Cast: Mizuho Suzuki

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsugorô Bandô · Rei Dan

Plot Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

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 Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Tokuko Sugiyama

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shiho Fujimura · Akira Ishihama · Machiko Hasegawa · Jun Fujikawa

Plot A young apprentice and his master are looking in the mountains a very special tree to carve a statue of the goddess Kannon. After finding it, begin a very big...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Plot When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing...

Direction Koji Hashimoto

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Keiju Kobayashi · Yosuke Natsuki

Plot From out of the South Seas comes a gigantic monster that attacks Tokyo and devastates Japan. The American version of the film added Raymond Burr as a reporter named Steve...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Yukiko Todoroki · Asao Koike

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kôji Yakusho · Eitarô Ozawa · Takeshi Katô

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kaoru Yachigusa · Isao Yamagata · Kenji Imai

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Jûkichi Uno · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani · Mizuho Suzuki

Plot The appearance of the corpse of a U.S. Army sergeant triggers a series of unexpected events.

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Gen Kimura · Ichirô Izawa · Tokubei Hanazawa

Plot A samurai is hired by a girl to assassinate a local officer who has his people terrified.

Direction Yukio Ninagawa

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Keiko Takahashi · Masako Natsume · Aiko Morishita

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Rika Aoki · Ryunosuke Minegishi · Taiji Tonoyama · Mizuho Suzuki

Plot Having triumphed over the scars of her troubled youth, sexy Rica (Rika Aoki) is back to bust more heads in this sensual, action-packed sequel to the 1972 "pinky violence" thriller....

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Mizuho Suzuki · Hiroko Kino · Mugihito · Sen Hara

Plot A Japanese soldier has an affair with a Korean girl at the beginning of World war II. The union produces a child and the backlash of social intolerance of people...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi · Mizuho Suzuki · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition)...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Kyôhei Shibata · Takaaki Enoki · Tôru Nakamura · Yôko Minamino

Plot Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is...

Direction Yûichirô Hirakawa

Cast Matsuzaka Tori · Kirin Kiki · Ryûta Satô · Mirei Kiritani

Plot High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead.

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa

Plot Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love...

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Toshihiko Tahara · Etsushi Toyokawa · Yumi Asou · Masahiko Tsugawa

Plot Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Morio Kazama · Kayoko Kishimoto · Haruko Katô · Kyôko Kishida