Yoshio Harada

Based on the short story from the best-selling collection “Poppoya” by Jiro Asada, “The Invitation from Cinema Orion” ...

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family’s fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, ...

Youjin is a quirky young man living in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Yojin has a difficult time sitting still and can’t focus on extended ...

Hi no Sakana (火の魚, Fish of the Fire) is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single ...

A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki’s sixth decade behind the camera, “A Boy’s Summer in 1945” ...

Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to “clean” the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After ...

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido ...

On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of ...

Two brothers, Jinta and Wataru, are raised in a travelling circus. After an accident, Jinta decides to leave the circus and travels the ...

After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father

After his parter Ahiru (Riki Takeuchi) is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura (Seiji Matano), cop Joe ...

Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage ...

Koji Wakamatsu adapted the Kouhei Tsuka’s play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe.

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

About an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized and happen to be naked, the sleeping beauties. The ...

After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he ...

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It’s unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes ...

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

The film follows a hippie community lead by Yoshitaro. They decide to leave their trailer in Shinjuku and travel to countryside by bicycle to ...

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the ...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an ...

This movie is a political/espionage thriller, based on a real kidnapping incident of Korean politician, Kim Dae-Jun.

Mike Yokohama is a private investigator who comes across a job where he must retrieve a girl from a get away.

Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small ...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of ...

Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maze of danger and intrigue after he and his sexy ...

Artist Yumeji has gained fame and recognition for his skills at painting as well as notoriety for his untamed lifestyle. Despite his betrothal to ...