Riichirô Manabe

A short sequel to Godzilla Appears at Godzilla Fest, released on G-Fest 2021 and dedicated to the 50th anniversary of original Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971).

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.

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

Patterned after Japanese art and silk screens, Taro, The Dragon Boy is an animated feature about Japanese mythology and cultures, focusing on Taro, a young boy who has to make a voyage to a distant lake to save his mother, who has been turned into a dragon.

Rumiko is a misbehaving girl who got caught stealing the cash her father had at home for bribes. Father would not accuse her of that, but when he caught her having sex with her English teacher, he was justified in sending her to a monastery, where the nuns try to force her to become a good girl. However, after a few days in forced piety, Rumiko (now Sister Lucia) discovered that her sins were nothing in comparison with those of other Sisters, and Mother Superior's.

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A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's been fooling around with gangsters she brings trouble with her. Kuroki gets tied up and beaten, his wife and customers get tortured and raped, and it is finally up to the mousy cuckold to set things right, Straw Dogs-style.

Roman Porno from 1976. Nobuyuki collects butterflies as a hobby. One day, while trying to catch a rare butterfly, he encounters a young woman...

When a stuck-up and privileged lady of a wealthy family is left to fend for herself, her butler decides to teach her some overdue humility through BDSM. His spiral of debauchery is soon overtaken by madness, and his sex games threaten to harm more than just her social standing and pride.

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone in the office, she's spotted rolling up her pantyhose by the window cleaner Kurata Katsuo. This was to be their first encounter. Completely enchanted by Kumi, Katsuo does everything he can to get close to her. Katsuo is a man with a terrible past. With the death of his coal miner father, his family was broken up and he was forced to follow in his father's footsteps laboring away in the mud. In spite of this, Katsuo still has dreams. He dreams of living in Resiporuko, a utopian fantasyland that exists only in his imagination. When Katsuo and Kumi finally meet they find themselves unable to communicate. Katsuo spends all his time talking about Resiporuko with a starry look in his eyes, while Kumi dreams of living the high life in the city. One day when the two travel to the seashore, they discover a wounded seagull.

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.

도쿄에서 근무하던 주인공 시라키 선생이 한 시골 여학교에 부임을 와서 학장이 사는 저택에 머무르게 되는데 죽었다는 학장의 부인과 행방불명됐다는 여학생이 나오는 꿈을 꾸고 기묘한 사건에 빠지면서 벌어지는 이야기

성공적으로 대기업에 취직해 일하는 '마코토'. 그러나 그는 어릴 적 자신의 어머니를 안은 미군을 권총으로 죽인 후부터 발기불능을 겪고 있다. 그러던 어느 날, '마코토'는 회사 사장의 저택으로 불려가고, 사장은 '마코토'에게 자신의 요구를 거절하는 아내 '시즈코'를 사육시켜 달라고 요청한다. '시즈코'를 향한 기묘한 사육이 이어지면서 '마코토'는 이제껏 겪어보지 못한 쾌감에 눈뜨게 되는데...

A nurse is raped in a doctor's office. The caresses of the perpetrator keep coming to his mind after the assault. She will start a search for the perpetrator that will show her a darker side of her medical institution.

Roman Porno from 1973.

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for dumping toxic water into Minamata Bay) for life-long medical care and compensation.

Toda, a disillusioned journalist that was once a part of the student movement, recalls his former youth when he meets a confident young woman through his work.

