Kajiyama
A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues.
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
Grandfather
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Ishiyama
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Suekichi Maruko
There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
Rhisley (voice)
A simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre cult based around the prophecies of Nostradamus. They kidnap Julia, the daughter of Douglas, a wealthy American who is seeking the presidency, along with Lupin's diamond. At stake is the lost book of prophecy Douglas holds in the vault at the top of his skyscraper.
Katsuo
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.
A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the man's apartment. The contents of the cardboard are 1 billion yen in cash. It is said that this will be used to make a back loan. In front of the apartment, men line up for the money. Who on earth is Ginji Hirai and what is his motive? And what kind of fate will Tetsuo be involved in from now on ...?
Hanaoka
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some vague future threat. Their destined mission becomes apparent when a handsome ninja from 400 years past drops from the sky into the hot tub of on of the girls. He comes with news of a grave threat: an evil industrialist has apparently joined forces with UFOs to take over Japan. The only solution, it seems, lies in the special talents of the three girls - notable as much for their martial arts as their skimpy costumes.
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Jinzo Iguchi
Saruwatari
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath.
Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Show Host
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
Japanese drama film.
Shimotsuka
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
Matsumoto
Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya [Snack Bar] Choji with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate. Eiji once had a girlfriend by the name of Sayo, but she is supposed to be happily married to a pasture owner in the countryside. Then, suddenly one day Sayo shows up at Choji before opening. Sayo is still in love with Eiji. The story expressively portrays the lives of random Choji customers and the daily interaction between Eiji and Shigeko, while also focusing on the feelings between Eiji and his past girlfriend Sayo.
Pawn Shop Guy
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Sergeant Major Yabe
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Takeo Miyamoto(宮本威夫)
Roman Porno from 1982.
Ishimoto
Naoko is getting a lot of obscene phone calls, so she decides to stay at her girlfriend Mari's home for awhile, afraid of a rape attack. But the telephone calls don't stop, and the mysterious pervert caller is bothering her there too. Naoko reluctantly agrees to meet meet him at a local restaurant, hoping the man will stop. When she arrives, Naoko is surprised to find the café is operated by Harada, a man whom she and Mari had liked so much in the past that, in fact, they had cat fights over him at their working places. It was due to a love triangle scuffle that they had been both fired from their previous jobs.
Oyakata (voice)
Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstantial as the wind. Down in the village, Yuki is befriended by a group of orphans whose parents have all been killed by the bandits and who now subsist by begging. Yuki amazes them by taming the wild horse Blizzard. She is instrumental in getting the orphans and farmers to stand up to first the warring bandits and then Goemon, the greedy lord that owns the region. But Yuki must face her greatest challenge yet when the displeased Demon God that lives in the volcano emerges to destroy those who live beneath.
Frankenstein's Monster (voice)
The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.
Hiraiwa
An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace.
Misaki
A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give.
Middle-aged Man
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Nikkatsu Roman Porno production featuring Ayako Meki in her film debut.
Loan Officer
중학교 교사인 기도는 혼자 힘으로 원자폭탄을 만들어낸다. 아무도 자신이 원폭을 가지고 있다는 것을 믿지 않을 것이라 생각한 그는 경찰에 전화를 걸어 자신이 원폭을 가지고 있음을 입증해보인다. 자신감을 얻은 그는 국가를 상대로 전쟁을 할 것을 결의한다.현대 젊은이들의 유희적 정신을 오락영화의 형식을 빌어 빼어나게 묘사한 작품으로 70년대 ‘일본영화의 구세주’로 떠올랐던 하세가와 가즈히코의 두 번째 작품이다.
Actor
Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.
Tadashi Takino
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Kôhei Kikawada
Rena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978) get part-time jobs at a hostess bar in order to earn money for an abortion for Yuko. At the end of the school year the two must part as Yuko prepares to depart for acting school in Hokkaido, and Rena gets ready for college.
