Screenplay: Keiichiro Ryu

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 Hiroyuki Nagato · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shoichi Ozawa · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot 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...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Kayo Matsuo · Takeshi Okimura · Akiko Maeda

Direction Yugo Serikawa

Plot Prince Susano's mother dies; when his father tells him she has gone to another place, he sets off in search of her. He builds a boat and goes to see,...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Shoichi Ozawa · Masakazu Tamura · Sachiko Murase

Plot An updated adaptation of Tanizaki's 1924 novel Naomi about a middle-aged factory engineer who trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she turns him into a slave to...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Mari Shiraki · Masumi Okada · Shoji Yasui

Direction Kosaku Yamashita · Daisuke Yamazaki

Cast Takenori Murano · Kenichi Sakuragi · Akiji Kobayashi · Kunie Tanaka

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Masumi Okada · Sanae Nakahara

Plot 50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a...

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Kenichi Hagiwara · Yuji Matsuzaki · Noboru Takahisa · Michiyo Aratama

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jûshirô Konoe · Tamao Nakamura · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Mihoko Inagaki · Toshio Sugiyama

Direction Mio Ezaki · Hiroyoshi Tezeni · Akinori Matsuo · Masateru Nishiyama

Cast Tetsurô Sagawa · Takeya Nakamura · Ryô Kurosawa · Eiko Ezaki

Plot TV Series (1970 - 1980). The adventures of a ninja group who serve as secret police agents in Edo.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Makoto Fujita · Kei Tani · Mitsuko Kusabue · Mie Hama

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Ken Ogata · Kayo Matsuo · Eiko Azusa

Plot Masumura's 40th film, for which he collaborated on the script, shows plot irrationality perhaps due to the newspaper serial original, perhaps to the adolescent behavior he portrays. The extremes of...

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Tokuzo Tanaka · Akikazu Ota · Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Shintarô Akatsuki · Renji Ishibashi · Keizo Kanie

Plot Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hitoshi Ueki · Hajime Hana · Kei Tani · Mie Hama

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Kyoko Aoyama · Shinji Yamada · Shûji Sano · Hiroshi Tachikawa

Plot Wakai ki is abouta young girl who moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Yumi Shirakawa · Eitarô Ozawa · Fubuki Koshiji

Plot Story of an ex-sailor (Tsuruta), caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman (Shirakawa) whose father may be the center of the...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Jun Tazaki · Yukiko Shimazaki · Akihiko Hirata

Plot Jiro comes back to his hometown after a long work stint in Alaska. He soon learns that his father, the town's major, was murdered a year earlier, and in the...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Ken Ogata · Mayumi Ogawa · Yuzo Hayakawa

Plot Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting...