Keisuke Noro

“할머니, 저예요.” 혼자 사는 노인에게 전화를 걸어 손자인 척 사기를 치고 다니며 사는 떠돌이 청년(후지와라 키세츠). 쇠락해 가는 아마쿠사 상점가의 악기상점 할머니가 그의 전화를 받고 따뜻하게 그를 받아들인다. 청년은 손자인 척 할머니와의 생활을 이어가면서 점차 마을에 정착해 간다. 마을 청년들과의 관계, 아마쿠사의 소리와 풍경, 그리고 할머니의 일상이 어느덧 그의 마음속에 자리를 잡는다.

Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.

A model must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.

료마는 막부 쪽의 자객에게 저격 대상이 된 것뿐만 아니라 근황의 주류파들에게도 저격 대상이 된다. 1867년 11월 새로운 정치를 세워야 한다는 킨노파와 현 권력을 유지하고자 하는 사바쿠파의 일대 충돌이 일어나는데, 료마는 킨노파에 속해있다. 그리고 료마는 우연히 알게 된 여자 반이 사바쿠파의 테러 그룹인 신센구미의 멤버인 토미타 사부로의 여자인 것도 모른채 친하게 지낸다.

Japanese crime film

Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

1935년, 고등학생 기로쿠는 가톨릭계인 하숙집의 딸 미치코에게 푹 빠져있다. 그는 사내다움에 대한 콤플렉스를 극복하려고 동네건달에게 싸움을 배우고, 학내의 폭력서클에 가입하여 싸움연습에 전념한다. 태평양전쟁 직전의 일본사회를 사로잡은 파시즘의 문제를 코믹하게 다루는 작품.

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

A crime film from 1966

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

‘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?

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)

중일전쟁이 벌어지던 1938년. 사랑하는 남자에게 버림받은 하루미는 종군 위안부가 되어 만주에 온다. 하루미는 병사 미카미를 사랑하게 되지만, 맹목적인 군인인 미카미는 그녀의 마음에 응하지 않는다. 게다가 하루미에게 집착하는 상관 나리타의 음모로 두 사람의 사랑은 비극으로 치닫는다.

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

전후 도쿄의 변두리. 성폭행의 상처가 있는 마야는 성매매 여성으로 전락한다. 그녀는 총상을 입은 패전군인 이부키와 사랑에 빠지고, 둘은 함께 도주를 꿈꾼다. 다무라 다이지로의 동명 소설이 원작인 이 영화는 공개 당시 과감한 성 묘사로 논란이 되었다. ‘육체 3부작’의 첫 번째 작품.

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.

20세기 초의 혼란스러운 아사쿠사 거리. 무라타 건설회사와 후지노 건설회사는 계약을 둘러싸고 권력 다툼을 벌인다. 이들은 폭력을 동원해 준공식을 지연시키는 등 목숨을 건 싸움을 벌인다. 임신한 아내를 둔 무라타 건설회사의 오가타 역시 이 싸움에 휘말려 어쩔 수 없이 나쁜 임무를 수행해야 한다.

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

야쿠자 두목의 딸인 도키코는 단순한 호기심에 친구 하나코와 함께 도박장에 구경을 간다. 그러나 경쟁 조직의 조직원인 후유가 하나코에게 마음을 뺏기고 일은 점점 커지기 시작한다.

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.

Japanese comedy film.

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.

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

Japanese action film.

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

Motomu Ida movie

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.

Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.

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.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story...

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?

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.

오랜 직장생활을 마친 우에키는 홍콩 출장을 마지막으로 집에 돌아온다. 우에키의 딸인 게이코와 신문기자인 쇼타로는 우에키를 반기지만 그는 집에 돌아온 날부터 이상한 행동을 한다. 심지어 환영파티 자리에 간 우에키는 연락이 끊긴 채 사라지고, 이상한 낌새를 챈 쇼타로는 게이코와 함께 우에키의 뒤를 쫓다 충격적인 사건에 휘말린다.

일본 사회의 어두운 실상을 생생하게 드러내는 사회파 추리극. 교도소 간수인 다몬은 죄수들을 호송하는 임무를 담당하고 있다. 평소처럼 죄수들을 태운 버스를 타고 이동하던 중, 저격총을 든 무리들이 호송차를 습격해 죄수들이 사망하는 사건이 발생한다. 다몬은 다행히 목숨을 건지지만 6개월 정직을 당하고, 자신의 힘으로 이 사건을 조사하기로 한다.

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

와시오 사부로의 동명의 소설을 원작으로 한 추리극. 밴드마스터인 이부키는 동료들의 축복 속에 밴드의 보컬 히로미와 결혼식을 올리지만 신혼여행을 떠나는 기차 안에서 신부가 홀연히 사라진다. 사라진 신부는 집 안에서 시체로 발견되고, 경찰은 이부키를 용의자로 취급하며 죽은 아내가 헤로인 중독자였다고 말한다.

1959 Japanese movie

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.

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

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.