Mako Midori

Pro Hunter

Hitori Shizuka

In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke into his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is...

Yumechiyo Nikki

Yumechiyo is the madam of a geisha house in a remote hot spring in the San'in region. When Yumechiyo learns tha...

The Egoists

Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a...

Love in the Mud

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being wi...

Blind Beast

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse...

Utamaro's World

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. T...

Stray Dog

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated...

The Dog Bridegroom

Ninomiya Azusa is a depressed elementary school teacher in Tokyo, who has problems both at work and in her pers...

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries...

Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Tak...

Tale of Japanese Burglars

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he wi...

Gate of Youth 2

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Pretty Devil Yoko

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza...

I Am a Cat

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and te...

The Stupid Teacher

Film director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from his boyhood. The...

Raised in a Palace

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending...

Night Scandal in Japan

The sexworker who works in Turkish baths plans to make her fortune on the stock market, open a beauty salon, an...

A Charming Devil

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

The Black Cat

Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is.

Follow the Girls

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

The Gentle Japanese

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle en...

Lost Lovers

A rebel youth joins a duo of entertainers only able to communicate by gesturing; when the female performer is s...

The Shy Deceiver

A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.

Army Intelligence

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Bor...

Nani ga nandemo Tamegorō

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is loo...

Graveyard of Masks

In a struggling small theater troupe, director Inuo pressures an actor to perform a death role with extreme int...

Wild Ducks and Green Onions

The four-member con group, including the intellectual boss Nobukichi Ishiguro (Masayuki Mori), who is called an...

Women Doing Time

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

埋もれる

The Viper Brothers and the Young General

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo...

Tokyo Untouchables

Too Young to Die

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arr...

喜劇 深夜族

A Japanese Demon

A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the...