Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 1974

6.40

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 who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

1974

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 1973

7.50

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.

1973

The Face of Another

The Face of Another 1966

7.80

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

1966

Goyokin

Goyokin 1969

7.50

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

1969

None But the Brave

None But the Brave 1965

6.30

American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a temporary truce and cooperate to survive various tribulations. Told through the eyes of the American and Japanese unit commanders, who must deal with an atmosphere of growing distrust and tension between their men.

1965

Sweet Sweat

Sweet Sweat 1964

1

This film by Toyoda depicts the hard life of an unmarried mother in Tokyo. Umeko (Machiko Kyo), at 36, is working in a bar, struggling valiantly to keep her family together. Her 17-year-old daughter Takeko becomes increasingly upset by her mother's constant drinking and yakuza boyfriend, and runs away from home. Kyo's performance was highly praised.

1964

Girls of the Night

Girls of the Night 1961

6.90

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently release from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to build a new life.

1961

Illusion of Blood

Illusion of Blood 1965

6.20

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

1965

The Beast Shall Die

The Beast Shall Die 1974

6.00

Kunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin.

1974

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women 1956

6.70

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

1956

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest 1973

6.50

Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.

1973

Happiness of Us Alone

Happiness of Us Alone 1961

9.00

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.

1961

Snow in the South Seas

Snow in the South Seas 1961

1

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

1961

Invitation of Lust

Invitation of Lust 1975

1

Hirobe is a lonely man. After witnessing her girlfriend die with a terminal illness, he wanders through the city like a shadow. One day, he meets Masako and they begin an affair. Masako is in an unhappy marriage with Yazawa, who is also cheating on her with a younger lover. The tension builds up to an unforgiving, yet quiet climax...

1975

Women in Prison

Women in Prison 1956

1.00

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

1956

The Trail of Blood

The Trail of Blood 1972

6.20

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

1972

Red Target

Red Target 1972

6.00

A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.

1972

Kigeki ekimae bentô

Kigeki ekimae bentô 1961

1

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

1961