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A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Action

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jun Hamamura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ayako Darley

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Seijun Suzuki