Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo Kayama (Masaya Kato) who aims to become a professional player.
The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wo...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...
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...
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and ...
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...
A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...
Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
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...
The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...
Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both ar...
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and ...
After serving ten years due to a drug-induced assassination of a rival gang boss, Tachibana enters a...