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- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsEiji OkadaKyôko KishidaKôji MitsuiAn entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKaoru YachigusaKeiko NiitakaMasumi HarukawaA young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsPîtâOsamu OgasawaraYoshimi JôThe trials and tribulations of Eddie and other transvestites in Japan.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsTatsuya NakadaiMikijirô HiraKyôko KishidaA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoStarsKatsuo NakamuraJûrô KaraYasuko SanjoAfter being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsEimei SasakiMasahiro SaitoYukiko KobayashiAn angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsRentarô MikuniChôichirô KawarasakiHideko OkiyamaAn engineer from Tokyo arrives on a drought-ridden tropical island to drill a well to power a nearby sugar mill. He meets the inbred Futori family, hated by the locals for breaking religious customs.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKei SatôDo-yun YuFumio WatanabeA Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaToshiyuki HosokawaYûko KusunokiTwo interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaKaizo KamodaKazumi TsutsuiAn engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMichiko TsukasaRyô TamuraEiji OkadaNear a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsHisashi IgawaSumie SasakiSen YanoA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKenzô KawarasakiAtsuko KakuAtsuo NakamuraUpon receiving a shocking telegram from his cousin, a man recounts his early life, as a member of a broad family full of dark secrets that slowly reveal themselves through the clan ceremonies.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsKichiemon NakamuraShima IwashitaShizue KawarazakiA doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsShôichi OzawaSumiko SakamotoKeiko SagawaWhile avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsSeizaburô KawazuKazuo KitamuraTanie KitabayashiLife story of a woman born in poverty trying to succeed. Through her many schemes, she faces her ups and downs in a cyclical nature, fueled mostly by self-interest.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsMasumi HarukawaKô NishimuraShigeru TsuyuguchiA housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsTamio KawajiYuko ChiyoEiji GôA juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTetsuya WatariChieko MatsubaraHideaki NitaniAfter his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsRyô IkebeMariko KagaTakashi FujikiA 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 woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
- DirectorSusumu HaniStarsHaruo AsanuKazuko FukudaKuniko IshiiA teenage goldsmith with a dark past tragically falls in love with a young nude model.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsShima IwashitaMasao KusakariRie YokoyamaA freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaShigeru TsuyuguchiTamotsu HayakawaA married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsSaeda KawaguchiAkiko KoyamaKei SatôTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsFumio WatanabeAkiko KoyamaTetsuo AbeA young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsHiroyuki NagatoJitsuko YoshimuraMasao MishimaA young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.
- DirectorYukio MishimaStarsYukio MishimaYoshiko TsuruokaA Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsMariko KagaHiroyuki NagatoShôichi OzawaFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsTamio KawajiChico LourantYuko ChishiroOne is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKazuo GotoSukio FukuokaKenichi FukudaA metaphysical mystery involving a university student's camera getting stolen, and the thief then committing suicide. Looking back upon the event, the situation comes to be questioned if it happened at all.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTadanori YokooRie YokoyamaMoichi TanabeStory of a bookstore thief named Birdey who is led through various adventures in Tokyo's Shinjuku district by salesgirl Umeko.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsMimi KozakuraMichio AkiyamaYôko YamamotoAfter being raped in an unknown rooftop, seventeen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKei SatôKeiko SakuraiRokkô TouraOver the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.
- DirectorKoreyoshi KuraharaStarsNobuo NakamuraRuriko AsaokaAkira YamanouchiEtsuko, after her husbands death, moves in with her in-laws. With ambivalence, she finds herself sexually involved with her father-in-law. She then finds herself desiring young gardener Saburo, who has a relationship with the maid Miyo.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsMiyuki KuwanoYûsuke KawazuYoshiko KugaA harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKatsuo NakamuraMariko KagaYumiko NogawaAfter Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsMiharu ShimaHatsuo YamayaA man keeps a young employee tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsSari AkasakaSakio HirataJinichi IshizakiExperimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsShigeru TsuyuguchiYoshie HayakawaShôhei ImamuraPlastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaYoshie MinamiTadahiko SuganoA woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsIchirô ArakiKazuko TajimaJûzô ItamiFour high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their inebriated teacher, while singing bawdy drinking songs.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsRentarô MikuniYasuo MiyakeAkiko KuranoA freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsJûrô KaraReiko KoyanagiMiki HayashiA young man breaks into a nurse's rooming house and one-by-one kills off nurses.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsYûjirô IshiharaMasahiko TsugawaMie KitaharaSpending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.
