Kôji Nanbara

The creator of the world orders Hermes to defeat the evil King Minos, tyrant of Crete. With his beautiful wife, Aphrodite, by his side, he bravely responds to the challenge. A battle between good and evil rocks the heavens as Hermes fights to unite Greece!

Tatsumi, a young doctor who works at Teito University Hospital, will be witnessing the operation of Black Jack, who does not have a doctor's license. Osamu Tezuka's comic of the same name was made into a series with an original video.

創立100周年を迎える東西新聞社は、記念事業として最高の料理をよりすぐる“究極のメニュー”を企画、優れた味覚を持つ2人の記者、問題児の山岡と新米の栗田が担当に選ばれる。同社は監修役を希代の美食家にして陶芸の大家、海原雄山に依頼していたが、雄山は担当が山岡と知ると監修を降りてしまった。翻意を促そうと社主とともに雄山の屋敷を訪ねた栗田は、雄山と山岡がある理由から確執が生じた実の親子であると知る。

Two people who lead Japan to "Sanctuary". Hojo aims to unite the Yakuza organization in the Kanto region, and Asami to create a faction "Rifukakai," aiming to destroy Isaoka's system of the ruling Democratic Party. Meanwhile, the connection between Hojo and Asami is revealed.

The original is a manga work by Shigeru Tsuchiyama serialized in the magazine "Leed Comic". The director is Takeshi Watanabe of "Kyouju Luger P08", the script is Masaya Ishikawa, and the shooting is Naoaki Imaizumi. A hard-boiled action by a combination of a former yakuza detective and a gangster who is a police officer. Performers are Kazuya Kimura, Rikiya Yasuoka, and Katsuya Kobayashi. 　Kyotaro Inugami, a detective at the port station, is a former yakuza. The young head of the gangster group Tsuneno-gumi, Choji Hanawa is a police officer. They were two people glaring at each other, but there are two people, Assistant Commissioner Masaru Sasaki and Shiro Sasaki ...

女子高演劇部の人間模様を描いた吉田秋生の原作マンガを基に、「ボクの女に手を出すな」の中原俊が、チェーホフの“桜の園”の開演直前の2時間に凝縮して思春期の少女たちの揺れる心の内面を瑞々しく映像化した珠玉の一篇。桜の咲く季節。私立櫻華学園高校演劇部。創立記念日恒例のチェーホフの“桜の園”上演のある朝、しっかり者の部長・由布子はいきなりパーマをかけてきた。さらに、前日、部員の紀子がタバコを吸って補導されたというニュースに動揺する部員たち……。

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

The Yamaoki family moved from Kyoto to Tosa around the turn of the '50s; local school teacher Hirao becomes involved with Yasuko, sister to Sumio.

地上げ屋同士の熾烈な攻防戦が吹き荒れるバブル期の東京。オフィスビルの建設ラッシュを機に、政治家・建設業者・商社・銀行が結託して巨額の利益を上げんと欲望を燃え上がらせていた。 そんな中、代議士の漆原は天の道教団の管長・鬼沢に目をつける。鬼沢は宗教を隠れ蓑に風俗業など数々の商売をし、さらにヤクザを操り地上げの嵐を吹き荒らしていた。しかもそれらの商売による収益を宗教法人に入金して課税を免れていた。 「宗教活動以外での所得は課税対象となる」という税法を盾に、やり手査察官・板倉亮子をはじめとする国税局査察部・通称マルサは鬼沢の内偵調査を行う。亮子は大蔵省のエリート官僚・三島を引きつれ鬼沢の身辺調査に入るが、教団信者やヤクザ達の妨害に遭い、調査は難航。ようやく脱税のシッポを掴んだマルサは強制調査に着手し、鬼沢の取調べが行われるが、鬼沢は頑として脱税を認めず、逆ギレして地上げの正当性を主張する。 そんな中、鬼沢の手下が射殺される。査察部は脱税を隠蔽するために鬼沢が「トカゲの尻尾」のように切り捨てたのではないかと疑うが、やがて鬼沢本人が狙撃される事件が発生。危うく難を逃れたが、鬼沢も「トカゲの尻尾」、つまり使い捨てられる駒でしかなかったのだ。 鬼沢の地上げした土地ではビルの着工を前に地鎮祭が行われる。鬼沢を背後で操って自らは手を汚すことなく利益を得た大臣・代議士・企業幹部が談笑する。その姿を少数の同僚とともにフェンス越しに隠れて見つめていた亮子は、やりきれなさに唇を噛む。 一方、鬼沢は自分の墓に巨額の財産を隠していた。最後に笑ったのは鬼沢であった。

Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale which translates wonderfully to film.

