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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters / Zubekô banchô: Tôkyô nagaremono (1970) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Kayako Sono, Reiko Ôshida

Rika, an ex reform school student, joins a clan of street vendors: the Yakuza intervention soon breaks their peaceful business. Read More »
Fine with Occasional Murders / Hare tokidoki satsujin (1984) Kazuyuki Izutsu, Noriko Watanabe, Yôsuke Tagawa, Masataka Matsutôya

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man Read More »
Trail of Blood / Mushukunin Mikogami no Jôkichi: Kiba wa hikisaita (1972) Kazuo Ikehiro, Yoshio Harada, Atsuo Nakamura, Kayo Matsuo

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It’s unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Read More »
The Lady in a Black Dress / Kuroi doresu no onna (1987) Yôichi Sai, Tomoyo Harada, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hideo Murota

A woman arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza’s escaping. Read More »
Black River / Kuroi kawa (1957) Masaki Kobayashi, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ineko Arima

Perhaps Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on Read More »
Eagle of the Pacific (1953) Taiheiyô no washi

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician Read More »
Village of Doom / Ushimitsu no mura (1983) Noboru Tanaka, Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Ohba

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis Read More »
A Tender Place / Yawaraka na hou (2001) Shunichi Nagasaki, Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Tomokazu Miura

The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. Read More »
Temptation of the Mask / Kamen no yûwaku (1987) Hisayasu Satô, Kazuhiro Sano, Kiyoshi Usuda, Naomi Hagio

Sano plays an adopted orphan who is in love with his stepmother and repeatedly raped by his new father. Read More »