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Kinji Fukasaku – Kuro bara no yakata AKA Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Synopsis: A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer “Black Rose” to perform in his exclusive men’s club, he gets more...
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Noboru Tanaka – Hard scandal: sei no hyoryu-sha AKA Hard Scandal – Sex...
Synopsis: Junior High School Student Yudo spends his nights hanging out at the disco; his parents are more interested in dealing with their swapping partners than taking care of their son. One...
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Yuuji Makiguchi – Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei aka Shogun’s...
a review by Ian Jane I don’t know what it is with Japanese cinema and it’s affinity for violence and cruelty, but man, when they pull out all the stops they sure do a damn good job of grossing me out....
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Teruo Ishii – Bôhachi bushidô: Poruno jidaigeki AKA Bohachi: Clan of the...
To die is hell, but to live is also hell. SUMMARY Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii (HORROR OF MALFORMED MEN; BLIND WOMAN’S CURSE) directs this deranged, over-the-top adaptation from the original...
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Hisayasu Sato – Rafureshia AKA Sukebe-zuma: otto no rusu ni (1995)
From The Director Of Survey Map Ofia Paradise Lost And Love-Zero=Infinity Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the sledgehammer style of Hisayasu Sato helped redefine Japanese erotic cinema with carefully...
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Claude Gagnon – Keiko (1979)
Keiko is a 23-year-old lonely virgin who lives in a tiny room, and hopes to meet someone in the cafe she frequents. After a bad affair with one of the other diners, she vows to give up men. She then...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Gokuchu no kaoyaku AKA Prison Boss (1968)
Synopsis: Ken Takakura stars in yet another bad-ass Prison film, in “Prison Boss”. Here, rival gangs battle it out over ownership of a bicycle race track. The outside life for the yakuza mimics prison...
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Yasuo Furuhata – Eki Station aka Station (1981)
A very beautiful film. This is a Ken Takakura vehicle, and as such follows his formula. Takakura plays to type as the laconic brooder who suffers multiple tragedies with manly stoicism. While the...
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Daisuke Itô – Hangyakuji AKA The Conspirator (1961)
Synopsis: During an era of civil wars, in the 7th year of Tenso, Yoshimoto Imagawa was overthrown by Oda Nobunaga with the help of Ieyasu Tokugawa. Ieyasu’s wife, Lady Tsukiyama, was of the ruined...
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Kazuo ‘Gaira’ Komizu – Bijo no harawata AKA Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (1986)
from imdb, “A tortured and raped young girl mutates into a penis-headed demon and mutilates her captors” http://www.nitroflare.com/view/BA22C5CB7882FEB/Entrails_of_A_Beautiful_Women.cd1.avi...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Saraba itoshiki daichi AKA Farewell to the Land (1982)
Even though this film has (ofifcially) no involvement by Kenji Nakagami, it still feels totally like one of his stories. People familiar with his writings set in Wakayama will cerntainly recognize a...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Meito bijomaru AKA The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
Synopsis: synopsis Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the...
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Koji Wakamatsu – Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan (1969)
Description: Welcome in the underworld, on your left there’s some gangsters, on your right be careful there’s shootings, murders, betrayals… Enjoy the jazzy mood ! Three killers stole money and drugs...
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Kaneto Shindô – Sanka AKA Hymn (1972)
Quote: Shindo’s “Hymn” is one of many adaptions of Tanizaki’s classical novella ‘Shunkinsho’ (‘A Portrait of Shunkin’,1933). The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind...
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Kon Ichikawa – Hakai AKA The Broken Commandment (1962)
Keiko I. McDonald: Kon Ichikawa’s Hakai (The Broken Commandment) began in 1961 as a televised dramatisation of Toson Shimazaki’s novel of the same title first published in 1906. Toson’s pioneering...
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Koreyoshi Kurahara – Aru kyôhaku AKA Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-sized noir concerns the intertwining fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kanda-gawa inran senso aka Kandagawa wars (1983)
Quote: Two sexually energized young women who live in a high-rise apartment building happen one day to spy from their window a mother and son making love in the apartment across from theirs. They...
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Teinosuke Kinugasa – Yukinojo henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge (1935)
Quote: Here is the 1935/1936 original version of “An Actor’s Revenge”, which was hugely popular at that time and a high point in Kazuo Hasegawa’s career. In fact, he even chose to remake this film as...
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Kon Ichikawa – Yukinojô henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
Synopsis: Master Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 classic is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made in Japan.Kasuo Hasegawa stars as Yukinojo, a talented kabuki actor who specializes...
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Naoto Yamakawa – Birî za kiddo no atarashii yoake AKA The New Morning of...
Plot Billy the Kid waits tables in the Schlächtenhaus Saloon, last refuge of humanity from marauding, nihilistic gangs; co-workers include a samurai, Marx-Engels, an artist and the Tokyo telephone...
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