Akemi Negishi

A magazine reporter gets involved in a murder case while covering a rose nursery that's developing a blue rose.

A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.

Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near Mt. Aso in rural Kyushu. He seeks solace in a small religious group run by Buddhist nun Chishu-bo who claims to be the 68th descendant of famed 11th century poet Izumi Shikibu. The members of her sect regard her as a living saint. Yet instead of balming his soul, she riles his libido by playing a sexual cat-and-mouse game with the fragile Toyoichi. When she does bed him, it leads to a miracle healing -- followed by a terrible calamity.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.

소설을 각색해 영화 만들기를 선호했던 ‘문예감독’ 이치가와 곤이 일본의 근대작가 다니자키 준이치로의 풍속 소설을 스크린으로 옮겼다. 오사카의 몰락한 상류층 집안 네 자매의 사랑과 일상을 잔잔하게 그린 작품. 마키오카 가문의 셋째 딸 유키코는 온화하고 정숙한 여성이지만 마땅한 신랑감을 찾지 못해 언니들의 속을 썩인다. 한편 철부지 막내딸 테코는 보석상의 아들과 눈이 맞아 달아나고, 신문에서는 이 사건을 다루면서 테코의 이름을 유키코로 잘못 보도해 소동이 벌어진다.

The film takes place in the popular tourist spot of Karuizawa. A working class student named Junichi becomes a waiter there in order to mix in with the upper classes. A stylish Roman Porno directed by Konuma, commemorating Nikkatsu's 70th anniversary.

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.

Film version of the popular TV drama based on the life of painter Kiyoshi Yamashita. Sent to an institution for mentally handicapped children by his parents, he began creating artworks using torn strips of paper. After running away to avoid army conscription, he began his wanderings around Japan, encountering many scenes which he would recreate as torn paper art from his amazing photographic memory. He was known as the Japanese Van Gogh, and the series depicted his many encounters with both people and places on his journeys.

Mariko is living the life of a typical Japanese college student in the 70's, spending far more of her time balancing boyfriends and part-time jobs than on her schoolwork. She finds herself torn between a former boyfriend who's the tough, insensitive-but-sexy, type, and a new acquaintance who's more sensitive to her feelings, but who still acts childishly selfish at times. Will she choose one of them, or decide to go her own way?

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.

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...

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.

Roman Porno from 1978. Director Toshiya Fujita and screenwriter Kaneto Shindo adapted Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' 18th-century epistolary novel 'Les Liaisons dangereuses' to a contemporary setting. An abominable and burning jealousy and an evil relationship between a man and a woman unfold in the nature of a game. Eventually, jealousy's ripples deeply hurt the true love of a chaste married woman.

늙고 남루한 행색의 치쿠잔은 앞이 안 보이는 눈으로 전국을 유랑하며 샤미센을 연주한다. 그는 전국을 다니며 노래를 수집하고 이를 다시 사람들 앞에서 아름답게 연주한다. 영화는 치쿠잔의 50년에 걸친 음악 인생을 담담하게, 때로는 극적으로 보여준다.

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

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.

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

여죄수 사소리 701호 원한의 노래

1873년 메이지 시대의 일본. 시마네현 코이치 마을이라는 시골 마을의 교사가 된 남편 고와 함께 어린 아들 시로를 데리고 가던 카시마 사요는 3명의 남자들과 1명의 여자에게 공격당해 남편과 아들은 잔인하게 살해당하고 자신은 처참하게 윤간, 폭행을 당한다. 자신을 끌고 갔던 쇼케이 도쿠이치를 죽이고 나머지를 찾아 다니다가 붙잡혀 살인 혐의로 수감된 그녀는 남은 자들에게 복수하기 위해, 그리고 그 복수를 실현시켜줄 아이를 낳기 위해 닥치는 대로 간수들을 유혹하여 관계를 가진다. 그 결과 유키(雪)라는 딸을 낳은 그녀는 난산으로 인해 죽게 된다. 복수를 위해 아이를 키워달라는 사요의 유언을 기억하던 감방 동기들 중 하나이며 아이를 받아주었던 미카즈키 오토라에 의해 유키는 무사출신의 승려인 도카이(道海)로부터 검술을 배우고 20세가 되었을 때에 복수의 화신으로 어머니의 원수들을 하나하나 처리하기 시작한다. 코이치 마을 출신인 거지집단의 두목 마츠에몬의 도움을 받아 나머지 세 명의 행방을 수소문하게 된다

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tortured, and manages to escape, fighting both the male yakuzas and a gang of female thieves.

