Kazuo Katō

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Ran

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an agi...

Dodes'ka-den

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an ima...

Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches

The story of the battles between the 3 related families Kishu, Mito, and Owari, as each vies for the shogun’s s...

白昼の死角(TV)

Kaito Ruby

Toru Hayashi is an unremarkable bachelor who lives with his mother, until one day a young woman named Rumi move...

I Live in Fear

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. Wh...

Gate of Youth

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging fr...

The Yoshida School

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the revers...

The Silk Road

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wan...

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that...

Mermaid Legend

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

Judge and Jeopardy

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Ca...

And Then

Daisuke is supposed to be out looking for a respectable job and equally respectable wife. He is 30 years old an...

The Longest Tunnel

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the...

Goké, Body Snatcher from Hell

The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victi...

Island of Horrors

Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fel...

Bullet Wound

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American se...

Without Complaint

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that...

The Black Battlefront Kidnappers

A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

House of Terrors

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unb...

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun

Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; onc...

18 Roughs

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside re...

Grudge Girls Academy: Serial Murder of Fear!

There are two bizarre rumors spreading about a girls' high school called “Seiwa Joshi Gakuen.” The first is a “...

The Man of Victory

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 sudde...

The Beast Shall Die

Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who on...

The Beast Shall Die

Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who on...

Zankoku! Shōjo tarento

After appearing on a TV program a young woman is recruited to be an advertising idol much to the dismay of her...

Sword and Flower

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and...

The King

Based on a popular play from 1947.

Human Revolution II

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Sono hito wa hono no yo ni

Film by Deme Masanobu

In Case of One Woman