Ken Yoshizawa

Yoko (2023)

A road movie about Yoko, a frustrated part-time worker who hitchhikes to her hometown of Hirosaki, Aomori, where she has not returned for 24 years, after hearing the news of her father's death. ...

Lesson in Murder (2022)

Masaya is a university student, but he attends a school that's not his ideal school. His days are generally gloomy. One day, he receives a letter from serial killer Haimura. He was convicted for nine murders and received the death penalty. Back when Haimur ...

My Brother, The Android And Me (2022)

A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself. ...

Photograph of Memories (2021)

A frustrated young woman returns from Tokyo to her hometown in Toyama where she meets an old woman who lives alone. There she slowly finds purpose in life by taking "photographs" that spin memories instead of ghosts. ...

Nosari: Impermanent Eternity (2020)

A young man wanders and makes calls to elders who live alone. Saying "Granny, it's me," he lies to them that he is their grandson. An old lady, who runs a music shop in the declining shopping area in Amakusa, answers his call and warmly accepts him. Preten ...

One Left Hand Shot (2020)

Sea of Revival (2019)

After a man gets fired from his work at a printing plant, he moves with his couple to her hometown in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture. There, the woman opens up a beauty salon. They enjoy peaceful days, but small problems occur which leads to an irrevocable ...

Dare to Stop Us (2018)

In Spring 1969, 21-year-old Megumi Yoshizumi goes to Wakamatsu Production. The company makes films popular with young people. Pink film director Koji Wakamatsu gathers there with young talented people who are all fascinated with movie making. When they are ...

Innocent Curse (2017)

A suburban town is faced with a series of bizarre incidents in which children disappear and three days later an adult in their life dies. A mysterious "child whisperer" phantom appears before journalist Shunya, who is investigating the incidents, and his g ...

Dawn of the Felines (2017)

A story of three escort girls living in Ikebukuro, Tokyo. They work at the same escort service while feeling lonely in their urban lives. ...

Hana-Dama: Phantom (2016)

"Hana-Dama"—a flower in the wasteland. This flower is a symbol of earthly desires and every human is overwhelmed by desire and their rationality collapses wherever the flower is in bloom. And even today, the "Hana-Dama" continues to blossom profusely som ...

The Inerasable (2016)

A novelist receives a letter from a female university student named Kubo about strange sounds that emanate from a room in her apartment. They begin to investigate incidents involving former residents, and eventually discover the shocking truths lurking ins ...

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015)

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society. ...

Hajimari mo owari mo nai (2013)

Shodo Girls: Blue Blue Sky (2011)

Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then recommends to her to ...

Caterpillar (2010)

The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor. ...

Kiss & Hurt (2004)

Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to change. However, they get involved in an incident related to the local mafia. ...

Target (1996)

A business man visits his hometown to search for a missing employee ...

Completed Like a Beast (1992)

Kenji Takeda is back after five years in prison. In the meantime, the yakuza society has disappeared and has been transformed into a world of betrayal! ...

Swimming with Tears (1992)

In the sparsely populated rural areas of Japan, the female population is far smaller than the male. An attempt is made to counter this imbalance by arranging marriages with Filipino women. Fey, a young Filipina, came as a mail-order bride. Although she tri ...

Tuff Part IV - Harvest of Blood (1991)

Jiro's only target is a mysterious assassin. Faced with an enemy whose true identity is unknown, Yuki decides to become a decoy herself. The assassin relentlessly pursues Yuki, and Jiro also pursues the assassin. Killing after killing, they end up at the d ...

Ready to Shoot (1990)

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza. ...

Young Wife: Modest Indecency (1990)

Shinji, who has been writing a screenplay that is not going to be made into a movie, has a girlfriend who is a model. One day Shinji receives a call from the husband of his old lover Yoko, and goes to see her. When he meets Yoko again after five years, he ...

Capturing: Dirty Foreplay (1989)

Sho is a loner who works at a small factory. He has no friends, hardly associates with his work-mates and is regarded as a weirdo because of his love for gun models. One day he buys a real gun from a local yakuza. This boosts his self-confidence and he ove ...

Business Trip (1989)

Violent Cop (1989)

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague's involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities. ...

Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (1986)

A nurse starts to investigate why a woman who came to her office committed suicide. She discovers that a Yakuza gang is using an unusual drug to sexually enslave women. But she gets caught and when she is injected with the drug rather gruesome side effects ...

The ishoku document: Uma to onna Film (1986)

A young woman who came to Tokyo from a remote village is tricked by the Yakuza and goes through a series of jobs, from hostess to soapland girl to hot spring geisha to stripper, and finally makes a living as a stripper, but gradually loses popularity to a ...

Hitozuma ryôjoku (1984)

Pink film by Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu. ...

Burst City (1982)

Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living. ...

Misshitsu dokyumento: Yubi to shita (1981)

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu ...

Angel's Desire (1979)

How did two sisters from Tsugaru survive in the big city of Tokyo? The older sister passed the nursing exam and works at a major hospital in Tokyo. Meanwhile, the younger sister works as a menial laborer for a grimy obstetrician in a working-class neighbor ...

Backside of 17 (1972)

Pinku from 1972. ...

Night of the Felines (1972)

Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female prostitutes, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to e ...

Burning Skin (1972)

Shimako Yano once caused an accident in the car she was driving and left her husband, Kazuhiko, who was a passenger in the car, impotent, and she lives a life of frustration every day. ...

Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence. ...

Sex Rider: Wet Highway (1971)

On the eve of her wedding and while cheating with another man, a woman gets involved into a dangerous new world of experiences. ...

Gushing Prayer (1971)

After 15-year-old Yasuko has her first orgasm with a teacher, she and her disillusioned group of friends decide to turn to prostitution to gain a better understanding of what emotions truly are. ...

Secret Flower (1971)

A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach... ...

Season of Terror (1969)

From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical. ...

Heat Wave Island (1969)

Nobuko Otowa plays a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with the discovery of her corpse, which leads to an investigation that uncovers the narcotics, prostitu ...

Naked Bullet (1969)

A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster. ...

Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her. ...

Sexual Play (1969)

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group ...

New Underground History of Japanese Violence: Vengeance Demon (1969)

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be d ...

The Notorious Concubines (1968)

Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu Song rises to fame and becomes a guard captain. He is captivated by his brother's wife, Pan Jinlian, whose ...

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target... ...

Desire of the Flesh (1968)

Pinku from 1968 ...

A Womb to Let (1968)

A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an investigation into authority, patriarchy a ...

Sex Crimes (1968)

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach. ...

The Orgy (1967)

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan. ...