Kotoe Hatsui

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate.

The autobiographical story of a family struggling to come to grips with their memmories and affection of a lost mother. Filmed entirely in black and white. (CDJapan)

This is the second major animated piece following the big hit "A Thousand and One Night Stories" in Japan. The distributor treated the film as an erotic animated work for adults, advertising it as a piece "far more erotic than a thousand and one might stories." (tezuka.co.jp)

Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a pair of criminal gangs with flamboyant aplomb while the police remain baffled. Suzuki treats the rather hoary plotline as an excuse for dark-humored camp, and young audiences were delighted with his irreverent approach, which made him one of the few distinctive names in the '60s assembly-line of Nikkatsu Studios. (www.surrealmoviez.info)

A yakuza gang is exploiting girls from a juvenile prison by forcing them to appear in pornographic films. It's up to Rica to stop them.

For his second film, Imamura was assigned by the studio Nikkatsu to direct this vehicle for singer-comedian Frank Nagai. The result is a comedy about a hen-pecked drugstore owner who spends his days reminiscing about a wartime romance in the tropics. (KG)

Ishikawa, a newspaper journalist, unexpectedly meets Asako, a woman who used to work for his company some time ago as a phone operator. Three years ago, she accidentally heard the voice of a suspect who committed a still-unresolved homicide. Since then, the suspect's voice has remained lodged in her mind as a terrifying memory. One night, her husband invites over his colleagues, Kawai, Hamazaki, and Muraoka. She realizes that Hamazaki's voice sounds exactly the same as the unseen suspect's! (imdb)

A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe. (Arrow Video)

The high-rising developments of the suburbs of Tokyo present ample opportunities for extortion for gangsters from a neighboring town. High-school student Jiro sets himself up as a local hero, fending off these incursions into the community, but his boisterous methods soon make him an outcast and strain his relationships with his best friend Yoshio. (Arrow Video)

After leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings. (imdb)

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal big bucks from the Yakuza.

Neri (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Akio are brothers and sisters. After the death of their parents, Akio made a living as a removal man, using the family truck to help local students move to new apartments. Neri spent time away from home, living with her boyfriend, Kozou. When things between the young couple turn sour, Neri decides to come home. (nikkatsu.com)

A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

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.