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.

Shoji Segawa was a quiet and inconspicuous boy, but, for the first time, he is recognized by people ...

Kokko is a third grade elementary school student. Even though she has a family who loves her, Kokko ...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow ...

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...

Depressed and in debt, Santoshi tells his young daughter that he is going to find an infamous serial...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

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

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggl...

Business is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon starring Te...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

When poverty-stricken Korean-Japanese (Zainichi) discover there is valuable iron ore in the rubble o...

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...

The main hero of this film is the spirit of the once very popular wooden statuette called Billiken. ...

Daisuke is in the 2nd grade of high school and he plays on his school's baseball team. Daisuke then ...

In early post-war Osaka, three women, war widow Fusako, her sister Natsuko, an expatriate from Korea...

Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...

Asami and Rina are two sisters who are both professional shogi players in the same B League. Both ar...

At midnight, in a residential area of Osaka, a middle aged man is murdered. The person who killed th...

In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor...