Movies

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

A coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who...

The wandering gambler (Akira Kobayashi) once again picks up the dice he forswore in order to take revenge of the gangsters who exploit good citizens....

Yasue (Todoroki) and Fumikichi (Oda), a married couple, have no children, but they take in children from other places and wind up raising three kids.

Eisuke Narita, a painter, visits a hot spring town in Tohoku, and for some reason, he is reminded of the events of ten years ago.

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

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...

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

1962 Japanese movie

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.