Cinematography: Masao Kosugi

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Kaga · Takashi Fujiki · Chisako Hara

Plot Muraki, a hardboiled Yakuza gangster, has just been released from prison after serving a sentence for murder. Revisiting his old gambling haunts, he meets Saeko, a striking young upper-class woman...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Takashi Fujiki · Mariko Kaga · Kyôko Kishida · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot In Shinoda’s look at codes of obligation, a union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kaoru Yachigusa · Mariko Kaga · Sô Yamamura · Kei Yamamoto

Plot Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Eiji Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Isao Kimura

Plot The film follows the brief life of Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious ronin (master-less samurai) in a time of political tumult in 19th Century Japan. Kiyokawa, a mysterious character and expert...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shinichiro Mikami · Shima Iwashita · Kayoko Honjo · Hizuru Takachiho

Plot This is the film that confirmed Shinoda's status as one of the founders of the Japanese New Wave. Written by the controversial Shûji Terayama (Rally in the Streets), it was...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Koji Takahashi · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato · Jun Hamamura

Plot Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Takashi Yamaguchi · Shogoro Ichikawa

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Shima Iwashita · Ichiro Sugai · Kô Nishimura

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Tadao Nakamaru · Yôko Yamamoto · Kumi Yaguchi

Plot Crazy 1970s action movie from veteran genre filmmaker Inoue Umetsugu.

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Koji Takahashi · Taisaku Akino · Tamio Kawaji

Plot The story of three Edo assassins, devil-tattooed Dr. Baian Fujieda is the preeminant among them, the other two include a ronin who works largely in the open & will kill...

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Shoichi Ozawa · Norihei Miki

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Chieko Baisho · Shinichiro Mikami · Noriko Maki · Isao Kimura

Plot Keiko and Saeko are sisters who support their parents by working at a local factory. They must bear the burden of their traditional father, who is pressuring Keiko to marry...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Yusuke Kawazu · Miyuki Kuwano · Masayuki Mori · Yuki Tominaga

Plot Hatsuko, a young girl on the verge of graduating from high school, suffers a motorcycle accident while riding with her boyfriend Fusao. The doctor treating her at the hospital happens...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tamasaburo Bando · Go Kato · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Koji Nambara

Plot Outside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their story is of revenge, tragedy, and the power of real love. A classical tale...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Emi Shindô · Masayuki Mori · Jiro Tamiya

Plot Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Shima Iwashita · Tsutomu Yamazaki · Kei Sato · Mayumi Ogawa

Plot A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Sô Yamamura · Takanobu Hozumi · Shima Iwashita · Yusuke Kawazu

Plot Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kaneko Iwasaki · Go Kato · Kunitarô Kawarazaki · Junko Mihara

Plot A newpaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kazuya Kosaka · Noriko Maki · Yashiyo Otori · Masaaki Hirao

Plot Shirai is a young saxophone player who has just been given the chance to prove his abilities. That very same night he meets Mitsuko, a girl in despair who has...