수백 만년전 지상에 있었다고 전해지는 레무리아 대륙의 후손들인 시토피아 인들은 현대 인류들 모르게 지구 지하에서 살아오고 있었다. 그러나 지상의 인류들이 핵실험을 거듭하자 지하가 흔들려 생존의 위협을 받게 되고, 이에 시토피아 인들은 괴수 메가로를 지상으로 올려보내 인류를 공격하게 한다. 제트쟈가(제트 재규어)라는 로봇을 개발한 이부키 고로 박사는 제트자카를 괴수섬으로 보내 고지라에게 메가로를 물리치는 것을 도와달라고 요청하게 한다. 괴수섬에서 먼저 돌아온 제트쟈가는 사실 제작자 고로 박사도 모르던 거대화 능력이 있었고(…) 거대화해서 메가로와 싸운다. 또 괴수섬으로부터 고지라가 와서 메가로를 협공한다. 이에 시토피아 인들은 우주에 있는 M성운인들부터 가이강을 빌려와서(…) 메가로의 증원으로 붙여준다. 싸움 끝에 메가로는 봉인당하고, 가이강은 다시 도망간다. 고지라는 제트쟈가와 작별인사한채 헤어지며 괴수섬으로 돌아간다.

Enigmatic teenager Akira Inugami is, by night, a powerful werewolf, who falls for a beautiful young teacher, and copes with a ruthless teen gang leader, whose yakuza father murdered Akira's parents years before.

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Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather.

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as her mother and grandfather having sex together. Seeking to rejuvenate her marriage, she throws a wild party. The ploy is a success.

공해로 인해 일본 각지가 썩어가고 있던 1970년대, 우주에서 날아온 작은 생명체가 일본 연안의 공해물질과 융합해 성장하기 시작한다. 커져가던 생명체는 이윽고 사상 최악의 공해괴수 ‘헤도라’가 되어 각지를 유린한다. 헤도라가 지나가기만 해도 순식간에 백골이 되는 사람들. 모든 생명이 사라질 위기에 처하자 드디어 고지라가 일어선다. 하지만 헤도라의 능력은 고지라 마저 압도하는데…

카시와기 아키코가 5살 때 애완견 레오를 데리고 산책을 나갔다가 해변가 동굴 너머 숲속에 있는 낡은 저택에 들어가 흡혈귀를 목격하고 정신을 잃었다가 깨고 보니 무사히 구출된 경험이 있어 그 악몽에 시달리다가, 그로부터 15년의 세월이 지나 20살이 된 뒤 화가가 되어 후지미 호숫가에 있는 통나무집을 얻어 여동생 나츠코와 단 둘이 살게 됐는데.. 어느날 내용물을 알 수 없는 커다란 나무 상자가 집으로 배달되어 낚시 가게를 운영하는 이웃집 큐사쿠가 맡아서 상자 속 내용물만 꺼내 갔다주기로 했다가, 그게 실은 커다란 관으로 한 밤 중에 관 속에서 흡혈귀가 깨어나 큐사쿠를 시작으로 아키코 주변 사람들을 차례대로 흡혈하고 최종적으로 아키코를 노리면서 벌어지는 이야기.

수백년을 이어져 내려온 마을이 공항 건설이라는 당면 과제 앞에서 철저하게 파괴된다. 농민들은 말한다. "낡은 인간관계는 백지가 되었다. 새로운 인간관계를 만들어야 한다"고. 신공항 건설 반대 투쟁은 근원적인 인간의 문제를 제기한다. 피를 나눈 형제가 찬성파가 되어 분열하고 갈등한다. 농민들 한 가운데에 선 카메라는 긴장감을 가지고 촬영은 계속한다.

Horror story about a girl who is shadowed by an invisible man.

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.

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close, eventually leading to a lesbian relationship. Their affair drifts into sadism and involvement with a bizarre sex cult, resulting in the deaths of the two lovers.

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.

Tetsuya, a worker at a US Air Base who moonlights as a bartender with his bar hostess roommate, dreams to move to the United States one day. Meanwhile, his best friend Jun wants to build a home on some local wasteland. Yet the introduction of Yuki, who they both fall in love with, begins to tear their friendship apart.

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining action film bursting with righteousness and humanity, centred on men who try to live righteously against a corrupt boss who preys on the performers.

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa Normal School for women. Nothing seemed the least bit out of the ordinary, as Kazuko and her friends enjoyed a day of sports. A year later the war takes a devastating turn, as US forces plan an amphibious attack known as "Operation Iceberg" on the Ryukyu island.

