Cast: Yôko Mihara

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Synopsis 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 up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Synopsis 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 vendetta put on Gennosuke by the clan. With the help...

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Hugh Hurd · Jun Hamamura · Toshirô Ishidô

Synopsis One of Oshima’s two film adaptations set during World War II, The Catch shows how perceived differences between the Japanese and others perpetuated conflict. In this case, an African American pilot who was shot down is kept in the basement...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Utako Mitsuya · Shigeru Amachi · Yôko Mihara · Toshio Hosokawa

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rie Yokoyama · Isao Natsuyagi · Fumio Watanabe

Synopsis After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima Nami's desire for revenge knows no bounds. Her failed attempt...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try to squeeze both Yakuza kingpins and government officials by threatening...

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Miki Sugimoto · Eiji Gô · Tetsurô Tanba · Hideo Murota

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Christina Lindberg · Akemi Negishi · Ryôko Ema

Synopsis Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead.

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Takashi Wada · Junko Ikeuchi · Akira Nakamura

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Audrey Cruise · Ryôko Ema · Kaya Hozumi · Emi Jo

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tatsuo Umemiya · Susumu Fujita · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis After three years away Jiro returns to his paternal village home, only to discover his father has been murdered and the locals main mean of income - fishing - taken over by fully the Ashida gang.

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Kunie Tanaka · Yôko Mihara · Tôru Yuri

Synopsis A strange episode with Shinichi Tachibana (Ken Takakura) involved with horse-breeders and, at one point, getting revenge on at the guy who killed his Shetland pony.

Direction Morihei Magatani

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seiji Hara · Kazuo Harada · Rei Ishikawa

Synopsis The most controversial film ever produced by Shintoho, Magatani Morihei’s horror thriller Bloody Sword Of The 99th Virgin (Kyujukyu-honme no Kimusume) is set in the mountains of Iwate Prefecture - a remote area that might be described as the Ozarks...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Ken Uehara · Naoko Kubo · Miyuki Ueda · Keiju Kobayashi

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Miki Sugimoto · Reiko Ike · Linda Kimoto · Emi Jo

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Kunie Tanaka · Kanjuro Arashi · Toru Abe

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Ken Takakura · Tatsuo Umemiya · Kyôsuke Machida · Yoshiko Mita

Synopsis 1960s Japanese crime film starring Takakura Ken.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Ichirô Arishima · Etsuko Ikuta

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kunie Tanaka · Noboru Mitani · Yôko Mihara

Synopsis Bunta Sugawara stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to...