Tomo'o Nagai

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son.  Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters.  When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle. 

세계각지에서 UFO 목격담이 줄을 잇고, 목격자의 피가 파랗게 변한다는 소문이 퍼진다. 이 사태를 잠재우기 위해 정부는 비밀리에 그들을 없애려는 계획을 세운다. 그러던 중 국방성참모본부의 오키는 자신의 연인 사에코로부터 UFO를 보았다는 고백을 듣게 되는데...

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption.

호시노 관방장관의 비서가 2억엔을 빌리러 금융왕 이시하라를 방문하지만, 이시하라는 바로 거절한다. 이시하라는 이 관방장관을 신문기자 후루가키에게 조사하도록 시킨다. 후루가키를 통해 현 정부의 부패를 알게 된 이시하라는 가미야 의원을 통해, 국회 결산 폭로하려고 하지만, 가미야의 배신으로 결국 후루가키는 살해되고, 이시하라는 세금 탈세로 붙잡히게 된다.

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing with the money...

A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But the outbreak of violence by radical students and blockade of classrooms make studying impossible and Yoji goes home. Fortunately, he meets Katsuyuki Shinoda, a childhood friend, who works on a whaling vessel. Yoji decides to join him and rediscover a meaning in life. But finding sidework on a whaler is not so easy and Ogaki, a veteran harpooner, curtly turns him down. But finally, deeply touched by Yoji's earnestness, Ogaki reluctantly agrees to take him with them. Rules are very strict, for even one slight slip-up may jeopardize the safety of the entire ship. For a long time, it seems like a living hell, but with patience and courage, he begins to learn the ropes. And the day they sight their first whale, Yoji comes into his own and finds the real meaning of life.

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.

The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....

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.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still rages on -- unwittingly sparked by the gentle, kindly attentions of his daughter-in-law Satsuko, a chic, flashy dancer with a shady past. Pitiful and ridiculous as he is, Utsugi is without a trace of self-pity, and his diary shines with self-effacing good humor.

Obscure Masamura film shot in 1961

아내가 있으면서도 9명의 여자와 사귀고 있는 TV프로듀서 가제 마츠키치. 그 때문에 여자들 사이에서는 싸움이 끊이지 않는데, 결국 여자들의 공모에 의해 가제는 사살당한다. 그러나 이는 가제와 그의 아내가 꾸민 연극이었는데...

Japanese crime film.

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

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 action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.

Japanese drama film.

허름한 연립주택에 살고 있는 다양한 인간군상들의 모습을 특유의 날카로운 필치로 그려내고 있다.

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.

Shochiku Production on typhoon

2차 대전 당시 범죄를 저지른 군인들을 수감 중인 감옥. 이곳에는 다양한 사연을 가진 죄수들이 미군들의 감시 속에서 끔찍한 하루를 보내고 있다. 이들의 꿈은 언젠가 이곳을 나가는 것뿐이다.

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

시청에서 근무하는 노년의 남자. 시민 과장이란 직위는 있지만 매일 출근해 서류에 도장을 찍는 기계다. 어느날 갑자기 위암 말기 선고를 받은 그는 핏줄에게서 위안을 받으려 하지만 부인과 따로 살림을 차리는 데만 혈안이 된 아들의 모습에서 실망을 느낀다. 그러다 옛 여직원을 우연히 만나고, 인형 공장에서 직공 일을 하고 있는 그녀에게서 건강함과 생명력을 느끼게 된다. 뭔가를 창조하는 데서 즐거움을 얻을 수 있다는 사실을 배운 그는 먼지가 쌓여 있던 서류더미 속에서 일거리를 찾아낸다. 가난한 지역에 아이들을 위한 놀이터를 만들어달라는 건의가 계속 무시되고 있었는데...

서양 연극을 도입한 연출가 시마무라는 "인형의 집"을 무대에 올릴 준비를 하는데, 여주인공 노라 역 때문에 고민이다. 그러다 시마무라는 남편과 싸우고 헤어졌다는 여배우 마츠이 스마코를 만나게 되는데, 거침없이 이야기하는 당찬 그녀를 노라 역에 발탁한다. 스마코와 사랑에 빠진 시마무라는 그녀와 함께 하기 위해 가족까지 버리고, 둘은 연극계에서도 쫓겨난다. 20세기 초에 활약했던 여배우 마츠이 스마코를 소재로 한 나가타 히데오의 희곡을 각색했다.