Yuji Odaka

Tattooed Life

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Cruel Gun Story

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

Haunted Samurai

When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, co...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Monument to the Girl's Corps

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breat...

The Age of Our Own

Minami Yasuo, a college student, lives with Yuriko who has become the mistress of a foreigner named Wilson. Whe...

A Slope in the Sun

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of...

Smashing the 0-Line

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

Burning Nature

Film from 1967.

The Storm over Arabia

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on...

The Seasons of Love

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her ch...

The Rambler Returns Home

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

Thirst for Love

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession...

Youth Bell

A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerful...

Black Strait

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the...

Traveling Alone with a Guitar

Kobayashi Akira stars as a wandering musician, who lost his brother and lover to dishonest rival Henmi. The thi...

The Man with a Shotgun

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickl...

Kanto Drifter

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former g...

Women's Police

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is...

I Have the Sun in My Back

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and...

The White Peaks of Mt. Fuji

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her f...

Jūdan no arashi

1962 Japanese movie

無情の夢

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.

The Ghost of Iwojima

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter write...

Song of Dawn

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a...

Windy Street

Adapted from the original work by the literary giant Yasunari Kawabata. Through the lives of three sisters each...

A Man Explodes

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuk...

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire

For This We Fight

1961 Japanese movie

The Crimson Plains

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a g...

I Will Challenge

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father...

Lost Love

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former hou...

Spartan Education

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who go...

The Frozen Plains

1962 Japanese movie

Dice and Swords

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebui...

The Forest Is Alive

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"