Yoshio Harada

Yoshio Harada

Nascimento : 1940-02-29, Tokyo, Japan

Morte : 2011-07-19

História

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Yoshio Harada (February 29, 1940 - July 19, 2011) was a Japanese actor. A veteran of over 80 films, he has twice been nominated for the Best Actor Japanese Academy Award. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 11th Yokohama Film Festival for Dotsuitarunen and Kiss yori kantan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yoshio Harada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Yoshio Harada

Filmes

Someday
Yoshi Kazamatsuri
The annual kabuki show is the main attraction in a rural Japanese mountain town. However, Yoshi's life is thrown into disarray days before the performance when his estranged wife and former best friend arrive back in town...
O Que Eu Mais Desejo
Wataru
Dois irmãos se afastam após a separação dos pais. O mais velho vive com a mãe e o outro com o pai, mas enquanto o primeiro sonha que a família viva toda junta novamente, o outro não quer isso em hipótese nenhuma. A chegada do trem-bala na região é acompanhada de um mito entre as crianças de que no encontro de dois trens existe uma liberação de energia grande o suficiente para realizar um desejo, e o irmão mais velho planeja uma viagem secreta para encontrar-se com o mais novo em uma cidade onde o encontro dos trens é provável para pedir que a família fique junta novamente.
300 Million
Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
Zatoichi: The Last
Genkichi
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.
Golden Flower: What Is Hidden Is the True Flower, What Is Gone Is the Butterfly
Nursing home "Yuyoso". Many lonely old people live there, including botanist Taro Makiso, a physicist, an actor, a bar mom, and a chef. Maki has spent most of his life studying botany, and has lived without regard for entertainment, drinking, women, or everything else in the world. Then came my 80th birthday. He and a young staff member go digging for wild yam and find a mysterious golden flower. It was the flower of immortality, the "Golden Flower", which was said to bloom beside the Himalayan Virgin, which he had been looking for for many years. From that day onwards, fragments of memories from his youth, which he had intentionally sealed off in order to immerse himself in botany, surged into Maki in a whirlpool.
Fish of the Fire
Shozo murata
Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single episode TV drama that was broadcast on NHK Hiroshima in 2009. The story describes the interactions between an elderly author and a young staffer from a publishing company as they collaborate on a book cover design for the author's latest novel.
Bare Essence of Life
Dr. Misawa
Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can't focus on extended conversations. His life revolves around farming his grandmother's vegetable garden. Yojin experiences a new kind of feeling when he meets a pretty young lady named Machiko. The feelings are strong enough that he feels the need to be with her and gain her affection.
Then Summer Came
Nobuo Kanzaki
A humorous wedding story fueled by a rather no-good father and son, disguised as the old and new “good guys.” The father Nobuo, and his son Tamio, are unable to mature, unable to break the parent-child roles, have no sense of responsibility, and keep holding on to the past. The pair is overwhelmed by all the colorful characters around them telling them what to do. They go to strenuous and humorous efforts to make Tamio’s wedding an event to remember.
Andando
Kyohei Yokoyama
Um drama familiar que decorre num dia de Verão quando dois filhos adultos vão visitar os pais idosos. Os pais, cada dia mais velhos, habitam na casa da família há décadas. O filho e a filha regressam para um raro encontro familiar, trazendo as respectivas famílias consigo. Juntaram-se para honrar a memória do filho mais velho, que morreu num acidente, há quinze anos. Esta é um típica família disfuncional unida pelo amor, por ressentimentos e segredos.
Little DJ
Yuji Takasaki
Taro is a 12-year-old into baseball and radio, especially "Music Express," a song-request show. Sound quaint? But it is 1977 and a small town in Hokkaido, a more innocent, pure-hearted time and place, we are told. Taro, however, has a blood disease that lands him in the hospital where his aunt is a nurse. Rounds of tests, transfusions and injections sap his spirit, despite the kindness and dedication of his young doctor and the Doctor's hospital-director father. The latter, a music buff who broadcasts classics over the hospital's PA system, asks Taro to relieve him as DJ — and soon the boy is ensconced in the hospital director's well-stocked library-cum-studio, spinning popular J-Pop tunes. He also becomes acquainted with Tamaki, a girl he first calls "the mummy" because of her bandages and full body cast — she was injured in a traffic accident. He later changes his tune when she is revealed as a cute 13-year-old — for him, an older woman...
