Shinichirô Mikami

Jun, a 16-year-old teen, refuses to stand while the national anthem is being played at his graduation ceremony. This event will totally change his life, as he involuntarily becomes the new hero of a rebel anti-system youth. Singer Muy's pop music and his friend, Nozomi, with whom he shares his sadness and hatred for the society that surrounds them, help him bear his terrible loneliness.

Terrible ! Bloody conflict , outbreak !! The overwhelmingly popular graphic novel serialized in Manga Goraku is finally made into a moviel Draw the hard life of men running through the times , including Show Alkawa !!! First film of the live action series.

Based on the comic written by Masao Yajima and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane.

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.

아마가사키를 거점으로 하는 후지나미파는 2대 두목의 죽음 이후 사실상 두목의 부인 '카나에'의 통솔 하에 있다. '카나에'가 3대 두목 자리에 여동생 '요리코'의 남편 '마츠오카'를 앉히려고 하던 찰나, '마츠오카'는 사살을 당하고 후지나미파에 큰 균열이 발생하는데...

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

간사이 지역을 좌지우지하던 폭력 조직 나카마츠파가 후계자 상속 문제로 분열한다. 5년 후, 분열된 조직 중 하나인 카와고에파에는 복역 중인 남편을 대신해 꿋꿋이 조직의 운영을 맡고 있는 '후유'가 있다. 우연한 사건으로 '후유'는 5년 전 나카마츠파의 총탄에 남편을 잃은 '나츠미'라는 여자와 만나게 되고 그녀들은 굳은 우정으로 맺어지는데...

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies. A prosecutor who senses a setup exposes the truth.

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to work on this). Surprisingly (or perhaps not), it focuses less on Ozu's accomplishments as a film-maker than on his impact on the lives of the people he worked with..

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.

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.

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

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.

The Homeless is a picaresque tale in the truest sense of the word. Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute with a childlike mind and serious problems with the yakuza. They help her escape from the mob-infested cathouse and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast, whose location only she knows, but which the yakuza are very eager to learn about. It is a remake of the French film The Last Adventure (1967).

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. On August 15, 1945, Soviet forces invaded Karafuto. On August 20, the postal telegraph office in Maoka suspended operations and nine of the twelve telephone operators committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide while the city was being invaded.

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.

전후, 암시장이 왕성하던 시기, 히로노쇼조와 그의 동료들은 가득한 야심으로 파벌싸움을 일삼는 야쿠자들의 또 다른 전쟁을 마주한다. 야마모리를 보스로 한 새로운 조직에 가입한 일로 쇼조는 도이라는 그의 의형제의 가족과 불화를 빚는다. 하지만 그것은 기사도의 종말이자 위선과 배신, 그리고 피의 암살의 시작에 불과했다.

A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed by the Hashimoto group, a local gangster group which manages the city's entertainment.

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is badly injured, and must face his worst enemy in what could be their final showdown.

The film takes place in Yokohama, a night city where you can revel in the neon mood. A bartender who wants to become a singer and a beautiful married woman burn fierce and ephemeral love in a confrontation with a ruthless yakuza.

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan members oppose and Ishido is elected. When Matsuda is freed, he doesn't accept this decision.

A melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut. A remake of the 1939 film of the same name.

Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued Akiko, a girl who had passed out in a car accident. Ahead of him was the bustle of Tokyo. He suddenly met Akiko during a noisy party with friends. He tried to persuade Akiko, who wanted to become a singer, to return to the village, but it didn't work. One day he invited Akiko to play in Yokohama. When they returned to childhood and talked about their dreams, they felt love for the first time. Meanwhile, returning home, Yoko turned her jealousy on the two of them, and announced the death of Shunsuke's mother...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. He then suddenly disappears…

살인죄로 수감되었다 3년 만에 출소한 야쿠자 조직원 무라키는 오랜만에 찾은 도박장에서 치명적인 매력을 가진 사에코를 만난다. 그는 점점 더 그녀에게 빠져들지만, 그녀의 곁에는 죽음의 신과도 같은 남자가 그림자처럼 따라다닌다.

