Shuntaro Tamamura

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearb...

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation perio...

The Pornographers

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he us...

Tokyo Drifter

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top o...

Glass-Hearted Johnny

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulner...

Youth of the Beast

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Cruel Gun Story

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck drive...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to di...

Asu no hanayome

1962 Japanese movie

Story of a Beloved Wife

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a st...

Bōkyō no umi

1962 Japanese movie

The Gambling Monk

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his broth...

A Man With Dragon Tattoos

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are...

Savage Wolf Pack

A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is...

Smashing the 0-Line

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer...

The Symbol of a Man

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister...

Blood for Blood

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and ne...

The Angry Rambler

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

Fight of the Gamblers

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himse...

For This We Fight

1961 Japanese movie

The Call of Blood

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Massacre Gun

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with...

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As th...

Birth of a Fighter

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Ningen Gari

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

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...

Danger Pays

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth o...

Iro zange

A river crossing is blocked and various traveling couples are stranded at an inn. Everybody has their secrets a...

The Lonely Olympics

This is a story about the youth of a university student who, by chance, aims to compete in the Montreal Olympic...

午前零時の出獄

This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous i...

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962 Japanese movie

The Sleeping Beast Within

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworl...

Jūdan no arashi

1962 Japanese movie

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