The Invitation from Cinema Orion
Based on the short story from the best-selling collection "Poppoya" by Jiro Asada, "The Invitation from Cinema Orion" tells the story of a couple's undying love for the cinema and each other.
United Red Army
The film is told in three acts, beginning with a historical background of Japan's student movement of the 1960s and early 1970s, mostly using archive footage and a narrator. The second act follows the formation of the group to their mountain training camps in the southern Japanese Alps. It emphasizes the dogmatic (and eventually hypocritical) bullying of the group by Mori and Nagata, with 12 members being killed for infractions as small as improperly cleaning a gun, wearing make-up, and kissing. The third act shows the splitting up of the group after two members run off. It follows one group of five members to Karuizawa and a hostage-taking and police standoff known as the Asama-Sansō incident.
Dororo
Jukai
Depois de uma sangrenta batalha, um guerreiro faz um pacto com 48 demônios: Em troca de poder, ele dá todos os membros e órgãos internos de seu futuro filho aos demônios. Ao nascer completamente sem órgãos e membros, o bebê é abandonado num rio e adotado por um velho eremita, que com a ciência e tecnologia que só existem no mundo dos mangás, constrói os membros e órgãos para a criança a partir de pedaços de cadáveres. Ao crescer, Hyakkimaru descobre que se quiser ter os seus membros e órgãos verdadeiros de volta, precisa de matar os demônios a quem os membros foram oferecidos...
Nightmare Detective
Keizo Oishi
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying turn. Keiko Kirishima is a cool, seemingly emotionless police detective, brilliant but off-putting. She's faced with two mutilated corpses who appear to have killed themselves, but she's not sure. A cell-phone number links the deaths. She calls on Akumu Tantei, a poor and suicidal young man who has the ability to enter people's dreams. He's reluctant to help. His past haunts him. A subconscious duel of terror and blood awaits the three.
The Bicycle Thief Was Bad
Steel-worker Saito Tetsuo, driven by an unexplained anxiety, steals bike after bike to move away from his hometown to Tokyo. Through snow-storms and empty landscapes, the breathtaking photography allows us to look deep into the mindscape of a man searching for an answer - although the question itself is never quite articulated.
What's a Director?
Works commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of Japan mapping Supervision Association
Hana
Junai Onodera
Em um bairro pobre de Edo vive um jovem samurai chamado Soza. Ele foi enviado por seu clã para vingar a morte de seu pai. No entanto, ele não é um samurai talentoso e prefere compartilhar a vida dos residentes e ensinar as crianças a escrever. Quando ele finalmente encontrar o homem que está procurando, terá que decidir se segue o caminho do samurai ou escolhe paz e reconciliação.
Waters
Seven young Tokyoites get scammed into working as hosts for "Dog Days" bar. Will they be able to overcome their individual differences and keep the club open?
Aegis
Koichiro Kajimoto
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No sooner is the Isokaze on open water, however, then the FTG reveal themselves to be terrorist stowaways who kill the ship's captain, send the rest of the crew overboard and take control of the vessel. The ship is carrying a secret biological weapon which the terrorists are now threatening to use to level Tokyo! Only a stowaway NCO, Sengoko (played by Sanada Hiroyuki from Ring and Twilight Samurai) is in a position to stop them - but does he really have what it takes to save the day? Playing like a cross between a sea-faring version of Top Gun and Die Hard, director Sakamoto Junji shows that it's not just Hollywood that can produce thrill-a-minute action spectaculars.
Drawing Restraint 9
The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest in religious rite, this time focusing on Shinto
Izo
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
The Face of Jizo
Takezou Fukuyoshi
Based on a play by Hisashi Inoue, it focuses on the sufferings of the survivors of Hiroshima. The film takes place during 4 days in the summer of 1948, as the ghost of her father visits Mitsué (Rié Miyama). He had somehow learned that she has fallen in love, and tries to convince her to start her new life. But Mitsué obstinately refuses his warm and humorous encouragements : « People were killed in my place. I do not have the right to find happiness », she says.
