Junichiro Yamashita

民謡の旅　秋田おばこ

Kunio Watanabe

Hibari Misora, Eiko Namiki

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.

十七才は一度だけ

Yoshio Inoue

Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama

武士道無残

Eitaro Morikawa

Miki Mori, Junichiro Yamashita

A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ayako Wakao, Junichiro Yamashita

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Shintarō Katsu, Shiho Fujimura

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.

鉄砲犬

Tetsutaro Murano

Jirō Tamiya, Shigeru Amachi

Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

陸軍中野学校　密命

Akira Inoue

Raizō Ichikawa, Miwa Takada

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Youth in Fury

Masahiro Shinoda

Shinichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo (Shinichiro Mikami) takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.

ろくでなし

Yoshishige Yoshida

Masahiko Tsugawa, Yūsuke Kawazu

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.

ピンクサロン　好色五人女

Noboru Tanaka

Kyoko Aoyama, Erina Miyai

Waka oyabun

Kazuo Ikehiro

Raizō Ichikawa, Yukiji Asaoka

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

黒の切り札

Umetsugu Inoue

Jirō Tamiya, Ken Utsui

Clamouring Canines

Mitsuo Murayama

Jirō Tamiya, Yuko Hamada

The second film in the "Inu" series.

大魔神逆襲

Kazuo Mori

Hideki Ninomiya, Riki Hashimoto

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.

濡れた週末

Kichitaro Negishi

Junko Miyashita, Aoi Nakajima

Miyashita plays an office clerk who is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, Miyashita and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.

教師女鹿

Chūsei Sone

Hitomi Sakae, Izumi Shima

Mejika, a pretty Eurasian woman, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. She is reputed for her iron discipline. But the extremely provocative attitude of Mejika ends up worrying the school's administration. The young woman then sows trouble by revealing the cases of vice and corruption that are legion in this school...