Kajiyama
A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues.
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
Grandfather
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious spirits in the form of old women.
Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya.
Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Ishiyama
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Suekichi Maruko
There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
Rhisley (voice)
В Европе появляется могущественная секта последователей пророчеств Нострадамуса. Её глава склоняет людей на свою сторону, уверяя, что у него есть потерянные главы пророчеств, в которых описываются события нашего времени. Но на самом деле - это всего лишь подделка, а настоящие потерянные главы находятся в хранилище одного из самых богатых людей в мире. Разумеется, секта самыми грязными методами будет пытаться заполучить настоящие пророчества. Но и знаменитый аферист Арсен Люпен Третий начинает за ними охоту, ведь неизвестный заказчик обещает 50 миллионов за эту книгу...
Katsuo
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the man's apartment. The contents of the cardboard are 1 billion yen in cash. It is said that this will be used to make a back loan. In front of the apartment, men line up for the money. Who on earth is Ginji Hirai and what is his motive? And what kind of fate will Tetsuo be involved in from now on ...?
Hanaoka
Термин «минбо» используют японские правоохранительные органы для обозначения тактики шантажа и угроз, к которой прибегают якудза для выколачивания денег из своих потенциальных жертв. Японские бандиты, в отличие от своих итальянских и иных коллег, редко прибегают к физическому насилию, если речь не идет о членах преступных кланов.
Старый, престижный отель претендует на проведение международного саммита. Но возникает проблема - в отель повадились ходить якудза, им он тоже очень нравится.
Руководство отеля назначает двух сотрудников ответственными за безопасность отеля. Мало приспособленные к борьбе с нахальными гангстерами, новые работники терпят поражение за поражением, пока им на помощь не приходит женщина-адвокат, специалист по «минбо» (ее играет жена режиссера Нобуко Миямото). С помощью юмора, находчивости и твердости она помогает отелю отразить натиск якудза.
Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some vague future threat. Their destined mission becomes apparent when a handsome ninja from 400 years past drops from the sky into the hot tub of on of the girls. He comes with news of a grave threat: an evil industrialist has apparently joined forces with UFOs to take over Japan. The only solution, it seems, lies in the special talents of the three girls - notable as much for their martial arts as their skimpy costumes.
A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
Jinzo Iguchi
Saruwatari
Суровая работница налоговой инспекции снова выходит на тропу войны. На этот раз она бросает вызов коррумпированному религиозному ордену.
Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Various Zen schools offered students a lengthy path, literally composed of a blank wall and unceasing meditation. Yet another school (Tendai) emphasized complex metaphysics and the study of philosophical systems. Basically, all of them were designed to cater to the few who were able to give up everything else in their lives and focus on liberation, such as scholars and noblemen. In this historical and biographical drama, this is the situation that the young Shinran (1173-1263) discovered when he began exploring Buddhism as an alternative to the violence and ceaseless civil wars that racked Japan at the time.
Show Host
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.
Japanese drama film.
Shimotsuka
В небольшой японской деревушке влюбленные поженились, несмотря на существующие предрассудки о тех, кто вступает в брак, являясь родственниками. По легенде у таких людей может родиться ребенок с хвостом. С этих странных событий и начинается невероятная история…
Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
Matsumoto
Эйдзи Фудзино оставил карьеру служащего и открыл дешевую закусочную «Тёдзи», теперь все его зовут Тёдзи. Трудно понять, откуда у этого бывшего спортсмена так много терпения, выдержки и смирения. Многие годы он хранит в сердце тайну.
Pawn Shop Guy
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Sergeant Major Yabe
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
Takeo Miyamoto(宮本威夫)
Roman Porno from 1982.
Ishimoto
Naoko is getting a lot of obscene phone calls, so she decides to stay at her girlfriend Mari's home for awhile, afraid of a rape attack. But the telephone calls don't stop, and the mysterious pervert caller is bothering her there too. Naoko reluctantly agrees to meet meet him at a local restaurant, hoping the man will stop. When she arrives, Naoko is surprised to find the café is operated by Harada, a man whom she and Mari had liked so much in the past that, in fact, they had cat fights over him at their working places. It was due to a love triangle scuffle that they had been both fired from their previous jobs.
Oyakata (voice)
Высоко в морозных небесах снежный старец решает, что его внучка Юки уже достаточно взрослая, чтобы помочь жителям деревни спастись от бандитов, и отправляет её на землю. Однако, если в течение года ей не удастся завершить свою миссию и вернуться на небо, её ждет превращение в ветер на веки веков.
