Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
A beautifully told story of a woman hardened by marriage to a man she doesn't love, after giving herself to another. She dedicates herself to her work, designing and creating plaited cords for kimono.
A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.
사방이 수로로 둘러싸인 좁은 황무지 위에 자리 잡은 선술집 ‘안락정’에는 세상에 발붙일 곳 없는 무뢰한들이 모여 있다. 이들이 하는 일은 네덜란드나 중국에서 들여오는 상품의 밀무역. 한 지붕 아래서 운명을 같이하고 있지만, 일당은 서로를 믿지 않는다. 당국의 수사망이 좁혀지는 가운데, 또 한 건의 의뢰를 처리하는 이들에게 위기가 닥쳐 온다.
Layabout teen Shoken is dissatisfied with his nagging single mother and bullies at school. He and his friends decide to form a cool rock band, but when Shoken learns that his mother is actually his aunt and his parents died, he becomes very agitated and runs away from home.
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