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.

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.

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

Two unfettered robbers try to steal a new, mysterious medicine from a laboratory; they butt heads with a needy crow and the head professor's apprentice.

A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Obscure Masamura film shot in 1961

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their “catch.”

A story about the nature of office workers today.

등산 중이던 세 사람은 사고로 절벽의 한 로프에 매달리게 된다. 모두 죽을 수 밖에 없는 위기에서 아내는 남편이 매달린 로프를 끊어 자신과 다른 남자를 살린다. 아내는 살인죄로 법정에 서게 되고 그녀의 고백이 시작된다. 속도감 있게 과거와 현재를 넘나드는 교차 구성이 훌륭한 영화로 와카오 아야코를 일본영화사의 큰 배우로 이끈 작품이다.

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.

젊은 양아치 신이치와 켄지는 경마장에서 손님 돈을 챙기고 도주한다. 그 도중 시게무네반 보스의 애인 유미와 우연히 알게 된다. 유미의 소개로 두 사람은 당장 그날 밤 예정된 권총 밀매 거래를 끝내고 구매자인 카지카와조에게서 권총을 강탈하는 데 쓴다. 한편, 권총 밀매인인 쿠로도 카지카와조에게서 권총을 되찾으려고 획책하고 있는데...

A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

대학 동창의 결혼식에 모인 선후배들이 격렬한 논쟁을 시작한다. 이들은 학생운동단체의 선후배들로 이들의 토론과 함께 과거와 현재가 교차하며 드라마가 진행된다. 60년대 안보투쟁을 다룬 작품으로 격렬한 논쟁 속에 구세대와의 첨예한 대립이 드러난다. 개봉 당시 사흘 만에 상영 중지가 된 작품으로 이 사건 이후 오시마 나기사는 쇼치쿠 영화사를 퇴사했다. 전체가 43개의 숏으로만 이루어진 롱테이크로도 유명하다.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

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.

학생운동에 절망한 청년 기요시는 어느 날 중년남성에게 겁탈당할 위기에 처한 여학생 마코토를 구해주고, 둘은 사랑에 빠진다. 가출한 마코토는 기요시의 아파트에서 동거하며 그의 아이를 임신하고, 돈이 궁한 기요시는 그녀를 거리의 여자로 이용, 중년남자들을 유혹한 뒤 그들을 협박해 돈을 뜯어낸다.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother who prays for his brother's happiness while becoming a gangster to the old yakuza.

비둘기를 파는 소년을 충격적으로 묘사한 오시마 나기사 감독의 첫 데뷔작. 비둘기의 귀소본능을 이용해, 같은 비둘기를 몇번이나 팔고 있는 가난한 소년과 부르조아 소녀의 교우를 통해 현대사회의 밑바탕에 숨겨져 있는 계급적인 단절에 절망한다는 충격적인 내용이다. 특히, 소년이 비둘기를 사살한다는 강렬한 라스트 씬과 영화작가의 탄식이 스크린 곳곳에서 신음처럼 들려오는 멋진 작품.

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this world. Some may be hard to handle but a teacher should never lose courage … never give up." But when put in charge of the third year class C, reputed to be the most incorrigible in the whole school, he is faced with surly opposition from the start. However, Terasaki perseveres. His greatest headaches are three students ... Sanae, who develops a "crush" on him, Nakanishi, who seeks to forget his unhappy home life in rugby, and Nire his pal.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous battle ensues. (Part 2 of 2)

The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that could destroy whole cities on Earth from afar. (Part 1 of 2)

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...

전후 부흥이 한창 진행되고 있던 1950년대의 일본. 당시의 도쿄에 점재한 홍등가의 하나 ‘스자키’로 이어지는 다리의 기슭에 낡은 선술집이 있다. 매춘방지법시행 이후 머지않아 사라질 풍경 스자키의 유곽과 선술집을 배경으로 그곳에 출입하는 사람들의 일상과 남녀의 관계를 메마른 정서와 유머로 그려내고 있다.