The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Rusty Knife
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
Take Aim at the Police Van
A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.
Red Pier
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.
Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
The Warped Ones
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Kasen chitai
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).
Good-for-Nothing
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.
Sekushî chitai
It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his lover. The other is a woman pick-pocket who is entrapped by the organization's schemes involving their crimes. Fate places them together, and they start to investigate the prostitution ring run by the organization...
Tokyo Drifter
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.
I Am Waiting
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Wolves, Pigs and People
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invites Sabu and gang to act as decoys, for 50,000 each. The sting is a success, but the double-crossing starts almost immediately. Sabu discovers how little of the take they were promised and hides the stash. Jiro and his slimy partner pressure the kids to fess up. Meanwhile, their respectable elder brother Ichiro is being leaned on by the town's big boss, whose money it was.
A Colt Is My Passport
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Cruel Gun Story
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.
×
Yoshitarô Nomura
Director
Yoshio Inaba
as
Shinsuke Ashida
as
Yoshino Tani
as
Kaneko Iwasaki
as
Hamajima's mother
Toshio Masuda
Director
Zenji Yamada
as
Mie Kitahara
as
Keiko Nishida
Mari Shiraki
as
Yuri
Kotoe Hatsui
as
Concierge of Gorô's apartment
Michitarô Mizushima
as
Daijirô Tamon
Misako Watanabe
as
Yûko Hamajima
Masumi Okada
as
Taabô
Taizô Fukami
as
Tottsuan
Nobuo Kaneko
as
Kyosuke Takita
Hiroyuki Nagato
as
Kashiwagi
Kôjirô Kusanagi
as
Shinji Kumaki
Chigusa Takayama
as
Yuki's mother
Jun Ôtomo
as
Naganuma
Jun Tazaki
as
Shigemune
Teruo Yoshida
as
Shin'ichi
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Jun
Masao Mishima
as
Kensaku Kitajima
Isao Sasaki
as
Singer
Yûsuke Kawazu
as
Toshio
Mako Sanjô
as
Reiko Takigawa
Yûzô Kiura
as
Fujimura
Takeshi Yoshida
as
Keiichi
Michio Hino
as
Yoshii
Kenjirô Uemura
as
Police detective
Naoki Sugiura
as
Shibata's brother
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Yuriko Anjô
as
Renji Ishibashi
as
Hiroshi
Rentarô Mikuni
as
Ichirô, eldest brother
Ken Takakura
as
Jirô, second brother
Wataru Takagi
as
Takamaru Sasaki
as
Otawara
Shôbun Inoue
as
Yasuji Okada
Raizô Ichikawa
as
Nitta
71%