Клан самурая Магобэя живет на холодном снежном острове. У клана большие финансовые проблемы, и чтобы решить их, казначей клана решил заняться пиратством — захватил золото с корабля сегуна, проплывавшего мимо. А исполнителей — простых рыбаков — убрали, чтобы сегунат ничего не узнал. Магобэй не считает, что цель оправдывает средства, и не может смириться с гибелью рыбаков. Но и открыто выступить против интересов клана он не может — ему мешают верность и долг. Поэтому он покидает клан и влачит жалкую жизнь ронина, пока не узнает что преступление планируется вновь. На этот раз он должен вернуться — и спасти рыбаков.
LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent life as a hoodlum on the run, repaying an outlaw couple who have sheltered him by raping the wife, then, at his boss’s behest, murdering the husband. He’s also not above strangling a girl in her bathtub for kicks. The one spot of normalcy in his life is his shop girl girlfriend, an innocent who, once she discovers his other life, confronts his boss… (from OUTLAW MASTERS OF JAPANESE CINEMA by Chris D)
Horror film directed by Satoru Kobayashi. Kin'ya Ogawa served as Kobayashi's assistant on this film.
Ume, the maid
Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film.
Japanese film about a juvenile delinquent who becomes a part of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces.
Japanese thriller.
The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred years before. Yumi Aoyama is the only person who knows the location, but her family dies one after another through curious incidents, as if the family were under a curse. Yumi is surprised by the ghost of a dead sister who looks the same as the grim figure who jumped into the old well alter stabbing herself with a sword. Fearful that a similar fate awaits her, Yumi seeks the help of her friend Kyoko. Later the ghost appears before Kyoko and her fiancé, Detective Nonomiya. In a haunted cave, Kyoko and Yumi are in deadly peril from those who seek treasures of the Aoyamas.
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot to murder them all, but as it turns out he has done this sort of thing before. As bodies pile up in the nearby Kagami Pond, a ghostly vengeance is about to be unleashed.
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro Sofue, and he's always wearing shades in the daytime...
Waitress B
Japanese comedy film.
Japanese comedy film.
