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The Downfall of Osen (1935) Kenji Mizoguchi, Isuzu Yamada, Daijirô Natsukawa, Mitsusaburô Ramon
In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Read More »
The Youth Killer (1976) Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love Read More »
A Lively Geisha (1968) Kôsaku Yamashita, Sumiko Fuji, Bunta Sugawara, Keiko Yumi
Koshizu (Fuji), a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi (Sugahara). Read More »
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »
Ishimatsu The Yakuza: Somethings Fishy (1967) Norifumi Suzuki, Saburô Kitajima, Hideo Murata, Teruo Yoshida
Matsukichi, a worker at a local fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf. Read More »
Gangster VIP (1968) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Mitsuo Hamada, Tamio Kawachi
The film stars Tetsuya Watari who plays Goro, a gangster who was sent to prison for three years for stabbing a hitman Read More »
Run, Truck Rascal, Run! (1979) Noribumi Suzuki, Bunta Sugawara, Kin’ya Aikawa, Masumi Harukawa
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Read More »
Gangster VIP 2 (1968) Keiichi Ozawa, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Eimei Esumi, Jûkei Fujioka
Wherever he goes, trouble follows Goro like a shadow. Continuing in the storyline of its predecessor Read More »
The Beast to Die (1980) Tôru Murakawa, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi, Yoshirô Aoki
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Read More »
Bloody Territories (1969) Yasuharu Hasebe, Akira Kobayashi, Ryôji Hayama, Tadao Nakamaru
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure Read More »
Festival Champ (1976) Noribumi Suzuki, Hiroki Matsukata, Jirô Sakagami, Etsuko Shihomi
A man working in a fish market is crazy about festivals. Read More »
The Hidden Blade (2004) Yôji Yamada, Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka
During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo Read More »
Sweet Little Lies (2010) Hitoshi Yazaki, Miki Nakatani, Nao Ômori, Jûichi Kobayashi
Underneath the veneer of orderly lives, frozen smiles and awkward averted glances, SWEET LITTLE LIES is a cold-as-steel clinical study of a couple. Read More »
Sanshiro Sugata (1965) Seiichirô Uchikawa, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Eiji Okada
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. Read More »