Genji Arasawa
This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, People in this village depend on the local amateur orchestra as their favorite source of entertainment. When the conductor dies unexpectedly, the townspeople recruit the man’s granddaughter, a high school student with a talent for conducting.
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily.
교도소 안 중학교 교사와 학생 간의 교류를 통해 본 삶의 의미 이야기
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with his hands full may have caught a break, it may be a falling out among the thieves.
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for help for Gen'an.
어떤 섬에서 밀실 살인사건이 일어난다. 사건 해결의 실마리를 찾아 전문가의 의견을 듣기 위해 테이토 대학을 방문한 쿠사나기 형사는 학창 시절에 엄청난 천재로 이름을 떨치던 동창 유카와가 물리학과 교수가 됐다는 걸 알게 되고 그에게 수사 협조를 의뢰한다. 사건 현장으로 찾아간 두 사람은 피해 남성의 아버지와 여동생을 만난다. 아버지인 토모나가는 금속 가공 업체를 운영하다가 지금은 몸이 불편해져서 휠체어에 탄 채 생활하고, 여동생인 나미에는 그런 아버지를 보살피며 살아가고 있었는데...
Eitaro
헌책방의 장남이자 정원사인 ‘테루오’는 호러와 관계된 건 무엇이든 좋아해서 다른 사람을 놀라게 하는 것을 세끼 밥 먹는 것보다 좋아하는 아무 생각 없는 청년이다. 그의 꿈은 세상에서 가장 무서운 ‘귀신의 집’을 짓는 것. 성실하고 상냥한 샐러리맨인 그의 친구 ‘히사노부’는 ‘테루오’의 이상한 취미활동을 함께 한다. 일상생활의 모든 것에 서투른 화가 지망생 ‘아카리’는 우여곡절 끝에 ‘히사노부’의 회사에 파트타임으로 고용된다. ‘아카리’와 만난 ‘히사노부’와 ‘테루오’는 그녀에게 따뜻함을 느끼게 되고, 마음에서 진심으로 우러난 사랑의 삼각관계와 그들의 행복 찾기가 시작 되는데 …
Kaoru, Hiroki and Takeshi are childhood friends. Adults now, they have gone their separate ways, but still live close to each other in central Tokyo. Hiroki works for a newspaper company, and Takeshi has followed in his father's footsteps to work at the Tsukiji fish market. Both men love Kaoru, but Hiroki is too shy to express it. Finally, Takeshi proposes to her, and she accepts. On the day of their engagement party, Takeshi crashes his car and becomes comatose. After three years, Takeshi comes out of his coma - but with no memory of his engagement.
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?
Omura Yuko (Bai'an)
Osamu Hayakawa
자유분방한 삶을 즐기며 도쿄에서 유명한 사진작가로 성공한 타케루는 어머니 기일을 맞아 1년 만에 고향을 찾게 된다. 그곳엔 고향에 남아 가업을 이으며 현실에 순응하며 사는 착한 형 미노루와 어린 시절부터 알고 지낸 치에코가 형과 함께 일을 하며 지내고 있다. 타케루가 나타나면서부터 이들 셋은 서로의 미묘한 감정이 엇갈리는 가운데, 어릴 적 추억이 담긴 계곡으로 향한다. 계곡 아래에서 사진을 찍다 무심코 다리를 올려다 본 타케루는 충격적인 장면을 목격하고 만다. 다리 아래 급물살 속으로 자취를 감춘 치에코. 흔들리는 다리 위엔 망연자실한 미노루의 모습 뿐... 사건의 진실을 가리기 위한 미노루의 재판이 시작되고 유순하고 착하기만 했던 형 미노루의 의 의외의 모습을 본 타케루는 점점 흔들리게 되는데... 흔들리는 서로의 기억 속에서 과연 그날 계곡의 다리 위에선 무슨 일이 있었던 것일까?
Kobusa no Kumehachi
An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...
Kobusa no Kumehachi
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...
Sakai Zenzo
The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.
A young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday. His mother wants him to be a violinist. To make her dream come true, Masahiko goes to Tokyo to learn the violin, and stays with his aunt, Setsuko, in Kamakura near Tokyo. Director Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of Masashi Sada's novel of the same name received the 21st Japanese Cinema Reconstruction and Promotion Award and the 46th Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor.
