In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
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...
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...
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...
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and ...
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests...
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...
Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...
A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of K...
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger...
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch...
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
High-school student Yasuko, indulges in sex to liberate herself from a corrupt adult society. Driven...