Kuratarō Takamura

One Bowl of Kakesoba (1992)

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant ...

Naomi (1980)

Film adaptation to Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "Naomi". Focused around a man's obsession for a "modern girl". ...

Jokôsei: Kikenna Mebae (1980)

A high school girl gets into trouble when she takes on a part-time job as a substitute bride. At the wedding hall, she runs away with a man just before the ceremony, and ended up involved in a kidnapping ransom of 20,000,000 yen. ...

Invisible Man: Rape! (1978)

A horny scientist who is married to a hot wife and lives with his virginal step sister invents a drug that can make him invisible. Erotic high jinks ensue. ...

Women in Prison (1978)

A woman ends up in prison because of her lying, manipulative and exploitative lover. There she discovers that she is not alone. ...

Sexual Confessions at Twenty: Leaning Back (1978)

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Apartment Wife: Violated Skin (1977)

A nightmare that suddenly attacks an ordinary housewife: rape. However, the real nightmare was the threat that began because the information was being wiretapped. And the housewife uses her own body as a weapon to confront her blackmailer, but... ...

Tissue Paper By the Geisha's Pillow (1977)

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Zecchô no onna (1976)

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Lusty Ama: Stirred-Up Pot (1976)

A young woman with an unrequited love for her step brother has their relationship upended when a despondent couple wanders into town. ...

Lady Ecstasy: Pleasure Profound (1976)

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A Bird of Africa (1975)

A group of kids find interest in birdwatching. ...

Secret Book: Peeled Egg (1975)

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Hihon: Sode to sode (1974)

Writer and ladies-man Yonosuke, who gives inept English lessons (using Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet), is mistakenly ushered into the back entrance of a woman's house one rainy night. When he finds out that her husband is away at war in Russia he tries to ...

Bawdy Tales of Edo: Octopus & Sea Shell (1974)

When a wastrel son of a merchant stumbles upon a robbery he discovers that both thieves are women. When he confronts one of them she distracts him with her breasts as the other knocks him out. He falls in love and searches for the pair. ...

Apartment Wife: Playing with Fire (1973)

Yoichi and Masako have been married for several years and have reached a period of boredom. ...

The Hell-Fated Courtesan (1973)

The story of a courtesan that was once popular in Yoshiwara. She is good-looking, but for some reason, three of her customers died unnaturally, one after another. As a result, she is feared by potential customers, and no one cares for her... ...

Secret Chronicle: Prostitution Market (1972)

Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do. ...

The Superhuman Stud (1972)

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Hellish Love (1972)

Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead. ...

Shiroi ominaeshi (1972)

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A Chorus of One Million People (1972)

A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Watanabe, the daughter of a record shop and teacher of a music class, invites Takuro Yoshida to Koriyama City to hold a concert. He then starts being harassed ...

Glorious Moment: A Woman's Scroll (1972)

Osono and Eisuke would like to get married but with her up to her neck in debt due to her late father's illness and him trying to raise the funds to start a business, they can't afford to do so. Osono agrees to work as a geisha and eventually is tricked in ...

Comedy: The Face is Life (1971)

A comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives. ...

Sign of the Jack (1970)

Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner Kurahara. They attempt to help the Towada-Gumi gang against its rival group the Kamioka-Gumi which is seekin ...

Shameless School (1970)

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip. ...

Profile of a Boss' Son (1970)

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, s ...

Outlaw: Kill! (1969)

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent ...

Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968)

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos ...

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin (1968)

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrust ...

The Spiders' The Road to Bali (1968)

The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle plutonium hidden in The Spiders' guitar amps, but the boys just want to Rock and Roll! ...

Song of my Life (1968)

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (1968)

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is presse ...

Outlaw: Gangster VIP (1968)

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three yea ...

Velvet Hustler (1967)

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the ...

Journey to the North (1967)

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance o ...

The Swan Elegy (1966)

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering between two men, learns from her father that she is the child of her deceased mother and uncle. In this ambitious ...

Tomo o okuru uta (1966)

Night of Sorrow (1966)

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves. ...

Showdown in the Red Valley (1965)

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued by Shingo Kazama, a mountain man who works at the quarry ...

Tattooed Life (1965)

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother. ...

The Rule for a Vagabond (1965)

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga. ...

Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man (1965)

The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood. ...

Flowering Maidens (1965)

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki. ...

Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)

In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel. ...

I Have the Sun in My Back (1963)

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to uncove ...

Bad Girl (1963)

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights at a rundown bar, sharing drinks and cigarettes with the lowlife drunks. She has nowhere to turn and no on ...

Wind and waves of the South (1961)

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who replaced her brought with her affection, comfort, and warmth ...

A Bold Life (1961)

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory. ...

Joe of Aces: Give and Take (1961)

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series. ...

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living (1961)

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers. ...

Tokyo Mighty Guy (1960)

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal bu ...

Return of the Vagabond (1960)

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, wh ...

The Rambling Guitarist (1959)

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him. ...

Farewell to Southern Tosa (1959)

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard. ...

Tokyo no Kodoku (1959)

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love. ...

I Will Challenge (1959)

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also be ...

Friendship of Jazz (1959)

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder. ...

Stolen Desire (1958)

A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows. ...

Rusty Knife (1958)

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city c ...

Forever, My Love (1958)

Forbidden Lips (1958)

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student. ...

I Am Waiting (1957)

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. ...

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can't pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a "commission" for his ...

Hungry Soul, Part II (1956)

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband's business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him ...

Hungry Soul (1956)

Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband's business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with ...

Our Town (1956)

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Sh ...

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off in ...

The Balloon (1956)

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami's daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throw ...

Till We Meet Again (1955)

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachiyo's father is introduced to Jiro, all of their lives be ...

Love and Duty (1954)

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth and love. ...

Youth of the Son (1952)

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls. ...

The Man with Two Names Cameraman Kim Hak-seong, Kanai Seiichi (2006)

A filmmaker with three names—Hinatsu Eitaro in Japan, Huh Young in Korea, and Huyung in Indonesia—is known as the director of the lost film You and I (1941). Presented here is a retrospective look at a filmmaker who was a victim of his time. ...