Rokkō Toura

Dialogue (1992)

A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man's plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss. ...

The Strange Tale of Oyuki (1992)

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years ...

Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives (1992)

Story teller Kinya Aikawa serves as a guide in this horror drama series, which is presented in an omnibus format with two stories each based on the stories of people who have experienced horror. Kanako (Yasuko Sawaguchi) looks through the viewfinder of a s ...

Manila Gokudo Wars (1992)

Shuji Kanzaki, who lives in the underworld of Manila, winds up in a fierce battle with Japan's biggest gangster. ...

Black Cop (1992)

An ex-detective who accidentally kills a suspect becomes a dog of the yakuza ...

Hey Oilers the Legend of Skyline (1991)

The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Keiichi Tsuchiya of the "Megalopolis Expressway Trial" series. ...

Crossroads in Tokyo (1991)

A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals. ...

The Shootist 2 (1990)

Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST' ...

So What (1988)

In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band. ...

Memories of You (1988)

A mother discovers that her 14-year-old daughter Yumi has leukemia and only six months to live. She decides to keep the information secret and pushes her past tutor Akira, now a university student, to reconnect with her. ...

You're My Destiny (1987)

Naomi, a corporate heiress from Japan, vacations to Hong Kong with her two colleagues. Bored, she sneaks out to visit the city and befriends a local rock band and, appreciative of the company, later helps the members with their debit issues. Meanwhile, Nao ...

Murder on Raicho 9 (1987)

Haneda, the president of a company dealing in gold, is shot to death on the Raicho 9 limited express from Osaka to Kanazawa. Detective Kamei begins an investigation in cooperation with the Fukui Prefectural Police. In the Green Car, Detective Nishimoto had ...

Tree Without Leaves (1986)

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in. ...

The New Morning of Billy the Kid (1986)

All the protagonists move about in a Tokyo Bar that has an entire wall taken up with a black-and-white reproduction of a photo of Monument Valley. The action starts as Billy the Kid, in full living color, walks out of the photo and gets a job as a waiter. ...

The Black Cat Mansion of Hatred (1984)

Mysterious incidents occur around geiko in Fukagawa, and there is always the presence of a black cat at the scene of the tragedy. The woman, unaware of her presence, is pulled away by the banya, but a ronin, pretending to be a bouncer of the geisha distric ...

Lowly Ronin 6: Betrayal at Yatate Pass (1983)

Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. Nursed back to health by Yamaoka Daijiro, the one Nanbu Clan retainer that believes him, he must find a way ...

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, wil ...

Lullaby of Death (1982)

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother's suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge. All intertwined with the investigation of journalists into local murders, the manipulations of a palmist k ...

Edo Porn (1981)

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin. ...

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers (1980)

The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant. ...

The Revolt (1980)

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his sister. Upon finding Kaoru at a party working as a geisha ...

The Shogun Assassins (1979)

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ...

The Strangling (1979)

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation. ...

Butterfly Web (1978)

Nikkatsu Roman Porno ...

An Unforgettable Affair (1978)

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who ...

Lost Love (1978)

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a ...

The Skies of Haruo (1977)

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada. ...

The War of the 16 Year Olds (1976)

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past. ...

The International Gang of Kobe (1975)

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs. ...

Shimane Prison Riot (1975)

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest ass ...

My Way (1974)

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way. ...

The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers (1974)

A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse ...

Military Comfort Woman (1974)

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2. ...

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)

Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthles ...

The Tattooed Hitman (1974)

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia a ...

Zoku tameiki (1974)

Yumiko Tateno, an office worker, is somewhat interested in the opposite sex, but she has had few opportunities and remains a virgin. On the thirteenth anniversary of her father's death, Yumiko visits the grave with her mother, Tokiko. There, she meets Yuki ...

Bodyguard Kiba 2 (1973)

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters. ...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment. ...

Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Pa ...

A Diary of a Woman Doctor (1973)

1973 Toei movie. ...

Hell Riders in Kyoto (1973)

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him. Junya falls in love with the ...

The School Deviate Waru (1973)

Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school principal ...

Time Within Memory (1973)

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother. ...

Rahman: Father of Bengal (1973)

Documentary about the politician Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners. ...

Hymn (1972)

The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel beatings. ...

The Horrible Obsessions (1972)

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs. ...

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad (1972)

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld. ...

Dear Summer Sister (1972)

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father's young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale's tourist attractions, quickly delving ...

The Iron Crown (1972)

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night. ...

Gang Warfare (1972)

The Giants (1972)

The program investigates the secrets behind the success of Japan's most famous baseball team, the Tokyo Yomiuri Kyojin-gun, affectionately known as the Giants. An interview with Kawakami, the coach at the time, retraces the glorious history of this team, w ...

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder (1972)

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence. ...

Silence (1971)

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor. ...

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan (1971)

The Ceremony (1971)

Oshima's magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades. ...

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's ...

Okinawa (1970)

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island. ...

The Angry Sword (1970)

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies. ...

Mission: Iron Castle (1970)

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant lea ...

Haunted Castle (1969)

A young woman turns to the supernatural to wreak revenge on a murderous warlord. ...

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 ...

Watch Out, Crimson Bat! (1969)

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow t ...

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. ...

Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution (1969)

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao's dictator tendency during the cultural ...

The Cross of Vengeance (1969)

Film with Junko Miyazono. ...

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts (1969)

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in. ...

The Woman Killer (1969)

Japanese crime film. ...

Kanto Onna Gokudo (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect. ...

Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even tho ...

Sequel: Secret Report From A Women's Prison (1968)

Japanese crime film ...

Fangs of a Female (1968)

Japanese crime film ...

Strong Women, Weak Men (1968)

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret. ...

Curse of the Blood (1968)

A samurai kills a blind man who tells him to repay his debts. Because of the samurai's actions his entire family is to bear a terrible curse. ...

The Saga of Tanegashima (1968)

Well before "Shogun" as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the firs ...

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

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. ...

Kuroneko (1968)

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor ca ...

Death by Hanging (1968)

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. ...

The Homely Sister (1967)

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can't accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu l ...

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway. ...

Japan's Longest Day (1967)

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight ...

Libido (1967)

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught between his wife's empathy and his children's judgmental scorn. As his health wavers, he and his wife atte ...

Band of Ninja (1967)

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filmi ...

Assignment Cloud (1966)

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his gei ...

Violence at Noon (1966)

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist. ...

Pretty Devil Yoko (1966)

Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend. ...

The Thieves' Who's Who (1966)

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person. ...

Tokyo Ninja Force (1966)

Silence Has No Wings (1966)

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post ...

Young Boss: Invitation to Fight (1966)

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning. ...

Sword Devil (1965)

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to as ...

Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret. ...

Samurai Spy (1965)

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swords ...

Brand of Evil (1964)

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly cond ...

League of Gangsters (1963)

A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score. ...

The Christian Revolt (1962)

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa. ...

The Catch (1961)

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'. ...

Slum (1961)

Originally commissioned to record urban redevelopment in Osaka's Kamagasaki district, Hideo Arai transcends reportage to capture a haunting portrait of displacement during Japan's economic miracle. With a dissonant score by experimental composers Toshi Ich ...

Blood Is Dry (1960)

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, however, h ...

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

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. ...

The Sun's Burial (1960)

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood. ...

Slum (1961)

Originally commissioned to record urban redevelopment in Osaka's Kamagasaki district, Hideo Arai transcends reportage to capture a haunting portrait of displacement during Japan's economic miracle. With a dissonant score by experimental composers Toshi Ich ...