- DirectorSusumu HaniStarsSachiko HidariKikuji YamashitaEiji OkadaIn a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband's disapproval.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKayoko HonooKôji NakaharaMasahiko TsugawaIn Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaTadashi YokouchiPaul BeauvaisA spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaYasunori IrikawaRuriko AsaokaA young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsKôji ShimizuAkiko MoriRyô TamuraTwo student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsMiyuki KuwanoFumio WatanabeMasahiko TsugawaLong takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
- DirectorToshio MatsumotoTwo series of images, chaotically showcasing Japan in the '60s, showing images of student riots, ads and pop culture.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsKazuhiko KatoOsamu KitayamaNorihiko HashidaA carefree afternoon at the beach turns into a comic misadventure when three young Japanese men are mistaken for illegal Korean residents.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsYoshio HaradaRenji IshibashiRie NakagawaThe last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate.
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsHiroshi KawaguchiHitomi NozoeAiko MimasuStory of a young couple whose fathers are prison bound.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKen YoshizawaRie YokoyamaYuki AresaA revolutionary faction steals some hand bombs. While escaping, several soldiers are killed. The movement's highest authority deems October unfit and sends the leader of another faction to take the remaining bombs.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsShintarô KatsuEtsuko IchiharaOsamu ÔkawaA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaRuriko AsaokaIneko ArimaThe lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsTamio KawajiYoshiko NezuSayuri YoshinagaThe young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsMiki IrieTeruko HasegawaYoko MatsushitaFollows Ako, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaHiroyuki NagatoSô YamamuraJust after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaIsao KimuraYukio NinagawaIn an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsMasako ArakiKanjûrô ArashiYasumi HaraAs a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKen YoshizawaYôko MutôRokkô TouraDuring clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsKaoru YachigusaMariko KagaSô YamamuraLong before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the same time. Much later Ôki had become a famous writer, not least because of a novel about this love story. Otoko had become a famous painter. But she had never overcome the double early trauma and had become a Lesbian. Her favourite student and beloved one was the beautiful Keiko. 24 years after the early love Ôki goes from Tokyo to Kyoto to meet Otoko. The meeting is polite with secret emotional shadows. Keiko makes a plan. She intends to seduce Ôki, become pregnant, bear Ôki's child and give it to Otoko. She hopes that Otoko may thereby get rid of her trauma. But she also wants to take her revenge on the man who had harmed her beloved. Secretly she gets acquainted with Ôki's son, invites him to Kyoto and seduces him. Then she calls his parents and tells that he had promised to marry her. Horrified they take the first plane to Kyoto. Meanwhile, she takes the son on boating, arranges an accident, and drowns him. It is close that she herself would also die.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsGoro AbashiriTarô ApolloShiro DemaemochiSet in a future in which children have overthrown adults, the film does not have a central narrative. It depicts a series of graphic tableaux in which children engage in cruel and abusive acts against the adults.
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiThe 1970s in Japan saw the rise of motorcycle gangs, which drew the interest of the media. The movie follows a member of the "Black Emperors" gang and his interaction with his parents after he gets in trouble with the police.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMariko OkadaIsao KimuraMayumi OgawaA sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTatsuya NakadaiShima IwashitaShôichi OzawaAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsAkira NittaKei SatôKinzô ShinSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsHiroko FujinoAya MineChikako NatsumiJapan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsChieko AkazaEtsuko AkazaTami AkazaA documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsToshiyuki TanigawaYûko EjimaMakiko HaradaA man comes to Tokyo searching for his son's killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsMuraoka HiroshiToshimasa SakaguchiKazuya JôThree young men from the countryside spend their lives in Tokyo alternately complaining about their boring existence and brutalizing people. When they come to violent ends themselves, they claim to be victims of society.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsKeiji SadaKaneko IwasakiShin'ichirô MikamiAn insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.
