Yoshishige Yoshida

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.

Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother's clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka's brother followed the revoltionary's precept and acted, attempting on the life of a finantial group manager and then, unable to escape, killing himself. Now, Ikka is more determined than ever to take his own teachings to the ultimate end, the «coup d'etat». (imdb)

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan after spending a few years studying at the MIT. He's working on a new project involving the creation of laser beams. One day, his wife Nanako, comes back home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, who pretends to be Ayu's father, come to get her back but Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents... (Karagarga)

A young woman is driven by bitterness and frustration to the promiscuity of her mother against which she had rebelled.

A man travels to Akitsu Springs to die, only to be nursed to health by a young woman who works at the springs. The film follows their lives through the years as the man leaves, grows, and marries, but never stops coming back to Akitsu Springs.

Yoshida's first movie for Shochiku narrates the life of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. Yet one of those "good-for-nothing" coming from a poor background falls for a young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path. Yoshida demonstrates his talent and innovation in this early new wave attempt, showing great mastery of lighting and composition. (KG)

An ambitious department store worker endeavors to improve his station in life by manipulating women to get what he wants - money that is.

Yuriko, owner of a barbershop in Sapporo, takes a trip with Sugino, her lover. When they enjoy themselves in the cold and the snow, Yuriko tells him that she has come with the intention to break up with him. Convinced that there is another man, eaten up by jealousy, Sugino decides to kill her at the lake Shikotsuko. But Yuriko tells him that she's pregnant...

Shizuo Matsutani, a bank clerk, is engaged to Yumika, daughter of a rich shopowner, Denzô Hashimoto. But when he discovers that his mother, the beautiful Shizuka, is having an affair with said, he delays his wedding because of it. He has even begun to despise Denzô, who he thinks wants to destroy the relationship he has with his mother...

Before going to university, Kawamura goes on holiday in Europe. In Lissabon he encounters Naoko, who sells furniture and art objects. Kawamura is obsessed by a sketch of a European church he saw in Nagasaki. He came to Europe to see that church with his own eyes. Naoko lost her parents during the bombing of Nagasaki, and tries to forget Japan... A story of attraction and repulsion begins.

The heroine, Ritsuko, is married to Shingo, a design engineer. Shingo is unable to father a child so Ritsuko is artificially inseminated. The birth of a son, Takashi, however, does not help marital relations between husband and wife. When Sakaguchi, a doctor having marital problems with his wife, Shina, is revealed as the sperm donor, Ritsuko develops a passion for the doctor.

Yoshida's second Shochiku assignment turned away from the studio's dominant focus on troubled youth and generational conflict in order to paint a darker and more despairing portrait of society in a state of moral collapse. Taking sharp aim at Japan's harshly competitive corporate culture, Blood Thirsty follows a hapless salaryman whose desperate gesture to prevent the mass layoff of his colleagues is ruthlessly and absurdly exploited by his company for a deeply ironic advertising campaign. (sfs)

A woman lets her paramour take naked pictures of her which reaches the hands of a stalker.

This erotic and violent story taken from Emily Bronte's classic novel, takes place in medieval Japan instead of 19th-century Yorkshire. Onimaru (Yasaku Matsuda) is an orphan boy taken in by a group of priests who worship the Mountain of Fire and try to appease the gods of anger. He loves Kinu (Yuko Tanaka), the beautiful daughter of a local family. (mubi.com)

The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event. (imdb)

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery. (imdb)

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together. (imdb)

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death. (imdb)

A shipyard worker gets an offer of free lodging in the company seaside rest house. Upon arriving there, he finds out that he also has to take care of a flock of undisciplined youngsters. (imdb)