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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 »
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 »
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 »