Masakazu Kuwayama

Juvenile Wife

A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit comp...

宇宙少年ソラン

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

The Insect Woman

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its m...

Yumeno Kyusaku's Girl Hell

Utae and Aiko attend an all-girl private school where the devoutly religious principal seems to be raping some...

Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9

A woman named Chieko Kuwano is hired as an assistant manager at a large corporate office in Japan. She’s smart,...

Port Arthur

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the wo...

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change a...

Dodes'ka-den

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

Case of the Disjointed Murder

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma...

Sweet Revenge

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Ki...

A Story Written with Water

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but i...

Dotanba

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...

Uno Kôichirô no uwaki nikki

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...

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty,...

A Portrait of Shunkin

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on he...

Carmen from Kawachi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko...

Escape from Japan

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the polic...

Konto 55: Mankind's Weaknesses

A Toho film featuring the comedy duo Konto 55, (コント55号), comprised of comedians Kinichi Hagimoto and Jiro Sakag...

East China Sea

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacifi...

The Betrayers Out!

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs i...

Poetry of Baseball Enthusiasts

Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.

Dissolution Rites

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain t...

My Destiny

Murderer!

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose...

Waga seishun no eleven

Soccer movie.

We Sell It Because It Sells

Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.

A Bold Life

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hard...

The Irresponsible Fool

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness....

The Skies of Haruo

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

幽霊列車

All My Children

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WW...

Two Hearts in the Rain

Love story of a working-class boy and girl.

Sigh

One day, Yumiko, an office worker, is called in by the managing director. Having been holding in her urge to ur...

Attack at Daylight

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.