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
병동대항 노래자랑의 우승상품은 해외여행. 이 해외여행을 목표로 필사적으로 연습을 강행하는 사상최강의 간호사, 아사쿠라 이즈미. 그녀가 그토록 필사적으로 해외여행을 가려는 것은 남편인 타카스기 켄타로와 허니문을 가고 싶어서이다. 그런 그녀 앞에 어서 빨리 의사로서 인정받고 싶은 타카스기 켄타로는 신혼여행 같은 걸 즐길 여유 따윈 없다고 결국 입 밖으로 내뱉고 이런 남편의 말에 이즈미는 홧김에 “우리 이혼해!”라는 말을 하게 되고 결국 둘은 냉전 상태로 들어간다. 한편, 퇴원한지 얼마 되지 않은 한 환자가 친절하게 자신을 돌보아 준 간호사를 잊지 못해 어떻게든 재입원을 시도한다. 하지만 그런 것이 통할 리가 있나. 그러자 급기야는 너스 스테이션을 점거하기에 이르는데...
Head of the Kaizuka Gang
A foreign university student tries to fit in in Kyoto by reading books to the blind and finds himself falling in love.
Detective Hakamada
After a series of arson attacks targeting red cars happens in the vicinity of Shiba Park, Shiho Kitami and Detective Hakamada of the MPD's First Investigation Division are asked by the local precinct to help with a stakeout. However, when the entire neighborhood loses power, a murder occurs...
An unhappy housewife regains her passion for life by taking over a failing bath house.
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes place, the police searchs for the culprit.
Abe Gonbei
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
Ichigaku Shimuzu
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
Yaheiji
Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name of Yataro Tanigawa. Yaheiji meets Yataro again in Edo, by which time Yataro has become a dark hunter (Hired Assassin). The boss of thieves to whom Yaheiji obeys is killed, and Yaheiji participates in the battle to take his place Yataro helps him defeat and save his life, and Yaheiji also tries to save Yataro from the world of assassins... The drama "Dark Hunter" is based on the novel by Shotaro Ikenami, who is best known for his TV series Onihei Hankacho, Kenkaku Shobai and Fujieda Baian's Shikake-nin. The film version directed by Hideo Gosha is well known, but this version is more faithful to the original.
A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise funds because of the Shinjuku incident. An office lady who impulsively jumps out of the company because she can't stand the sarcasm of girls at the company witnesses a motorboat accident. However, the accident was treated as suicide...
An anthology exploring the meaning of the Japanese greeting goaisatsu.
Gunji
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'
Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.
Father of Taro
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Kazuo Homata
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Hogetsu Shimamura
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.
Kyuzo
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in turn by an unseen force. He begins to suspect the work of assassins, but whose side are they on?
Nishiwaki
After the events of the TV series, the 18 year old Yoko Godai has abandoned her special agent Saki Asamiya name to return to her normal life, and is now studying for college entrance exams. However, she accidentally bumps into a young man named Kazuo Hagiwara trying to escape from a group of hitmen, and learns that he comes from Sanko Academy, a private school located in a remote island known as Hell's Castle. The school is ruled by a former revolutionary thought to be dead named Hattori who is trying to brainwash students into terrorists to help him stage a fascist coup d'etat in Japan.
Teiko's father
The story of a young girl's first love is told from the heroine's point of view. Surrounded by various people, she finally begins to awaken to her own feelings as a woman.
After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.
작가인 가쓰라 가쓰오는 본부인 리쓰코와 사별하고 후처로 요리코와 결혼한다. 요리코는 이복형제인 이치로를 비롯하여 5형제를 키워왔다. 1956년 여름 가쓰오는 신극배우인 야지마 게이코와 일을 저지른다. 이 일은 8년 전으로 거슬러 올라간다. 그녀는 아는 사람의 소개장을 들고 찾아온다. 가쓰오의 솔직함에 매력을 느낀 게이코는 가쓰오 옆에서 원고를 정리하는 등 가쓰오를 돕게 된다.
Isomura, Coordinator of the Tenryu group
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
Japanese movie direct by Katsuhiko Fujii.
평화롭던 시골 마을에 해양공원 건설이 계획되자 그 이권을 둘러싸고 마을이 동요하면서 벌목꾼들과 어부들의 대립은 점점 강도를 더해가기 시작하는데...
개발을 둘러싼 다툼을 그린 사회파 드라마에서 한 발짝 더 내딛어 자연과 종교에 대한 거대 담론까지를 품고 있는 문제작
Yasuhiko Ôkubo
The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89 and still living in Hawaii he is visited by his granddaughter who brings him a letter from his disinherited and recently dead son. This brings back memories of his life with his wife and family following the attack on Pearl Harbor, in particular of his son who had gone off to join the war for the Americans.
