An Ode to Yakuza
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her…
Zatoichi in Desperation
After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel – but this causes more problems than…
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war…
Father
A middle-aged man’s family loses patience with him as he struggles with his seemingly directionless life.
Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
Tora-san’s Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo’s first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his family, he goes to a…