Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, ...
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, thi...
A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son in...
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring lit...
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends wi...
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemo...
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose mis...