Hotel Manager
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Detective B
A couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school daughter, Fuuchan. The movie depicts the warm interaction between her and adults that grew up with the rough history of Okinawa and discrimination from the mainland. Shots partly on location at beach of Itoman, Yogi Park and Hateruma Island. This is the movie version of the well-known novel by Kenjiro Haitani.
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
A 1970 crime film.
Japanese crime film
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Katchin
Based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Komimasa Tanaka, the film tell the story of a strip-teaser, and her daughter who wishes to join her mother's profession.
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
Subordinate A
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Male teacher A
Japanese drama film.
Koyanagi
와해된 야쿠자 조직의 일원인 테츠는 여전히 두목에게 여전히 충성을 다하고자 하지만, 새로운 인생을 시작해야 하는 갈림길에 서 있다. 그러던 중 라이벌 조직에 대항하는 싸움에 휘말리게 되는데…. 과 함께 60년대 스즈키 세이준 영화를 대표하는 걸작.
무능한 포르노감독은 과부 미용사를 등쳐먹고 살면서, 과부의 딸과도 관계를 맺는다. 과부는 아들과도 엉겁결에 성적 관계를 가진다. 병든 과부는 죽어가며 딸과 결혼해달라고 부탁한다. 과부의 딸과 유산은 물려받았지만, 포르노감독은 경찰서에 수시로 끌려가는 등 시련을 겪고 성불능까지 닥치자 문득 뭔가를 깨닫고 한 가지 일에 몰두한다. 어떤 불평도 없고 완벽하게 아름다운 여자, 바로 마네킹을 만드는 일. 북극수출 제안도 거부하고 바다 가운데로 밀려가는 돗단배 안에서 늙은 감독은 마네킹에 음모를 심어준다.
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
Takagi
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Division Chief
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Gondo
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.
Shôichi Maeda
동반자살로 보이는 사건으로 남자와 여자가 사망한다. 이 중 남자는 성실한 경찰관 다케시타. 그러나 이를 단순 자살로 보지 않는 미즈노 조는 사건의 진실을 캐내기 위해 야쿠자 조직 중 하나인 노모토파로 쳐들어간다. 과감한 색채의 사용과 거울 등을 적극적으로 사용한 독특한 미장센이 인상적인 탐정 스릴러.
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and her brutal yakuza pimp (George Ai).
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
1962 Japanese movie
Motomu Ida movie
Chikko policeman
야쿠자들이 미군 기지에서 나오는 잔반으로 돼지를 길러 일확천금을 노린다는 설정의 희극이다. 주인공은 그런 야쿠자 조직의 말단으로, 이 새로운 사업이 성공했을 때 지급될 예정인 15만엔의 보너스를 받기 위해 돼지 기르기에 열심이다. 그러나 야쿠자와 미군 사이에 끼어든 수상한 브로커로 인해 예상 밖의 자금들이 추가로 들어가기 시작하면서 그 사업은 순조롭게 진행되지 못한다. 급기야 브로커가 거금을 횡령해 달아나자 그들은 좌절에 빠진다.
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?
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
오랜 직장생활을 마친 우에키는 홍콩 출장을 마지막으로 집에 돌아온다. 우에키의 딸인 게이코와 신문기자인 쇼타로는 우에키를 반기지만 그는 집에 돌아온 날부터 이상한 행동을 한다. 심지어 환영파티 자리에 간 우에키는 연락이 끊긴 채 사라지고, 이상한 낌새를 챈 쇼타로는 게이코와 함께 우에키의 뒤를 쫓다 충격적인 사건에 휘말린다.
Japanese crime film
Niigata Station detective B
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle.
Armored knight
도공 겐주로는 전란의 혼란을 틈타 큰 돈을 벌 생각을 한다. 한편 그의 매제 도베이는 사무라이로서 출세하는 것이 꿈인 사내다. 겐주로의 처 미야기는 돈은 못 벌더라도 가족 간의 단란함이 훨씬 소중하다고 생각한다. 겐주로는 만들어놓은 도기를 팔러 도회로 나가 상당기간 소식이 끊어진다. 그는 시장에서 어느 귀부인으로부터 물건을 배달해달라는 부탁을 받는데, 그녀의 아름다움에 한눈에 반하고 만다. 현실과 환상의 구분을 일거에 무너뜨리는 뛰어난 영상미와 인간의 어리석음의 근원을 파고드는 설득력 있는 스토리로 미조구치 겐지의 이름을 세계에 알린 작품일뿐 아니라 후대의 영화 작가들에게 큰 영향을 끼친 영화이다.
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
