Storekeeper
A man and a woman who met in a park in the city draw a figure that desperately loves each other while being chased by the hardship.
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Shirakawa
歌江の父
Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some of the students, including Utae.
釣客Ａ
The amorous adventures of Reiko, who lives and works in a rural fishing village.
Yasuhito Aoyama
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Orthopedic Surgeon
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Ichirô's Father
After twelve years of school - twelve years of a strict, regimented life-style - high school graduation can be a very scary moment. It's a time when a student suddenly realizes everything is about to change. And many are not ready for the drastic fluctuation in their lives. This film concentrates on traumas facing two different graduates. Hideo and his friends always hang out at The Joint, a sand-wich/soda shop near the school. Just prior to graduation, the place is closed up. This gives an unsettling message to the kids who are already queasy over their own future. They react badly by going to school and raping their homeroom teacher. Meanwhile, Ichiro, who failed the University Entrance Exam, has barricaded himself - along with girlfriend Ranko - in a hotel with a rifle.
Hirano
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Gas Station Staff
A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.
Airline's President
Many are the romantic stories of beautiful stewardesses who have dreamed and become modern Cinderellas. Yumi, though, has no such dreams. She loves Shimada, a very ordinary, young man and hopes to marry him one day. However, during the flight to Tokyo, the Petroleum Minister of a certain country sets eyes on Yumi, the loveliest girl ever hired by JAL, and is more than pleased with what he sees. When Yumi is approached, she declines instantly but everyone seems to gang up to bend her will to theirs and soon the newspapers report that Yumi has accepted the Petroleum Minister's proposal.
Ôtaka
Roman Porno from 1976.
Prison Warden
The various eccentricities and oddities in a group of female prisoners.
Roman Porno from 1976.
Caller
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. The story of a mixed-race callgirl with a high-class clientele.
Riichirô Kanô
When a stuck-up and privileged lady of a wealthy family is left to fend for herself, her butler decides to teach her some overdue humility through BDSM. His spiral of debauchery is soon overtaken by madness, and his sex games threaten to harm more than just her social standing and pride.
Matsui's Father
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. A high school girl yearns to have her first sexual encounter.
School doctor
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
Akemi's Visitor
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Toshiro
Tamaki is reunited with her wayward brother Yoichi when he rescues her from a gang-bang by three hoodlums. Then Yoichi seduces Yuni the daughter of his sister's boss, and they run away with a million yen from the till. Tamaki's former husband visits her as a customer but he still can't get it up so she has to keep on working. Yoichi and Yumi come home to face the music with all their money gone. Toshiro the massage parlor operator has his hoodlums run the boy out of town, and since he isn't Yumi's real father he gets ready to seduce her himself. Just as Toshiro is taking the frightened Yumi into a room, there's a yell of "Fire!" and people start running. Yumi gets away. Tamaki, with her fire whistle in hand, smiles as she leads Toshiro to bed.
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Gozô Takashima
Yukichi Asano and Kiriko, his wife, love each other very deeply and are completely happy in their cozy, little flat. Then Yukichi discovers that Kiriko had once worked in a blue film, a thing unthinkable to a man like Yukichi and his love turns into burning hate and jealousy. He burns the film and tries to forgive his wife's unfortunate past but Kiriko suffers a thousand deaths for she had actually worked in four more blue films.
Ueno
Roman Porno from 1975.
Naito
In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid, travels to Tokyo to visit her brother. Unaware that her brother has become involved in anti-governmental activities and left the city, the two women are captured, raped and tortured by the military police. Two years later, during the war, the government confiscates Yumiko's estate, turning it into a torture chamber for the inquisition of prisoners. Yumiko and her maid are among those who are subjected to sexual indignities.
Shizu's Customer
Shizu is a housewife whose husband has just flown to Germany to work in his company's branch office. During her husband's absence, Shizu makes her first fatal mistake with her brother-in-law which leads to other men and her involvement with gangsters, dragging her into a mire from which she cannot escape.
Detective
The young and beautiful Sada Abe, the daughter of a rich merchant, is banished for losing her virginity after being raped by a college student. Sada wanders the city, becoming a geisha and eventually meeting Kichizo, a posh restaurateur who falls under her spell. Together, they embark on a week-long sexual escapade filled with dangerous obsessions. Their complete descent into each others desires culminates in a shocking crime of passion which captures the city's headlines. Based on a real event from 1936.
Mutô
Roman Porno from 1975.
Ginji Hori
Roman Porno from 1974, focusing on the daily life of lower-class individuals in the slums of Osaka.
Eikichi Misaki
Roman Porno from 1974.
Roman Porno from 1974.
Nobuo's Father
Roman Porno from 1974.
Detective
Pinku from 1974.
About a young man who literally bumps into a prostitute who lives with and looks after her wheelchair-confined brother.
Doctor
Roman Porno from 1974.
Nanbu
A gang of no-good youths calling themselves "Piranha" terrorize a seaside community by breaking into rich folks' mansions, stealing and raping everything in sight.
