Yukio Miyagi

An anthology film consisting of three linked stories by different directors, all set on an Okinawan island. The first story, 'Aunt Reiko' concerns an opera singer who travels back to her home island to consult a spiritualist about the loss of her voice. The second story, 'Haruko & Hideyoshi' concerns an outsider to the island who is tricked into marrying an island girl after visiting the island god of fertility with her. The final story, 'Bomb Kids' concerns two kids in a punk band who set out to win (or steal) a large amount of money. Linking these stories is the ongoing search for an unexploded WWII bomb, a large model pineapple, and the possibility of a hotel development coming to the island...

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?

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work

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.

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.

Dois contos ambientados em Edo durante a era Shogun. 1 - Durante um período em que os cristãos são perseguidos com veemência, Iori apaixona-se pela jovem cristã. Quando ela e sua família são capturadas durante um ataque, o seu sádico mestre leva a como sua escrava pessoal para atormentar Iori, e tenta quebrar o seu espírito por meio de violações, tortura e puro sadismo para com a sua amada. Depois de Iori se recusa a participar, ele é exilado, mas promete recuperá-la, não importa o que é necessário. 2 - Quando Sutezo é forçado a servir um mestre bárbaro de um bordel para pagar as suas dívidas, acabando por se torna amigo de uma jovem garota chamada Sato. Juntos, eles escapam e tentam sobreviver com pequenos golpes e furtos.

Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it's her job to break them in for future clients. The film finds Yuki involved with a group of political rebels and anarchists after the Peace Preservation Law was passed in 1925 and walks a fine line between black humor and severe cruelty.

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.

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…

Hirosuke (Teruo Yoshida), um estudante de medicina com quase nenhuma lembrança do seu passado, está preso num asilo, apesar de ser perfeitamente são. Depois de escapar do hospício, e sendo enquadrado pelo assassinato de uma menina de circo, ele vê a foto de um homem recentemente falecido, Genzaburo Komoda, a quem ele tem uma estranha semelhança. Ao fingir ter sido ressuscitado, Hirosuke assume a identidade do homem morto, enganando todos, incluindo a viúva e amante de Komoda. Enquanto na casa de Komoda, Hirosuke recorda memórias que o convencem a viajar para uma ilha próxima, a casa de Jogoro, o pai de Genzaburo. Enquanto na ilha, Hirosuke não só descobre os planos de Jogoro para construir sua "comunidade ideal" (transformando seres humanos perfeitamente normais em aberrações hediondas), mas também a terrível verdade por trás da sua própria identidade.

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.

Depois de três anos de estudo, Takezo transformou-se em um samurai bem-educado, e tomou um novo nome - Miyamoto Musashi. Apesar de seu amor por Otsu, ele sai para continuar a seu treinamento, desafiando os espadachins da Yoshioka Dojo e lanceiros do templo Hozo'in.

Depois de Takezo (Musashi) e seu amigo Matahachi acabarem no lado perdedor da batalha de Sekigahara, Matahachi decide começar uma nova vida com uma mulher mais velha. Quando Takezo retorna para casa para contar à noiva de Matahachi, Otsu, e mãe, Obaba, o que aconteceu, ele acaba sendo caçado como um fugitivo - e pendurado no topo de uma árvore por um enigmático monge.