Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yumiko Nogawa · Isao Tamagawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Synopsis Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Jô Shishido · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryoji Hayama · Takashi Kanda

Synopsis Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their...

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 Jô Shishido · Mariko Ogawa · Koji Nambara · Anne Mari

Synopsis The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime. Near the top of his game, his fortunes change when he encounters Misako, a mysterious, death-obsessed woman who brings him a particularly...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Synopsis The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding countryside of 1926 Tokyo.

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 Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Toshiya Fujita · Michiyo Oguso

Synopsis Vacationing in a small seaside village, Aochi, a professor of German, runs into Nakasago, a former colleague turned nomad. Nakasago is being pursued by an angry mob for allegedly seducing and killing a fisherman's wife. Police intervene and Aochi vouches...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yumiko Nogawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Minoru Oki

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kyoji Sugi · Haruyo Ichikawa · Reiko Hoshi · Natsue Kitahara

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Jô Shishido · Kon Ohmura · Kiyoshi Hitomi · Tôru Yuri

Synopsis When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Hideaki Nitani · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryuji Kita

Synopsis Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for help. He’s being pursued by a dangerous...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideaki Nitani · Yôko Minamida · Jô Shishido · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Hiroshi Nawa · Yujiro Ishihara · Hisako Yamane · Minako Katsuki

Synopsis A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan,...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Keiichirô Akagi · Reiko Sasamori · Michitaro Mizushima · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hisako Tsukuba · Masumi Okada · Mari Shiraki

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Chikako Hosokawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Mayumi Shimizu

Synopsis Seijun Suzuki’s first colour feature, Fighting Delinquents, melds traditional regional life with what was then emerging youth culture that had been filtering in from the West, through the character of Sadao, a young worker who discovers he's the only heir...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Akemi Kita · Mieko Nishio

Synopsis Daisuke is a combat photographer trying to save his stewardess girlfriend, Yoriko, from an alliance of American mobsters and Japanese yakuza. What he soon discovers is that everyone is after a cache of gold hidden by Yoriko's late father after...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Seizaburô Kawazu · Sumiko Hidaka · Hajime Izu · Kenjirô Uemura

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Taizô Fukami · Hisako Hara · Nobuo Kaneko · Minako Katsuki

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hachiro Kasuga · Tomoko Kô · Toshie Takada · Shintarô Kido

Synopsis A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart. Another Kayo-eiga (Pop Song Film) designed to capitalize on the popularity of a hit tune, this time Hachiro Kasuga's Umi...