Kotoe Hatsui

A Japanese boy in love with a girl of Korean origin must battle the prejudices of those around him in order to sustain the relationship.

The Gotokuji family has a colossal amount of money. Yuri is a paid housekeeper and sent to this family. While working at the house, she finds a new form of love.

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.

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns out to have been murdered by two of his schoolmates, who he had been bullying.

鉱山町で、見習い機械工として働く少年パズーは、ある日、空から降ってきた不思議な少女シータと出会う。2人は、シータの身に着けていた不思議な「飛行石」を狙う様々な陰謀に巻き込まれていく。

「男はつらいよ」シリーズ第35作。ポンシュウ（関敬六）と五島列島にやってきた寅さんは、クリスチャンのお婆ちゃん（初井言榮）と知り合うが、お婆ちゃんは急逝してしまう。その葬儀に参列した東京で働く孫娘・若菜（樋口可南子）から、寅さんに礼状が届く。若菜をたずねた寅さんは、写植オペレーターの技術を持つ彼女の再就職を、博にたのむ。若菜のアパートには、気の良い管理人のおばさん（杉山とく子）や、司法試験に挑戦している酒田民夫（平田満）が暮らしており、若菜に夢中な民夫は勉強も手につかない。そこで寅さんが恋の指南役を買って出るが…

On the night of August 19, 1980, a bus was set on fire by the vagrant Hirofumi Maruyama at the Shinjuku West Exit Bus Terminal. In the burning flames, Mitsuko, who was exhausted by her affair, suddenly thought of suicide. As a result, she escaped too late from the bus and suffered a serious injury. From there, she was hospitalized for a long time. As she gradually recovered, the wife of her affair partner, Soroku Sugihara, died of cancer. Soroku proposed to Mitsuko again, and they lived together. Due to Soroku's mounting debt, they decided to flee to Tojinbo. With the desperate persuasion of her acquaintances, Mitsuko regained her desire to "live again."

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

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.

七月、山笠祭りの暑い夜、博多署はあるソープランドを管理売春の容疑で不意打ち捜査した。刑事の片山元はそこで聾唖者の風俗嬢三沢ひさ子と出会った。翌朝、ガサ入れ失敗をマスコミは書きたてた。そのとばっちりが片山にまわってきて、沼津転勤が決まった。東京行きのブルートレインに片山とひさ子が乗っていた。ひさ子の悲惨な過去に同情した片山が身柄を引き取ったのだ。二人は兄妹ということで、市内の花園荘に住むことになった。そんな二人をじっと見ている二人がいた。

貧しい農家に生まれた後の葛飾北斎こと鉄蔵は幼いときに幕府御用達の鏡磨師、中島伊勢の養子となり、絵師の弟子として修業を積むも、不行跡で何人もの師から破門を言い渡され、現在は佐七(後の曲亭馬琴)の家に娘のお栄とともに居候中の身。だが定職にも就かず、毎日ぶらぶらしている彼ら父娘に佐七の女房・お百は不満を抱いていた。そんなある日、鉄蔵は不思議な魔性を持つ若い美女、お直と出会い、興味をそそられるのだが…。

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.

Film distributed by ATG.

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident seemed to have no continuity...

Horror film based on the story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

昭和17年、山陰地方のある山村。封建的な地主・園田の跡取り息子、順吉は、親が決めた婚約者がいながら山番の娘・小雪と恋仲になり、周囲の猛反対を押し切って駆け落ちを決行。日本海に面したとある漁村で、ささやかだが2人きりの幸せな新婚生活を送り始める。だが順吉には召集令状が届き、彼は戦地へと出征。そしてある日を境に彼からの便りがぱったりと途絶え、小雪は順吉の消息が一切つかめないまま、孤独に戦後を迎える。

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.

Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

Roman Porno from 1975.

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way.

Roman Porno from 1974.

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。

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings.

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Pinku from 1971.

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.

二十一世紀のある年。地球は宇宙征服に乗り出し、手始めとしてパサトリネ星を狙っていたが、パサトリネ星の住人は地球人に対し“クレオパトラ計画”なる陰謀をたくらんでいることが判明する。ダラバッハ所長はその計画の真相を知るために、女性一人を含む三人の地球人を、精神だけ過去の時代に乗り移れる機械に乗り込こませクレオパトラの時代にと向って旅立たせる。

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

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.

やくざ、上級生、くそ喰らえ！女なんていちころや！大胆奔放、青春を生きるなんでもこいの悪たれ野郎！昭和初期、大阪南部に生まれ育った鈴木重吉は、中学校の風紀委委員からクラスメイトが滅茶苦茶な制裁を加えられたことに怒りを爆発させる...。

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

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.

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

1962 Japanese movie

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

高校の空手部員・英次は正義感に燃える好青年。愚連隊に対抗するため、友人たちを誘い街をパトロールしていた。これを快く思わない新界興業は、乾分のトメやゲンに嫌がらせをはじめるが...。和田浩治扮する正義に燃える学生が、霧笛のの空手で街の愚連隊をなぎ倒す娯楽アクション巨篇。

横須賀、ドブ板通り。水兵相手のキャバレーが立ち並ぶ一角で売春ハウスを営んでいた一家は、取り締まりで商売が立ち行かなくなり、豚の飼育を始める。そんなある日、幹部から死体処理を頼まれた元客引きの男は、世話をしている豚にその死体を食わせてしまう

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.

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.

京南大のボクシング部を訪れた野中拳会長は、強烈なパンチと旺盛なファイトを持った高野昭に目をつけた。プロボクサーとなった昭は、次々とＫＯ勝ちし、遂にはチャンピオン白坂と対戦することに…。

A sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended for six months; he's Tamon, an upright, modest man. He begins his own investigation into the murders. Who were the victims, who are their relatives and girlfriends, who else was on the van that night? As he doggedly investigates, others die, coincidences occur, and several leads take him to the Hamaju Agency, which may be supplying call girls. Its owner is in jail, his daughter, the enigmatic Yuko, keeps turning up where Tamon goes. Tamon believes he can awaken good in people, but has he met his match? Will he solve the murders or be the next victim? And who is Akiba?

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.

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.

This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.