Jun Hongō

The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikio Naruse  •  Yūzō Kawashima
CAST:  Yōko Tsukasa  •  Isuzu Yamada  •  Akira Takarada  •  Tatsuya Mihashi

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mikio Naruse  •  Yūzō Kawashima
CAST:  Yōko Tsukasa  •  Isuzu Yamada  •  Akira Takarada  •  Tatsuya Mihashi

A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takashi Nomura
CAST:  Jō Shishido  •  Chitose Kobayashi  •  Jerry Fujio  •  Zenji Yamada

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Takashi Nomura
CAST:  Jō Shishido  •  Chitose Kobayashi  •  Jerry Fujio  •  Zenji Yamada

Song of the Devil (1975)

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsutaro Murano
CAST:  Saburo Date  •  Giichi Fujimoto  •  Jun Hongō  •  Yukitaro Hotaru

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tetsutaro Murano
CAST:  Saburo Date  •  Giichi Fujimoto  •  Jun Hongō  •  Yukitaro Hotaru

Hard Scandal: Sex Drifter (1980)

Junior High School Student Yudo spends his nights hanging out at the disco; his parents are more interested in dealing with swapping partners than taking care of their son. One evening, while he's shoplifting, a young woman gives him a hand and helps him pull off ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noboru Tanaka
CAST:  Ako  •  Yuki Yoshizawa  •  Yōko Azusa  •  Yudo Yoshikawa

Junior High School Student Yudo spends his nights hanging out at the disco; his parents are more interested in dealing with swapping partners than taking care of their son. One evening, while he's shoplifting, a young woman gives him a hand and helps him pull off ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Noboru Tanaka
CAST:  Ako  •  Yuki Yoshizawa  •  Yōko Azusa  •  Yudo Yoshikawa

Slave Contract (1982)

A wife and her husband make an agreement where the wife become the slave of him. A couple rent Nami for three months from a supplier who "trains" women to be slaves and submit to everything no matter how degrading, humiliating or painful.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaru Konuma
CAST:  Nami Matsukawa  •  Noriko Ohtaka  •  Shin'ichi Arai  •  Jun Hongō

A wife and her husband make an agreement where the wife become the slave of him. A couple rent Nami for three months from a supplier who "trains" women to be slaves and submit to everything no matter how degrading, humiliating or painful.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Masaru Konuma
CAST:  Nami Matsukawa  •  Noriko Ohtaka  •  Shin'ichi Arai  •  Jun Hongō

White Fang Story (1982)

White Fang is born on the planes of Alaska to a wolf father and a half-wolf, half-dog mother. One day he and his mother run into an Alaskan inuit boy Mit-sah, who has long dreamed of a dog of his own, and by a marvellous twist of fate, the wolves are taken in by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Soji Yoshikawa
CAST:  Mayumi Tanaka  •  Hiroko Maruyama  •  Jun Hongō  •  Osamu Saka

White Fang is born on the planes of Alaska to a wolf father and a half-wolf, half-dog mother. One day he and his mother run into an Alaskan inuit boy Mit-sah, who has long dreamed of a dog of his own, and by a marvellous twist of fate, the wolves are taken in by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Soji Yoshikawa
CAST:  Mayumi Tanaka  •  Hiroko Maruyama  •  Jun Hongō  •  Osamu Saka

The Detective (1984)

Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Junta Matsushita
CAST:  Yūzō Kayama  •  Kazuya Kosaka  •  Kaori Mizushima  •  Yoshie Taira

Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof of the house with a hostage, Muramatsu shoots him dead in order to rescue the hostage, but the public denounces his actions as stemming from the personal grudge of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Junta Matsushita
CAST:  Yūzō Kayama  •  Kazuya Kosaka  •  Kaori Mizushima  •  Yoshie Taira

Secret Agreement: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secret Leak Incident (1988)

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Chino
CAST:  Kazuo Kitamura  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Tsutomu Isobe  •  Tomo'o Nagai

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV Asahi in 1978 and released theatrically by Office Henmi in 1988.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Koji Chino
CAST:  Kazuo Kitamura  •  Kazuko Yoshiyuki  •  Tsutomu Isobe  •  Tomo'o Nagai

I'll Never Cry! (1966)

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Yoshida
CAST:  Masako Izumi  •  Ken Yamauchi  •  Izumi Ashikawa  •  Meiko Kaji

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenji Yoshida
CAST:  Masako Izumi  •  Ken Yamauchi  •  Izumi Ashikawa  •  Meiko Kaji

Marital War in Kibogaoka (1979)

1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shōgorō Nishimura
CAST:  Yūko Katagiri  •  Miyako Yamaguchi  •  Yûko Akane  •  Natsuko Yashiro

1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shōgorō Nishimura
CAST:  Yūko Katagiri  •  Miyako Yamaguchi  •  Yûko Akane  •  Natsuko Yashiro

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960)

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yūzō Kawashima
CAST:  Michiyo Aratama  •  Chikage Awashima  •  Yūnosuke Itō  •  Tomoko Kawaguchi

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yūzō Kawashima
CAST:  Michiyo Aratama  •  Chikage Awashima  •  Yūnosuke Itō  •  Tomoko Kawaguchi

Woman's Bedroom: Lusty Competition (1978)

Nikkatsu Roman Porno  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shinichi Shiratori
CAST:  Junko Miyashita  •  Naomi Tani  •  Etsuko Hara  •  Osamu Tsuruoka

Nikkatsu Roman Porno  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shinichi Shiratori
CAST:  Junko Miyashita  •  Naomi Tani  •  Etsuko Hara  •  Osamu Tsuruoka

田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ (1977)

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. ...  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Kiyoshi Atsumi  •  Keiju Kobayashi  •  Yoko Takahashi  •  Etsuko Ichihara

A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and detective Kiyoshi Atsumi heads to Tokyo, but... The upstart Keiju Kobayashi, his old friend Etsuko Ichihara, and Atsumi. ...  (more)

DIRECTION: 
CAST:  Kiyoshi Atsumi  •  Keiju Kobayashi  •  Yoko Takahashi  •  Etsuko Ichihara