The Ballad of Narayama (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB Min reol IMDb WikiData NeoDB

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9.2 (5 ratings) director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Ken Ogata / Sumiko Sakamoto …

other title: La ballata di Narayama / A Balada de Narayama …

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.

Vengeance Is Mine (1979) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData

復讐するは我にあり

director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Ken Ogata / Mayumi Ogawa …

other title: La vendetta è mia / A Vingança é Minha …

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

Pigs and Battleships (1961) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb

豚と軍艦

director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Jitsuko Yoshimura …

other title: Porci, geishe e marinai / Porcos e Couraçados …

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

The Eel (1997) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData

うなぎ

director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Koji Yakusho / Misa Shimizu …

other title: L'anguilla / A Enguia …

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960) [Movie] TMDB

けものの眠り

director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …

other title: けものの眠り / Le Sommeil de la bête

When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.

Smashing the 0-Line (1960) [Movie] TMDB

密航０ライン

director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Yuji Odaka …

other title: 密航０ライン

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

Tokyo Knights (1961) [Movie] TMDB

東京騎士隊

director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Mayumi Shimizu …

other title: 東京騎士隊 / La Police Montée de Tokyo

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Tokyo Mighty Guy (1960) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb

東京の暴れん坊

director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …

other title: 東京の暴れん坊 / The Tokyo Mighty Guy

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

Revenge (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB

仇討

director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Takahiro Tamura …

other title: La Vengeance / Venganza de sangre …

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…

Take Aim at the Police Van (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

１３号待避線より　その護送車を狙え

director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Michitarō Mizushima / Mari Shiraki …

other title: Assalto al blindato / １３号待避線より　その護送車を狙え

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

A Story from Echigo (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

越後つついし親不知

director: Tadashi Imai actor: Yoshiko Sakuma / Shoichi Ozawa …

other title: 越後つついし親不知 / Story of Echigo

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home to find his wife changed and suspects that she has been unfaithful.

Gonza the Spearman (1986) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban

鑓の権三

director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Hiromi Go / Shōhei Hino …

other title: 鑓の権三 / Gonza le lancier …

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.

Black Rain (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData

黒い雨

director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Yoshiko Tanaka / Kazuo Kitamura …

other title: Pioggia nera / Chuva Negra …

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh existence of the survivors.

Silence Has No Wings (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB

とべない沈黙

director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Mariko Kaga / Hiroyuki Nagato …

other title: Le Silence sans ailes / El silencio no tiene alas …

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.

Endless Desire (1958) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb

果しなき欲望

director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Misako Watanabe …

other title: Desiderio inappagato / Desejo Insaciável …

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 the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.

Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB

ガリバーの宇宙旅行

director: Yoshio Kuroda / Sanae Yamamoto actor: Kyū Sakamoto / Chiyoko Honma …

other title: I viaggi nello spazio di Gulliver / Gulliver no Uchuu Ryokou …

The story concerns a homeless boy named Ted. After seeing a movie about Gulliver he meets Professor Gulliver himself in a forest. Gulliver is now an elderly, space-traveling scientist. With Dr. Gulliver's assistant Crow, and Ted's companions, a talking dog and a toy soldier, they travel the Milky Way to the Planet of Blue Hope, which has been taken over by the Queen of Purple Planet and her evil group of robots. Armed with water-pistols and water balloons, which melt the villains, Ricky and Gulliver restore Blue Hope to its doll-like owners.

The Glamorous Ghost (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB

散歩する霊柩車

director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …

other title: 散歩する霊柩車

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.

The Human Bullet (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB

肉弾

director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Minori Terada / Naoko Ohtani …

other title: Nikudan / La torpille humaine …

A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.

Pleasures of the Flesh (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

悦楽

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Katsuo Nakamura / Mariko Kaga …

other title: Il godimento / Os Prazeres da Carne …

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.

The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

黒木太郎の愛と冒険

director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho …

other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険

Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.