忙しい季節である。茶園の老舗三島家では、日本橋の店を継いだ長女の正子と婿養子の良介が手伝いに来ていた。大学を卒業した末娘の京子も母のふじに呼び戻されていた。ふじには彼女が女手一つで育ててきた五人の子供があった。長女は家を離れ、次女の高子はすでに嫁ぎ、三女の美子は絵の勉強のためフランスへ行っていた。しかも、長男の欣平は新劇に関係し、たまにしか家によりつかない状態だったので、ふじは美子の帰国を待って真面目な番頭石川と結婚させて三島家を継がせようと決心していた…。

On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.

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.

Nagisa Oshima’s most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of the 1950s and the failure of political radicalism. Taking its title (as a reference or homage) from Alain Resnais’ pivotal 1956 documentary Nuit et Brouillard, the film has a group of former student revolutionaries who meet again years later at the wedding of one of their classmates. Old feelings, rivalries and grudges gradually erupt to the surface as the one-time friends recall the various treacheries by which their cause was defeated. Cutting between times past and the present, and unfolding the action from each of his characters viewpoints, Oshima creates an abstract and yet engrossing study of passions past and principles eroded. —Yume Pictures

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo (Shinichiro Mikami) takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.