Frankenstein's Monster (voice)
The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together with his partner Zuckel, the monster attacks the assistant and falls from a cliff. Assuming the monster is dead, Victor returns to his wife Elizabeth and daughter Emily. A police inspector named Bellbeau investigates some mysterious mutilations killings, and Victor is blackmailed by his former assistant, who lost an eye in his fight with the monster.
Hiraiwa
An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace.
Misaki
A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give.
Middle-aged Man
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Nikkatsu Roman Porno production featuring Ayako Meki in her film debut.
Loan Officer
Вооруженный до зубов террорист захватил автобус со школьниками и потребовал от полиции встречи с императором.
Actor
Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.
В семье Кариба случилась трагедия: отец собственными руками задушил любимого сына, мать тоже понимала, что это неизбежно. Как могло так случится в этом благополучном доме, где всё было устроено для счастья будущего наследника.
Tadashi Takino
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Kôhei Kikawada
Rena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978) get part-time jobs at a hostess bar in order to earn money for an abortion for Yuko. At the end of the school year the two must part as Yuko prepares to depart for acting school in Hokkaido, and Rena gets ready for college.
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.
Kurazo Utagawa
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were still alive completely unable to accept her demise.
Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, as does his lack of education.
Gonjiro Kuroda
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.
Iwaki's father
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumped into the sea with her son, the infant Emperor, but only she had been rescued by Yoshitsuné. A rough-hewn warrior, Yoshitsuné had taken her by force until he awakened an answering love in the Empress with his chamber techniques.
Goto
История реального героя Тикудзана Такахаси, который потерял зрение в детстве и получил уроки жизни во время скитаний по северным районам Японии.
Right wing / Ishii, the strip theatre owner
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Ichizo(市蔵)
Наследница богатого торговца потеряла зрение и посвятила свою жизнь музыке. Её комплекс неполноценности не позволяет ей открыто признаться в любви к слуге. Юноша не требует для себя ничего, он готов на все ради любимой.
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption.
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea.
Genzo Fujita
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
У мастера Игаки была лучшая школа восточных единоборств в городе. Его главный соперник на этом поприще по имени Никадо решил избавиться от него при помощи команды киллеров экстра-класса. Лишившись глаза, Игаки был вынужден покинуть страну вместе с маленькой дочуркой Юми. Всю свою оставшуюся жизнь он посвятил тому, чтобы сделать из дочери орудие возмездия. После смерти отца Юми отправляется в Токио, чтобы найти Никадо и его головорезов. Неожиданного союзника она находит в лице молодого ученика Масахико. Оказывается, много лет назад Никадо убил его отца — честного полицейского, и Масахико стал учеником убийцы.
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.
Bunkichi Yoshioka
Roman Porno from 1975.
A young geisha/prostitute working in Tokyo's entertainment district earns a measure of reknown through her powerful vaginal muscles. This newfound fame, however, also earns her the enmity of a rival geisha house. The two houses choose to settle the dispute through a series of athletic contests between the young star and the rival house's main attraction, with the backing of the houses' wealthy patrons as the prize.
Toki
Roman Porno from 1975.
Первый из 10 фильмов, рассказывающих о беззаботных приключениях двух водителей грузовиков. Момодзиро и его лучший друг Кинзо отправляются в путь на своих грузовых автомобилях, впечатляя друг друга своими навыками быстрой езды и уклонения от полиции при перевозке товаров по всей стране. Случайные встречи с людьми на этом пути помогают им смириться с событиями, омрачающими их прошлое, и предлагают им шанс на искупление. За пять лет было снято 10 фильмов о их сумасшедших похождениях. Все фильмы получили культовый статус в Японии.
Pinku from 1975.
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.
1963 год. С того дня, как босс Охара отправился за решётку, в Курасиме не стихает война между бандами. Молодой наследник отбывающего срок босса Кэндзи Хиротани уже несколько лет намеревается восстановить власть своего клана в городе, но пока не в состоянии этого сделать. У его соперника Кавады больше денег, людей и связей наверху, но зато у Кэндзи есть своя бригада и хороший друг — инспектор уголовной полиции Куно, который всегда готов прикрыть его в случае неприятностей. Куно не считает себя продажным полицейским, так как деньги никогда не были для него приоритетом. Просто он считает, что во всём должен быть свой порядок. Если якудза — неизбежное зло, значит, его нужно просто научиться контролировать. А кому это сделать, как не сообразительному парню Хиротани? Признаться, Куно даже сам помышлял в молодости о том, чтобы стать бандитом, но потом решил, что работать в полиции куда круче и выгоднее.
