Search results for "Yasuzō Masumura"
An Ode to Yakuza

An Ode to Yakuza

An Ode to Yakuza
IMDb: 6.7
94

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…

Genre: Action, Crime
The Most Valuable Madam

The Most Valuable Madam

The Most Valuable Madam
IMDb: 7
95

lchiro, the president of Mihara & Co., is henpecked by his wife Momoko, a clever and beautiful woman, but prattling and intrusive. She makes her younger sister Nashiko marry lchiro’s…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Lullaby of Death

Lullaby of Death

Lullaby of Death
IMDb: 5.6
111

Following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Black Report

Black Report

Black Report
IMDb: 6.9
92

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Genre: Mystery
The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden
IMDb: 7.2
89

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Irezumi

Irezumi

Irezumi
IMDb: 7.2
86

A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman’s back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The School of Spies

The School of Spies

The School of Spies
IMDb: 7
96

Nakano Institution is the so-called ‘Spy School’ where many young men are trained to be excellent spies. They erase their names, families, even lovers to bury themselves in training. Jiro,…

Genre: Drama, War
Lullaby of the Earth

Lullaby of the Earth

Lullaby of the Earth
IMDb: 6.9
111

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world…

Genre: Drama
Seisaku’s Wife

Seisaku’s Wife

Seisaku’s Wife
IMDb: 7.7
93

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Blind Beast

Blind Beast

Blind Beast
IMDb: 7.1
84

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists’ model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die

Afraid to Die
IMDb: 6.4
96

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of his recently deceased…

Genre: Action, Drama
Red Angel

Red Angel

Red Angel
IMDb: 7.8
95

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe…

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Double Suicide of Sonezaki
IMDb: 6.7
112

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Manji

Manji

Manji
IMDb: 6.8
91

The four principals in a love affair collide when jealousy, blackmail and suicide enter the picture.

Genre: Drama
Black Test Car

Black Test Car

Black Test Car
IMDb: 7.2
95

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

A Wife Confesses

A Wife Confesses

A Wife Confesses
IMDb: 7.5
91

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Giants and Toys

Giants and Toys

Giants and Toys
IMDb: 7.3
95

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Genre: Comedy
Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan

Bridge of Japan
IMDb: 7
111

Ichikawa’s 1956 adaptation of Nihonbashi was the first to take the work of Kyoka Izumi— until then regarded as a writer of common tragic melodramas—and re-evaluate it as a tanbi-ha…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Street of Shame

Street of Shame

Street of Shame
IMDb: 7.8
87

The lives of five prostitutes employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

Genre: Drama
Princess Yang Kwei Fei

Princess Yang Kwei Fei

Princess Yang Kwei Fei
IMDb: 7.1
98

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate…