Zenpei Saga

Pro Hunter

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown w...

August Without Emperor

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

A Taxing Woman

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a susp...

The Revolt

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life o...

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.

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extr...

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

Island of the Evil Spirits

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful...

The Street Without Sun

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large...

Jungle Block

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

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the governme...

Company Buggers

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors fo...

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

Miniature

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to t...

Smashing the 0-Line

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

Wait for Tomorrow

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first oppor...

Twice on a Certain Night

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is despera...

Skyscraper Murder Case

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of th...

Kikenna onna

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl...

Sakura-tai Chiru

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of...

Akutoku

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is...

Ichiyo Higuchi

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

The Scarred Angel

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and re...

Farm Girls

Japanese drama.

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...

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...

Wakai hito-tachi

Lucky Dragon No. 5

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka...

The Diary of a Police Officer: The Slammer Is Full

A small provincial town surrounded by mountains and fields in northeastern Japan. Here a group of eight policem...

Ningen Gari

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

Actress

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

The Flower and the Angry Waves

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her....

China Night

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from...