Motomu Furuta

A strange world of the criminal underground during Samurai times where a trio of mute assassins hack their way across ancient Edo looking for evil in a dreamlike world of corruption, where priests rob the dead and daughters get a hand at the family business of killing. (hkdvdstore.com)

Ken Ogata is Tokichi Sakane, murderer of his own wife and child. The desperate act of a chaotic man at the end of his rope. He ends in prison where he's beaten to confess where he hid the corpses of his wife and child. He attempts suicide in his cell. Failing that he breaks out of prison by dugging a tunnel and goes on to get a series of jobs as a construction worker in various places, trying to pass incognito while the police is hot on his trail. .. (imdb)

For Crest of Betrayal, Fukasaku and co-screenwriter Motomu Furuta combined the legend of the forty-seven samurai with another stalwart of Japanese folklore: the ghost story of Yotsuya. Most famously brought to the screen by Jigoku director Nobuo Nakagawa in 1959's Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, the ghost story of Yotsuya concerns the revenge of a disfigured female ghost on her lover, who had poisoned her in order to marry a woman of better standing. (midnighteye.com)

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship of the German POWs with the director of the camp and local residents at the stage of Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture in Japan.

When her husband dies in an accident, a rough-mouthed former bar hostess is suspected of murder and insurance fraud. In this courtroom drama she is defended by a lawyer who is a cool and elegant business woman.

An adaptation of a Chinese folktale about a pilgrimage to the West undertaken by a monk and his divine guardians. (imdb)

A young boy, Atsu, grows up along the banks of the Shimanto River in rural (and backblocks) southern Shikoku. He comes to grips with the unfairness of life and the emotional pain involved in the loss of innocence.

Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura).