Fujio Murakami

First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

After the director's message, "I visualize the romance of Roman Porn and I attempt to share that image," a loosely-connected series of softcore sex scenes unfolds. The plot concerns Kyoko, a young Japanese woman married to a man in France. When he abandons her, she returns to Japan. With her sexual appetite now at a high pitch, she engages in sexual escapades with a wide assortment of people, including old friends, both male and female, and an entire soccer team.

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity of others. He wishes his daughter Kasumi, gifted like himself, to take over and develop the Fujihana, but she wishes to marry Hiroshi, head of a jazz band which her father opposes. Kisaburo, Seijuro's No.1 disciple, wants to marry Kasumi and take over the Fujihana with the backing of the chairman of the supporters' association.

Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.

후지화산대가 활발한 활동을 보이던 중, 드디어 후지산이 분화. 그 열에너지에 이끌려 가메라가 나타난다. 동시에, 깊은 잠에 빠져 있던 다른 한마리의 괴수도 출현한다. 그것은 날개로 하늘을 날고 초음파메스를 발산하는 식인괴수 갸오스였다. 산중에서 최초의 전투가 시작된다. 가메라는 초음파 메스에 고전하면서도 갸오스에게 붙잡힌 소년을 구출. 그러나 깊은 상처를 입은 가메라는 그대로 모습을 감춰버리고 만다. 자위대는 빛을 싫어하는 갸오스의 습성을 이용하여, 빛을 쬐어서 둥지에 묶어두는 작전을 시도하지만, 실패. 갸오스는 둥지를 뛰쳐나와서, 나고야 시내를 파괴한다. 그곳에 상처를 치료한 가메라가 출현. 가메라는 갸오스의 다리를 붙들고 일출 때의 햇빛을 받게 하려고 꾀하지만, 갸오스는 자기의 다리를 절단하고 둥지로 도망쳐버린다. 다음으로 제시된 것은 회전작전. 인공혈액으로 갸오스를 꾀어내서, 회전 라운지에 묶어두는 것이다. 그리고 라운지를 고속회전시켜서 정신없게 만든 다음에 햇빛으로 결정타를 가한다는 작전. 그러나 발전소의 오버로드 때문에 이 작전도 실패하고 만다. 마지막으로, 산불작전이 개시된다. 둥지 주변에 미사일을 발사하여 불꽃이 피어오르자, 갸오스는 황색의 소화액을 토해내어 불을 끄려 한다. 그러나 차례로 엄습해 오는 미사일. 바로 그곳에 가메라가 나타난다.

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.

Set around Ginza’s neon billboard boom, the movie is a drama of romance, corporate intrigue and tragic crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific, and Ginza is square in its sights!

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)

A sensual love-story between two lesbian nuns.

1958 Japanese film

다자와 헌병오장과 아키코는 나미지마 헌병소위의 질투를 뒤로 하고 결혼한다. 헌병대에서 기밀문서가 도둑맞는 사건이 일어나고, 소위의 음모로 누명을 뒤집어쓴 오장은 총살당한다. 오장의 동생 다자와 이등병은 형의 복수를 맹세하며 헌병대에 입소하고, 겁탈당한 아키코 역시 복수를 꿈꾸며 중국 대륙으로 향한다. 한편 소위의 앞에 다자와의 유령이 출몰하기 시작한다.

Japanese comedy film.

Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA) creates a shelter for women to avoid falling into prostitution. Young Fumiko and Yuko will try their luck there.

The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently for the person responsible, but they can't even determine the victim's identity, much less find any clues. However, the incident is made public when newspapers give wide coverage to the story, so Staff Sergeant Kosaka is dispatched from Tokyo to solve the case. Eventually, General Tsunekichi is taken into custody by local infantrymen because of the testimony of another unit, but the spirit of the dead woman appears before Staff Sergeant Kosaka, who continues to investigate on his own...

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.

Japanese drama.

Japanese film.