Cast: Kayo Matsuo

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Akiji Kobayashi · Minoru Oki

Synopsis In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Shizuko Kasagi · Tomiko Hattori · Kayo Matsuo · Hiroyuki Nagato

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yoshio Harada · Ayumi Ishida · Keiko Kishi

Synopsis Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yumiko Nogawa · Isao Tamagawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Synopsis Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Akira Yamauchi · Hiroko Ito · Masako Izumi

Synopsis After his final job as a yakuza hit man, Tetsu, the Silver Fox, is attacked by his latest target's henchmen. Coming to his rescue is Kenji, Tetsu's younger, peaceful brother. In the fray Kenji kills a yakuza and the two...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yusuke Kawazu · Junko Asano · Takeshi Katô

Synopsis High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku channels his unsatisfied lust into the only outlet available: savage crazed violence. Fighting Elegy is a unique...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kayo Matsuo · Takeshi Okimura · Akiko Maeda

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Satako Kasai · Yumiko Nogawa · Kayo Matsuo

Synopsis In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post? World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a...

Direction Robert Houston

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Minoru Oki · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and...

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Jun Hamamura · Yukiko Kobayashi · Kayo Matsuo · Yôko Minakaze

Synopsis Keiko and her friend are trying to find her missing brother after he disappeared visiting his girlfriend Yuko.

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Saburo Hiromatsu · Yoshiro Ichikawa · Chiharu Kuri

Synopsis A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl’s pure love for him.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Kôji Wada · Tamio Kawaji · Chikako Miyagi

Synopsis Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to...

Direction Katsumi Nishikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Hideki Takahashi · Izumi Ashikawa

Synopsis Shinko is a newcomer to a women's school. One day he takes Professor Shimazaki a love letter he has found addressed to the teacher. This will start the problems in the institute, which will affect the same students as teachers.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Daisuke Kato · Kayo Matsuo · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tatsuo Endô · Kyôsuke Machida · Kayo Matsuo

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Mieko Harada · Shigeru Matsuzaki · Jinpachi Nezu

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Ken Takakura · Tetsurô Tanba · Kayo Matsuo · Minoru Oki

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ken Ogata · Kayo Matsuo · Eiko Azusa

Synopsis Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of self-sacrifice in some of the characters such as Hisayo and...

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Yoshio Harada · Atsuo Nakamura · Kayo Matsuo · Sanae Kitabayashi

Synopsis Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft....