Kimihiko Nakamura

Kageru's mother was killed by a demon when Kageru was five. But now there is an unexpected opportunity for revenge.

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.

When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!

A young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father loses his job, her mother cannot make ends meet, and then the boy she likes loses everything when his factory fails. She takes all her savings out of the bank and offers them to him to make a new start. He refuses at first but eventually agrees and so she goes back to school to tell her teacher that she has decided not to continue college, that she is young and strong, and can make her own way in life.

Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a victim, she forges a path to her own awakening.

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

É entre os camponeses, os miseráveis, os gângsteres e as prostitutas que Imamura encontra terreno fértil. A Mulher Inseto (Nippon Konchuki, 1963), uma de suas obras-primas do período, conta a história de uma camponesa que, tal como um inseto, faz sua escalada da sobrevivência. Tendo atravessado, desde a adolescência, a violência sexual e o incesto, sua mudança para a cidade grande a conduz diretamente à prostituição e afinal ao controle de um bordel, onde passa a praticar toda sorte de atos vis, dos quais antes fora vítima. O tratamento do personagem como uma verdadeira heroína é absolutamente novo no até então moralista cinema japonês. E as tomadas de estilo documental, nas quais freqüentemente o personagem principal não passa de uma cabeça perdida na multidão das ruas da cidade, propõem exatamente o oposto das imagens de estúdio da Shochiku, sempre bem compostas e nítidas.

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan, who had scooped him out of his misery during the time of the medical accident. At times of war, the two rekindle an old flame.

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Um jovem opta por trabalhar como cuidador de porcos da Yakuza ao invés de arranjar um emprego normal. Contrariado pela namorada e acreditando ser apenas um trabalho como outro qualquer, acaba sendo jogado em meio ao mundo do crime.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.

The film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of a best-selling book based on the diary of a ten-year-old zainichi (ethnic Korean Japanese) girl, it was one of the first films to deal with the subject of zainichi identity and struggles in Japan.

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

A delinquent young man (Kobayashi Akira) from a wealthy family decides to get in on a blackmailing scheme targeting his young stepmother (Watanabe Misako). However, he doesn't realize that his fellow blackmailers have their eyes on his girlfriend next.

This short comedy concerns the extramarital affair of a drugstore owner. It is based on a popular song by the star of the film, Frank Nagai.

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

A rumbunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister plot.

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

Saheji, um rebelde engenhoso, é obrigado a permanecer em um bordel para pagar sua dívida. No início, ele é tratado como um hóspede indesejável que nunca vai embora, mas logo se envolve com os hóspedes, anfitriões, criados e garotas de alterne – resolvendo os problemas de todos com sua inteligência.

Reiko vive um casamento abusivo com um homem 23 anos mais velho. Um dia, ela conhece um jovem empresário, que é o maior concorrente de negócios de seu marido, e se apaixona por ele. Enquanto isso, a viúva Mayumi começa uma relação com Shimotsuma, um amigo de seu falecido marido.

Reiko vive um casamento abusivo com um homem 23 anos mais velho. Um dia, ela conhece um jovem empresário, que é o maior concorrente de negócios de seu marido, e se apaixona por ele. Enquanto isso, a viúva Mayumi começa uma relação com Shimotsuma, um amigo de seu falecido marido.

Um grupo de soldados japoneses comuns é preso por crimes contra a humanidade, eles próprios vítimas de uma nação que se recusa a carregar o seu fardo como um todo. Da coleção "Criterion Collection": "Entre os primeiros filmes japoneses a lidar diretamente com as cicatrizes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, por ser um filme com conteúdo inflamatório, o filme foi engavetado pelo estúdio por três anos antes de ser lançado."

Com um riquixá e praticamente sem bagagem, um homem volta para casa das Filipinas. A Era Meiji acabava e muita coisa havia mudado. Depois de conhecer sua filha pela primeira vez, já com quatro anos de idade, ele tenta desesperadamente recuperar o tempo perdido com a família.

Um casal de jovens desempregados, Yoshiji e Tsutae, acaba nos subúrbios da zona de prostituição Suzaki, em Tóquio. Tsutae consegue um trabalho servindo saquê para homens em um pequeno bar, enquanto Yoshiji é contratado como entregador em uma loja próxima de noodles.

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry to bury his wife’s body, but along the way, he finds another dead body in the back of his car! Given no choice, Ise dumps both bodies. Meanwhile, Yoshie begins her search for her missing brother, Yoshihiko. After surprising twists and turns, Ise faces his fate.

Haruki Murakami é um homem de família de sucesso e chefe de uma empresa de câmeras. Sem o seu conhecimento, seu filho arrogante alterna entre uma amante e a cantora da boate local. Quando a filha deficiente de Murakami faz amizade com a amante, o caso amoroso abala toda a família.

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.

Um jovem e talentoso artista pintou um retrato de Wakako Kyogoku enquanto ela ainda era criança, que foi guardado com muito carinho pela menina. Anos depois, ela leva o quadro para uma galeria de arte em Ginza na esperança de reencontrar seu criador, cuja identidade lhe é desconhecida.

Sonejiro dedica sua vida inteiramente à pesquisa. A jovem dona de casa Yachiyo está decepcionada com seu marido Kappei, que se sente mais atraído pela escalada e por outra mulher. A felicidade de todos entra em jogo quando o pai de Yachiyo é apresentado a Sonejiro.

A Segunda Guerra Mundial está acabando e os baby boomers estão na flor da idade. O ministro Araki apresenta um projeto de lei para estabelecer Centros de Consulta de Controle de Natalidade em todo o Japão. Enquanto discursa na assembleia nacional, sua esposa fica sabendo que está grávida.

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world despite the fact that war is looming.

A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.

At the close of the war in Japan, a widowed mother makes every possible sacrifice to bring up her ungrateful son and daughter who are unimpressed with their poor standard of living at home. They gradually reject her in search of the material comforts that working as a maid cannot provide. The mother's despair becomes interminable.

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.