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
Kurazo Utagawa
세 명의 야쿠자가 다이조의 아내 에미코를 참혹하게 강간한다. 학대를 견디지 못한 에미코가 죽지만 다이조는 아내의 죽음을 받아들일 수 없다. 아내의 사체를 집으로 가져온 다이조는 사체를 목욕시키고 마치 살아있는 사람처럼 대하고, 급기야 사체와의 섹스를 시도한다. 70년대의 명감독 소네 추세이와 구마시로 다츠미 등의 명성에 가려 제대로 인정받지 못하던 타나카 노보루를 평단과 언론으로부터 인정받는 감독 반열에 올려놓은 작품이다. 1979년 일본 아카데미 영화제와 영화전문지 「키네마준보」가 최고의 영화로 선정했다.
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.
Gonjiro Kuroda
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.
Iwaki's father
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
Goto
늙고 남루한 행색의 치쿠잔은 앞이 안 보이는 눈으로 전국을 유랑하며 샤미센을 연주한다. 그는 전국을 다니며 노래를 수집하고 이를 다시 사람들 앞에서 아름답게 연주한다. 영화는 치쿠잔의 50년에 걸친 음악 인생을 담담하게, 때로는 극적으로 보여준다.
Right wing / Ishii, the strip theatre owner
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Ichizo(市蔵)
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption.
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.
Genzo Fujita
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.
Bunkichi Yoshioka
Roman Porno from 1975.
A young geisha/prostitute working in Tokyo's entertainment district earns a measure of reknown through her powerful vaginal muscles. This newfound fame, however, also earns her the enmity of a rival geisha house. The two houses choose to settle the dispute through a series of athletic contests between the young star and the rival house's main attraction, with the backing of the houses' wealthy patrons as the prize.
Toki
Roman Porno from 1975.
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.
Pinku from 1975.
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Serizawa Kamo
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Narrator
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Yusuke Yajima
Japanese crime thriller
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Genzô Shibayama
1873년 메이지 시대의 일본. 시마네현 코이치 마을이라는 시골 마을의 교사가 된 남편 고와 함께 어린 아들 시로를 데리고 가던 카시마 사요는 3명의 남자들과 1명의 여자에게 공격당해 남편과 아들은 잔인하게 살해당하고 자신은 처참하게 윤간, 폭행을 당한다. 자신을 끌고 갔던 쇼케이 도쿠이치를 죽이고 나머지를 찾아 다니다가 붙잡혀 살인 혐의로 수감된 그녀는 남은 자들에게 복수하기 위해, 그리고 그 복수를 실현시켜줄 아이를 낳기 위해 닥치는 대로 간수들을 유혹하여 관계를 가진다. 그 결과 유키(雪)라는 딸을 낳은 그녀는 난산으로 인해 죽게 된다. 복수를 위해 아이를 키워달라는 사요의 유언을 기억하던 감방 동기들 중 하나이며 아이를 받아주었던 미카즈키 오토라에 의해 유키는 무사출신의 승려인 도카이(道海)로부터 검술을 배우고 20세가 되었을 때에 복수의 화신으로 어머니의 원수들을 하나하나 처리하기 시작한다. 코이치 마을 출신인 거지집단의 두목 마츠에몬의 도움을 받아 나머지 세 명의 행방을 수소문하게 된다
Shinji
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Sakube
Pinku from 1973.
레이코 이케는 지역 야쿠자 폭도들에 의해 마약 거래로 내몰린 한 남자의 딸로 출연한다. 갱단에게 쓸모없게 살아남은 레이코는 살해되고 레이코는 갱강간을 당하게 되며, 레이코는 야쿠자의 보스(하야마 료지)에게 칼 공격을 시도하게 된다. 그를 죽이지 못한 그녀는 감옥에서 다른 불만족(가타야마 유미코, 카자마 치요코 등)들과 친구가 되고 야쿠자 상사의 여자친구(스기모토 미키)를 만난다. 석방되자마자 레이코는 자신의 폭도들을 재집결시키고 하야마의 오바 산업과 이전에 지배적이었던 하마야스 씨 사이의 갱 전쟁을 계획하기 위한 마키아벨리 계획을 시작한다. 라이벌 갱들은 서로를 죽이기 시작하고 레이코는 그녀의 궁극적인 복수에 더 가까워진다.