Heaven's Bookstore
Yamaki
Heaven's Bookstore is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Tetsuo Shinohara about a struggling classical pianist who is sent to heaven to work in a bookstore. It is based on two novels, written by Atsushi Matsuhisa and Wataru Tanaka.
Karaoke Terror
Hirota - the Shop Owner in Gunma
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!
9 Souls
Torakichi Hasegawa
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Time Limit
Mizusawa (Takenouchi Yutaka), an explosives expert, is arrested and charged with a string of bank robberies. Because he is a flight risk, Detective Kayama (Ogata Ken) is assigned to transport Mizusawa to Shizuoka for questioning. On the way, Kayama receives word that the hotel where his wife and daughter are attending a party has been rigged with a time bomb. Being a "by-the-book" kind of cop, Kayama refuses to abandon his job and return to help his family. Meanwhile, the hotel is swarming with police and the bomb squad who are searching for the bomb and the culprit. Time is almost up. Mizusawa claims that he is the only who who can deactivate the bomb.
Azumi
Gessai Obata
Uma guerra no Japão faz com que o país seja devastado. Desesperado em restaurar a paz, Tokugawa Shogun, líder de um clã, ordena o assassinato de um comandante inimigo. Para realizar a tarefa é selecionada Azumi (Aya Ueto), uma jovem e bonita mulher que foi selecionada ao nascer, juntamente com outros 9 órfãos, para se tornar uma assassina.
A Forest with No Name
Client
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
A Boy's Summer in 1945
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Kirishima") is a lyric, novelistic drama set in the countryside in the last days before Japan's surrender ending WWII. Striking a welcome retro note in its languid pacing and delicate handling of seriocomic ensemble threads, handsome production is a natural for fests. It might also prove a cornerstone for retrospectives or ancillary releases of works by a helmer ("Preparation of the Festival," "Ronin-gai") who's long been appreciated at home but has won just limited attention abroad.
Madness in Bloom
Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss, Aota takes an interest in the three, the boys gradually become influenced by him, but start to go their different ways.
KT
Akikazu Kamikawa
This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jun.
Women's Kunishû Rebellion
Onna Kuni Shuu Ikki is a 2002 Japanese historical drama directed by Takashi Miike. It is one of three historical films included in the 2002 DVD compilation, Kumamoto Monogatari. The other two are Kikuchi-jo Monogatari: Sakimori-tachi no Uta and Zuiketsu Genso: Tonkararin Yume Densetsu, both also directed by Miike.
Pickpocket
Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves the groper of his wallet. More often than not they're observed by a middle-aged cop, who generally lets Kaido go free. Rei is unsettled when Kaido takes on a young street punk, Kazuki, as an apprentice -- with instructions to make Kaido stop drinking. Kazuki, however, would like to go into business with Rei.
Party 7
Captain Banana
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the briefcase, another mobster sent to kill them, master voyeur Captain Banana and his new apprentice, The Mister Yellow. Who will end up with the money?
Zawa-zawa Shimokita-sawa
Kyushiro
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
Another Heaven
Detective Tobitaka
A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a suspect. Will they bring the terror to an end, or will they become part of it themselves?
The Story of PuPu
Joji
Fu and Suzu are two pretty anarchist girls who decide to take to the road. They set off on a journey to visit the tomb of a small pig by name Pupu. On the way, they meet Suzu's ex-lover, a gay couple, and a golf player; always getting in trouble. But whenever trouble comes, 'Trunk Man' the hero appears to save them.
A Yakuza in Love
When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.
Onibi: The Fire Within
Noriyuki Kunihiro
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Born to Be Baby
A detective, a mysterious beauty Ekin and other characters appear in the film. It creates a mysterious visual world that takes us one step further into the world of Ekin. This is the second art documentary film produced by the Museum of Art, Kochi, following Hiroyuki Oki's HEAVEN-6-BOX. This time, the stage performances of butoh greats Maro Akaji and Dairakudakan were documented by Hayashi Kaizo.
Billiken
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. It's a small god with a pointed head, a fat belly and a characteristic smile. When the casket in which the statuette was found is broken, the spirit of Billiken is free. After that he tries to fulfill the wishes of all those who had prayed to him, but it doesn't always works.
