Orgies of Edo
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Black Statement Book
After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.
Black Test Car
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.
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Madame White Snake
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
Meoto zenzai
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
Scandal
A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a famous singer.
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha when not entertaining customers.
Women Are Born Twice
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.
The Rickshaw Man
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Bloody Territories
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?
Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu
Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo, and directed by Ishii Teruo of "Kamba 101: Killing Bouncer" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also directed "Abashiri Bangaichi: Confrontation in the South" in the same series.
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
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Teruo Ishii
Director
Teruo Yoshida
as
Gentatsu
Masumi Tachibana
as
Oito
Michiko Ai
as
Yumioka
Yasuzô Masumura
Director
Yûzô Hayakawa
as
Kenji Ôyama
as
Presiding Judge Ezaki
Ichirô Sugai
as
Eiji Funakoshi
as
Kimio Hiraki
Toshirô Mifune
as
Heihachiro Komaki
Akira Takarada
as
Jutaro [Jurota] Karibe
Seizaburô Kawazu
as
Nagashima
Shirô Toyoda
Director
Eijirô Tôno
as
Hisaya Morishige
as
Fortuneteller at booth
Kaoru Yachigusa
as
Xiao-Qing
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Takashi Kanda
as
Hideo Gosha
Director
Miyuki Kuwano
as
Aya
Mikio Naruse
Director
Yoshie Minami
as
Hideko Takamine
as
Katsuyo, Otsuta's daughter
Isuzu Yamada
as
Otsuta
Seiji Miyaguchi
as
Fencing master
Chishû Ryû
as
Shigezo Yuki
Akira Takahashi
as
Ryôji Hayama
as
Kazuo Itakura, Itakura Clan boss
Tadao Nakamaru
as
Seiichi Yatô, Oonogi Clan second-in-command
Sôji Kiyokawa
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Yûzô Kawashima
