Tatsuya Nakadai

Keiko Takahashi

Jun Hamamura

Ken Tanaka

The Gate of Youth

The Gate of Youth (1975)

Shima Iwashita

Kunie Tanaka

Ken Ogata

The Demon

The Demon (1978)

Jun Izumi

Tomokazu Miura

Keiko Kishi

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

Koto: Ancient City

Koto: Ancient City (1980)

Kei Satô

Gen Kimura

Kanae Kobayashi

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.—Fred Cabral

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

Rentarô Mikuni

Kanjûrô Arashi

Yasuko Matsui

The Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island to drill a well to provide water for the sugar mill. He is assisted on the island by Kametaro, from the inbred Futori family. Nekichi Futori is chained in a pit that he has to dig, in order to appease the gods for breaking island customs. Nekichi is in love with his sister Uma, who is a shaman priestess at the sacred shrine, that contains the only good water close to the mill. She is also the mistress of Ryu, the manager of the mill. The patriarch of the Futori family tries to get the engineer to marry his retarded daughter Toriko.—Will Gilbert

Profound Desires of the Gods

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Kamatari Fujiwara

Tokie Hidari

During feudal times in Osaka, Koharu, a courtesan, and Jihei, a married paper merchant, fall in love, they having met in he being one of her regular customers. Their passion for each other is all consuming, especially for Kihei who leaves the running of the paper store in the hands of his wife, Osan. At the beginning of each month - twenty-nine months thus far - Jihei writes a vow to Koharu to free her from her life so that they can be together. However, he doesn't have the money to pay her ransom, he spending whatever money he has in paying for her services. In the meantime, anyone can pay her ransom, she who would be his possession. Jihei and Koharu have vowed to commit suicide together so that they can be together for eternity if they cannot be together on Earth. Jihei and Koharu's journey is affected by several people: his brother, Magoemon, and Osan's parents, who want Jihei to to do right by Osan as her husband and father to their two young children; wealthy Tahei, who believes money should be able to get him anything, including Koharu, who she detests in return; and Osan herself, who knows more about what Jihei is doing than she may let on to him, and who has a special relationship with Koharu in getting what she wants out of her marriage. Jihei and Koharu's plans for the double suicide are also affected by thoughts of the negative consequences of doing so on the living.—Huggo

Double Suicide

Double Suicide (1969)

Junko Miyashita

Takahiro Tamura

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another.

Case of the Disjointed Murder

Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)

Chishû Ryû

Chieko Baishô

Kiyoshi Atsumi

After winning big at the races, Torajiro wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

Tora-san's Grand Scheme (1970)

Naomi Tani

Akemi Nara

Akemi Nijô

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlors. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip (1975)

Haruo Suzuki

Hugh Hurd

The film is a relentlessly savage fable about a Japanese mountain village whose inhabitants accidentally capture a black American airman only a few weeks before the 1945 capitulation. The 'prisoner of war' acts as a catalyst, bringing out all the repressed aggression and latent political conflicts beneath the tradition-girded surface of the community.

The Catch

The Catch (1961)

Takeshi Katô

Takuzô Kawatani

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

For Kayako

For Kayako (1984)

Masao Kusakari

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.

Himiko

Himiko (1974)

Ayako Wakao

Kô Nishimura

Tamao Nakamura

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Bamboo Doll of Echizen (1963)

Toshiyuki Nishida

Kaoru Kobayashi

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.

Ballad of Orin

Ballad of Orin (1977)

Hideki Takahashi

Kayo Matsuo

In Okayama in the mid-1930s, Kiroku attends high school and boards with a Catholic family whose daughter, Michiko, captures his heart. He must, however, hide his ardor and other aspects of his emerging sexuality, focusing his energy on a gang he joins, breaking school rules, and getting into scuffles (he tells her, "Oh, Michiko, I don't masturbate, I fight"). He comes under the influence of a young tough nicknamed Terrapin, and together they lead fights against rival gangs. Gradually, Kiroku and Terrapin align themselves with the right-wing Kita Ikki, and Kiroku becomes a stand-in for the attitudes of Japanese youth who embraced the imperialism leading to World War II.—

Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy (1966)

Tôru Abe

Mari Shiraki

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.

The Scarred Crest

The Scarred Crest (1964)

Kawai Okada

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Sayuri Yoshinaga

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

Kyûpora no aru machi

Kyûpora no aru machi (1962)

Jun Fubuki

Eiji Okada

In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.

Lost Love

Lost Love (1978)

Seiji Miyaguchi

Kyôko Kishida

Ushimatsu (Rentarô Mikuni) is a member of the burakumin caste, a Japanese minority descended from the outcast communities of the feudal era. Discrimination against the burakumin has been officially outlawed, although it is still the de facto way of life in early 20th century Japan. Disguising his background, Ushimatsu is able to attend university and eventually become a schoolteacher himself, but after a friend is murdered, he must risk everything to seek justice.

The Outcast

The Outcast (1962)

Yasufumi Hayashi

Yuki Kazamatsuri

Minori Terada

Nakata, a writer, lives with the painful memory of the death of his wife, whose life was cut short a few years earlier. Was it an accident or was it suicide? Doubt persists. In order to escape his guilty conscience, Nakata gives up on marriage and fatherhood. Thus freed, he embarks on an obsessive sexual jeorney and records his adventures in a book, "The Dark Room". A philisophical essay on sexuality, reproduction and the fate of mankind.

Dark Room

Dark Room (1983)

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