Cast: Hatsuo Yamatani

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Katsuo Nakamura · Yasuko Sanjo · Juro Kara · Masao Imafuku

Plot A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe (a Ronin), and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him. This is basically the whole plot...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Plot The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Masanobu Ando · Ken Kaneko · Leo Morimoto · Hatsuo Yamatani

Plot Two school-age chums, Shinji and Masaru, spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates, playing pranks, and sneaking to the movies. They decide to drop out and gain their...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Go Kato · Yuko Hamada · Isao Yamagata

Plot In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...

Direction Yōjirō Takita

Cast Ren Osugi · Rie Shibata · Kayoko Kishimoto · Tomoe Shinohara

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Ken Yoshizawa · Yoko Muto · Rokko Toura · Hatsuo Yamatani

Plot After taking part in a violent demonstration, a man fights with his policeman brother, ending in tragedy when the authoritarian sibling gets shot by his own wife. The man runs...

Direction Atsushi Yamatoya

Cast Miki Watari · Yuichi Minato · Shôhei Yamamoto · Masayoshi Nogami

Plot A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman's not dead, but very much alive, and...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Hatsuo Yamatani · Miharu Shima

Plot A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade....

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Shin Kishida · Naomi Tani · Melka Seri · Terumi Azuma

Plot The comedic tribulations of a self-important porn film director feature in this Japanese softcore equivalent of Boogie Nights. Tatsumi Kumashiro has been cited as one of the most important Japanese...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Gô Awazu · Moeko Ezawa

Plot Sex and money collide at a geisha house before the Russo-Japanese War, where a first-time customer about to be married becomes deeply involved with an experienced geisha. The other women,...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Renji Ishibashi · Ako · Moeko Ezawa

Plot At his working place, Kozo and his colleague gangrape the boss' teenage daughter. Then, on the highway, he picks up a red-haired woman walking on the road back to his...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Tomoko Mayama · Shikokyu Takashima · Jūzō Itami · Ruriko Asari

Plot In Feudal China, Chin Lien is a conniving, oversexed harlot who insults her rice seller husband Wu Ta and longs to bed her brother in law, Captain of the Governor's...

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Yuji Honma · Keizo Kanie · Hideko Okiyama · Chisako Hara

Plot Yanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their...

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Akiko Kana · Seiya Nakano · Noboru Nakaya · Kyôko Togawa

Direction Masao Adachi

Cast Hatsuo Yamatani · Rika Mizuki · Kaori Aihara · Michiyo Igawa

Direction Joji Matsuoka

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Etsushi Toyokawa · Michitaka Tsutsui · Kai Ato

Plot Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love...

Direction Tomio Kuriyama

Cast Mihoko Fujita · Michiko Hayashi · Yoshie Kashiwabara · Narumi Kayashima

Plot A humane comedy, about a feud between a son who works as a photographer's assistant in Tokyo and his parents, who are disappointed in his life.

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Hiroshi Fujioka · Kaoru Yumi · Masao Kusakari · Yûzô Kayama

Plot A bad ESP syndicate is planning to kill world leaders through mental telepathy. The good guys are a top secret group called ESPY and they're in charge of stopping the...

Direction Masao Adachi · Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Michio Akiyama · Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu · Yukiko Manabe · Natsu Nakajima

Plot The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play“ rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. As they loaf...

Direction Kôji Wakamatsu

Cast Yoshio Harada · Miwako Fujitani · Yoko Kuga · Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Plot Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.