Teenage film

섹스 앤 퓨리는 오초가 등에 새겨진 독특한 문신(사슴, 멧돼지, 나비)으로 확인되는 아버지의 살인자들을 찾아다니면서 오초의 위업을 기록한다. 그녀는 또한 유명한 정치인 구로카와를 살해하기 위한 급진주의자 쇼누스케와 도박꾼 행세를 하는 미국 스파이 크리스티나와 길을 건넌다.

배신한 연인을 살해하고 감옥에 들어간 사소리는 강간과 린치 등 지옥과도 같은 고통을 겪게 된다. 참고 참았지만 결국 사소리는 자신을 지옥으로 내몬 남자들을 향한 복수의 길을 택하게 된다. 만화를 원작으로 한 《여죄수 사소리》는 이후 《수라설희》 등 '여성의 잔혹한 복수‘를 다룬 영화에 큰 영향을 주었다. 주연을 맡은 카지 메이코의 스타일리시한 연기가 일품. (2017년 제21회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.

Pinku from 1971.

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

기차바보로 불리고 있는 로쿠찬은, 튀김가게를 하고 있는 어머니와 살고 있다. 로쿠찬의 방에는, 로쿠찬이 그린 기차그림이 도처에 붙어 있었다. 그는 매일 가상의 기차를 운전해 거리를 돈다. 그것이 그의 일인 것이다. 로쿠찬을 비롯해 이 거리의 거주자들은 불행한 사람들뿐이었다. 날품팔이 인부 마스다 부부와 시마 부부가 있다. 두 명의 남편은 언제나 같이 출근하고 , 술에 취해 돌아온다. 두 명의 아내도 사이가 좋았다. 어느 날 취해 돌아온 두 명의 남편들은은 각각의 집을 잘못 들어가고...

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Hanawa, but as he leaves, he is unaware that a boy is watching him. Toru's new employer asks him to kill a competitor in drug sales, but...

TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.

나가사키에 있는 독일의료원에서 의학공부를 마치고 에도로 돌아온 야스모토는 시골 병원에서 인턴 과정을 밟게 된다. 귀족들을 상대하는 왕립의료원에서 일하기를 원했던 그는 하층민들이 주로 오는 공동 진료소로 오게 되자 불만을 품게 된다. 하지만 자만심으로 가득 차 있던 야스모토는 ‘붉은 수염’이라 불리는 시골 병원장의 진정한 모습에 점차 동화되어 가면서 진정한 의술을 배우게 된다.

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.

낮에는 조선소에서 일하고 밤에는 철조망이 쳐진 기숙사에서 지내는 시마자키는 거친 일과 가난한 현실이 불만스럽다. 패싸움 등 하루가 멀다 하고 사건이 발생하는 힘든 일상 속에서 그나마 위로가 되는 것은 이웃에 사는 미코지만 그는 그녀에게도 쉽게 마음을 주지 않는다. 하지만 시간이 흐르며 조금씩 여유를 갖기 시작한 시마자키는 동료들과 짧은 일탈을 시도한다.

US version. The re-edited John Beck version of the film: released outside of Japan and restructured with new footage of American actors centering around a news report plot not present in the original. Eric Carter of United Nation News is joined by Dr. Arnold Johnson as a prehistoric monster emerges from hibernation while a pharmaceutical company seeks publicity with their own monster.