Suspense film about a beautiful photographer who becomes involved in a murder case.

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

刑務所から脱獄し、街を逃走中の松島ナミは、地下鉄の車内にいるところを刑事の権藤に見つかり、手錠をかけられるが、ドスで相手の腕を切り落とし、血まみれの腕と手錠を自分の手首にぶら下げながら、なおも必死で街を逃げ回る。ナミは、中川ユキという若い女性に助けられ、彼女と親しくなるが、ユキは不幸な身の上の売春婦だった。その一方でナミは、彼女の正体を知る鮫島カツという悪女に捕まり、監禁される事態となる。

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors.

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.

Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.

藤原審爾の原作を「ある殺し屋の鍵」の小滝光郎が脚色し、「女賭博師さいころ化粧」の井上芳夫が監督したアクションもの。小料理屋の美しい女主人客代は凄腕の殺し屋であった。ある日、木島興業の幹部相川から金融王石塚を消してくれと依頼されるが、そこには罠が仕掛けられていた..。

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

舞台は横浜伊勢佐木町。ミナト横浜のロケーション効果も美しく、梅宮辰夫を中心とした五人の男女の激しい情事を、甘く哀しくリアルに描きあげる。ネオンの世界を生々と泳ぐ梅宮辰夫。ホステスからママへ、男を渡り歩く女・宮園純子。梅宮を慕う純情ホステス・清水まゆみ。女に目のない土地成金の伴淳三郎。ダニのように女を食い物にする、ヤクザの吉田輝雄。華やかなネオンの裏の恋の種々相を、メロドラマ風に味つけしたムード満点の作品。青江三奈のヒットメロディーに乗せて、夜の盛り場風俗をアクションとメロドラマで綴る夜の歌謡シリーズ！[人情]

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.

A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

極悪非道な大名のため主君をうたれ、敵討ちのため十一人の暗殺隊が編成された。第一、第二の決死の暗殺計画に失敗しながらも、なおも敵の大名の行列を追い続け、日光街道の山深い宿場を最後の決戦場として、命を懸けた驚くべき皆殺し作戦を決行する侍十一人。なにが彼らを狂わせたのか――！？かつてない画期的手法で描かれる集団大アクションを中心に、武士の悲劇的な側面を浮き彫りにして、時代劇の面白さ、素晴らしさを追求した野心作。

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

飯の炊けた匂いが好きな殺し屋ナンバー3、花田は殺しの依頼を遂行し損ねて逆に組織から追われるハメになるのだったが…。

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs.

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama set in China and depicts battles over opium.

The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a brutal war for territory between the clans according to the merciless laws of the yakuza.

In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an exciting black and white sequel to the classic story of 17 Ninja, one of the most famous films from that noted studio. In the year 1651 the Kishu clan is about to rise against the Tokugawa shogunate using a stash of muskets being guarded by Jinza the leader of the Koga ninja. The Iga ninja are called upon to stop the revolt under the leadership of Hattori Hanzo setting off a spy versus spy battle of silent ninja stealth. Through all the turmoil, Shizaburo and Yuka have broken the taboo of ninja falling in love and strive to achieve the forbidden life of happiness that is denied to all members of the ninja class.

網走刑務所に入れられた新入りの受刑者・橘は、自分の組の親分のために傷害事件を起こし、懲役3年の刑を言い渡されたヤクザ。殺人鬼・鬼寅の義兄弟と称して幅を利かせる受刑者・依田や、同じ新入り受刑者である権田と衝突しながらも、真面目に毎日を過ごす。そんな橘が仮釈放を受けられる見込みが立ったころ、妹から母親が難病にかかったとの連絡が届く。一方、刑務所の所内ではベテラン受刑者の間で脱走計画が進行していた。

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.

A young woman (Dan) who worked as a prostitute in the days following World War II finds herself sexually dissatisfied with her husband and contemplates returning to an old lover who comes back into her life.

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding the legendary land of Yasurai in the mountains of Kumano. Hidden gold, the love of a beautiful Princess, and the approaching evil sword all contribute in bringing you a Ninja action thriller that only the legendary actor Okawa Hashizo and the genius director Kato Tai could produce!

Japanese comedy film.

Takashi Fujiki stars as a rebel in this drama about life on the Yokohama waterfront by New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. The rebel works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar. His interpretations of popular trends in music are sometimes right-on, and sometimes not exactly. Bereft of his guitar, the rebel's modes of expression are not as effective in generating interest as the Yokohama docks themselves, a fascinating world in their own right.

