Masumi Harukawa

In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.

미국에서 활동 중인 록밴드의 멤버 웬디는 팀에서 소외감을 느낀다. 그런데 마침 그녀의 앞으로 일본에서 온 엽서가 도착하고, 웬디는 충동적으로 도쿄로 떠난다. 도쿄에 도착해 무명 록밴드의 리더 히로와 새로운 활동을 시작한 그녀는 ‘외국인 컨셉’으로 인기를 얻기 시작한다. 하지만 시간이 흐를수록 낯선 땅의 낯선 문화는 그녀를 지치고 힘들게 한다.

우에노 교수는 제자로부터 하얀 강아지 한마리를 선물받는다. 초롱초롱한 눈망울의 강아지는 단번에 식구들의 귀여움을 독차지하고, 우에노 교수는 힘차게 땅을 박차고 서있는 이 강아지를 보고 八자라는 뜻의 '하치'라는 이름을 지어준다. 하치에 대한 우에노 교수의 사랑은 부인도 질투할 정도로 각별했다. 이에 보답이라도 하는 듯 하치는 매일같이 시부야 역으로 교수를 배웅하고 마중을 나간다. 그러던 어느 날, 우에노 교수는 강의 도중 쓰러져 다시는 일어나지 못하게 되고, 이를 알지 못한 하치는 여전히 역에 나가서 그를 기다리는데...

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Based on the comic by Mako Takami.

Momoko Watanabe—a student who, upon visiting a shrine in order to wish good luck on a friend of hers, witnesses a murder in the forest...and she knows the culprit! Unfortunately, she doesn't have it in her to tell anybody about it, and to make matters worse, said aforementioned friend gets accused of the murder.

A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound. Debut video release from Pantsu no ana, a subsection of "BOMB" magazine.

해질녘의 도쿄(東京) 세타가야구(世田谷区) 제3케이힌(第三京浜) 고속도로상에서 하얀 무스탕으로부터 새끼고양이와 젊은 여자가 내팽개쳐지고 뒤에서 오던 오토바이를 탄 소년에게 구조를 받는다. "고로(ゴロー)"와 "사치노(さち乃)"의 첫 만남이었고 두 사람은 함께 살기시작한다. 무스탕을 몰던 사내는 "훗사시(福生市)"의 구(舊)미군 하우스에 살며 동료인 "테루오(輝男)" · "케이코(敬子)" 커플과 같이 살고 있었고, "케이코"가 낳은 아이는 어느 쪽이 아버지인지 알 수 없지만, 아무튼 세 명은 같이 생활하고 있었는데, 어느 날, "테루오"가 조깅중에 심장발작으로 죽고 만다.

Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.

Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.

Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series

An awkward attempt to build a movie around Pink Lady, the name given to a Japanese pop music duo consisting of the very pretty short-haired Mie and the long-haired Kei. Their popularity in Japan lasted from 1976 to 1979 before their attempt to break into the American market with the ill-fated TV show, "Pink Lady and Jeff" (1980), which wound up setting back the cause of J-pop in America by nearly 30 years. Pink Lady they gained a certain amount of attention from the sexy disco-inspired outfits they wore in concert, generally featuring shiny scanty tops, tight hot pants and gold or silver boots, seen to good advantage in some segments of the movie. This musical features the Pink Ladies as circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.

Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again . . . this time with a beautiful college student Masako.

In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and start living alone with his mangy dog. One day a young mediocre boxer knocks at the door and wants to be Hayatos apprentice.

The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance truckers. This time Momojiro falls in love with beautiful Minako in Sado, Niigata.

The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku this time, and he falls in love with a beautiful designer named Wakako, who is on a pilgrimage.

Daisuke and Shinichi are companions who frequent girlie shows and parties until they find out they are rivals bidding for control of a major resort hotel. During the bargaining sessions each accuses the other of misconduct because of their escapades, thus getting them in trouble with their families. Shinichi's ecology group and Daisuke's wife's women's lib movement become involved.

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young children in time to celebrate New Year’s together.

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again. During his travels, Torajiro meets a father who shares a drink with him. In the morning, Torajiro is shocked to learn that the man has left his baby behind and a note asking Tora to take care of the child.

낯선 카니발풍의 마을을 배경으로 한 어린 소년들의 성년 이야기는 감독이 20년 후에 가지고 있는 추억의 재창조가 된다.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard.

