Stolen Pleasure

Greed in Broad Daylight

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

1961

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

1963

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during

1958

Cash Calls Hell

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assass

1966

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled d

1960

A Colt Is My Passport

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

1967

Badge of the Night

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nig

1963

I Am Waiting

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

1957

Intimidation

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, a

1960

Good-for-Nothing

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-fo

1960

Fire Line

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from

1961

The Warped Ones

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journ

1960

The Beast Shall Die

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot

1959

The False Student

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

1960

Ten Dark Women

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long

1961

The Desperate

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress o

1964

The Shadow Within

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

1970

Yuganda tsuki

1959

The Creature Called Man

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.

1970

Wolves, Pigs & Men

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is

1964