During World War II a moral corrupt judge uses the military police to falsely accuse and imprison a high class business woman who captures his eye at a party. In his personal underground dungeon he subjects her to various humiliations and sexual abuse.

Tokyo Drifter

1966

Japanese

7.1

♡ 16

93%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Ken Mizoguchi as

Yûzô Kiura as Fujimura

Takeshi Yoshida as Keiichi

Michio Hino as Yoshii

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

Fighting Elegy

1966

Japanese

6.9

♡ 2

74%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Comedy

Drama

roman catholic

roman catholic church

sexual repression

young love

youth gang

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Suppon 'Turtle'

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

True Story of Woman Condemned Continues

1975

Japanese

4.8

♡ 10

Kôyû Ohara Director

Hiroshi Chô as

Hitomi Kozue as Mayumi Hojô

Yoshie Kitsuda as Mitsuko Shiga

Ken Mizoguchi as Tke Punk

"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.

Izu no odoriko

1974

Japanese

7.2

♡ 3

Katsumi Nishikawa Director

Tomokazu Miura as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Tomomi Satô as

Jûkichi Uno as Narrator

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Japanese

7.3

♡ 5

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Branded to Kill

1967

Japanese

7.2

♡ 20

100%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Takashi Nomura as

Jô Shishido as Gorô Hanada

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

Japanese

7.5

♡ 4

93%

Kazuhiko Hasegawa Director

Ken Mizoguchi as

Kenji Sawada as Makoto Kido

Kiyoshi Kurosawa as Suspect on TV News

Kimiko Ikegami as Zero Sawai

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

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Our Blood Will Not Forgive

Fairy in a Cage

Tokyo Drifter

Fighting Elegy

True Story of Woman Condemned Continues

Izu no odoriko

Story of a Prostitute

Branded to Kill

The Man Who Stole the Sun