Kishida
Roman Porno from 1973
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Roman Porno from 1973.
Rokubei
Members of the Japanese royal family seeking to appease a "Death Goddess" through ritualistic temple sex.
Genzô
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Kinzô Hondô
Nikkatsu Roman Porno.
Tokuda(徳田)
Roman Porno from 1972.
Kuroki
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Shopkeeper(商店主)
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Heizaemon Iijima
Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
Junpei Kikawa(木川順平)
Roman Porno from 1972.
Head Physician
First of Nikkatsu's many Roman Pornos involving nurses.
Kensuke(健介)
Roman Porno from 1972.
Naked Man(裸の男)
A working-class housewife is sexually unsatisfied by her husband. When she seeks extramarital relationships, her affairs are discovered by a brothel-owner who then blackmails the woman into working as a prostitute for her.
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
Momozono
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.
Leather goods wholesaler
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He's being pursued by a dangerous gang of yakuza.
Lawyer Wada
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Nagasawa
Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
Осень 1958 года. Доктор Такэй стоит на палубе грузового судна, наблюдая вдалеке тёмные очертания острова Цзиньмынь. В его голове бурлит поток воспоминаний трёхлетней давности, когда он работал в госпитале в Токио и лечил раненых солдат с линии фронта Корейской войны. Он вспоминает, как встретил женщину по имени Ли Чун, которая приехала с Тайваня, чтобы увидеть своего жениха, но узнала, что он погиб. Она была насквозь промокшей от дождя, Такэй пришёл к ней на помощь и утешил. Корабль прибывает на Тайвань, где доктор снова встречает Ли Чун на острове Цзиньмынь, но вскоре начинается артиллерийский обстрел острова с материка — коммунистический Китай начинает наступление.
Молодежный фильм.
Популярный участник телевизионных шоу Дайсаку Кита известен по всей стране. Его окружают толпы поклонников. Они заключили с его менеджером Норико странное соглашение: чтобы сберечь свежесть чувств, они не будут заниматься сексом и даже не будут целовать друг друга. Однако такие отношения им только в тягость, Дайсаку постепенно перестаёт понимать, ради чего он живёт. В этот момент он встречает в Токио девушку, которая полюбила врача, живущего в далёкой деревне на Кюсю. Ради любви девушка купила для возлюбленного старенький джип, но не знает, как переправить его на другой конец страны.
Pachinko Parlor Owner
Добросердечный силач Дзиро и вспыльчивый Ёсио — школьные товарищи, они живут на окраине Токио. Мать Дзиро готовится открыть кафе, а отец Ёсио, плотник, работает у нее. Дзиро и Ёсио умудрились выиграть на скачках солидную сумму, но эти деньги отобрал у них молоденький якудза, только что появившийся в округе. Якудза оживились с ростом экономики, и все хозяева лавочек и забегаловок платят им дань.
A crime film released in 1962
Master at ramen shop
Промышленный пригород Токио живет совсем не так, как столица. Здесь есть работа, но есть и бедность, и конкуренция, и иммигранты из Кореи, и социалисты, и бандиты. Очень трудно вырваться из бедности и перейти на более высокий уровень жизни. Школьница Дзюн отличается работоспособностью, сообразительностью, прилежностью. Она хотела бы поступить в гимназию, хотя никто в её семье не получил законченного среднего образования. Удастся ли ей осуществить свою мечту?
Shimada
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Joji has to use his skills as a fast and accurate shooter!
Matchmaker
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
Laundry Owner
Тацуо Нисина и Коити Катори — репортеры, знакомые со школьной скамьи и сейчас работающие на газеты-конкуренты. Оба пытаются распутать дело международного картеля наркоторговцев «Нулевая линия», однако подходы к работе у них разные. Катори готов переступить через этические границы ради достижения цели, а Нисина — нет. В немалой степени Нисину удерживает то, что он влюблен. Его любимая Сумико — младшая сестра Катори.
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
1959 Japanese movie
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
1959 Japanese movie
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College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
Detective Yasuda
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
Молодой врач обнаруживает, что в мэрии города есть запись о его смерти. Он и некоторые его друзья пытаются найти человека, который сообщил об этом, и раскрыть сомнительную группу преступников со зловещим заговором.
В последние дни сёгуната находчивый жулик пытается перехитрить конкурирующих проституток, бунтующих самураев и других обитателей борделя в попытках пережить тяжёлые времена.
Old policeman
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
Sushi Shop Owner
Цутаэ покинула дом терпимости и решила начать новую жизнь с Ёсидзи, но он потерял работу и не может придумать, как им жить дальше. Пытаясь выкрутиться из неприятностей, парочка оказывается возле района красных фонарей. В маленьком баре Тигуса они решают, что делать дальше: отчаянно бороться с бедностью, или просто расстаться, и поодиночке искать сладкой жизни? Всё это происходит на фоне сезона дождей, который в Японии символизирует тоску и одиночество.
A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.
Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to being regarded as an outcast, the heroine sets about to spiritually legitimize the girl.
1959 Japanese movie