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Serizawa Kamo
Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Narrator
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Yusuke Yajima
Japanese crime thriller
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Genzô Shibayama
Действие картины разворачивается в Японии в конце 19-го века. Четверо бандитов убивают мужа и маленького сына женщины по имени Саё Кашима. Женщину заберет себе один из бандитов, который будет использовать ее для своих любовных утех. Однажды она убьет его и отправится в путь, чтобы разыскать и отмстить оставшимся трем, но, к сожалению, ее арестуют и дадут пожизненный срок. Теперь она не сможет отомстить, поэтому решает завести ребенка и для этого ложится под всех тюремных надзирателей без разбора. Вскоре она забеременеет и у нее родится девочка, которую она назовет Юки — ребенок, рожденный для мести. После родов Саё умрет, а девочку заберет, выходящая на волю, сокамерница. Девочка попадает в руки к учителю-монаху, который сделает из нее профессионального убийцу. И вот спустя годы Юки выходит на тропу мести.
Shinji
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Sakube
Pinku from 1973.
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Arab Falcon and the whole Cavalry gang. With a theme song by 1970s Japanese "Group Sounds" band Carol, and live performance. Rock and Sukeban unite for an extraordinary and cool piece of filmmaking.
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.
Makoto Narasaka
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.
Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother.
Tsuji
Мацу незаконно попадает в женскую тюрьму, где подвергается издевательствам со стороны надзирателей, которых выводит из себя её упорство, и пользуется авторитетом у сокамерниц. Она выдерживает трудности все с мистическим упрямством. В один момент она, пользуясь случаем, бежит вместе с шестью заключенными и пытается пробраться в большой город.
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
Miyoshi
Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
Pinku from 1971.
The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes.
A 1970 crime film.
Aihara
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
В основу фильма была положена книга Но-рио Нагаяма, совершившего серию преступлений, среди которых четыре убийства. Опираясь на нее, создатели картины исследуют причины, которые толкают девятнадцатилетних на путь преступлений, анализируют их психологию. Характер главного героя сформировался под влиянием воспоминаний о несчастном детстве. Чувство одиночества ожесточило его, он проходит через обиды, жестокость, безразличие и, доведенный до отчаяния, становится убийцей.
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Iwano
Арима мечтал получить образование и посвятить себя науке, но неверный менеджмент университета лишил его возможности получить диплом. В этот момент президент фармацевтической компании Исихама делает ему лестное предложение. Исихама важно иметь под рукой человека, который отлично стреляет. Скоро это его умение очень пригодится. Но шантаж, вымогательство, предательство правят людьми, и маленький человек не способен изменить этот мир.
Matagoro Araki
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
Kojiro Numazawa
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Kakusuke Hirao
Film with Junko Miyazono.
Tahei
Ихей хочет выкупить свою возлюбленную Кохару из публичного дома. Но у него семья, дети и слишком мало денег. От безвыходности влюбленные решаются на отчаянный шаг…
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
Officer Song
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Japanese crime film
This is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdy, who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Yasukura
О нравах и обычаях маленького острова, чуждого цивилизации, где люди живут по законам средневековья на грани реального и фантастического. Огромную роль в их жизни играет природа, во многом определяющая поведение персонажей. Вторжение цивилизации в образе приехавшего на остров инженера вносит диссонанс в привычный для местных порядок вещей.
Ichizo Soga
One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquaintance of a young girl named lkuko (Kayo Mikimoto) and saves her from the advances of a gangster named Goro (lchiro Nakatani). In the meantime she turns down several propositions and, in revenge, one of her admirers denounces her to the Mother Superior (Kuniko Miyake). This lady is of liberal views, however, and refuses to do anything about it. Then Shunko is visited by Goro's gang boss who wants lkuko back and says he will blackmail Shunko unless she agrees.
Matsugoro
Прибывая в небольшой городишко, Затойчи останавливается у доктора Джунана и его дочери. Ичи поражает доброта и бескорыстность доктора. Представитель власти в городке — Матсугоро, имеет побочный бизнес — ткацкую фабрику, где он измывается над рабочим. У Матсугоро прячется группа беглых преступников, которую как оказалось возглавляет сын доктора, давно вставший на скользкий путь. Руками бандитов Матсугоро решает подмять под себя шелковый бизнес в округе. Клубок страстей начинает запутываться, распутать который способен только Затойчи.
