Als Verbrecher das Kind eines reichen Managers entführen wollen, es aber mit dem Sohn des Chauffeurs verwechseln, zahlt der Manager dennoch....

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

„Auf der Reise, die kein Ende kennt, vergess ich Tokio, irgendwann“ singt Tetsu ein Yakuza, dessen Syndikat nicht mehr existiert. Er...

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art...

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as...

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly...