Masayuki Takagi

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.

우유 배달을 하는 주키치는 상급 학교에 진학하는 것이 꿈이다. 하지만 집에서는 도박 중독인 아버지 때문에, 학교에서는 강압적인 선도부 때문에 여러 가지 곤란을 겪는다. 강압적이고 폭력적인 기성 질서에 굴복하지 않는 스즈키 세이준 특유의 남성 주인공 상이 잘 드러나 있으며 액션, 코미디, 멜로 등 다양한 장르가 한데 섞인 점이 도드라진다. (2012 스타일의 혁신: 닛카츠 창립 100주년 스즈키 세이준 회고전)

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

행실불량으로 학교에서 퇴학당한 도고는 다른 학교로 전학을 가고 그곳 교장 선생님의 집에 강제로 머문다. 이곳에서도 말썽을 피우며 악명을 떨치던 중 도고는 문학을 사랑하는 소녀 에미코를 만나 뜨거운 사랑에 빠진다.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...

버스회사에서 근무하는 게이코는 비행청소년을 위한 사회단체에서 활동하다 노부를 만난다. 게이코는 노부를 바른 길로 이끌기 위해 갖은 노력을 하지만 노부의 옛 친구들이 노부를 가만히 두지 않는다.

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past.

A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.