Screenplay: Yôzô Tanaka

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kenji Sawada · Tomoko Mariya · Masumi Miyazaki · Tamasaburo Bando

Plot Semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishô Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and...

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 Shigemichi Sugita

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Koichi Sato · Masatô Ibu · Yoshi Oida

Plot An army of loyal samurai plot to revenge their unjustly executed lord.

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 Shinji Sômai

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Tsunehiko Watase · Rentarô Mikuni

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Naomi Tani · Nagatoshi Sakamoto · Hijiri Abe · Hiroko Fuji

Plot Shizuko is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee Yoshi, the son of an adult...

Direction Masaru Konuma

Cast Naomi Tani · Nagatoshi Sakamoto · Terumi Azuma · Hidetoshi Kageyama

Plot A wife charges her husband with sexual battery. He escapes from the police and goes into hiding. Three years pass, she divorces him and tries to put the pieces of...

Direction Kichitaro Negishi

Cast Yuki Kazamatsuri · Ayako Ohta

Plot A schoolteacher gets a phone call regarding one of her female students. It seems that the young girl has been accused of prostitution and requested help from her teacher. The...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Naoki Sakata · Yasutaka Oh · Ken'ichi Makino

Plot A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Yuki Saito · Takaaki Enoki · Mai Okamoto · Leonard Kuma

Plot This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Keiji Mutô · Michiru Akiyoshi · Narumi Yasuda · Hide Demon

Plot A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera...

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Maya Hiromi · Eiko Matsuda · Masaru Shiga · Kantaro Suga

Plot This smutty softcore film from Toei Studios and director Ikuo Sekimoto was one of the growing number of mainstream films to incorporate elements of the low-budget "pink films" which accounted...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Shinichirô Sawai

Cast Mariko Ishihara · Ken Ishiguro · Masatô Ibu · Yumiko Fujita

Direction Atsushi Yamatoya

Cast Moeko Ezawa · Nozomi Yasuda · Rie Nakagawa · Michio Akiyama

Plot A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Branded to Kill from Atsushi Yamatoya, one of Branded to Kill's screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Yuriko Hishimi · Masataka Iwao · Takuzo Kawatani · Eizo Kitamura

Plot Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi, she tries to use sex as a means to...

Direction Shinji Sômai

Cast Ken Ogata · Masako Natsume · Koichi Sato · Yukiyo Toake

Plot Fusajiro is a veteran tuna fisherman who lives with his daughter Tokiko. She's in love with Shunichi, who runs a tea shop but wants to become a fisherman himself. Fusajiro...

Direction Noboru Tanaka

Cast Rie Nakagawa · Yuri Yamashina · Hijiri Abe · Chizuyu Azami

Plot Tanaka’s skillful blend of sexploitation and arthouse centers on a courtesan-filled temple frequented by royalty, where lovers of a “death goddess” (Rie Nakagawa) mysteriously die.

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Kimiko Ikegami · Machiko Kyô · Yuko Kazu

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Jiro Okazaki · Nozomi Yasuda · Naomi Oka · Tatsumi Kumashiro

Plot Seigen is an orphan monk. His mother was dead when he saw the day thanks to a monk, and then was raised at a monastery. One day, he helps a...