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
Makoto Narasaka
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Tsuji
죄수들에게 스콜피온으로 알려진 마츠는 교도소의 원활한 운영을 방해하고 교도관에 대한 모욕적인 공격에 대한 복수로 감옥에 갇힌다. 고위 인사의 방문으로 하루의 유예가 주어진 그녀는 그것을 이용하여 다시 간수를 공격하고 이것은 더 잔인한 처벌과 굴욕으로 이어진다. 하지만 그녀에게 6명의 다른 여성 수감자들과 함께 탈출할 기회를 준다. 감옥에서 그들의 초현실적인 도피는 교도관, 교도관, 그리고 서로에 대해 죄수들을 구덩이에 빠뜨리고..
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
Miyoshi
Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
죠슈의 구보타 일가가 운영하는 도박장에서 구보타의 동생 이노스케가 건 사기로 위기에 처한 야노 오류는 유기의 도움으로 화를 며한다. 아버지의 법요 때문에 규슈로 돌아가야 하는 오류는 권진 도박의 개최일까지 돌아올 것을 약속하고 유기와 헤어진다. 한편 근처 군에서 세운 무기 공장 때문에 주변의 농민들은 공해로 괴로워하고 있는 중이다. 유기는 농민들을 대표하여 공장과 교섭, 보상금을 받아낸다. 그러나 공장과 연결되어 있는 도미오카 일가가 공장장과 군의 감독관과 결탁, 보상금을 착복, 유기를 살해하고, 상복의 오류가 도미오카에게 정의를 심판한다.
결혼식, 생일, 장례식 등 한 가족의 일대기가 극도로 복잡한 플래시백과 결합해 의식의 흐름처럼 펼쳐지는 작품. 에서 사용된 다중적인 플래시백은 신부 없는 젊은이의 결혼식 등 상상과 초현실주의적인 에피소드들을 담아내고 있다. 이를 통해 오시마 나기사는 전후 일본의 역사와 아버지와 국가의 권위, 예술가의 역할을 성찰하고 있다. 전후 일본이 걸어온 25년간을 총괄한 작품으로, 그 해 「키네마 준보」 최고의 영화로 선정되었다.
(한국시네마테크협의회 - 2010 오시마 나기사 회고전)
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Pinku from 1971.
The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.
A 1970 crime film.
Aihara
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
세상을 놀라게 한 연쇄총기살인사건을 소재로 극심한 빈곤 속에서 자란 불행한 청년의 절규를 그린 문제작. 가정을 돌보지 않는 아버지와 행상으로 가정을 꾸리는 어머니를 둔 미치오는 여덟 남매 중 일곱 번째 아들이다. 그는 중학교를 졸업하고 취업을 위해 도쿄로 떠나지만 인간적 모멸감만 느끼고 점점 타락의 수렁으로 빠져든다.
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Iwano
Japanese crime movie.
Matagoro Araki
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
Kojiro Numazawa
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
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...
Kakusuke Hirao
Film with Junko Miyazono.
Tahei
오사카의 상인 카미야 지헤는 유녀 코하루가 있는 곳을 자주 드나들며, 장사는 내팽겨쳐 두자 지헤의 부인인 오상은 생각다 못해, 이대로 간다면 남편은 동반 자살밖에 할 것이 없으니 헤어지라고 코하루에게 편지를 쓴다. 코하루는 그 말을 이해하고 지헤에게 정을 띄는 말을 한다.
