7.7
Intentions of Murder
IMDb: 7.7 1964 150 min
Sadako, cursed by generations before her and neglected by her common-law husband, falls prey to a brutal home intruder. But rather than become a ...
6.5
League of Gangsters
IMDb: 6.5 1963 80 min
The great Kinji Fukasaku has made tons of this kind of films, always beginning with the scene of a gangster being relased from jail, finding his ...
7.0
Return of the Vagabond
IMDb: 7.0 1960 79 min
The 3rd film of the famous “Wataridori” (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with ...
7.2
The Flower and the Sword
IMDb: 7.2 1964 103 min
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman’s mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a ...
6.9
Samurai Wolf II
IMDb: 6.9 1967 72 min
The second and final installment in Gosha’s Samurai Wolf carries on many on the hallmarks as the original: the same freeze-frame battle cry ...
6.6
The Sleeping Beast Within
IMDb: 6.6 1960 86 min
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive ...
7.5
Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
IMDb: 7.5 1966 86 min
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge ...
6.2
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
IMDb: 6.2 1968 84 min
The survivors of a plane crash in a remote area are attacked by blob-like alien creatures that turn their victims into blood-thirsty vampires. ...
7.7
Eros + Massacre
IMDb: 7.7 1969 216 min
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The ...
6.2
The Ghost of the Hunchback
IMDb: 6.2 1965 81 min
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his ...
7.1
The Nineteen-Year-Old’s Map
IMDb: 7.1 1979 110 min
Director Yanagimachi’s second film The 19 Year Old’s Map follows the story of a 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy who begins ...
5.8
The Challenge
IMDb: 5.8 1962 89 min
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved ...
6.8
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
IMDb: 6.8 1963 89 min
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. ...
7.4
Dodes’ka-den
IMDb: 7.4 1970 140 min
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the ...