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.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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...
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, ...
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...
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose mis...
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son in...
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends wi...