- DirectorTetsuji TakechiStarsKanako MichiAkira IshihamaChôjûrô HanakawaWhile under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMasahiko TsugawaHizuru TakachihoYûsuke KawazuA bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.
- DirectorShûji TerayamaStarsKeiko NiitakaYoko RanSueshi SasadaTwo men carry a portal door which leads to different realms.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsEri AshikawaToshiyuki TanigawaMiki HayashiA bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.
- DirectorYoshishige YoshidaStarsMasahiko TsugawaMichiko SagaTeruyo YamagamiAn opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsYûsuke KawazuShima IwashitaKayoko HonooA young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsTamaki KatoriMizako KagaEtsuko WakayamaDuring violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.
- DirectorAkio JissôjiStarsBen HiuraYumiko MitomeRen SaitôWhen faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money.
- DirectorKaneto ShindôStarsDaijirô HaradaNobuko OtowaKeiko ToriiAfter leaving high school, Michio Yamada (Norio Nagayama in the real life incidents) becomes involved in the shudan shushoku, a post-war Japanese government work program which involves taking almost an entire high school graduating class from the countryside to Tokyo to work for a fruit company. Some terrible things happened to his family in the past and that explains why Michio came later to have perpetrated so many killings.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTakashi FujikiKôji NanbaraKyôko KishidaA union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of deceit and revenge.
- DirectorSusumu HaniStarsYukio YamadaHirokazu YoshitakeKoichiro YamazakiAn improvisational film depicting life in a boys' reform school.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsYôsuke EnomotoTatsumi HijikataEiko HoriiMurase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. They decide to trade places with each other.
- DirectorSusumu HaniStarsTakuji HatanoAya KunikidaSumei ShauTwo college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
- DirectorMasao AdachiKôji WakamatsuStarsMustafa Abu AliMasao AdachiGeorge HabashIt was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution.
- DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsRentarô MikuniAkiko KoyamaYôko MiharaTowards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsMikio TerashimaReiko EnshoNami KatsuraA gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKen YoshizawaMiki HayashiEri AshikawaA yakuza flees from his boss with a young waitress and is tricked into returning to the fold. For his efforts, he is tortured and beaten, and she is raped and discarded like trash. Five years later, a similar scenario presents itself only this time, the ex- yakuza has learned from his mistake.
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsShin'ichirô MikamiShima IwashitaKayoko HonooAn alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.
- DirectorKazuo KurokiStarsMasahiko TsugawaObdulia PlasenciaGloria LeeA Japanese sailor arrives in Cuba, willing to know the country and meet its people, after a decade of a revolutionary process. He feels attracted to Marcia, a young Cuban girl, who willingly shows him her country, and tells him about the years of terror that she lived under Fulgencio Batista's regime, when her family was killed. But they will have to make a decision, when she feels more inclined to dedicate her life to the revolution.
- DirectorKunio ShimizuSôichirô TaharaStarsRenji IshibashiTatsuharu IwabuchiKeizô KanieTakeru, a young rebel, is traveling alone in the North of Honshu. He once used to practice pole vaulting but he gave up and became a robber. Along his trip he crosses the path of a young couple doing a performance for a super market. Fascinated by both of them but probably a bit attracted by the mysterious silent girl, he decides to follow them.
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsEri AshikawaArisa HanamuraMari YorozuyaThree high school girls about to take their final exam, secretly plan to ruin the diploma ceremony in order to avenge themselves of that school which treated them as delinquents.
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsMariko KagaAkira NakaoYasukiyo UmenoYuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
- DirectorMasao AdachiStarsHiroshi TakedaKyôko KimuraKumiko MuraokaThe struggles of a woman and her male partner - where the woman suffers from a sealed vagina - in a world that views her as an object of pleasure and reproduction.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsHitokazu IshizakiMamoru KatôMiyuki OkaNobuhiko Obayashi's short experimental film shows off persistence in film editing in the early 60s.
- DirectorMasao AdachiKôji WakamatsuStarsNatsu NakajimaKazuo 'Gaira' KomizuYukiko ManabeOn the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggle, a free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape is being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students
- DirectorKatsu KanaiStarsHiroshi AkiyamaMotohiko HaginoYoshitaka HidaA popular poet, Goku, becomes depressed when his editor jokingly suggests that he is a sell-out.