Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one hostess at a cabaret, living with her lover, ... but finds out that he has a wife. When Masuko’s niece arrives the competition further ratchets up.

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 Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...

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...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose mis...

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, ...

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a despe...

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. Howeve...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemo...

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...

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....