A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug…

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen…

When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both….

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.

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…

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women…

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.

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…

Hirosuke, a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for…

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Italy is usually cited as the anchor of the neo-realist movement in cinema, but Mikio Naruse’s Ginza Cosmetics (1951) is a reminder that Japan had its own output equally rooted…