Michiaki Watanabe

The Legend of Space Sheriff Gavan is a special DVD released with Televi-Kun in 2012 to promote the film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie. It features the second Space Sheriff Gavan, Geki Jumonji and his partner, Shelly as well as the members of the Space Mafia Maku.

The recording of the first animation song Live event "Super Robot Spirits", which has become a popular event, finally made available on DVD. Enjoy 22 songs of gems such as "Mazinger Z", "Combattler V" and "Getter Robo" from the event on August 17, 1997.

Jiban goes into action to save Yoko and several captured children from Doctor Giba's plot of creating the ultimate lifeform.

Hikaru Shihoudo is Hikaruon, a metal super hero fighting the forces of the evil organization known as Urael. Disguised as a transfer student, he must investigate a series of strange suicides in town.

Pursuit! The Strange Kidnappers! is the second movie of Uchuu Keiji Shaider. This movie takes place between episodes 39 and 40, and was released on December 22, 1984.

An alien assassin, Omega, who makes a living by hunting down Space Sheriffs, arrives on Earth. Adapting a helmet, twin shoulder cannons, and other weapons into his fighting style after losing to Gavan and Sharivan, Omega is now targeting Shaider and challenges him to a fight to the death. Space Sheriff Shaider is the film adaptation of the Metal Heroes series of the same name. This movie takes place between episodes 19 & 20 of the TV show.

Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing army of deadly giant robots, including one with a huge "17" emblazoned on its chest-plate, with which it plans to subjugate its creators. A young boy whose family was killed by Brain's followers manages to activate Daitetsujin 17, which thereafter comes to his rescue whenever he is in danger from Brain's minions.

Egos kidnaps the children of Information Supervisor Sakaguchi, Yoko and Kenichi. They then blackmail him into stealing the blueprints and completion status of the Battle Fever robo. Tetsuzan Shogun, who joined the Defense Department at the same time as Sakaguchi, is greatly concerned and confronts him. Sakaguchi escapes but vows to make amends. He appears at Egos factory, where they too are building a giant robo, and discloses a false timetable. When Egos orders them killed, Sakaguchi reveals dynamite strapped to his body. He backs away with his children and gets them to safety. He then returns to the factory, and blows himself up to destroy it. Unfortunately, his sacrifice is in vain, as their evil robo is already completed. But Battle Fever’s giant robo is also complete and ready to save the day!

The Iron Cross Army are sabotaging oil-tankers with the help of their monster, the Sea-Devil, a semi-mechanical anthropomorphic swordfish with an ability to shoot torpedoes from its mouth. Spiderman employs the help of the interpol agent Juzo Mamiya to help him stop the Iron Cross Army.

Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.

Young orphan Saburo uses a special helmet to command the Iron Robot 17 against the forces of the renegade computer Brain. Theatrical release re-edited from the first two episodes of the TV series, which actually preceded the original broadcast of the second episode.

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

The Gorenger head for Matsuyama to prevent the Black Cross from firing a missile to destroy Japan. Himitsu Sentai Gorenger: The Bomb Hurricane is a theatrical film based on the Himitsu Sentai Gorenger television series. It was originally shown on July 22, 1976 (between Episodes 56 and 57 of the TV series) as part of the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival. It was the only Gorenger film that was a completely original work and not a theatrical version of a TV episode.

A trio of renegade demons fight their evil brothers in a theatrical release of the first episode of the TV series.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Episode 12 of Inazuman Flash, released theatrically.

The moth-like superhero Inazuman has the climactic battle with Emperor Bamba and the Neo-Human Empire Phantom Army while also confronting the rise of President Geisel and the Desper Corps. An alternate version of events depicted in the TV series, exhibited theatrically in 3-D.

When Hakaider starts his own evil organization, Dr. Komyoji's android Kikaider 01 awakens to protect Japan from the forces of evil.

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.

Professor Gill has created a machine that lets him restore destroyed robots. This machine is used to recreate all of the destructroids that had been destroyed by Kikaider. Kikaider is forced to destroy them all once again, and a new Destructoid Multi-Colored Sand Lizard.

