Cast: Eizo Kitamura

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Shingo Yamashiro

Plot Kinji Fukasaku's revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Tamura · Takuzo Kawatani

Plot Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

Direction Hajime Satô

Cast Teruo Yoshida · Tomomi Satô · Eizo Kitamura · Hideo Kô

Plot The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita · Daisuke Yamazaki

Cast Takenori Murano · Kenichi Sakuragi · Akiji Kobayashi · Kunie Tanaka

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Jô Shishido · Gorô Ibuki · Minoru Oki

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Makoto Fujita · Yoshio Harada · Junko Inagawa · Eizo Kitamura

Plot A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Michitaro Mizushima · Kyôsuke Machida

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Akiko Kudô · Bin Amatsu

Plot Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun. Battles erupt as...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Yuko Hamada

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Kanjuro Arashi · Hideo Fujimoto · Teruo Fujinaga · Seizo Fukumoto

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Akiko Mori · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Tamio Kawaji

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yûnosuke Itô · Arihiro Fujimura · Takuya Fujioka

Plot Ganmen runs a funeral business whose star service is to make masks of the deceased's face. To measure it does not go back to any method, including loitering like a...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Takuzo Kawatani · Hideo Murota · Toru Abe

Plot After eight years in prison, Takeshi's mission is a big heist from his own clan's gambling parlor.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Koji Tsuruta · Michiyo Kogure · Eizo Kitamura

Plot Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting...

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Yuriko Hishimi · Masataka Iwao · Takuzo Kawatani · Eizo Kitamura

Plot Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi, she tries to use sex as a means to...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Kunie Tanaka · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.