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.

新婚一週間目に夫が消えた! 生きているなら証言して! 連続殺人を包む謎の霧! 鍵を握る三人の女! ! 広告社に勤める憲一は、新婚7日目に金沢へ出張、そのまま消息を絶った。妻の禎子は金沢へ出掛け、単身捜査に乗り出すが、手がかりはつかめなかった。やがて憲一が広告社に勤める前に、巡査の風紀係だったことが判明し、事件はそれに絡んでいる模様。そして意外な事実が明るみになってくる。野村芳太郎監督が、北陸を舞台に人間の孤独と悲しさをスリリングに描いた傑作。

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job after a run-in with some punks, but is offered a job by a gangster impressed by his fighting skills. He tries to make amends with the girl he ravished, but becomes caught up in the ways of the underworld...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

日本未利用土地開発公団の副総裁、岩淵の娘佳子と、秘書の西幸一の披露宴が執り行なわれようとしていた。しかし、この西という男、実は5年前、新庁舎の建設に絡む不正入札疑惑で自ら命を絶ち事件の幕引きを図った課長補佐・古谷の一人息子だった……

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.

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.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vagrants' community but a fine autonomous organization, and as the municipal authorities have long been demanding that the people of Ant Village leave the site, Satoko is utilized to publicize the Village and win public sympathy. While being utilized in this manner, Satoko is nevertheless glad to be able to help the people of Ant Village, especially the children, and when the summer vacation comes she decides to take the children on an excursion to Hakone. To raise funds for this purpose she becomes a rag-picker herself.

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."

1958 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946. Winner of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival.

斬新なスリルと迫力が好評の『警視庁物語』シリーズ第4作。夜の赤坂で、自動車窃盗が出没。今回狙われたのは、56年型黒セダンで、持ち主の外国人紳士が射殺された。捜査本部は、二手に別れて犯人が乗り捨てた車の検証と、殺された外国人の婚約者の訊問を進めていった。調べを進めるうち、盗まれた車は大阪方面で売捌かれているとの情報を得て、関西にも特別捜査指令を出した。広範囲にわたる捜査の末、捜査陣は事件解決へと辿りつくことができるのか？

午前１時過ぎのガソリンスタンドに一台のタクシーが滑り込んだ。当直の勤務員には馴染み深い運転手であった。運転手はいつになく口数が少なく、ガソリンが満タンになると支払いを済ませてまた車を駆って去って行った。当直員は折巣に入って帳簿整理にかかる。彼は走り去った筈の今のタクシーがヘッドライトを消してまた静かにスタンドに近付いてきたことを知らない。数分後、銃声が響く。血だるまの死体を残して、タクシーは闇の中に消えて行った…。

Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

乱歩の「妖怪博士」を映像化した「少年探偵団」シリーズ第一作。『少年探偵団 二十面相の悪魔』に続く。 第一部・妖怪博士－－警戒厳重な日本原子力第一工場に、ある夜、怪盗が侵入。新聞は国際スパイ団首領、怪人二十面相の仕業と報じる･･･

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisawa's mother, Katsuko. When they entering a coffee shop run by Asako's best friend Hisako, Hisako misunderstood them as lovers...

夜明け前の東京を目指す東北本線上がり貨物四二六列車。最後尾の郵便貨車の中では3名の乗務員が郵便物の整理に励んでいた。

深夜の深川でタクシー強盗殺人事件が起った。巧妙な手口から犯人を常習犯と睨んだ警視庁捜査一課の長田、宮川の両刑事は、遺留品を手掛りに柳橋に飛び、農林省官吏須見に嫌疑がかかるが、彼の情婦由美の言葉から、白マスク、革ジャンパーの男が犯人と推定されるに至った。だが、この事件が解決を見ないうちに、続いて新橋で同一手口による新事件が発生し、今度は運転手の屍体が見つからなかった。

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As his clan’s new leader, Tadayuki, becomes increasingly militant in his opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate, Daizen is forced to reconcile his loyalty to the clan with his loyalty to Tadayuki, who seems dead set on entangling the clan in destructive conflict. The Kuroda Affair’s mise-en-scène is said to have influenced future Toei director Eiichi Kudo. The film also features two of the greatest stars of Japanese period cinema, Chiezo Kataoka and Ryutaro Otomo.

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Japanese youth film.

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is Takako Irie's first bakeneko (ghost cat) movie; it started a Daiei cycle which was very popular at the time in Japan.