Kagerô 2
An entertainment drama depicting the conflict of yakuza, centering on the female torso and her sister's feud.
House of Sleeping Beauties
Yoshio Eguchi
About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The old men are expected to take sleeping pills and share the bed for a whole night with a girl without attempting anything of bad taste like putting a finger inside their mouths.
The Breath
Haida, once a famous private detective, is now down and out and running out of reasons to live. One day, while engaging in a group volunteer project to clean up a river, he loses what's left of his will to live and lets the water carry him away. He ends up rescuing a drowning man who alters his view of life totally. Soon he gets a job investigating the mysterious disappearance of a student who sent her mother a cryptic letter, "Wait a bit, Mother. I'm sending my breath. It will arrive soon."
Ring
Ryuji Takayama
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?
The Girl of Silence
Shizuo Tanaka
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
The Mystery of Rampo
Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government, deemed too disturbing and injurious to the public to be allowed to be published. However, after burning his drafts, his publisher shows him a newspaper with an account of events just like his forbidden story. As the film progresses, fantasy and reality intermingle in a tale that draws heavily on influences from Poe and Stoker's Dracula. The film's strongly Expressionistic direction skillfully combines a variety of media (animation, computer-generated imagery, grainy black-and-white fast film stock, color negatives) for artistic effect.
Marcado para Morrer
Takeda
Paul Racine, um executivo de negócios americano de alta potência no Japão, é catapultado para um labirinto de perigos e intrigas depois que ele e sua sexy companheira são alvos de assassinos contratados pelo implacável Kinjo. Para sobreviver, Racine deve unir forças com um poderoso samurai e juntos eles vão lutar contra a força do mal em uma batalha incrível enraizada em séculos de conflitos brutais.
The Anthropology of a Fight Scene
A man must overcome many obstacles as he works his way through the dangerous crime world to the level of yakuza.
Singapore Sling
Tatsuya is on a honeymoon in Australia. A couple of unfortunate encounters land him in jail, where he’s imprisoned without a chance of ever getting out again. His wife tries her best to launch an appeal, but it’s Tatsuya’s inmates who are his best chance of escaping his current predicament.
Marriage
An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.
Netorare Sosuke
Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.
The Triple Cross
Noji
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
Nowhere Man
Homeless
Sukezo, a farmer manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but business does not go well and the family becomes progressively poorer.
Yumeji
Wakiya
A vida ficcionalizada do pintor e poeta Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934). Yumeji está em Kanazawa, esperando a chegada de sua amante Hikono, quando se depara com a bela viúva Tomoyo, que perambula pelas cercanias de um lago procurando o corpo de seu marido Wakiya, supostamente assassinado por um bandido. O pintor fica impressionado com Tomoyo e ajuda a viúva em sua busca. Em seguida, eles se tornam amantes. A trama fica mais complexa quando aparecem Matsu, o suposto bandido assassino, e a modelo Oyo, também amante de Yumeji. Até que o próprio Wakiya reaparece, sem que saibamos tratar-se de um fantasma ou de uma presença real. Último volume da “trilogia Taisho,” o filme intensifica os procedimentos oníricos e alucinatórios dos filmes anteriores, chamando mais a atenção para os elementos simbólicos e as atmosferas do que para a trama.
The Last Frankenstein
Dr. Akira Aryo
Professor Sarusawa and his psychic daughter Mai live together after the suicide of the Professor's wife years earlier - which was caused by a suicide plague running rampant throughout the city. Dr. Aryo lives in a nearby castle with his wife, whom Dr. Aryo created, and a hunchbacked assistant. Dr. Aryo once worked at the same university with Professor Sarusawa but was fired for his morbid experiments. Now, Dr. Aryo may hold the key to unlocking the origins & cure for the suicide virus which Professor Sarusawa may now have. Meanwhile Professor Sarusawa's daughter Mai can be bring to life Dr. Aryo's stitched up cadavers which Dr. Aryo hopes to create a new race with.
Summer of the Lion Kings
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Katsu, who met Osamu who belongs to the conflicting Dainippon Kyokushinkai, feels the real gangster scent of Osamu.
Tekken
A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...
Ready to Shoot
Katsuhiko Goda
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.