In front of Sagami Detention Center. Shosuke, the owner of a strip joint called "Shunpu Music," welcomes Okoma, a stripper who has been locked up for public indecency. Shosuke immediately takes the paroled Okoma to the police station to greet her, and meets a young new detective, Matsuta Obara, who has just been transferred. But the two don't get along from the moment they meet...

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel.

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern Japan and start a new life as a farmer.

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups.

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?

Second part of the Zenka mono series.

1945년, 여름. 학도병 아이쓰는 일본이 항복헀다는 사실을 알지못한채 어뢰를 장착한 드럼통 속에서 대기하면서 여러가지 생각에 빠져있었다. 전쟁 속에서 한알의 곡식처럼 가볍게 치부되는 청년의 모습을 그린 영화. 오카모토 기하치가 전중파로서의 자신의 사상을 그려낸 작품으로, 아련하고 슬픈 한편의 시같은 영화. (2011년 한국영상자료원 - 오카모토 기하치 감독전)

A salaryman comedy.

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.

Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodstained footman seems to be the only survivor, and his image haunts the pair for the next twenty years. As they are serving a prison sentence a plan is hatched to get them released so they can lead their captors to the hidden gold on Hikone Beach. Danger and excitement await the two as they run into unexpected and dangerous obstacles!

Second movie in the yoidore hakase serie

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.

사다코는 소심한 남편과 시어머니에게 부주의하다며 매번 꾸중을 듣는다. 그녀는 남편이 출장간 사이에 집에 침입한 히라오카라는 남자에게 강간을 당한다. 이에 사다코는 자살을 시도하지만 아들 때문에 감히 죽지 못한다. 이틀 후 히라오카는 다시 돌아와 사다코를 범하며 그 후로 사다코에게 강박적인 애정을 추구한다. 사다코는 히라오카를 떼어내기 위해 돈을 줘보기도 하지만 히라오카는 거절한다. 후지하라의 원작을 하세베 게이지와 이마무라 감독이 함께 각색해서 만든 작품. 이마무라 감독의 작품들, 예컨데 등에 등장하는 여성들은 사회적인 약자로 남성에게 강간을 당하거나 모진 수난을 겪기 일수다. 하지만 어떤 어려움 속에서도 좌절하지 않고 당당하고 강한 모습으로 거듭나는 것으로 그려져 이마무라 감독의 일관된 작품관과 여성관을 엿볼 수 있게 한다.

Japanese comedy film.

Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent overseas to China as a part of the military dog unit. He's ridiculed by others due to his inability to advance.

수기모토 도메는 1919년 야마카타의 산촌에서 태어났다. 아버지는 정신지체자, 어머니는 어떤 남자하고도 잠자리를 같이하는 여자. 그래서 도메도 누구의 아이인지 알 수 없다. 그래도 도메는 아버지를 좋아해서 어려서부터 함께 잤다. 도메는 아버지와 자신이 부부라고 생각했다. 도메는 초등학교 졸업 후 방직공장의 공원으로 일하다가 계장인 마츠나미의 여자가 되어, 공장을 그만두고 아이를 낳는다. 농사일을 다시하게 된 도메는 젖이 나오자 정신지체자인 아버지에게 빨아 달라고 한다.

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

1958년 성매매 금지법이 시행되자 다수의 성매매 여성들이 보호 및 재활 시설로 옮겨진다. 모범적인 모습을 보인 구니코는 부인회의 후원을 받아 가게를 운영하는 부부의 집에 머물면서 일을 돕기 시작한다. 그러나 그녀의 과거가 드러나자 사회적 편견과 차별에 끊임없이 시달리게 된다.

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesan who became his model became even more popular. Ocho, a resident of an apartment building, hears about this and secretly plans to follow Otose, the owner of Mizuta-ya, who became famous as Utamaro's model. At this time, the Kano school, headed by Kano Eikawa, which was under the control of the shogunate, is dissatisfied with Utamaro's fame and tries to compromise him…

Explicit drama about a young woman who becomes involved with a group of college students who play "spin-the-bottle" and the women must make love or strip. The woman, Junko, becomes involved with Makoto, leader of the gang, becomes pregnant, has an abortion, then gets involved with an architect.

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Comedy about three soldiers, two female reporters, six prostitutes, and the wife of an officer, all stranded on a South Seas island at the end of World War II.