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someone seeks to fill the seat of power.

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes revenge for the death of its master as well as for the corruption in the feudal system.

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.

A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori. - Pulpinternational

[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!

평화로운 생활을 보내던 고에몬은 오다 노부나가의 닌자들에 의해 아이를 잃는다. 복수의 화신이 된 고에몬은 반 오다 노부나가 파인 사이카당에 들어가서 닌자 부활을 선언한다. 고에몬은 아케치 미쓰히데를 이용해서 오다 노부나가를 죽이게 된다. 오다 노부나가의 죽음 이후 천하의 형세는 변하게 되고, 권력을 잡은 도요토미 히데요시가 사이카당을 전멸시키려 군사를 일으킨다. 여기서 고에몬 혼자 살아남게 되어 도요토미 히데요시에게 복수를 하려고 하나, 결국 도중에 잡히고 만다.

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had imagined is in a slum area called Samurai Village, a little settlement, where people live from hand to mouth. To make things worse, a group of vagrants descends on the already crowded ragpickers' village. The sight depresses and saddens little Yumi, but when her father gives up drinking, it makes up for everything in her eyes, and when he runs past liquor shops to avoid temptation, Yumi's laughter rings out merrily again. A unique social drama depicting the growth of a new generation that confronts the world of adults full of vanity in the image of a girl living in poverty.

거물 도둑으로 유명한 이시카와 고에몬을 권력에 대항하는 반역자로서 그린 무라야마 토모요시의 소설을 영화화한 작품. 탁월한 기능을 갖고 있으면서도 신분제도로 인해 최하층민으로서 살아갈 수 밖에 없는 이시카와를 이치카와 라이조가 연기하고 상업적으로도 크게 히트하여 시리즈화 되었다. 당시 황당무계한 내용이 유행하던 닌자영화에 리얼리즘과 호쾌한 액션, 권력투쟁이라는 모티브를 도입하여 시대극에 새로운 지평을 여는데 공헌한 사회파의 거장 야마모토 사츠오의 작품.

1962 Japanese movie

A suspense drama directed by Mitsuo Wakasugi. Students, gangsters and other young people who couldn't make money were gathering and negotiating at a coffee shop about this. They were told that if you kidnap a child from a rich family, search for him/her, their family would give you about 50,000 yen if you could send the child back.A woman named Motoko disappeared in the midst of evil, but no one noticed it. Shortly after, Kaneda and Chii appeared in a quiet residential area and took a girl about five years old from the Ohara family....

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy. As the orphan boy grew up, his loving heart became bitter and he saw the opportunity to take advantage of this birthright with the help of a man who wanted to use this orphan's desire to be loved, for seizing power in the shogunate by using the imposter. Many obstacles to hurdle along the way of deception, however, will they succeed or will he be exposed?

대학생인 시로는 야지마 교수의 딸 유키코와 약혼식을 올린 날, 친구 타무라와 차를 타고 가던 중 실수로 사람을 치게 되고 도주하지만 목격자가 있다. 자수를 결심한 시로는 유키코와 택시를 타지만 교통사고로 유키코마저 잃게 된다. 실의에 빠진 시로는 술로 시간을 보내다가 어머니가 병에 걸렸다는 소식을 듣고 집으로 돌아온다. 어느 날 야지마 교수 부부와 타무라가 시로의 아버지가 운영하는 양로원의 10주년 기념 행사에 참석하기 위해 시로를 방문한다. 모든 메인 캐릭터들이 모인 가운데 각자의 죄목에 따라 지옥으로 떨어진다.

From the king of Japanese exploitation films comes a criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women. A hired assasin is betrayed by his organization, and kidnaps a woman who happens to be the girlfriend of a newspaper reporter.

Japanese crime film

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.

The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?

소위 ‘태양족 영화’의 붐 속에서 만들어진 영화로 어디로 튈지 모르는 10대 소년들의 이야기를 다루고 있다. 겐지, 다다, 밧타와 사부는 오토바이에 미친 아이들로서 남의 오토바이를 훔쳐서 위험한 경주를 벌인다. 이들은 미군기지 한 구석에 버려진 막사에 모이는데 이곳은 부모의 버림을 받은 아이들이 모여드는 아지트이다.

