Shizuo Chûjô

十七才は一度だけ

Yoshio Inoue

Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama

野火

Kon Ichikawa

Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

女は二度生まれる

Yūzō Kawashima

Ayako Wakao, Jun Fujimaki

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not just as a woman but as a complete person.

Love and Greed

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Ayako Wakao

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

The School of Spies

Yasuzō Masumura

Raizō Ichikawa, Mayumi Ogawa

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro, one of the cadets, successfully seize the secret code of English army to pass the final exam. However, he reaches the crossroad when his fiancee Yukiko turns out to be a spy of the enemy.

楊貴妃

Kenji Mizoguchi

Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a distant relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.

高校生無頼控 突きのムラマサ

Mio Ezaki

Masaaki Daimon, Yuriko Hishimi

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Black Test Car

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Junko Kano

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

処刑の部屋

Kon Ichikawa

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Keizô Kawasaki

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

黒の超特急

Yasuzō Masumura

Jirō Tamiya, Yukiko Fuji

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.

Bronze Magician

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Raizō Ichikawa, Yukiko Fuji

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippeji, 1926).

黒の報告書

Yasuzō Masumura

Ken Utsui, Junko Kano

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

白鷺

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Fujiko Yamamoto, Keizô Kawasaki

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps catches up to her.

あゝ海軍

Mitsuo Murayama

Kichiemon Nakamura, Ken Utsui

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.

獣の戯れ

Sôkichi Tomimoto

Ayako Wakao, Masao Mishima

From a novel by Mishima Yukio

女体

Yasuzō Masumura

Ruriko Asaoka, Eiji Okada

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie (Kyoko Kishida), Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.