Yoshio Harada

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is ...

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found. Release: Fang in the Hole 1979 ...

The hero, Hyakkimaru is a wandering “demon hunter” whose extra body parts — 48 to be exact — were grafted onto his head ...

A model (Yoko Shiraki) must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive (Yoshio Harada) transforms her into a sports celebrity. ...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police ...

Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. “O” intends suicide while talking on a ...

A young boys’ coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty ...

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank. Release: ...

Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with ...

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance… Release: Step on the Gas 1970 General: mkv | ...

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family. Release: Akai tori nigeta AKA Did the Red Bird ...

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka’s play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe. Release: ...

Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who’s stolen a suitcase of ...

14-year-old Shizuko dreams of drawing manga in Tokyo to escape her life of poverty and loneliness. Shizuko’s father has left the family, ...

A young jazz musician’s desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a ...

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family’s fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, ...

Zigeunerweisen s a 1980 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki and based on Hyakken Uchida’s novel, Disk of Sarasate. It takes ...

In a film that recalls the memories of the director’s youth in Miyazaki Prefecture in Southern Japan during World War II, the local ...

After his partner Ahiru (Riki Takeuchi) is killed when arresting criminal Bruce (Seiji Matano), cop Joe “Joker” Kawamura (Masanori ...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him ...