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.

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel between their activities and the seasonal variations in Japan.

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.

A 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player Takahashi Chikuzan.

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.

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.

Yuki, nasce dentro de uma prisão, e, desde seu primeiro minuto de vida, herda um legado obsessivo de vingança dos quatro malfeitores que mataram seu pai e estupraram sua mãe. Desde cedo ela é treinada em artes marciais, já crescida, sai em sua missão de vingança, armada com uma lâmina escondida no seu guarda-chuva.

Ocho é sequestrado por um clã yakuza que usa uma quadrilha de mulheres para contrabandear drogas nas suas vaginas. Descobrindo que o chefe do crime havia matado o último chefe e sequestrado a sua filha, Ocho une forças com as mulas das drogas contra o clã.

Teenage film

Sexo e Fúria narra as façanhas de Ocho enquanto ela procura os assassinos do seu pai, cada um identificado por tatuagens únicas nas costas (um cervo, um javali e uma borboleta). Ao longo do caminho, ela também se cruza com Shonusuke, um grupo radical de assassinatos dos políticos proeminentes Kurokawa e Cristina, uma espiã americana que se apresenta como jogadora.

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

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.

Vários contos na vida de habitantes de favelas de Tóquio, incluindo um jovem mentalmente deficiente obcecado com a condução de seu próprio bonde. Ao mesmo tempo trágico e transcendente, esse filme de Akira Kurosawa acompanha o cotidiano de um grupo de pessoas maltrapilhas em uma favela nos arredores de Tóquio. Por mais desesperadoras que sejam suas circunstâncias, cada um deles - O pai e o filho sem teto imaginando a casa de seus sonhos; A jovem abusada pelo tio; O garoto que se imagina um condutor de bonde - encontra razões para continuar. O inesquecível Dodes'ka-den foi feito num momento tumultuado na vida de Kurosawa. E todas as suas esperanças, medos e paixão artística estão em exibição fervorosa neste filme, seu primeiro filme gloriosamente a cores. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

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.

No Japão do século 19 , em um hospital de caridade o Dr. Niide (Toshiro Mifune), um médico duro mas honrado, conduz um jovem estagiário sob sua orientação ao longo de inúmeros casos difíceis. Ambientado em tempos feudais, médico novato, Yuzo Kayama, é enviado para uma enfermaria pobre esperando ser apenas passageiro, mas está furioso ao saber que ele deve ficar. Ele tenta provocar sua dispensa, mas é frustrado pelo médico-chefe "Barba Vermelha" (Toshiro Mifune), um homem cujos métodos são tão carinhosos quanto imprevisíveis.

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.

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.

O mais famoso John Beck reeditou o filme original japonês. Eric Carter, do United Nation News, relata o surgimento de Godzilla no momento em que uma empresa farmacêutica japonesa busca publicidade com seu próprio monstro. Novas filmagens com atores americanos foram inseridas junto com várias cenas excluídas, alterando a estrutura narrativa e comédia do original para centrar em uma reportagem da ONU não presente no original. Grande parte da trilha sonora original também foi substituída em favor de músicas da Biblioteca Universal. Imagens de arquivo de The Mysterians também foram inseridas ao longo do filme. Devido ao acordo de licenciamento entre a Toho e a Universal, a edição americana é a versão primária e mais amplamente disponível do filme.

Os dois maiores monstros de todos os tempos batalham em uma clássica aventura emocionante. Quando uma dissimulada empresa farmacêutica vai até uma remota ilha tropical para roubar King Kong para fins publicitários, eles recebem mais do que esperavam quando o gigantesco macaco ataca uma desavisada aldeia e um enorme polvo. Enquanto isso, muito abaixo do mar, a tripulação de um submarino desencadeia terror reptiliano quando derretem um bloco de gelo e liberam o feroz Godzilla de seu covil gelado. Quando os dois destrutivos monstros aparecem em Tóquio, é uma luta que tem o futuro da humanidade na balança.

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

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.

Japão medieval. Em um cortiço degradado de Edo, um homem idoso (Rokubei) e sua amarga esposa (Osugi) alugam quartos e camas aos pobres e miseráveis. Os inquilinos são apostadores, prostitutas, pequenos ladrões e vagabundos bêbados, todos lutando para sobreviver. A chegada recente de Kahei, um homem idoso misterioso, afetuosamente chamado de vovô, dá pelo menos a esperança que há uma vida melhor lá fora, em algum lugar. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

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.

A husband and wife's pet peeves and minor irritations escalate into major rifts and animosity.

Kiichi Nakajima, um idoso proprietário de fundição, convencido de que o Japão será afetado por uma guerra nuclear iminente, resolve transferir sua família para a segurança no Brasil. Sua família decide que seja declarado incompetente e o Dr. Harada, um conselheiro do Tribunal Doméstico, tenta arbitrar. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)

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

Dirigido por Hideo Suzuki

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.

Doze marinheiros japoneses náufragos ficam encalhados em uma ilha abandonada e esquecida chamada An-ta-han por sete anos tensos de conflitos internos. Josef von Sternberg dirigiu, fotografou, fez a narração e escreveu o roteiro (a partir de um romance baseado no evento real de Michiro Maruyana traduzido por Younghill Kang). Os únicos habitantes da ilha são o superintendente da plantação abandonada e uma jovem japonesa atraente. A disciplina é mantida pelo antigo administrador, mas termina quando ele sofre um acidente e perde de face. Logo, a disciplina e a racionalidade são substituídas por uma luta pelo poder e pela mulher. O poder é representado por um par de pistolas encontradas nos destroços de um avião americano, tão importante que cinco homens pagam por suas vidas em uma tentativa de conquista-las. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)