Chieko Matsubara
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Director: Keiichi Ozawa
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Sanae Kitabayashi, RyĹŤji Hayama
A seventy-year-old retired school headmaster informs his wife and daughters that he has Alzheimer’s disease. They are all concerned, but react differently due to their individual situations. The family watches as the husband and father regresses due to the disease and loses his memory. Interestingly, there are sparkling moments of his life of which the man will not let go...
Director: Ryota Nakano
Actors: YĹ« Aoi, Yuko Takeuchi, Chieko Matsubara, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Yuito Kamata
A 7 year love story between Ryota Hayama and Koharu Uemura from their first date to eventual marriage. Ryota and Koharu are high school students. Ryota is indifferent to people and says very little. Koharu is not afraid of to speak her mind and she has a bright personality. Since a game of rice bag jump, they begin to date. They date at a fast-food restaurant, realize they love each other at a family restaurant and finally swear their love on a dining table with white rice.
Director: Masahide Ichii
Actors: Yuto Nakajima, Yuko Araki, Karen Miyama, Amane Okayama, Hairi Katagiri
Akashi is a multigenerational love story told across parallel timelines. Kana, a struggling artist in Vancouver, returns to Tokyo for her grandmother’s funeral, feeling out of place after ten years abroad. As she reflects on a secret only she and her grandmother shared—that her grandfather had another lover—she unexpectedly reconnects with an old love, Hiro. Intercut with the past, which traces her grandfather’s decades-long affair, Kana confronts hidden family truths and begins to navigate the complexities of love, sacrifice, and the choices that shape a life between desire and duty.
Director: Mayumi Yoshida
Actors: Mayumi Yoshida, 木野花, 田島亮, Chieko Matsubara, 村井国夫
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.
Director: Yasuharu Hasebe
Actors: Akemi Kita, Mieko Nishio, Bokuzen Hidari, Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara
A high school student has decided to go to Tokyo once she graduates. One day, her older sister Sumire comes back home with her daughter, who will eventually ran away from home for love
Director: Yu Katsumata
Actors: Reina Fujie, Mugi Tachibana, Mayuna Katsuo, Houka Kinoshita, Michi Yamamura
The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the person who can overcome any obstacle will be my lover"! Neither traffic, buildings, nor the police can stop them, in this madcap rock musical adventure!
Director: Buichi Saito
Actors: Shochi Tanabe, Masaaki Sakai, Jun Inoue, Takayuki Inoue, Mitsuru Kato
Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
Director: Keiichi Ozawa
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Eiji GĹŤ, Kenji Imai, Goro Mutsumi
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Director: Toshio Masuda
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Mitsuo Hamada, Tamio Kawachi, KyĂ´suke Machida
True story of a number of Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers who remained in Indonesia to fight off European colonists trying to retake the country after Japan's surrender.
Director: Yukio Fuji
Actors: Miki Fujitani, Naoki Hosaka, Chieko Matsubara, Masahiko Tsugawa
Akira Kobayashi stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a nasty tyrant.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Akira Kobayashi, Tamio Kawachi, Chieko Matsubara, Eimei Esumi, ShĂ´ki Fukae
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Akira Kobayashi, Chieko Matsubara, Daizaburo Hirata, Hiroko ItĹŤ, Sanae Nakahara
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as it sweeps up the entire school. Brawls. Seduction. Yazuka. And more!
Director: Mio Ezaki
Actors: Junko Natsu, JirĂ´ Okazaki, Toru Emori, Rumi Goto, Tatsuya Fuji
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Akira Kobayashi, Hideki Takahashi, Chieko Matsubara, Yuri Hase, Akifumi Inoue
College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club that performs canzone, a genre they are both in love with. The only problem is that the club doesn't have enough money to buy instruments for them to play. One day, the two come across a talent show called the "Mari Sono Look-Alike Contest" that promises the winner a cash prize. And Michiko looks a lot like the star.
Director: Mio Ezaki
Actors: Mari Sono, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Yukari Ito, Mie Nakao
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, he is determined to reunite with his mother and relay the wonderful news. With a pocket full of hopes and just one clue that may lead him to his mother, Eiji sets off for Taiwan.
Director: Kenjiro Morinaga
Actors: Teruhiko SaigĂ´, Tamio Kawachi, Chieko Matsubara, Wang Ling, Tamayo Mitsukawa
When three drag queens, Virgin, Moririn, and Zubuko, learn that their mentor and former drag queen, Natchan, has died suddenly, they take it upon themselves to keep the secret of her sexuality from her bereaved family.
Director: Yasujiro Tanaka
Actors: Kenichi Takitoh, Shu Watanabe, Tomoya Maeno, Chieko Matsubara, Cunning Takeyama
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is the story of Matsumoto and Sawako, a young couple whose relationship is about to be broken apart by the former's parents, who have insisted their son take part in an arranged marriage to his boss' daughter.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Actors: Miho Kanno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tatsuya Mihashi, Chieko Matsubara, Kyoko Fukada
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while Ayumu works as a not so popular novelist. One day, a letter arrives for Ayumu. Because of this letter, the couple become estranged...
Director: Ryuichi Hiroki
Actors: Aoi Miyazaki, Osamu Mukai, Lily Franky, Chieko Matsubara, Tatsuomi Hamada
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
Director: Motomu Ida
Actors: Teruhiko SaigĂ´, Tetsuya Watari, Yukiyo Toake, Minako Kazuki, Chieko Matsubara
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
Director: Mio Ezaki
Actors: Akira Kobayashi, Yukiyo Toake, Keiko Yumi, Chieko Matsubara, Yûji Odaka
Director: Toshio Masuda
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Masao Shimizu, YoshirĂ´ Aoki, Tatsuya Fuji
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Director: Keiichi Ozawa
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Izumi Ashikawa, Eimei Esumi, Jûkei Fujioka
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Director: Keiichi Ozawa
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Chitose Kobayashi, ShĂ´ki Fukae, Masahiko Tanimura
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rei. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Director: Takumi Furukawa
Actors: JĹŤ Shishido, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi, Yuji Odaka, Minako Kozuki
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Hideaki Nitani, Ryuji Kita, Takeshi Yoshida
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Director: Mio Ezaki
Actors: Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, KĹŤji Wada, Hiroshi Nawa, Isao Tamagawa
The movie is centered around five friends as they end up spending the summer of 1962 shackled up together in a tiny studio apartment in Tokyo. The five friends are Eisuke - the manga artist, Shoichi - the singer, Ryuzo - the novelist, Kei - the painter and Yuji – the 5th wheel (?). The friends spend the summer in pursuit of their own ideals of personal freedom - being able to do what they want. In the process of pursuing their dream they learn firsthand that however ideal it may seem, its not as easy as they think.
Director: Isshin InudĂ´
Actors: Sho Sakurai, Masaki Aiba, Kazunari Ninomiya, Satoshi Ohno, Jun Matsumoto
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: Bunta Sugawara, Chieko Matsubara, KĹŤji Wada, Kenichi Sakuragi, Takeo Chii
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
Director: Motomu Ida
Actors: JĹŤ Shishido, Hideaki Nitani, Chieko Matsubara, Mari Shiraki, Kokinji Katsura