In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
Despite his efforts of living a normal life as a banker, the life of Toru, the only son of the Yubar...
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial...
In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea...
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...
Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...
Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of O...
When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...
In the slums of Osaka, various marginalized misfits have their own interpretations of love. Complete...
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mis...