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream is eventually realized when he is transferred to the new and powerful destroyer Yukikaze which he helped to build. When the Pacific War breaks out Yukikaze performs valiantly in the South Pacific, and while on shore leave, Kida meets and falls in love with Yukiko, younger sister of his commander.

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

딸 미치코와 함께 살고 있는 초로의 신사 히라야마. 히라야마는 친한 친구로부터 딸을 결혼시키라는 이야기를 듣지만 자신의 눈에 비친 딸은 어리게만 보인다. 이후 술에 취한 중학교 은사를 집까지 배웅했다가, 그 옛날 아름다웠던 은사의 딸이 결혼도 하지 않은 채 아버지를 걱정하며 늙고 초췌한 모습으로 변해있는 모습을 보고 딸 미치코를 떠올린다. 일본영화계 전체가 하향세를 그릴 즈음 오즈와 노다 콤비가 만든 마지막 작품이자 오즈의 유작. 실제 미혼으로 평생을 살았던 오즈가 어머니에 대해 느끼는 애정은 남달랐고, 이 작품의 시나리오 집필 중에 어머니를 잃은 오즈가 바라보는 노년의 고독 또한 다른 사람들보다 더욱 가혹하고 엄격할 수밖에 없어 보인다. 밝고 유머러스한 화면의 저변에 흐르는 적막감이 선명하게 그려져 가슴을 에이는 이 영화는 이제까지의 작품 중 최고의 원숙미를 자랑하는 영화다. 부드러운 유머와 함께 이제까지 즐겨 다루어왔던 이전 테마로 다시 돌아간 작품이다.

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese comedy film.

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the heiress to a fortune. Two strong-arm brothers, Kosaka and Takeshi, learn of her identity and join the gang in an effort to shake down the tycoon for ten million yen. Upon joining forces, their first move is to rid themselves of the driver whose identity is known to the police because of a cap which he left behind at the scene of the crime. Upon obtaining the ransom money, the brothers murder the two kidnappers and go to the port city of Kobe. The younger brother, Takeshi, has fallen in love with the prisoner and refuses to allow her to be killed and they take her with them from one hideout to another.

과부인 어머니와 함께 살기를 바라는 딸은 어머니가 재혼하고 싶어한다고 믿게 되자 결국 결혼을 결심하지만 어머니를 걱정해 결혼을 망설인다. 딸의 친구들은 그녀의 혼인을 돕기 위해 나선다. 결국 친구들은 그녀와 어머니 모두를 결혼시키기로 계획하고, 그들 중 평소 미망인에게 연정을 품고 있던 히라야마가 그녀에게 마음을 고백하는데... 돈 사토미의 소설을 기초로 오즈 야스지로와 노다 고고가 각색한 작품으로 아기자기한 에피소드들을 아름답고 섬세하게 그려낸 풍속 희극이자 풍부한 유머와 오즈적 에로스가 느껴지는 품격있는 작품. 오즈의 1949년작 <만춘>을 변형해 제작되었으며, <만춘>에서의 아버지와 딸의 관계가 이 영화에서는 어머니와 딸의 관계로 바뀌었다. 작품에서 가을이라는 계절은 부모들의 세대를 일컫는 말로 결혼이라는 주제와 혼자된 부모를 두고 떠나기를 망설이는 딸의 관계를 역시 중심적인 주제로 다루고 있다.

회사의 집단 해고에 반대해 공개적으로 권총 자살을 시도한 기구치는 사회의 뜨거운 관심을 받는다. 이에 편승해 광고 기획자 노나카는 기구치를 생명보험 광고의 모델로 기용하려 하고, 이를 위해 평소 알고 지내던 파파라치에게 협조를 구하지만 자살을 팔 수 없다는 이유로 거부당한다. 하지만 노나카는 결국 광고를 밀어붙이고, 결국 기구치의 얼굴이 빌딩에 내걸린다.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo (Shinichiro Mikami) takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

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.