Zenji Yamada

Special Crime Investigation Front

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Ga...

Intimidation

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank m...

Crazed Fruit

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and...

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of h...

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family...

Youth of the Beast

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

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo....

Till We Meet Again

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with he...

Cruel Gun Story

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

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against schoo...

A Colt Is My Passport

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Brother and Sister

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college stude...

Vendetta of a Samurai

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to...

Man Who Causes a Storm

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down on...

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to...

Underworld Beauty

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stash...

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of h...

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they...

I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair;...

The Human Cyclone

The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Aki...

The Wild Geese

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with...

Woman Gambler

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, sh...

Velvet Hustler

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with...

Tales of Ginza

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art coll...

Wind and waves of the South

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only...

The Maid's Kid

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo...

The Scarred Crest

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself tor...

The Flame of Devotion

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of...

Black Sun

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African...

Forever a Woman

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation...

The Rambler Returns Home

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invinci...