Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug…

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,…

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical’s wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

The film stars two of Itami’s regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes…

A lonely retired girl’s High School Principal who’s lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected…

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring various stories and news of death and…

The story begins with an inventor and entrepreneur’s suicide. Despite his company being on the brink of a breakthrough he is out of money and out of time. All is…

A failing supermarket manager hires an energetic woman to help him compete with a rival business.

Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and eventually marries her. Not longer after their marriage, Kozo Nakase suddenly collapses and dies. Kozo…

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles…

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a “good-for-nothing” from a poor background falls in…

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.

Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself…

A fierce and dedicated tax collector ruthlessly pursues a hood operating adult motels and crooked real estate deals.

In medieval Japan a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression.

The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo’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…

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.