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Criterion Channel
86
80
8.5
/8732/
82
/227/
82
/212/
4.5
/26495/
94
/897/

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
77
7.7
/9618/
77
/334/
73
/245/
3.8
/20026/
85
/13/
90
/221/

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
76
7.9
/6657/
77
/139/
77
/171/
4.1
/12463/
100
/16/
86
/47/

Late Autumn (1960)
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
72
7.8
/5339/
76
/92/
74
/161/
4.0
/11313/
89
/9/
87
/49/
83
/6/

Equinox Flower (1958)
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a coworker and is adamant to live life her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refuses to admit defeat.
poster
74
69
7.2
/5514/
70
/206/
69
/171/
3.9
/20146/
83
/101/

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
poster
74
64
7.1
/3736/
70
/115/
70
/103/
3.9
/9616/
83
/101/

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
62
7.5
/3763/
73
/97/
73
/106/
4.1
/14107/
86
/7/
85
/18/

Death by Hanging (1968)
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
poster
The Roku Channel
68
60
6.9
/6066/
70
/148/
68
/111/
3.6
/8673/
62
/95/

The Street Fighter (1974)
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
58
6.9
/2776/
69
/37/
65
/67/
3.6
/6239/
100
/7/
65
/33/

Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
55
7.4
/2136/
66
/36/
72
/55/
3.9
/4681/
100
/6/
90
/11/

Boy (1969)
A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
50
7.0
/1308/
60
/20/
61
/37/
3.7
/2443/
100
/10/
79
/17/

Violence at Noon (1966)
Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.
poster
FlixHouse
65
46
6.8
/2176/
67
/75/
67
/64/
3.5
/3042/
57
/21/

The Bullet Train (1975)
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
poster
67
45
6.6
/1882/
65
/46/
64
/61/
3.6
/4879/

The Transgressor (1974)
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
poster
Hoopla
67
39
6.6
/829/
63
/23/
66
/40/
3.7
/3308/

Dogra Magra (1988)
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
poster
Criterion Channel
61
38
6.1
/946/
61
/14/
45
/27/
3.4
/2731/
71
/79/

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
38
6.9
/1821/
60
/23/
56
/29/
3.6
/2211/
62
/20/

Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
38
7.2
/1441/
69
/22/
67
/40/
3.9
/2530/
79
/7/

The Ceremony (1971)
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
35
7.2
/1349/
63
/29/
68
/31/
3.6
/2758/
79
/5/

Black River (1957)
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.
poster
60
34
6.1
/864/
57
/46/
56
/37/
3.3
/2071/

Shogun's Joy of Torture (1968)
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
34
6.9
/1086/
62
/17/
64
/28/
3.6
/1660/
60
/5/
78
/4/

The Sun's Burial (1960)
In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.
poster
72
32
6.8
/441/
63
/11/
68
/14/
3.5
/780/
91
/60/

Good-for-Nothing (1960)
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-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
29
6.8
/944/
55
/11/
64
/27/
3.7
/2434/
43
/4/

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.
poster
76
26
7.3
/534/
60
/11/
68
/18/
4.0
/2228/
100
/1/

Silence Has No Wings (1966)
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
25
6.6
/384/
58
/10/
62
/13/
3.6
/1966/

Killers on Parade (1961)
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
poster
Criterion Channel
61
23
6.4
/762/
54
/12/
54
/17/
3.5
/1582/
63
/8/

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.
poster
Plex
60
20
6.1
/823/
58
/37/
61
/22/
3.3
/489/
57
/11/

Shogun's Ninja (1980)
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
20
7.1
/664/
55
/8/
66
/19/
3.6
/1141/
80
/2/

Street of Love and Hope (1959)
The lives of a teenager, his impoverished family, a wealthy young woman who buys a pigeon from him, and his caring teacher converge and consequently become more complicated.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
14
7.0
/410/
58
/9/
75
/12/
3.6
/410/

The River Fuefuki (1960)
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
poster
69
11
6.9
/250/
68
/9/
71
/10/
3.5
/377/

Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965)
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
poster
64
10
6.8
/293/
52
/7/
68
/10/
3.5
/329/

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
poster
?
20
/1/

修羅のみち4 北九州代理戦争 (2002)
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poster
?
10
/1/

Thirst (1958)
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poster
?
10
/1/

Invitation to Jail (1967)
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poster
?
10
/1/

A Diary of a Woman Doctor (1973)
1973 Toei movie.
poster
?
10
/1/

Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 3 - The Mysterious Haunted Mansion (1971)
Third film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
poster
?
10
/1/

Story of Japanese Bad Men (1971)
Toei yakuza film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Flying in the Air (1957)
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
poster
?
36
/3/
59
/5/

King of Pornography (1971)
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiya's ego). He visits a doctor, impresses ladies and opens a porn shop before running afoul with yakuza...
poster
?
10
/1/

Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor (1971)
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?
poster
?
6.3
/7/
10
/1/

Kanto Street Peddlers (1969)
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).
poster
?
10
/1/

Bridge (1959)
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
poster
?
5.7
/11/
10
/1/

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers (1974)
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Cross of Vengeance (1969)
Film with Junko Miyazono.
poster
?
6.0
/16/
10
/1/

The Bad Boss 3 (1969)
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
poster
?
5.9
/21/
33
/3/

The Bad Boss (1968)
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
poster
?
7.5
/35/
20
/2/
100
/1/

The Tragedy of Bushido (1960)
A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy. However, the following day, an official decree is issued to ban suicide through fidelity...
poster
?
10
/1/

Red Pants (1959)
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude, however, is nothing but a cloak to hide her affection for him. Shinji, hard working and manly, becomes the focus of many yearning eyes and Seikichi, the boss' son, picks a quarrel with him and violent fight ensues in which Shinji kills a man in self-defense.
poster
?
6.6
/13/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Gang Warfare (1972)
N/A


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