Ronin-gai
Gennai Aramaki
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
Evil Emblem
Aida, a daredevil detective who isn't afraid of power or challenges. The great evil has begun investigating a major corruption case involving a leading trade company and the nation.
Circus Boys
Yoshimoto
Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the countryside working as a con-man. After a run-in with a local gang of yakuza, he is invited to join their ranks, where he makes the mistake of falling for a boss's mistress. Wataru stays with the circus and works hard to regain its former glory
Knockout
Makio Sajima
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
Business Trip
Dream Street
Mori Masahisa
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
It's Easier Than Kissing
Mr. Roku
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
Tomorrow
Yamaguchi
On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and their feelings of joy and sadness. These include a newlywed couple, an expectant mother, and lovers who must say farewell because the boy is called to serve in the army. Each of these people, like others in the city, hoped to live with their dreams for ‘tomorrow’. But tomorrow never comes for them, as their lives are brought to an abrupt and unexpected end. Knowing how the story ends, in this case, doesn't detract from it at all; rather, it enhances the emotional impact, which is further heightened by the poignant musical score from Teizo Matsumura. 'Ashita' is the first film in Kazuo Kuroki's 'War Requiem Trilogy,' which also includes 'Utsukushii Natsu Kirishima' (2002) and 'Chichi to Kuraseba' (2004).
Flying
A young woman aspires to be a motorboat racing champion.
This Story of Love
Life and love stories of stunt men and women.
Paper Lantern
The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
The New Morning of Billy the Kid
Harry Callahan
All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out of the photo and gets a job as a waiter. Along with him on the working staff are a samurai straight out of the history books, a G.I. from World War II, and several other anachronistic characters. The plot (as such) revolves around keeping away the brutal mobsters and thugs who dominate the city streets outside of the bar, making the tavern safe for its easily recognized facsimiles of well-known characters.
Cabaret
Shirae
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
Take It Easy
Coming of age film about rock musicians.
No More Comics!
Producer
Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.
Let Him Rest in Peace
takahata yoshio
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant. Barbara plans to help her escape from this hell. Aiko has been sent to Mihama. Without even thinking for a moment, Barbara decided to go see her friend.
You Gotta Chance
The second of Kazuki Omori's pre-Godzilla idol trilogy starring Koji Kikkawa. Omori's mid-1980s opus is full of excess; a shining example of what Japan was like during the 80s when it was lost in the dream of the bubble economy.
Out of Focus
A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and upon arrival and on her first day is tasked with immediately snapping pictures. Her boss sends her on a mission with a senior colleague. The senior cameraman uses rogue ways surprising his new colleague. A new assignment related to a former Japanese Prime Minister falls on her lap. The court does not look fondly at photography of this kind.
Farewell to the Ark
Daisaku Tokito
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
Yonamine
In Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily escapes the pursuing mob by fleeing to the Philippines, hoping to find there safety and perhaps to link up with his father. He meets Yoko, a saloon girl, who looks after him, but soon Joe's enemies show up, determined to make Joe pay.
Sukanpin Walk
Tsutomu Yahagi
Musical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
A Bridge of Tears
Japanese drama film.
Manji
Takeshi Kakeuchi
Kleptomaniac Sonoko and young, beautiful Mitsuko begin an unusual love affair which develops fast into a kinky sexual love triangle when Sonoko’s husband gets involved.
Tattoo
Bookstore Father
An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.
A Pool Without Water
The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he watches his son subdue an insect with a chemical, the man gets an idea to subdue women while they're sleeping so he won't be discovered sneaking into their home. His new hobby spirals out of control as his confidence grows.
Kagero-za
Wada
Tóquio, 1926. Shunko Matsuzaki é um dramaturgo de teatro shinpa (moderno), e tem como mecenas o poderoso Tamawaki. Um dia, ele se depara com a bela Shinako numa ponte. Ela pede que Matsuzaki a acompanhe até o hospital para fazer uma visita a uma mulher moribunda. Ela deseja sua companhia pois tem medo de encontrar uma senhora vendedora de fisális, fruta que supostamente contém as almas das mulheres. Matsuzaki recusa, mas Shinako retorna em outras aparições, e torna-se sua amante. Em seguida, ela desaparece. Tempos depois, Matsuzaki descobre que Shinako pode ser o fantasma de uma antiga esposa de Tamawaki. Depois de receber uma carta de Shinako, Matsuzaki viaja para Kanazawa a fim de encontrá-la. No trem, ele encontra Tamawaki, que diz que está viajando para presenciar um suicídio por amor. Segundo filme da “trilogia Taisho,” que segue o mesmo estilo alucinatório do primeiro.
