Cast: Yûko Kusunoki

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yûko Kusunoki · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu is the biography of early 20th-Century socialist (and eventual anarchist) rebel Sakae Osugi, and the three women in his life: Hori Yasuko, his wife; his jealous, second lover, Itsuko Masaoka, a militant feminist (a/k/a Kamichika Ichiko) and...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Masumi Harukawa · Kô Nishimura · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Yûko Kusunoki

Synopsis The film tells the story of a dull, plump housewife living in poverty with a common-law husband, his son by another woman, and his mother. When she is raped by a thief, she escapes for a new life in Tokyo...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis A businessman returns from an extended trip, but something seems off. Criminal operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find the truth.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Naomi Hoshi · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein, director Seijun Suzuki and leading man Jo Shishido used this film to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear. A rapid fire gun heist, credits with an infectious jazz...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Chiyo Aoi · Rumito Fuji · Yûko Kusunoki

Direction Hajime Satô

Cast Teruo Yoshida · Tomomi Satô · Eizo Kitamura · Hideo Kô

Synopsis The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tetsurô Tanba · Hitomi Nakahara · Tatsuo Umemiya

Synopsis Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in the illegal arms trading was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Jô Shishido · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again.

Direction Hajime Satô

Cast Kô Nishimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Harold Conway · Shinjiro Ebara

Synopsis A man, Chonin Mitake, dies crazy after long agony, and his dead body is cremated. His widow Yoshi, investigating on the past of her husband, goes to the mansion where he had lived, a building Leftly nicknamed "Satan's Pit" (a...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Takahiro Tamura

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

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

Synopsis 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 habits and rating how much he dislikes them.

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 Tadashi Imai

Cast Shima Iwashita · Kyôko Kishida · Katsuo Nakamura · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Yûji Odaka · Mihoko Inagaki · Tomo'o Nagai · Kaku Takashina

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Yoshie Shimamura · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Goichi Yamada · Akira Nakao

Synopsis "Double Suicide" - Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Noboru Andô · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Taiji Tonoyama · Muga Takewaki

Synopsis Shochiku’s popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends...