Cast: Yumi Takigawa

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tatsuo Umemiya · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô

Plot This highly stylized Japanese mockumentary examines the downward spiral of a sociopathic thug. While working for one of Japan's biggest crime families, Rikio finds himself committing a variety of brutal...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Yumi Takigawa · Emiko Yamauchi · Yayoi Watanabe · Ryouko Ima

Plot After the mysterious death of her mother, a young woman chooses to enter a convent to find out what happened. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the...

Direction Takashi Ishii

Cast Ken Ogata · Shinobu Otake · Kimiko Yo · Mai Kitajima

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Kazuya Kimura · Keiko Oginome · Sonny Chiba

Plot When three ageing gangsters come together for a daring heist, each of them has their own reason: Imura has run up crippling debts, Sbiba (legendary martial artist Sonny Chiba) has...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Hiroshi Katsuno · Hikari Ishida · Yôji Matsuda · Toshinori Omi

Plot Ayase Shinsuke (Hiroshi Katsuno), a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Miki Fujitani · Tomorô Taguchi · Miyoko Akaza · Hitoshi Ômae

Plot People from all walks of life (a high-school student, a middle-aged businessman, a yakuza chief, etc.) all receive mysterious messages from loved ones who were killed 3 months earlier in...

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima

Plot This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in...

Direction Saito Kosei

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Shôhei Hino · Gô Ibuki · Ryo Kinomoto

Plot From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a...

Direction Yu Kohira

Cast Yumi Takigawa · Yûsuke Natsu · Yoko Konno · Ichirô Nakatani

Plot Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yûko Asano · Katsuyo Asari · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father.

Direction Kei Horie

Cast Yoko Maki · Lee Wan · Jun Fubuki · Keiko Oginome

Direction Yukiko Takayama

Cast Shima Iwashita · Shinobu Sakagami · Kaori Takahashi · Toshiya Nagasawa

Direction Osamu Minorikawa

Cast Ren Kiriyama · Sakurako Konishi · Yu Mashima · Megumi Sato

Plot Momoko Hirasawa is a young hotel cafe staff who had a kiss with a stranger at the hotel's observatory. She later finds out that the man is Kei Hase, an...

Direction Yoshiki Onoda

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Yumi Takigawa · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Jirô Chiba · Kenji Imai · Masashi Ishibashi

Plot Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future...

Direction Mitsuo Kurotsuchi

Cast Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi · Nobuko Sendô · Sho Aikawa · Eiko Nagashima

Plot A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

Direction Kenjirô Ohmori

Cast Hiroshi Katsuno · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Yumi Takigawa · Kayo Matsuo