Yosuke Hayashi

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

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 love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth and the outer Western extremism as major student protests take place.

1962 Japanese movie

Pinku from 1965.

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her boyfriend Sanpei, an aspiring composer, but her father wants her to marry a young company president.

The Nagasaki flagship store of a long-established castella bakery versus its Tokyo branch. Amid a sudden clash between the old and the new, a young chorus group finds itself caught up in the twists and turns of romance… Set against the exotic backdrop of Nagasaki, Yoshiaki Bansho skilfully weaves together the lively romantic adventures of these young people.