Shinichirō Mikami

An Autumn Afternoon

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that M...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war betwee...

Late Autumn

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from thr...

G.I. Samurai

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Pale Flower

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while t...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from th...

Yakuza Ladies Revisited

The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession con...

Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle

A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to...

Dog of Fortune

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of...

The Yakuza Code Still Lives

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labo...

The Radish and the Carrot

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To s...

Father of the Kamikaze

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the...

Nomugi Pass

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The...

Karate Cop

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

1750 Days of Turbulence

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Big Time Gambling Boss

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to...

I Lived, But...

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from...

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the...

Escape from Hell

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless...

Sing, Young People!

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives...

Emperor of Upheaval

The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthl...

Karafuto 1945 Summer

The film is set in Karafuto after the radio broadcast of the Imperial Rescript on the Termination of the War. O...

Yakuza Warfare

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the...

The Homeless

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the...

Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Sh...

With Wife, Children, and Friends

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two poli...

Kono sora no aru kagiri

Ottamage ningyo monogatari

1962 Japanese movie

Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small...

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an un...

The Cross of Vengeance

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Ana

A double suicide happens in Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. The two were employees of rival real estate companies....

Incidental Murders

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and...

Hijō no otoko

1961 Japanese movie

The Hard Core Criminal

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, wh...