Cinematography: Kazue Nagatsuka

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Mariko Ogawa · Koji Nambara · Anne Mari

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Direction Seijun Suzuki

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

Plot 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...

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Jô Shishido · Hideaki Nitani · Chieko Matsubara · Mari Shiraki

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Mihoko Inagaki · Misako Watanabe · Hideaki Nitani

Plot Young Breasts AKA Blue Breasts is a 1958 Japanese juvenile delinquent film directed by Seijun Suzuki for the Nikkatsu Corporation. Akira Kobayashi stars as a young hoodlum who tries to...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Yoshiko Nezu · Mayumi Shimizu · Yôko Minamida

Plot Suzuki rebels against the studio. In a defiant move, he took this story of a high school student who inherits his gangster father's business, and turned it into a comedy....