Gorô Tanada

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!

Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.

The Domain: Severed Relations

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).

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.

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

1962 Japanese movie

츠지마 섬의 해안경비대는 각종 밀수꾼과 밀입국자들을 단속하느라 편히 쉴 날이 없다. 어느 날 경찰학교를 갓 졸업한 요스케가 해안경비대에 부임을 받아 자신의 고향이기도 한 츠지마 섬으로 찾아온다. 그는 기대와 희망에 부풀어 있지만 자신의 형이 이곳에서 밀수꾼으로 활동 중이란 사실을 알고 고뇌에 빠진다.

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari in one of her most memorable performances as she plays Shintaro and Oharu, a brother and sister, the children of a lumber dealer who had been murdered by the evil boss Kumagoro who plots to take over Shintaro's family business with the help of a corrupt deputy who has fooled the family into believing that he is on their side.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just to exploit the poor for their small coins. On his travel he meets a man and his little girl Onatsu. The man gets ambushed and killed in front of his daughter, so Sinza promises the man he will take his daughter safely to their destination, so the little girl is now his responsibility. The kind, non-violent Sinza now finds himself entangled in something far bigger than he expected.

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling against the contradictions of feudal society.

버스라는 한정된 공간에서 각양각색의 사람들이 벌이는 시끌벅적한 소동극. 산사태로 기차 운행이 중지되자 승객들은 어쩔 수 없이 낡은 버스에 몸을 싣는다. 하지만 무장 강도가 도주중이라는 소문이 퍼지고 버스의 승객들은 패닉에 빠진다. 이제 화려한 도시 여성, 배우 지망생, 거만한 중년 부부, 그리고 범죄자들이 다양한 사건을 만들어낸다.

A chance ride in a car leads to an unforgettable relationship. A misunderstanding leads to more misunderstanding... Love and thrills in this coming-of-age romance film.

Toku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He shares a shack in a shanty village in Kawasaki with his friend Pin-chan. The two men try to get rid of her but then let her stay when she gives them money. Tsuru tells the people of the village that she lost her job due to a strike, then was robbed of her severance pay, then sold to a brothel in Tsuchiura. She ran away with a friend from Kawasaki. Toku and Pin-chan sell her to a geisha house and spend the money. She is thrown out. The owner demands his money back. Tsuru earns the money to pay their debt by working as a prostitute outside the station. The other prostitutes beat her. She fends them off with a policeman's revolver and is then shot dead by the police.

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo

Family Blossoms

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi