Akiyoshi Satani

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.

Nakata, an author, resides utilizing the painful memory regarding the death of his partner, whoever life had been cut short a few many years earlier. Ended up being it a crash or ended up being it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty Nakata, conscience gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Hence freed, he embarks on an obsessive intimate records and jeorney his activities in a book, "The Dark Room". A philisophical essay on sexuality, reproduction and the fate of mankind.

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

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。

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……。

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO...

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.

手塚治虫の「ブラック・ジャック」のエピソード「春一番」をもとに、大林宣彦が映画化。インターハイを目指すテニスの選手千晶は、練習中に左目にボールを受け失明する。責任を感じたコーチの今岡は、ブラック・ジャックの助力を請おうと丘の上に建つ彼の邸宅を訪れる。

明治時代初頭の大阪。裕福な薬問屋の箱入り娘として生まれ育った、美しい盲目の女性・お琴。店の奉公人の佐助がお気に入りで、何かと自分の身の回りの世話をさせるが、一方で佐助もそのわがままに耐えながら、彼女に献身的に尽くす。やがて店の主人に許され、お琴専属の付き人となった佐助は同時に、三味線の名手であるお琴のもとで厳しい稽古に励み、芸の腕前が上達する。やがて意外にも、お琴が誰かを相手に妊娠する事態が起きる。

瀬戸内海に臨む女子高校に、東京から青年教師・南条が赴任してきた。南条の明るい人柄に生徒たちの人気が集ったが、清水巴だけは反抗的な態度を捨てなかった。運動会で、巴と南条が目かくし競争にコンビで出場することになった。ところが、勢い余って二人は来賓席に飛び込み、巴が気絶してしまった。医務室に運び込まれ、ようやく気がついた巴は、恥ずかしそうに南条に告げた。「先生、私、おしっこしちゃった」南条は仕方なく、巴に下着を買って来てやったのだが、この事が町中に広がり、南条を糾弾する職員会議が開かれることになった。南条は巴の恥をかばい真相を話さないために窮地に立ったが、巴が飛び込んで来て涙ながらに全てを語るのだった。この事件以来、二人は爽やかな師弟愛で結ばれるようになった。夏休みになって、南条は、同僚の女教師・増川先生から講習に誘われて上京したが、突然、巴が現われた。それは南条と増川の同行を知った上での行動だった。南条は困惑した。新学期が始まると途端に、南条と巴が東京に新婚旅行に出かけた、という噂が学校中に広まった。南条は少しも気にしない様子だったが、食当りで学校を休んでいるはずの巴が、馬を乗り回して遊んでいるというので、巴を探しに出かけた。南条は海辺で裸馬を駆って若さを発散させている巴の姿を見つけた。そして、今まで気がつかなかった巴の美しさに圧倒された。その時、巴は南条を馬に乗せると町を駆け抜け、校庭へ走り込んだ。驚き呆れる人々の眼。だが南条は「やっとウップンが晴れた」という巴を、愛しく思うのだった。巴はさらに馬を走らせたが、急に突び出して来たトラックを思わずよけた勢いで、二人は、馬から投げ出され、海に転落、巴は大怪我をした。南条の献身的な看病で、巴は数日後に元気になったが、南条は辞任して帰京することになった。「人を愛することは厳しいことだ。君のことを忘れなかったら、いつか迎えに来る」一緒に連れて行ってくれ、と頼む巴に、南条はこう言って、去って行った。

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.

大正時代末期。一人旅で伊豆を訪れていた旧制一高3年生の川島は、伊豆大島出身の旅芸人一座と出会い、しばらく彼らと道中をともにする。偏見の目で見られがちな彼らに同情して義憤を覚える一方、川島は次第に一座の若い踊り子、かほるの初々しさに魅了されていき、かほるのほうも彼に淡い恋心を抱くようになる。しかし、一座の年長の女性のぶは、若い2人が叶わぬ恋に深入りするよりはと、あえて2人を別れさせようとするが…。

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.

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

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

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.

人気劇画「あしたのジョー」の最初の実写映画。泥沼の世界から這い上がっていくジョーが、友情に支えられ、現代社会のジャングルに敢然と立ち向かう、血と汗と傷だらけの物語。

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.

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.

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.

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

力強い男の友情と、それを見守る清らかな乙女との交流を、おなじみの名コンビ舟木と和泉で描きあげる青春歌謡巨篇。

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

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.

Japanese drama film.

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.

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

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.