Keiichi Kitagawa

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.  (more)

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live ...  (more)

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the ...  (more)

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.  (more)

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a ...  (more)

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?  (more)

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for ...  (more)

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.  (more)

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a ...  (more)

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to ...  (more)

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.  (more)

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...  (more)

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.  (more)

Adaptation of novel.  (more)

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.  (more)

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.  (more)

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.  (more)

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.  (more)

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.  (more)

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.  (more)