Akemi Negishi

Masataka Naruse

Taiji Tonoyama

Christina Lindberg

Sex & Fury

Sex & Fury (1973)

Takashi Miike

Sabu Kawahara

Norihei Miki

Mr and Mrs Shizuma, and their niece Yasuko, make their way through the ruins of Hiroshima, just after the atomic bomb has dropped. Five years later, Yasuko is living with her aunt and uncle, and her senile grandmother, in a village containing many of the bomb survivors. Yasuko does not appear to be affected by the bomb, but the Shizuma's are worried about her marriage prospects, as she could succumb to radiation sickness at any time.—Will Gilbert

Black Rain

Black Rain (1989)

Kô Nishimura

Kazuo Kumakura

Akira Kobayashi

Set in the last few years of the shogun's rule, this period/ensemble movie depicts the lives of the young and the restless at a whorehouse. The protagonist is Saheiji, a resourceful, witty free spirit. It's 1862, 6 years before the Shogun turned his political power over to the Emperor. Penniless Saheiji splashes out at a famous Shinagawa whorehouse. He's forced to stay on at the whorehouse to repay his debt. At first Saheiji is regarded as an unwelcome guest who never leaves but it turns out he is not just a poor grifter. None of the whorehouse's guests, hosts, servants and attending ladies are innocent but they are pragmatic schemers. Saheiji soon endears himself to them all and solves many whorehouse disputes with his wit. But it is slowly revealed that the seemingly perfect Saheiji is suffering from tuberculosis and his future is uncertain...—Nikkatsu

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate

Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957)

Nobuko Otowa

Shinji Tanaka

Masanori Horimoto

Deals with the intolerably hard life of a family of four, the only inhabitants of a very small Japanese island in the Setonaikai archipelago. Several times a day they row over to the neighboring island to fetch water for their miserable fields.—Michael Jurich

The Naked Island

The Naked Island (1960)

Rentarô Mikuni

Jun Hamamura

Tatsu Nakamura

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)

Ayako Wakao

Takahiro Tamura

Mikio Narita

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Seisaku's Wife

Seisaku's Wife (1965)

Chishû Ryû

Kyôko Kagawa

Chieko Baishô

Otoko wa tsurai yo ("It's tough being a man") is a long-running and beloved Japanese film series that spanned from 1969 to 1995 and starred Kiyoshi Atsumi as Kuruma Torajirou, or simply "Tora-san," a kind-hearted travelling salesman who is always unlucky in love. Each film featured a different leading lady/damsel in distress, called a Madonna, and a different region of Japan. The film series ended due Atsumi's declining health and eventual death from lung cancer at the age of 68 without Tora-san ever settling down and finding domestic happiness.
In this 24th installment, Tora-san returns to his family's home in Shibamata, Tokyo, to find an American salesman Michael Jordan (Herb Edelman) living there, leading to various conflicts. As Tora-san struggles with his love for the local Madonna named Sakura (Chieko Baishou), Michael admits that he is also falling for her. Ultimately, the two men find they have more in common than they thought.

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Tora-san's Dream of Spring (1979)

Nenji Kobayashi

Takashi Naitô

Ken Mitsuishi

The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.

The Seburi Story

The Seburi Story (1985)

Kunie Tanaka

Hideyuki Tanaka

Naoya Uchida

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all.

Rica 3: Juvenile Lullabay

Rica 3: Juvenile Lullabay (1973)

Kei Satô

Tetsuo Ashida

Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Double Suicide: Japanese Summer

Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)

Nagisa Ôshima

Fumio Watanabe

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.—Anonymous

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

Tôru Minegishi

Takashi Fujiki

Hitoshi Takagi

Rica wanting a new start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. She looks into a ship that exploded and all survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies.

Konketsuji Rika: Hitoriyuku sasuraitabi

Konketsuji Rika: Hitoriyuku sasuraitabi (1973)

Hideo Kanze

Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke encounters Shino, who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved - only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women. Shino witnesses of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer. When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher, in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.—X

Violence at Noon

Violence at Noon (1966)

Toshiyuki Nishida

Hisashi Igawa

Kyôzô Nagatsuka

Follows railway workers' struggles to create unions during a period of economic growth and increased automation.

Toi ippon no michi

Toi ippon no michi (1978)

Naomi Tani

Shingo Yamashiro

Hideo Murota

A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner's wife.

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)

Hitomi Takahashi

Renji Ishibashi

Klaus Kinski

A girl loves a rich and much older man (played by Kinski). She is willing to do everything he wants to show her love, but he is playing a sick game with her. As part of this game he sends her to a Chinese brothel. A poor young boy sees her and falls in love with her. To get the money needed to sleep with her, he joins "the revolution". Additionally the movie shows the fate of some of the other prostitutes.—Thomas Schmall

Fruits of Passion

Fruits of Passion (1981)

Kawai Okada

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

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)

Shima Iwashita

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Punishment Island

Punishment Island (1966)

Minori Terada

Yuki Kazamatsuri

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)

Hiroshi Shimizu

Yûsaku Matsuda

Ryûdô Uzaki

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.

Yokohama BJ Blues

Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)

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