Shigemasa Toda

This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation.

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。

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。

Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.

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.

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

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.

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.

This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.

物語は死刑囚・韓国人少年Rの絞死刑が失敗したところから始まる。Rは死刑執行失敗のショックで心神喪失状態に陥ってしまう。その状態では刑の再執行は許されないため、Rの判断能力を取り戻させようと、死刑執行人たちが四苦八苦する姿がブラック・ユーモア風に描かれていく。執行人たちはRの家庭環境や彼の犯罪を芝居で再現して見せる。その混沌とする事実と虚構が、事件の真相や日本国家に内在する矛盾、問題点をあらわにしていく。

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。

刑務所を出所した村木は、賭場で少女と出会う。ある夜、彼は屋台でその少女と再会した。彼女の名は冴子。冴子はもっと大きな勝負があるところへ連れて行ってほしいとせがんだ。二人は大きな賭場へ行くが、村木はそこで、葉という男を見つけた。殺しと麻薬だけに生きているという葉は、賭けをしている冴子のことを見つめていた。

彦根藩井伊家の上屋敷に津雲半四郎と名乗る浪人が現れ「切腹のためお庭拝借」と申し出た。生活に困窮した浪人が「切腹する」と言っては、庭や玄関を汚されたくない人々から金品を巻き上げることが流行っており、家老の斎藤勘解由は数ヶ月前にやってきた千々岩求女という浪人の話を始めた。家老が切腹の場を設けてやると言い出すと、求女は狼狽したあげく、竹光で腹を切った上に舌を噛んで絶命した、と。話を聞いた半四郎は、求女は自分の娘婿であることを告げた。

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtroipical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

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.