A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the ...
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, thi...
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemo...
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man di...