Nakao
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.
Detective Takamine
1978년 닛카츠 로망 포르노의 주요감독으로 활동했던 네기시 기치타로 감독의 작품으로 로망 포르노를 벗어난 그의 두 번째 극영화다. 1979년 시작돼 폭발적인 인기를 누렸던 TV 시리즈 에서 아프로 헤어에 선글라스를 쓴 채, ‘정의’나 ‘추리’에 의해서가 아니라 ‘돈’ 때문에 사건을 해결하는 탐정이라는 이전과는 전혀 다른 탐정, 구도 슌사쿠를 연기했던 마츠다 유사쿠가 영화에도 출연해 '쓰지야마'라는 새로운 탐정을 연기한다. 영화는 TV 시리즈와 제목만 같을 뿐 내용은 다르지만 TV와 영화를 통해 마츠다 유사쿠가 보여준 탐정의 모습은 미국식 하드보일드 탐정의 전형을 제시하며 이후의 일본영화에 등장하는 새로운 탐정의 모습에 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 80년대 일본영화를 대표하는 배우이자 1989년 40세라는 젊은 나이로 사망한 마츠다 유사쿠는 등으로 유명한 마츠다 류헤이의 아버지이기도 하다.
Film Director
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
Daijin
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on his back in penance, and locked in a sibling rivalry with his traditional but urbane younger brother who lives in Tokyo, Yukio has become an amphetamine-addicted loner at odds with his family, friends and colleagues.
Husband of Kaede
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
요코하마(横浜) 변두리의 초라한 바에서 매일밤 노래를 부르는 BJ는 노래만으로는 목구멍에 풀칠하기 어려워 생활을 위해 사립탐정 비스꼬롬한 부업을 해서 푼돈을 벌고 있었다. 그런 어느날, 실종된 소년 "아키라(明)"의 행방을 찾아달라는 의뢰를 받은 BJ는 소년의 소재를 파악해 내지만, 소년은 게이인 어둠의 조직의 보스의 남창이 되어 있었다. 다음날, 오랜만에 재회한 뉴욕 시절의 절친 형사 "무쿠 케이스케(椋圭介)"가 눈 앞에서 저격되어 살해당하고, BJ를 어쩐 일인지 안좋게 여기던 "무쿠"의 동료형사 "베니타니 사토시(紅谷悟志)"에게 살인용의로 취조란 명목의 린치를 당한다.
게다가, 어둠의 조직으로부터도 마약거래를 하는 조직의 메카니즘을 건드렸다는 이유로 목숨을 위협받는 등 BJ는 궁지에 빠지는데...
Policeman
1955년 일본 오사카의 하천가에 있는 우동집 아들 노부오는 어느 날 건너편에 정박한 작은 배 속에서 살고 있는 키이치와 누나 긴코를 알게 된다. 키이치 어머니는 매춘을 해서 생계를 꾸려 가면서 동네 사람들의 멸시 속에서도 순수함을 잃지 않은 키이치와 누나 긴코를 노부오의 부모는 그들과 친하게 지내는 걸 꺼려하면서도 한편으로는 그들을 친절하게 대해준다. 그러던 어느 날 우연히 키이치 어머니의 방을 들여다본 노부오는 충격을 받게 되는데...
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
Yamagishi
"떨리는 혀"는 일본 기준 쇼치쿠(松竹)의 배급으로 1980년 11월 22일에 개봉한 상영 시간 114분의 일본 영화입니다. "미키 타쿠(三木卓)"의 동명의 소설을 원작으로 하고 있습니다. "미키 타쿠"의 원작 소설 교외의 단지에서 평온하게 살아가는 한 가정의 딸아이가 파상풍균에 감염되면서 전염의 공포에 전율하며 싸워 나가는 이야기를 그린 작품입니다.
Noboru Yamaguchi
A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.
Konno
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like, the 19-year-old begins a war of psychological terror against the families in his neighborhood.