Japanese war film.

요츠야 괴담을 다룬 기존의 영화와는 달리 나카가와는 사랑과 성공을 갈망하는 인간의 고뇌에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 오이와와 결혼을 원하는 무일푼의 사라무라이 이에몽은 그녀의 아버지가 결혼을 반대하자 오이와의 아버지를 살해하고 그녀와 결혼한다. 하지만 그의 가난이 더 이상 나아지지 않자 이번엔 부유한 가문의 딸 우메와 결혼하기 위해 오이와를 독살시킨다. 억울한 죽음을 맞은 오이와의 영혼이 귀신이 되어 이에몽을 따라다니자 악몽에 시달리던 그는 점점 미쳐간다. 영화제 소개글. 일본 영화사에서 괴담 영화의 최고봉으로 꼽히는 나카가와 노부오의 걸작으로 츠루야 난보쿠의 “요츠야 괴담”을 영화화한 기존의 많은 영화들과는 달리 감독은 사랑과 성공을 갈망하는 인간의 고뇌에 초점을 맞추고 있다. 은 미술, 조명 그리고 촬영 기법에서 나카가와의 중요한 미학적 기준이 되는 영화이자 연출의 독창성을 보여주는 영화이다. 절에서 이에몽이 나오스케를 칼로 살해할 때 타다미가 늪으로 변하는 장면에서 볼 수 있듯이 일본 전형적인 아름다움에 실험적인 시도를 곁들여 틀에 밖이지 않은 방식으로 주인공들의 심리를 그려낸다. 오프닝 시퀀스의 롱테이크와 불꽃 이미지에서 그만의 강렬한 스토리텔링의 특징을 볼 수 있다. 아마치와 와카스기의 현실감 있는 연기는 인간의 고통과 비애를 그리기에 손색이 없다. 오이와와 결혼을 원하는 무일푼의 사라무라이 이에몽은 그녀의 아버지가 결혼을 반대하자 오이와의 아버지를 살해하고 그녀와 결혼한다. 하지만 그의 가난이 더 이상 나아지지 않자 이번엔 부유한 가문의 딸 우메와 결혼하기 위해 오이와를 독살시킨다. 억울한 죽음을 맞은 오이와의 영혼이 귀신이 되어 이에몽을 따라다니자 악몽에 시달리던 그는 점점 미쳐간다. (도쿄 필름엑스 카탈로그)

War drama about army nurses.

A sensual love-story between two lesbian nuns.

Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.

의사인 테츠이치로는 결핵에 걸린 아내 요리코의 건강을 위해 아내의 고향인 큐슈로 이사를 결심하고 허름하지만 넓은 저택으로 이사를 한다. 그리고 그 집에 병원도 열게 된다. 하지만 이사온 첫날부터 저택으로부터 이상한 기운을 느낀 요리코는 급기야 그녀의 목을 조르는 노파의 공격을 받는다. 처음에는 테츠이치로도 단순히 이사로 인한 스트레스와 요리코의 병이 원인이라고 생각하며 믿지 않았지만, 병원의 간호사까지 비슷한 경험을 하게 되면서 저택과 관련된 끔찍한 과거가 서서히 밝혀지게 된다.

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style.

메이지 시대, 희대의 독부로 불리운 여자가 있었다. 그녀의 이름은 다카하시 오덴! 남자와 헤어진 후 빠져들게 된 악행 속에서 슬프고도 애욕적인 그녀의 파란만장한 삶이 펼쳐진다.

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2)

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens.

The 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack (Part 1 of 2)

The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to haunt the samurai, who kills his wife by mistake and then goes to the swamp and drowns himself. 20 years later, the masseur's daughter unknowingly falls in love with the samurai's son who has been brought up to be a servant. After she is horribly disfigured in an accident, he plots to run away with another woman, but the path of their escape lies by the Kasane swamp...