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.
Тихая актриса ошибочно была отправлена в тюрьму. Это история о её злоключениях и крестовом походе мести в отношении всех лиц, которые имели честь её засадить или унизить.
Ba Tôten
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
Якудза из разных банд зачисляются в японскую армию, где у них много проблем с адаптацией к новой жизни и войне в Китае.
Fisherman
Картина начинается с того, что члены поп-группы «Folk Crusaders» резвятся на пляже под музыку, напоминающую японскую застольную песню в исполнении «Элвина и бурундуков». Какие-то злодеи крадут у них одежду и подкладывают им свою — корейскую школьную и офицерскую форму. В этой новой форме героев принимают за нелегальных эмигрантов, в результате чего случается ряд происшествий, раскрывающих японскую ксенофобию…
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When imprisoned, he is repeatedly transferred from one prison to another, because no one can handle him.
District attorney
Кореец убил в Японии двух девушек, за что был приговорён к смертной казни через повешение. Но он выживает после экзекуции. Следующие два часа его палачи проведут, пытаясь исправить ситуацию.
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even discovering their leader, a beautiful young girl named Kagiroi. Guessing that she is the daughter of some ousted daimyo anxious to get back into favor, he is about to unmask her when he is taken prisoner...
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
Narrator (voice)
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what he deemed the “death drive” in Japanese youth culture.
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.
The second part of the Gamblers series.
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Onkichi
A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set to sound.
Denpo Cho
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Shino's father
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
По произведению Тайдзюна Такэды «На острове изгнанников». Движимый желанием отомстить, Сабуро Нисихара приезжает на мрачный северный остров, где он жил во время обучения в исправительной школе. Там он разыскивает человека, который называет себя Оотакэ. В этом забытом богом месте ему предстоит снова пережить трагедии, которые преследуют его всю жизнь.
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
Shindo
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
Narrator
Документальный фильм от знаменитого японского кинорежиссёра Нагисы Осимы. Снято в качестве иллюстрации дневника корейского мальчика И Юнбок. Этот дневник был экранинизирован не менее 4 раз. Режиссер избирает весьма необычный прием, когда движущееся изображение отстуствует, а все повествование создается из последовательного ряда фотографий, зафиксировавших бедственное положение Южной Кореи после завершения корейской войны.
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
Yamano Senkichi
Наёмного убийцу Тецу преследуют друзья его последней жертвы. На помощь киллеру приходит его младший брат — Кенджи. В надежде скрыться оба беглеца уезжают в Манчжурию, где устраиваются работать на стройку. Тем не менее, якудза снова находит их и братьям приходится дать преследователям жесткий отпор.
"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
Egi
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in one libidinous rush—fully expecting to be tracked down and killed.
Maki
Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine.
Молодой интеллектуал, пытавшийся уклониться от военной службы по соображениям совести, вынужден служить в японской армии в Маньчжурии. Там он совершает попытку дезертирства, присоединившись к бывшему гангстеру и похитив поезд.
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Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese government because of their Korean nationality, while questioning if this is a just way for the Japanese to act. The documentary uses TV to problematize the apathy of the Japanese people. According to Oshima’s 'The Idea of Evil and Cruelty' and Sato Tadao’s 'History of Japanese Documentary Film', the actual situation was much more serious and harsher than the documentary depicts.
Среди разрушенных лачуг, дымящихся труб, гор мусора, вопиющей нищеты царствует один закон — закон жестокой силы. За власть в этом смрадном мире борются две соперничающие молодежные банды. Насилие и убийство, цинизм и нравственное разложение — быт этих людей.
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Японский пацифист и социалист, неспособный противостоять ужасным последствиям отказа от военной службы по соображениям совести, преображается в результате своих попыток пойти на компромисс с требованиями Японии военного времени.
Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the accusation by GHQ, Toyomatsu "attemped to kill a US prisoner", which was nothing but an order by his superior and failed after all with hurting the prisoner by weak Toyomatsu. Also, Toyomatsu was driven to corner at the trial by the fact that he fed the US prisoner some burdock roots to nourish him. Toyomatsu believes nothing but being not guilty, but he is sentenced to death by hanging. Prior to the execution, Toyomatsu writes a long farewell letter to his family, the wife and the only son: "If I ever incarnate, I hate to be a human being any more.... Oh yes, I would like to be...a shellfish living on the rock-bottom of the sea."
