In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken capti...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society...

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask start...

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a h...

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit o...

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in...

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, bo...

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostit...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger...

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for ...

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese village...

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bic...

The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, ...

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the...