Kazuko Wakamatsu

旅は気まぐれ風まかせ

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Raizō Ichikawa, Jun Negami

赤線の灯は消えず

Shigeo Tanaka

Machiko Kyō, Hitomi Nozoe

くちづけ

Yasuzō Masumura

Hiroshi Kawaguchi, Hitomi Nozoe

Kinichi and Akiko meet when they visit their fathers in prison. After successfully gambling on a bicycle race, they spend an enjoyable day together at the beach.

稲妻街道

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Ryūji Shinagawa

Uta andon

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Raizō Ichikawa, Mayumi Kurata

その夜は忘れない

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ayako Wakao, Jirō Tamiya

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

眠狂四郎魔性剣

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiko Saga

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!

女の賭場

Shigeo Tanaka

Kyōko Enami, Yūsuke Kawazu

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. The series gets cited on lists of action yakuza films or woman avenger films, but once the films are actually viewed, it is quickly obvious they are not generally about action except in the nominal sense of acts of gambling. And while Ogin is in fact sometimes motivated by revenge, she is not as a rule a martial artist or a killer, & this series tends to place its female hero as far away from the "action babe" method as she can get. Ogin is an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling. She is samurai-like in that she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer, much as a samurai might go on his "warrior's pilgrimage" to become Japan's number one swordsman.

悪名太鼓

Kazuo Mori

Shintarō Katsu, Jirō Tamiya

The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001.

怪猫五十三次

Bin Kato

Shintarō Katsu, Tokiko Mita

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat helping him. Co-starring Shintarô Katsu and Takako Irie.

大怪獣決闘 ガメラ対バルゴン

Shigeo Tanaka

Kōjirō Hongō, Kyōko Enami

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

金瓶梅

Kōji Wakamatsu

Tomoko Mayama, Kazuko Wakamatsu

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and interesting for to compare to "Yojimbo" and other masterworks of the form.