Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...
Yasuo (Hiroshi Abe) grew up as an orphan. He married a woman he loved and they had a son Akira (late...
Together with Shimada Akira (Hagiwara Masato), the last appointed governor of Okinawa during the war...
In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ranso...
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares...
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelin...
Seigo Yoshioka (Kenji Sakaguchi) is a teacher that became mute after a kendo accident. He feels lost...
This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...
Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...
Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—f...
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain thei...
The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man ...
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote ...
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...