Bumon Kahara

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.

The wife of a struggling artist is raped and begins painting a series of erotic images in an attempt to exorcise her demons. However the men in her paintings all have the same face as her rapist, and as her work becomes more popular the man begins to take on folk-hero status...

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?

Japanese crime film

Japanese crime film

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.

Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!

Психологическая драма Сехэя Имамуры исследует тонкую грань между любовью и ненавистью, насилием и влечением. Домохозяйку, муж которой в командировке, насилуют в собственном доме. Как ни странно, вскоре ей начинает хотеться, чтобы жестокий насильник вернулся — и он возвращается, но теперь их роли меняются. В результате ни один из этих странно встретившихся любовников не может отпустить другого. В дело вступает яд — но для кого он предназначен? И кто воспользуется им первым?

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Пятнадцатилетняя сирота Вакае работает в ночном баре, где она научилась пить, курить и даже воровать. Однажды Вакае встречает своего товарища детских игр Сабуро, приехавшего из Токио, где он работал на фабрике. Теперь он безработный, получает пособие. Сабуро всячески старается помочь Вакае. Он уговаривает девочку вернуться в школу, помогает ей догнать класс, дает деньги, чтобы уплатить за учебу. Для Вакае Сабуро был единственным, кто относился к ней по-доброму. Но, поссорившись с родителями, Сабуро уезжает работать на птицеферму. Однажды вечером Вакае приезжает навестить друга, а ночью на ферме вспыхнул пожар и девушку обвиняют в поджоге. Ее отправляют в детскую исправительную колонию...

Japanese action film.

A crime film released in 1962

На экране господствуют грязь, кровь, насилие, проституция. Однако есть героиня, которой удается противостоять обстоятельствам и не стать представительницей «древнейшей профессии». В этом ей помогают сила характера и твердость духа.

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.

1959 Japanese movie

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

Миямото выходит из тюрьмы после трехлетнего срока. У него на руках бриллианты, повисшие с последнего дела. Он хочет продать их, а вырученные деньги отдать Михаре, который по его вине стал калекой. Проведение сделки поручается Ояне, бывшему компаньону. В условленное время на встречу приходят продавец, покупатель и неизвестные с оружием…

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their investigation leads them to an isolated, creepy house in the middle of nowhere, where sinister goings-on abound.

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.

Фуми Мураками совсем наивна, она надеется, что сын хозяина гостиницы женится на ней, и она полностью отдается этой любви. Однако, даже убежав с любимой в Токио, Кэнкити не может оторваться от своих родителей, и проявить самостоятельность. Фуми ещё встретит на своем жизненном пути Кэнкити, но сможет ли она простить ему предательство?

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.

When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that Kaoru finds in the company of her beautiful sister-in-law is frustrated by her brother Mitsuo, Miyoko's husband, who intervenes in their budding passion. Full of unspoken words, deeply suggestive mise-en-scène, and forbidden glances, Fukujuso is a compelling melodrama that surprises us with its potent homoeroticism, especially considering its year of production.

Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi. Released in 2 parts. His only release of 1931