Toyozō Yamamoto

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

Sixth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Pinku from 1973.

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.

Japanese comedy film.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Otami and daughter Yuri run the Matsuoka, a 150-year-old Japanese-style inn in Tokyo which they plan to renovate into a modern hotel before the ‘64 Tokyo Olympics. Maki, the son of the owner of the Benten Hotel, likes Yuri and wants to get closer to her. So, he asks Milton, an American exchange student, to stay at her inn so he can get closer to her. But Yuri is in love with Shin, a cook at her inn. And although Shin likes her too, the two are constantly bickering. Complicating matters more, is that every other available girl also likes Shin including Chikako, who lives at his boarding house, and Chikoma, who is a geisha. One day when Yuri gets a phone call, she suspects that her mother might be having an affair. But it turns out that Otami reunited with her old flame Tomo, who also used to work as a chef at the inn but left because he feared that their class backgrounds were too different. When Shin learns that Yuri is going to marry...will history repeat itself?

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is to see their son grow and to be happy as a family.

Japanese drama film.

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1962 Japanese movie

A woman becomes dissatisfied with her marriage and joins a political theater troupe to protest the U.S. Security Pact.

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A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

A melodrama set in Kuroshima.

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1962 Japanese movie

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Tetsuo Asakura, the son of a bus company president, was planning to take it easy as he neared graduation from college, but due to a series of unexpected events, he ended up taking a part-time job at his father’s company. Working undercover as a trainee bus conductor at a ski resort, Tetsuo found that the locals weren’t always kind to him. Amidst this, only Hisako, who worked at a hot spring inn, treated him with warmth.

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.

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A young woman leaves her hometown to find work in the city

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The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love with a runaway girl who turns out to be the leader of a religious sect. Kusano is the henpecked proprietor of a rice biscuit shop who dreams of owning a bird and dog shop and his daughter is in love with a boarder, employed by the private detective agency searching for the runaway girl. The agency head has his own dream of arranging thirty marriages and has already accomplished twenty-seven. Tatsumi is a newspaper reporter who dreams of a big scoop to enable him to marry a girl TV producer and his friend a mountain climbing enthusiast who dreams of joining a Himalayan expedition but is opposed by his wife. His love of the mountains is shared by a boarder in their home and by a fishmonger's son.

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Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Shochiku's up-and-coming stars take the stage in a series of short skits parodying popular films of the time.

A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young workers.

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