Mako Midori

In the closing days of World War II, Japanese-American Hiromi, a girl age 16, encounters an American deserter, Bob, and a Japanese soldier, Iwabuchi, living together in a cave on a small island in Okinawa. The two men are deserters from their armies; yet both vow never to harm another human being again. Hiromi looks after the deserters until another soldier appears and the peace of the cave is shattered. It leads to the death of three of them and a fascinating mystery that isn't solved until the present day.

초등학교 교사인 아즈사는 직장에서 밀려나고, 남자친구와 헤어지며 최악의 상황에 몰린다. 하늘에서 들려오는 소리 ‘아모레이 섬에 가서 보물을 찾아라.’ 어릴 때부터 전쟁에 공헌을 세워 공주와 결혼한 개의 신화를 들었던 아즈사는 남방의 섬으로 향하고 사기꾼 혁명가, 히키코모리 가수, 추방된 왕자 등을 만나며 신화적인 모험을 하게 된다.

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The two chase each other around, causing a lot of commotion.

Based on the comic Red Colored Elegy by Seiichi Hayashi

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.

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her biggest interest is ladies hats. She is rather well off, as her father is the ambassador of Japan in Spain. One day when she is out driving, she is attacked by a group of yakuza, but is saved by the honorable yakuza Jiro. This will change her life forever.

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are especially fans of Nakadai will appreciate how the actor comically rants about here. His home life is almost disastrous, with a ditzy (but attractive) wife, three young children, a loud school nearby that’s controlled by a corrupt businessman he loathes, and frequent visits from layabout friends. And the grey-furred, green-eyed cat!

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Japanese crime thriller

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is suddenly abducted, he and Takeru must take action.

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

Maruyama, a day laborer, is living on an abandoned ship at the port of Osaka when he meets an elusive man offering a job.

A young couple, composed by a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues in director's Kiyoshi Nishimura's debut film, almost totally filmed in one space.

아키는 자신을 모델로 한 조각이 전시된 화랑을 방문한다. 그녀는 한 맹인이 조각의 가슴과 배, 허벅지 등을 더듬고 있는 모습을 보게 되고, 마치 자신의 몸을 더듬고 있는 듯한 착각에 빠진다. 며칠 후, 안마사를 불러 마사지를 받던 아키는 마취약에 취해 정신을 잃는다. 정신을 차린 아키는 자신이 여자의 신체가 오브제가 되어 무수히 놓여있는 거대한 밀실에 갇혀 있음을 깨닫는다.

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

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)

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film if it wasn't shadowed by dated 60s Toei conservatism.The resulting film is a bit confused, either a rebellious youth tale chained by moral concerns, or something conceived as a morality tale trying to break free from its chains.

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Japanese drama film.

A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.

Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).

Mayumi Ogawa stars in the tale of a Turkey miss—basically a prostitute who services men in Turkish baths—whose plans to get rich in the stock market, open a beauty salon, and marry her sweetie are turned upside down by the arrival of her boyfriend-stealing half sister Mako Midori. - Pulpinternational