Yôichi Numata

Eiji Gô

Fumio Watanabe

Rikiya Yasuoka

A female plays a race car driver lends her services to the Japanese Secret Service. She goes in pursuit of a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese Yakuza types.

The Great Chase

The Great Chase (1975)

Eiji Okada

Harumi Sone

Kyôko Enami

The story of men devoted to the Yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading Yakuza power.

Gambler's Farewell

Gambler's Farewell (1968)

Nagisa Ôshima

Kei Satô

Taiji Tonoyama

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)

Jûzô Itami

Hiroshi Satô

Hôryû Nakamura

Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.

Sing a Song of Sex

Sing a Song of Sex (1967)

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)

Masahiko Tsugawa

Takao Yoshizawa

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Night and Fog in Japan

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

Kakuko Chino

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.

Good-for-Nothing

Good-for-Nothing (1960)

Akiko Koyama

Do-yun Yu

Toshi Amatsu

A couple Takeo Omura and Takeko Kaniguchi travel across Japan with their two sons, the eldest, Toshio, who is biologically his but not hers. They are con artists, whose scam is for her to jump alongside moving vehicles feigning being hit and injured, while he, playing the outraged husband, negotiates with the worried driver for an unofficial cash settlement in return for not calling the police reporting the motorist's "guilt". She often does sustain minor injuries from the ruse. She believes that they will continue doing this work until they have enough money to settle down in one place, where he will get a legitimate job. However, he wants to continue the scam indefinitely as he, a veteran, claims that injuries he sustained during the war would prevent him from obtaining that legitimate work. When Toshio reaches age ten in 1966, they enlist him in the con, he now playing the accident victim, with Takeko now playing the concerned mother role. They even manufacture real bruises on Toshio to make the scam more convincing. Like his stepmother before him, Toshio increasingly gets real injuries doing this work. This work takes its toll on their already dysfunctional family, that dysfunction which includes lies, and physical and emotional abuse by both Takeko but most specifically Takeo. That increasing dysfunction is also due to the fact that Takeko learns that she's pregnant again. She wants to keep the baby if only because it will force them to settle down, while he wants her to abort the pregnancy. Toshio has no true perspective of love or life, he only knowing that they need money to live, this work which is the only way he knows to obtain money. He does begin to get a sense that what they are doing is wrong when he witnesses a boy only slightly older than him being extorted for money from older bullies. As an emotional escape, Toshio often thinks about running away, which may not be difficult as his parents allow him free reign while they deal with their own priorities. Toshio also immerses him and his younger brother in a fantasy world where he is an alien from the Andromeda nebula come to Earth to kill all the evildoers of the world.—Huggo

Boy (1969)

Shin'ichi Chiba

Seizô Fukumoto

Takashi Noguchi

Terry is a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's bloodfeud with Terry over a disputed debt.—Tad Dibbern

The Street Fighter

The Street Fighter (1974)

Hiroki Matsukata

Bunta Sugawara

Ise, a Yakuza mid-level drug dealer, is captured during a police sting operation. The Yakusa criminal breaks down under interrogation and agrees to become a police informant.

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

Dangerous Trade in Kobe (1973)

Yoshio Harada

Takeo Chii

Hatsuo Yamaya

One summer morning, Kiyoshi (Shosuke Hirose) is racing on his bike down the beach. While there, a girl with her clothes torn up is thrown out from a green convertible. This is how he and Sanae (Teresa Noda) first meet. A little while later Sanae's sister comes to pay Kiyoshi a visit, falsely claiming that he participated in her sister's rape. When she shoves him into a car with intentions to hand him over to the police, Kiyoshi finally snaps.—Nikkatsu

Wet Sand in August

Wet Sand in August (1971)

Kichijirô Ueda

Naomi Shiraishi

Tamaki Sawa

Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages.

Shogun's Joy of Torture

Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)

Shima Iwashita

Kô Nishimura

Shigeru Kôyama

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

Killers on Parade

Killers on Parade (1961)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Seiji Miyaguchi

Keiko Awaji

Perhaps Kobayashi's most sordid film, Black River is an exposé of the rampant corruption on and around U.S. military bases following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted petty criminal (Tatsuya Nakadai, in his first major role) to diagnose a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness, devolving into gangsterism, violence, and prostitution.—Anonymous

Black River

Black River (1957)

Tatsuo Takahashi

Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. They decide to trade places with each other.

Nippon no akuryo

Nippon no akuryo (1970)

Minori Terada

Gen Kimura

Mako Sanjô

This film of the sleepy-eyed ronin series finds the anti-hero in an area where the locals are oppressed, suppressed and held against their wills. Part of the coercive forces trace back to the lord of the area and for the swordsman to rise, resist and fight he first has to wade his way through a number of traps and assassins, except luckily a couple of them are female and attractive and hence desirable in bed.—aghaemi

Sleepy Eyes of Death: In the Spider's Lair

Sleepy Eyes of Death: In the Spider's Lair (1968)

Yoshiko Kuga

Jun Hamamura

Kiyoshi is a brooding young man who treats women solely as objects. Makoto is a young woman who is just reaching her sexual awakening. She and her friends accept car rides from middle-aged men, saying it's nothing more than fun and they have no intention of leading on those men. Kiyoshi and Makoto meet when he saves her from one of those middle-aged men trying to take advantage of her. Despite abusing each other, they start a relationship which leads to what they call love, but feels more like an emotional dependence on each other to rebel against traditional society. Neither has money, so they start to extort money from these middle-aged men of hers. This is only one demonstration of the only power they feel they have: sex, which they use against others as well as each other in their doomed relationship.—Huggo

Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth (1960)

Takao Usui

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Death by Hanging

Death by Hanging (1968)

Chishû Ryû

Fujiko Yamamoto

A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However, when it comes time for him to be objective regarding his oldest daughter, he finds it very difficult...—Karl Engel

Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower (1958)

Meiko Kaji

Nenji Kobayashi

Mitsuo Andô

Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpion, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden. Granted a one day reprieve due to the visit of a dignitary, she takes advantage and attacks the warden again. This leads to more brutal punishment and humiliation. But the punishment gives her an opportunity to escape along with six other female prisoners. Their surreal flight from prison pits the convicts against the guards, the warden and each other.—Anonymous

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

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