Jun Usami

비가 내리고 번개가 치던 날 밤에 약혼녀 노노무라 유우코를 만나러 그녀가 사는 노노무라 저택에 찾아간 사가와 카즈히코가 유우코의 어머니 시즈로부터 보름 전에 유우코가 교통사고를 당해 죽었다는 비보를 듣고선 충격에 빠진 채 저택에 잠시 묵게 됐다가 다음날 새벽 숲속에 있는 유우코의 묘자리에서 죽은 줄 알았던 유우코와 재회한 뒤 행방이 묘연해져, 카즈히코의 여동생인 사가와 케이코가 연인인 타카기 히로시와 함께 오빠의 행방을 찾아 유우코의 저택에 찾아가면서 벌어지는 이야기.

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

The Domain: Severed Relations

Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like its predecessor, the film runs barely over one hour and never drags. It’s a little less goofy, but doesn’t have as beautiful landscapes the first movie had. Not an especially good film, but for fans of Fukasaku and Chiba it’s an entertaining if flawed 60 minutes.

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.

Lord Mito, with his companions, comes to Sakai, Senshu, where the annual Minato Festival takes place. During the celebration, a mysterious incident occurs. The portable altar is attacked by a shaven-headed priest, and Ofuji, the daughter of a wealthy Senshu-ya merchant, disappears.

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decide to take matters into their own hands. Lots of action in this all-star production from Toei Films, the foremost studio during that era. As with so many of their films, this is highly entertaining, with lots of plot twists and exciting swordplay

Eighth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Seventh film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

Japanese mystery film.

Japanese war film.

Fourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

A man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and steal atomic power.

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

Japanese drama film.

Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

First film in the Boy Detectives Club series.

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...

Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period.

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Town. Next day the man is found brutally murdered and the mystery starts to unravel.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Japanese youth film.

Sixth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka.

노리코는 아내를 잃고 혼자된 아버지 소미야 교수를 돌보며 행복하게 살고 있지만, 소미야 교수와 고모 마사는 노리코의 장래를 염려한다. 아버지를 홀로 두고 자신만의 행복을 위해 시집가기를 꺼려 하는 딸을 위해 아버지와 고모는 마치 아버지가 재혼하려는 것처럼 노리코를 속인다. 재혼을 결심한 아버지에게 배신감을 느낀 노리꼬는 사다께와 선보기로 결심한다. 사다께를 마음에 들어 하면서도 아버지에 대한 서운함과 그를 남겨두고 떠나야 한다는 사실에 괴로워한다.

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assaulting their next incoming supply ship; but at the station they are told that a serious typhoon is on the way, so the ship will be delayed.

A 1948 Japanese film.

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.