Noriko had been engaged to marry Toshiyuki Fujimura, who worked at her father’s bank. One day however, Fujimura mysteriously disappears. From that day, Noriko keeps herself locked up in her room. After three years of Noriko shutting herself up like a doll without a soul, Fujimura suddenly returns. Noriko’s family’s first reaction was strong rejection, but Noriko asks no questions and embraces him warmly. One day, as Noriko is cleaning her husband’s room, three envelopes accidentally fall from the pages of one of the books she had picked up. The first letter is dated August 11th, saying that his wife had suddenly taken ill. The second, dated August 20th, says that his wife is now critically sick, and the third letter, dated September 1st, is an announcement of his wife’s death. The wife is obviously Noriko, but she is alive and well. Do the letters then mean a preliminary notice of Noriko’s death?
Yuichi prides himself on the fact that he is a family man but contrary to his conception of an ideal family life, at age 24, his wife has already run out on him. In utter confusion, he tries to reason out where he had gone amiss that such a thing should happen out of the clear blue sky. About this time, Yuichi helps Ayako, a young girl, embroiled in trouble. She returns Yuichi's kindness by making off with his precious camera. Then she returns and since his wife has washed her hands of him, he forces himself on Ayako who acts as if she had been waiting for him to enter her. Suddenly, Yuichi's wife returns...
Tetsuro Muraki
When Muraki, a porn producer, watches a blue film depicting a gang rape in a school, he becomes obsessed with the lead actress. Quite by chance, whilst looking to reserve a location for a shoot, he happens to encounter her at a love hotel where she works as a receptionist. Her name is Nami and she reluctantly agrees to speak with him, and confesses that it was her in the film. Then, Muraki tells Nami that he wants her to model for him.
Akutsu, Sôkichi's colleague
억척스러운 아내 오우메와 함께 인쇄소를 운영하는 소키치는 고단한 인쇄소 일에 지쳐있던 와중에 키쿠요를 만나 외도를 하게 되고 세 아이를 낳게 된다. 경제적인 도움이 전혀 없는 소키치에게 진저리를 치는 키쿠요는 결국 오우메 앞에 나타나고 세 아이를 맡겨놓고 종적을 감춘다. 금전적인 어려움을 겪고 있던 이들 부부에게 세 아이는 큰 짐이 된다. 세 아이를 어떻게든 돌려보내라는 오우메의 등쌀에 못이겨서 갈팡질팡하던 소키치는 자의반 타의반의 사고로 막내 아이가 죽음에 이르게 되자 남은 두 아이를 직접 처리할 결심을 한다.
Satoru Kobayashi(小林悟)
A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.
Man
Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.
Mickey Tokuda
Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
Kifuji
Older brother younger sister.
Kazuya Funabashi
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Ms. Yoshino, respectable lady and attractive widow, leads a quiet and peaceful life with her teenage daughter Takako. However, their lifes change radically when fate confronts both with the young Hideo. While spending time with Takako, the latter is more attracted to her mother, and she in turn starts to feel the same, because he reminds her of his late father, a kabuki actor with whom she had an affair in the past.
Sone
Japanese crime film.
순진한 도서관 사서 야시로는 잔업을 마치고 늦은 시간에 집으로 돌아가다 강간을 당한다. 그후 야시로는 헤픈 여자라는 소문과 함께 자포자기 상태로 많은 남자들과 섹스를 하면서도 첫남자인 강간범을 잊지 못하는데....
Shiwa
일본의 홍등가가 폐쇄되기 이전의 창녀집인 고후쿠에서, 나오코는 과거 하루 동안 26명의 손님을 받았던 시게코의 기록을 깨려고 한다. 한편 시마코는 도박에 빠진 남자친구 때문에 자꾸 돈을 빼앗기고 있었다. 그러던 어느 날, 창녀집을 떠나 결혼했던 기미코가 돌아와 자신을 편하게 해주는 손님을 찾는데...
Mamushi
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.
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
Jirô
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Masato
About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
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.
죽은 아버지가 남기고 간 빚을 갚기 위해 공장에서 일하는 16살 소녀. 수시로 돈을 요구하는 엄마의 등쌀에 소녀는 바 호스티스가 되어 보지 않겠느냐는 친구의 제안을 받아들이기로 결심하고 전화번호부에서 친구의 이름을 찾는다. 그때 그녀에게 다가와 말을 거는 젊은 불량배. 소녀는 그와 함께 차를 마시고 영화를 보며 그녀의 인생에서 처음으로 자신에게 친절하게 대해 주는 사람을 만난 기쁨을 누린다. 하지만 그는 여성들을 강간하고 팔아 넘기는 야쿠자의 하수인일 뿐이다.
Sakamoto
A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.
Shige
A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.