Cinematography: Keiji Maruyama

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 Tai Kato

Cast Junko Toda · Chieko Baisho · Yuki Kawamura · Sanae Nakahara

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Ken Ogata · Toshiyuki Nishida · Yûko Tanaka · Kanako Higuchi

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka · Hideki Takahashi

Synopsis In 1973, Shochiku Studios released Tai Kato's updated two-part version of Miyamoto Musashi, this time with Hideki Takahashi in the title role. In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Muga Takewaki · Jiro Tamiya · Hideki Takahashi · Tetsuya Watari

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Morio Kazama · Etsuko Shihomi · Ryudo Uzaki

Synopsis Set in the 1930s in Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Teruhiko Aoi · Yoshiko Kayama · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryutaro Otomo

Synopsis An author of mystery stories gets ensnared in a real murder case. An industrial tycoon and husband of his biggest fan lies dead and one of his colleagues, a successful but antisocial writer...

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Masato Furuoya · Misako Tanaka · Kumiko Ohba · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon by his fellow villagers.

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Mitsuko Baisho · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis During the upheavals of the late Tokugawa period, the wandering gambler Senchiki is saved by a blind woman, Orin, who takes care of him. They live happy under the protection of oyabun Seihachi, but one day Senchiki decides by himself...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Muga Takewaki · Jiro Tamiya · Hideki Takahashi · Tetsuya Watari

Direction Kazuo Hase

Cast Masumi Harukawa · Nobuo Kaneko · Saeda Kawaguchi · Yusuke Kawazu

Synopsis A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to "repay his debts." Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Shôhei Hino · Frankie Sakai · Etsuko Nami · Wataru Nachi

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Jiro Tamiya · Muga Takewaki · Yoshiko Kayama

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Toshiyuki Nagashima · Miwako Fujitani · Nobuko Otowa · Kumiko Akiyoshi