Cast: Toshie Kimura

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Kyoko Aoi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Sonny Chiba · Meiko Kaji · Bunta Sugawara

Plot Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep...

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 Hideo Gosha

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Go Kato · Shima Iwashita · Toshie Kimura

Plot Gennosuke, a clan retainer, kills one of the clan ministers as part of a plot to achieve reform. He is pursued by his former comrades, each hoping to complete the...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tatsuo Umemiya · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot In what was originally intended to be the ultimate chapter in the crime film saga, citizen groups and the law begin fighting back against the Yakuza clans whose bloody rivalry...

Direction Kazuo Kuroki

Cast Mariko Kaga · Hosei Komatsu · Toshie Kimura · Takeshi Kusaka

Plot A boy on the northern island of Hokkaido, Japan catches a butterfly from Nagasaki, at the southern end of the archipelago. His teachers think he bought the insect in a...

Direction Yoshimitsu Banno

Cast Akira Yamauchi · Toshie Kimura · Hiroyuki Kawase · Keiko Mari

Plot From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukari Uehara · Kunie Tanaka · Ichirô Nakatani

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Takahiro Tamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yoshi Kato

Plot Shinpachi, a poor samurai with no prospects, gets in an argument with Magodayu, a high-ranking officer, resulting in an illegal duel and Magodayu's death. To save face for both familes,...

Direction Shirô Toyoda

Cast Ayako Wakao · Kyû Sazanka · Nobuko Otowa · Katsuo Nakamura

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Go Kato · Komaki Kurihara · Yasushi Nagata · Kinzo Shin

Plot A delicate study of the relationship between two disillusioned young people, shot in atmospheric monochrome among Tokyo's decaying lumberyards and the inhospitable snowscapes of the north.

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Komaki Kurihara · Katsuki Shin · Tadashi Yokouchi · Shinsuke Ashida