Tokugawa onna keibatsushi (1968)
Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages
Black River (1957)
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post War era
My Face Red in the Sunset (1961)
A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her
Lone Wolf and Cub Sword of Vengeance (1972)
The story of a Ronin i e a masterless samurai who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures
Nihon no yoru to kiri (1960)
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists movement in Japan