세계적인 제약회사의 회장인 다코는 연구원인 사쿠라이 오사무와 후루에 긴자부로를 파로 섬으로 보낸다. 파로 섬에서만 자라는 소마 열매는 강력한 마취 성분을 갖고 있으며 중독성이 없는데, 그는 이 열매로 신약을 개발하려 한다. 또한 다코 회장은 연구원들에게 킹콩의 존재 여부 또한 알아올 것을 부탁한다.파로 섬에 도착한 사쿠라이와 후루에는 킹콩을 발견하고, 소마 열매로 킹콩을 마취시켜 일본으로 데려온다. 한편 7년 전 빙하에 갇혔던 고질라가 깨어나고 바다를 건너 일본에 출몰한다. 일본으로 끌려온 킹콩도 탈출하는데 성공하여 마침내 두 괴물이 격돌하게 되는데...

전쟁에서 겪은 사고 때문에 청각을 잃은 아키코는 특수학교에서 만난 청각장애인 미치오와 결혼한다. 척박한 환경 속에서도 두 사람은 작은 행복을 향해 열심히 노력하고, 영화는 이들이 삶에서 만나는 기쁨과 슬픔, 고난의 순간을 생생하게 묘사한다.

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.

May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.

An Ishiro Honda film.

사방을 둘러싸이고 햇빛이 들지 않는 에도의 변두리에 동할 연립 주택. 더러워져 몹시 황폐해진 이곳에 이미 인간임을 단념한 무리가 살고 있다. 하지만 외관의 비참함과는 반대로 연립 주택에는 낙천적인 공기가 떠돌고 있었다. 어느 날 이 연립 주택에 떠돌이 노인이 들어왔다. 이 세상의 거센 파도에 휩쓸려 온 노인은 연립 주택의 무리에게 여러 가지 이야기를 해주었다. 환자의 아침에는 평온함을 배우에 게는 알콜 중독을 달래 주는 말을. 그러한 노인의 말에 연립 주택의 분위기는 점점 이상해져 가고...

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close to the bank clerk (Mifune Toshiro) she's asked for a loan.

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuya himself has fallen in love, with a nurse after his recent hospital stay. As the gang grows more jealous of the favoritism Furuya shows Shoji, they decide to reveal Shoji's relationship with Natsue. But Furuya's affection for Shoji cannot be easily destroyed, even in the gang war that erupts.

료타로와 후미코 부부는 요즘 부쩍 다투는 일이 많아졌다. 아내가 읽지도 않은 신문의 요리란을 먼저 자르는 것이나, 남편이 혼자 주말에 외출하는 것 등 서로에게 서운함을 느끼는 일이 계속 벌어지는 것이다. 그런데 옆집에 젊은 부부인 넨키치와 히나코가 이사 오면서 자신들의 관계를 돌아볼 기회가 생긴다.

주물공장을 경영하는 노인 나카지마 기이치는 원자폭탄과 수소폭탄의 위협을 피하려면 일본을 떠나야 한다며, 전 재산을 던져 브라질로 이민을 준비한다. 브라질 이민을 결코 찬성할 수 없는 가족들은 그를 한정치산자로 선고해 달라고 가정법원에 신청한다. 가정재판소의 조정위원을 맡고 있는 치과의사 하라다는 나카지마 노인의 주장에 마음이 흔들리면서도, 현실적인 선택으로 한정치산자 선고를 인정할 수밖에 없다. 아무것도 할 수 없게 된 나카지마 노인은 핵에 대한 불안과 공포 속에 점차 기력을 잃어가고, 공장을 포기하지 않으려는 자식들을 설득하기 위해 급기야 공장에 불을 지르기에 이른다.

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question "What is war?", showing the human bonds between Japan and America, Japanese military tactics which had little regard for life, and the attitude of Japanese military personnel who treated their actions as if they were just doing a job. This film contains few battle scenes, concentrating instead on the love stories of young officers and female members of the community in this lonely air base.

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

미크로네시아의 북마리아나 제도의 아나타한(Anatahan) 섬에서 일어난 사건에 기반한 영화. 면적 32㎢ 정도인 작은 섬에서 여자 1명과 남자 31명이라는 남초 성비로 7년간 살아야 했던 이야기이다. 이후 여자를 둘러싼 갈등이 발생했고 살인 등의 사고가 벌어졌다. 미군에 의해 생존자들이 구조되면서 사건은 막을 내렸다.