Movies

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...

Japanese crime film

A white woman from America suddenly shows up at the house of a tea ceremony teacher who had promised to marry her when he was traveling overseas....

A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.

A 1960 crime film

An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...

Since the arrival of the Black Ships, the Tokugawa Shogunate's dream of peace has been shattered, and the succession problem of the ailing Shogun...

A carefree country girl runs away to Tokyo and meets a guy in a suit, ready to take advantage of her, unaware that her personality will soon change...

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local...

1962 Japanese movie

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Shohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other. One day, he plans to use the cash borrowed from the...

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young...