Cast: Hideaki Esumi

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Synopsis A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor...

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Synopsis A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Synopsis 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 the flamboyant colors, hallucinatory images, and striking compositions that would...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Hideaki Nitani · Ryuji Kita

Synopsis Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep the pressure off his old boss.

Direction Jūzō Itami

Cast Nobuko Miyamoto · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Masahiko Tsugawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Shinobu Otake · Akira Emoto · Hideko Yoshida

Synopsis The legend of abandoning old people in the mountains is preserved in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan. But similar stories can be found, as folktales, here and there throughout the country. A number of poems have been written on the theme...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Esumi · Akiyoshi Fukae · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis A riotous, bloody, all-action historical epic, set in 19th Century Tokyo. Akira Kobayashi (Kanto Wanderer) stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a vicious tyrant, played by Suzuki regular Tamio Kawaji. Add to this a heady mix of...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Junko Miyashita · Melka Seri · Naomi Oka · Aoi Nakajima

Synopsis It's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya's (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate the day. Erotism, drama, and comedy mix as...

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Genshu Hanayagi · Yoshie Kitsuda

Synopsis In 1936 a geisha named Abe Sada was found wandering around the streets of Kyoto with a knife, a rope, and a severed penis in her hands. The latter turned out to belong to her ex-lover Kichi, the rich owner...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

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

Synopsis 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, both young and old, also become entangled in a variety...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Hideaki Esumi · Tomoko Hamakawa · Chieko Matsubara · Hosei Komatsu

Direction Katsuhiko Fujii

Cast Naomi Tani · Hideaki Esumi · Terumi Azuma · Hiroshi Gojo

Synopsis In pre-war Japan, Yumiko, an aristocratic lady, accompanied by her maid are on their way to Tokyo to see her brother, who the pair haven't seen in over a year. Yumiko's brother is embroiled in some sort of revolutionary group...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Hideo Kanze · Nobuko Otowa · Taiji Tonoyama · Eijirô Tono

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Choichiro Kawarazaki · Toshie Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Chikako Natsumi

Synopsis Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is enaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while...

Direction Kazuyuki Izutsu

Cast Noriko Watanabe · Yôsuke Tagawa · Masataka Matsutouya · Mitsuyo Asaka

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Tomoko Hamakawa · Mari Shiraki · Kôji Wada · Akira Ôizumi

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Kumiko Hayano · Yûko Asuka · Hideaki Esumi · Akira Takahashi

Synopsis A professor named Keisuke meets a suicidal girl and subjects her to shibari bondage and sexual abuse.Their relationship quickly become more and more intimate.

Direction Nozomu Yanase

Cast Jô Shishido · Ryoji Hayama · Reiko Sasamori · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Esumi

Synopsis Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care...

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Ayako Ohta · Rie Kitahara · Junko Miyashita · Mitsutaka Ikeda

Synopsis Pleasure Campus is a hyper active high school slapstick rape comedy. It’s based on manga, and you can see it (the characters for example are more like from a cartoon than anything usually shot in live action). Kumashiro also uses...