Time of Wickedness (1985)
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, young man leaves home and his studies He finds a new smaller place to stay, a low paying but satisfying job and a girlfriend Then his mother, unable to fight her forbidden desires, s
Harakiri (1962)
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lords palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined and in doing so challenges the clans integrity
Double Suicide (1969)
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan
Red Lion (1969)
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a red lions mane, a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the villages suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen
Samurai from Nowhere (1964)
The adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain
Yakuza Ladies (1986)
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouses gang with an iron hand Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him The two sist
The Shadow Within (1970)
Hamajima is a quiet, hard working man, whose life changes drastically when he reunites with a lovely childhood friend and her strange little boy
Sword of the Beast (1965)
After killing a counselor of his clan, a fugitive samurai befriends a couple poaching the shoguns gold in the mountains
Kono ko no nanatsu no oiwai ni (1982)
The palmist blue moth Seiga is rumored to manipulate the Japanese political and business from behind Journalist Omoda had inquired into the blue moth but is killed Sudo who is Omodas juniors of the newspaper he used to be
Gonza the Spearman (1986)
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important Gonza competes with Bannojo for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir
Himiko (1974)
A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk
Moonlight Serenade (1997)
Opens with a journalist reporting on the 1997 Kobe earthquake, as he remembers a trip made as a young boy Then, he and family took a boat trip from Awaji to Beppu in order to bury the ashes of his elder brother, killed in the jus
Giwaku (1982)
The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband
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
Sharaku (1995)
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relations
Dry Lake (1960)
An alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest
Ballad of Orin (1977)
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on peoples behavior