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
Officer Song
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Japanese crime film
주인공 남자는 한 서점에서 하찮은 물건을 훔쳐 몰락의 길로 빠져든다. 이를 본 가게 점원에게 눈에 띈 그는 소녀의 섹스 상대와 더불어 사실상 노예나 다름없는 존재가 된다. 영화는 젊은이들의 성적인 탐닉과 학생운동의 혼란을 다큐멘터리 형식을 빌려 그려내고 있다. (한국시네마테크협의회 - 2010 오시마 나기사 회고전)
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Yasukura
도쿄의 한 엔지니어가 가족을 두고 오키나와의 외딴 섬에 파견된다. 그의 업무는 설탕 공장을 세우기 위한 사전조사. 그러나 섬 사람들은 그가 들고 온 장비와 코카콜라를 보고, 그를 신의 전령으로 떠받들며 2대에 걸친 근친상간으로 태어난 여인을 떠안긴다. 마을의 전승 무녀와 근친상간 관계를 맺은 그의 오빠가 마을 사람들에 의해 강제로 이유없이 구덩이를 파고 있는 등 엔지니어가 이해할 수 없는 일들이 계속 벌어진다. 결국 엔지니어도 도쿄에 돌아가는 걸 잊어버리고 여인과 함께 마을에 눌러앉게되는데...
Ichizo Soga
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
Matsugoro
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
Ba Tôten
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
Fisherman
시네마스코프와 컬러로 촬영된 무정부주의 코미디. 세 소년이(키 큰 소년을 연기한 가토 가즈히코는 ‘새디스틱 미카 밴드’의 리더이다), 바닷가에서 수영을 하다가 해변에 놓아 둔 옷을 도둑맞는다. 담배가게 주인은 그들을 불법 입국한 한국인으로 착각해서 경찰에 신고하고, 소년들은 위기에 빠진다. 그러나 소년들의 옷을 훔친 사람들이야말로 베트남에서의 군복무를 피해 일본으로 밀입국한 한국인들이었다. 그들은 이제 옷과 함께 따라온 신분으로 위장하기 위해 살인마저도 저지를 태세다. ‘주인공들’의 죽음 직후에, 오시마 감독은 한국인에 대한 생각을 묻는 인터뷰에 대답하는 도쿄 행인들의 모습을 몽타쥬로 삽입한다. 흥미롭게도 질문을 받은 사람들은 모두 자신이 한국인이라고 얘기하고, 그들 중 두 명은 의 주연을 맡았던 유도윤과 오시마 나기사 본인이다. 다행스럽게도 그 순간 영화는 다시 시작된다. (2002년 제7회 부산국제영화제_토니 레인즈) 밀리언셀러가 된 히트곡의 타이틀과 같은 제목으로 이 곡을 노래한 가수를 주연으로 캐스팅한 희극으로, 이야기 도중에 이전의 시퀀스가 똑같이 반복되는 오시마 나기사의 이색적인 작품. (2013 한국영상자료원 - 오시마 나기사 추모 특별전)
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When imprisoned, he is repeatedly transferred from one prison to another, because no one can handle him.
District attorney
교수형에 처해질 운명의 재일 한국인 R은 사형 집행에도 불구하고 살아난다. 문제는 그 다음부터 일어난다. R이 자신이 누군지에 대해 전혀 기억을 못하는 것이다. 사형 집행관들은 R의 기억을 되살려 자신이 저지른 살인 행위를 일깨우기 위해 온갖 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는다. R에게 살인 행위를 재현하도록 하고 R의 주변인들을 동원하기도 한다.
1958년에 일어났던 실제 사건을 실험적 기법으로 다룬 일본 누벨바그의 기수 오시마 나기사의 대표작 가운데 하나. 다큐멘터리와 극영화, 판타지와 리얼리즘이 뒤섞이는 형식적 반란이 돋보이며, 음울하면서도 유머가 살아있는 문제작이다. 사형수를 일깨우는 과정에서 재일 한국인에 가해지는 일본사회의 차별과 국가의 역할, 극단적인 민족주의, 상상과 현실의 관계 등이 풍자적으로 그려진다.
