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.
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...
Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company...
In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation...
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...
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...
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts al...
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Jap...
Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and ...
An experimental, psychedelic odyssey through Japanese subculture experienced via the eyes of a disil...
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...
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...