Rokkô Toura

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang... (imdb)

Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpian, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden... (imdb)

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce. (imdb)

A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight. (imdb)

Oshima's most overtly political film, The Ceremony uses the backdrop of Japanese rituals (several weddings and more than one funeral) to mount a scathing attack on Japanese politics. Depicting the story of one family over 30 years, its promotion of a more tolerant society and the freedom that comes with it occasionally makes way for some genuinely moving depiction of everyday family life... (Channel 4)

Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan! (imdb)

Shinjuku Thief is the story of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko. (imdb)

A sensationalistic and surreal love triangle develops between a serial rapist, his schoolteacher wife, and one of his past victims.

In this reworking of the traditional Japanese tale of double suicide, a paranoid young man on the run from local crime bosses falls into a torturous relationship with a woman who just wants someone to make love to her, no strings attached. (cinema.wisc.edu)

Miki Sugimoto plays Agent Zero, a cop who tends to shoot first and ask questions later. After she kills a would be rapist, she's sent to prison for her unorthodox methods. Soon though, when the daughter of a prominent Japanese politician is kidnapped by a gang of lowlifes, the politician has Agent Zero sprung from prison so that she can infiltrate the gang and save his daughter on the down low, without causing a lot of publicity and thus avoiding a big scandal.

In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials to "borrow" gold from the shogunate's treasury and loan it out to the destitute, including impecunious samurai - exacting either interest payments or family heirlooms from the debtors. (imdb)

In 1960, during the wedding ceremony between Nozawa, a journalist and former student radical of the 1950's, and Reiko, a current activist, some of the people present recall the student demonstrations against the AMPO treaty, attributing responsibility and faults one another.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan (imdb)

A black soldier flying during World War 2 is taken prisoner in a small Japanese village when his plane goes down.

A young student activist flees from Tokyo with his beautiful sister-in-law after he accidently shoots his brother, a policeman, during a squabble after a major political demonstration. As they attempt to suppress their guilt and the desire they feel for one another, they are haunted by visions of the murdered husband. (Jasper Sharp)

A mother leaves her husband and small village and travels to Kyoto with her teenage daughter.

Set in 1945, near the end of WW II, Kenichiro Nogami is reported to have died in a Swiss hospital. In fact, Kenichiro Nogami is working behind the scenes to save Japan from destruction. For this cause, Kenichiro Nogami has left behind his wife and nation to work in hiding.

An international gang fights with other families at postwar Kobe. (thehawaiiherald.com)

A Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisionment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with. (imdb)

Naomi, a corporate heiress from Japan, vacations to Hong Kong with her two colleagues. Bored, she sneaks out to visit the city and befriends a local rock band and, appreciative of the company, later helps the members with their debit issues. Meanwhile, Naomi's colleagues received news that the big boss of their company succumbed to a heart attack and that Naomi must sign a document to prevent the company from being turned over to a corrupt executive... (imdb)

The palmist "blue-moth (Seiga)" is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind. Journalist Omoda had inquired into the "blue-moth" but is killed. Sudo who is Omoda's juniors of the newspaper he used to be in took over Omoda's work. (imdb)

The omnibus movie by Shindo Kaneto is separated into three parts, each one of which follows a different life problem of the Japanese citizen and their way of facing the world. The first story consists of a high school student who plays hooky and befriends a middle-aged man. The second story deals with an elderly couple who wants their daughter to have a better life. The last story is about an eleven-year-old who's abandoned by his mother and he has to take care of his two younger siblings.

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

The son of a murder crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other.

Strange events are occurring at the residence of the Aoyama family, led by high-ranking samurai Aoyama Harima. About three months prior, Harima was requested by his uncle, Aoyama Shujin, and the senior official Doi Shukei to show them their family heirloom… a red-painted Goryeo dish, presented to them by the Shogunate. However, the dish was found broken upon arrival, causing the blame to fall on Harima’s attendant Okiku, who was then punished severely.

The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Keiichi Tsuchiya of the "Megalopolis Expressway Trial" series.

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.

Toshihiko, a high school boy, hates Kozo, his father, enough to kill him. His mother had lived in terror of him and, at last, broken in spirit, she had left and her pitiful departing figure is still seared in Toshihiko's mind. Soon, Kozo marries Asako who is young and beautiful. An idea forms in Toshihiko's mind to get even with his father for the shabby way he had treated his mother. He wonders if he can do it through Asako.

A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course, it all ends in bloodshed.