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even discovering their leader, a beautiful young girl named Kagiroi. Guessing that she is the daughter of some ousted daimyo anxious to get back into favor, he is about to unmask her when he is taken prisoner...
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG
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.
Narrator (voice)
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
오사카의 상인인 카미야는 유녀 코하루가 있는 곳을 드나들며 장사는 뒷전으로 한다. 이에 그의 부인인 오상은 코하루에게 편지를 써서 상황을 알리고 헤어지라고 부탁한다. 오상의 마음을 이해한 코하루는 카미야에게 매몰차게 대하는데...
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
The second part of the Gamblers series.
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Onkichi
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Denpo Cho
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Shino's father
신슈의 농촌, 빈농의 딸 시노는 여교사인 마츠코, 촌장의 아들인 겐지, 가난한 청년 에이스케와 함께 이상적인 농촌공동체를 꿈꾸며 공동사육을 한다. 그러나 홍수로 인해 사육장은 날아가고, 겐지가 마을 임원이 됨으로써 공동체는 무너진다. 시노는 겐지와 동반자살을 시도하지만 혼자만 살아남게 되고, 실신 상태의 시노를 강간한 에이스케는 이후 '백주의 살인마'가 된다. 신문에 실린 연쇄살인사건에서 영감을 받아 다케다 다이준의 원작을 각색한 작품으로, 2천 컷에 이르는 쇼트를 통해 피사체를 여러 각도에서 분할하는 실험적 편집기법으로도 유명한 걸작. (한국시네마테크협의회 - 2010 오시마 나기사 회고전)
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
Shindo
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
Narrator
전쟁의 상처가 남아 있던 1960년대, 10살의 윤복이는 어머니가 가출한 후 다섯 식구의 가장이 된다. 대구 산기슭의 빈민가에서 껌 장사를 하며 겨우 생활을 유지하고 있지만, 윤복은 학교에 계속 다니기를 원한다. 그러던 어느 날, 구두닦이 일을 시작하려는 윤복의 구두 상자를 누군가 훔쳐가고, 폭우와 함께 식품 가격이 폭등하여 생활은 어려워지는데...
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
Yamano Senkichi
‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Egi
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.
Maki
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine.
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
(voice)
Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality, while questioning if this is a just way for the Japanese to act. The documentary uses TV to problematize the apathy of the Japanese people. According to Oshima’s 'The Idea of Evil and Cruelty' and Sato Tadao’s 'History of Japanese Documentary Film', the actual situation was much more serious and harsher than the documentary depicts.
오시마 나기사의 세 번째 장편영화. 오사카 빈민가에서 살아가는 하층민과 그곳을 거점 삼아 싸움을 일삼는 삼류 깡패들의 생활상이 등장한다. 이제 막 깡패 집단에 들어간 순수한 주인공은 거친 세상 속에서 살아남으려 애쓰는 동안 도덕적 방황을 겪는다. 사회를 겨냥한 직접적 발언은 없으나 당시 일본 사회의 음울함을 반영한 것으로 인정받는 작품.
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세계 2차 대전 당시 대기업에서 종사하고 있는 카지는 군대에 집영되는 대신 광산에 가서 군대에 납품할 광물들을 생산하는 광산의 간부로 발탁된다. 군대 입대 때문에 하지 않으려고 했던 결혼을 하고 부인인 미치코와 함께 광산으로 간다. 양심으로 똘똘 뭉친 카지는 그곳에서 일본인에게 당하는 중국 노동자들의 생활개선과 동시에 포로로 잡혀온 중국 노동자들의 인간적인 생활을 찾아주기 위해 노력하지만 일본군과 광산의 다른 간부들과의 갈등으로 이어지고 결국 일본군에 눈 밖에 나서 군대에 입영되게 된다.
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
