In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken capti...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts al...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger...

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for ...

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, bo...

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostit...

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...

A young scammer sells pigeons that always return to his home. A rich girl takes an interest and trie...

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look ...

After fifteen year's old Yasuko has her first orgasm with a teacher she and her disillusioned group ...

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and...