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
Teruo Miyazato
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
Mister, Missus, Miss Lonely
Eisuke Misaki
Two men and a woman plan to steal 1.5 Billion yen.
Zigeunerweisen
Nakasago
Aochi, um professor universitário de alemão, encontra com seu antigo colega Nakasago quando viaja de férias para um vilarejo à beira-mar. Nakasago vive como nômade e é perseguido por um grupo local, acusado de ter seduzido e assassinado a mulher de um pescador. Depois que Aochi resolve a situação do amigo com a polícia, os dois jantam e conversam sobre a vida, acompanhados pela gueixa Koine. Seis meses depois, Aochi volta para visitar o amigo e descobre que ele está casado com Sono, uma mulher incrivelmente parecida com Koine. Repentinamente, Nakasago foge com Koine, abandonando Sono, que está grávida. Mas tudo pode ser sonho, delírio ou realidade. Acompanhando a trama, a peça musical “Zigeunerweisen” (1878), de Pablo de Sarasate, toca com insistência. Primeiro filme da “trilogia de Taisho,” que faz referência ao Japão dos anos 1910-1920, foi vencedor de quatro prêmios da Academia Japonesa em 1981, incluindo os de Melhor Filme e Melhor Diretor.
Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
Goodbye, Flickmania
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.
The Fang in the Hole
A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.
At Noon
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing transistor and television. He catches up with his friend Tetsuji, the only that haven’t left yet. But one night, Tetsuji decides to leave for Tokyo with a bar hostess.
Shag
In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
Lost Love
Sakata
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.
Shogun's Samurai
Sanza Nagoya (Flute Player)
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Ballad of Orin
Heitaro
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
História de Melancolia e Tristeza
Miyake
A model must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
Hangyaku no Tabi
Japanese action film.
Manhunt
Detective Yamura
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
Outlaw Cop
Tsuyoshi Nishino
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Preparation for the Festival
Toshihiro Nakajima
Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.
Pastoral: To Die in the Country
Arashi
A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
The Assassination of Ryoma
Ryoma Sakamoto
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
Lady Snowblood: Uma Canção de Amor e Vingança
Shusuke Tokunaga
Anos depois da trama do primeiro filme, Lady Snowblood está presa, sentenciada à morte pelos crimes que cometeu. Ela é salva, a caminho da execução, por integrantes da polícia secreta, que lhe oferecem o perdão e a liberdade caso ela mate o líder de um grupo de revolucionários. Porém, ao constatar as tristes condições em que vive o povo, a assassina resolve se aliar aos seus alvos contra os políticos que a contrataram.
Slaughter in the Snow
Jokichi of Mikogami
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?
Did the Red Bird Escape?
A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
The Fearless Avenger
Jokichi of Mikogami
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by Yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.
The Trail Of Blood
Jokichi
Um homem pecador pode mudar e encontrar paz? É improvável no Japão infestado de gangues. Jokichi de Mikogami, um vagabundo (e espadachim), vai logo atrás de proteger uma mulher em apuros: eles se casam, têm um filho e Jokichi segue o ofício de seu pai. Depois de três anos, as gangues que ele envergonhou ao salvar sua esposa encontram a família e deixam Jokichi em luto, jurando vingança. Para aparar sua terrível espada rápida, gangues rivais unem forças, contratando uma prostituta para se passar por uma mulher que precisa de ajuda e quebrando o código de honra para enganar o vagabundo. Ele encontra aliados improváveis: um ladrão que o ajuda para se divertir e um espadachim caolho que pode ser igual a Jokichi em habilidade e honra.
Wet Sand in August
Priest
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Kanto Outlaw
Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
Pirania
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.
Step on the Gas!
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Melody of Rebellion
Tetsu Tsukada
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
Song of Vengeance
竹中克巳