Call from Darkness (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

真夜中の招待状

director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Asami Kobayashi / Kaoru Kobayashi …

other title: 真夜中の招待状

Keiko Inagawa pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura. A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…

Screwed (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

ねじ式

director: Teruo Ishii actor: Tadanobu Asano / Miki Fujitani …

other title: ねじ式 / Neji-shiki

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Female Slave Ship (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

女奴隷船

director: Yoshiki Onoda actor: Bunta Sugawara / Yōko Mihara …

other title: 女奴隷船

The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is sent on a critical mission to deliver micro-fiche war plans to Tokyo from his base in Malaysia. But while flying over Chinese waters his plane is shot down and he is taken aboard a ship bound for Shanghai to deliver its merchandise - a ship filled with Female Slaves kidnapped from Japan. Will he abandon the women to pursue his main objective? Or will he fight foes, spies and pirates to save these women against all odds?

The Corporation (1976) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB

不毛地帯

director: 山本萨夫 actor: 仲代达矢 / 秋吉久美子 …

other title: 不毛地带 / 不毛地帯 …

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.

Message from Space (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB

宇宙からのメッセージ

director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Vic Morrow / Sonny Chiba …

other title: Sternenkrieg im Weltall / Les Évadés de l'espace …

The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB

０課の女　赤い手錠

director: Yukio Noda actor: Miki Sugimoto / Eiji Gō …

other title: Der Tiger von Osaka / Les menottes rouges …

Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.

A Wicked Woman (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

毒婦高橋お伝

director: Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Katsuko Wakasugi / Jūzaburō Akechi …

other title: 毒婦高橋お伝 / Dokufu Takahashi Oden

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss.

Japanese Hell (1999) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

地獄

director: Teruo Ishii actor: Mutsumi Fujita / Hisayoshi Hirayama …

other title: 地獄 / Jigoku: Japanese Hell …

From the king of the Japanese cult movie, Teruo Ishii! A controversial film in which actual cases that rocked modern-day Japan—including the sarin gas attack by the Aum Shinrikyo Cult—are dramatized with gruesome detail as their perpetrators stand trial in Hell. An angst-ridden girl, Rika, is carried off to Hell by an old woman she meets in a neighborhood park. There she gets a first-hand look at the excruciating agony of those found guilty—by Lucifer himself—of committing heinous crimes during their time on Earth.

Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

ノストラダムスの大予言

director: Toshio Masuda actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Toshio Kurosawa …

other title: Catastrofe / Weltkatastrophe 1999? …

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.

Twilight of the Cockroaches (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

ゴキブリたちの黄昏

director: Hiroaki Yoshida actor: Kaoru Kobayashi / Ichirôta Miyakawa …

other title: ゴキブリたちの黄昏

The cockroaches of Saito's apartment live in peace with their human host, who gives them lots of space to breed and plenty of leftovers to munch on. In the midst of these high living times, Naomi and Ichiro plan to get married and start a family. But when a hard-bitten stranger roach named Hans appears with news of war with the humans across the lawn, it foretells disruption-not only of Naomi and Ichiro's relationship, but of the hive's entire way of life.

The Bushido Blade (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

The Bushido Blade

director: Tsugunobu Kotani actor: Richard Boone / Toshirō Mifune …

other title: Bushido - La spada del sole / Das Schwert des Shogun …

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf (2001) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

盲獣VS一寸法師

director: Teruo Ishii actor: Lily Franky / Shinya Tsukamoto …

other title: 盲獣VS一寸法師 / Blind Beast vs. Dwarf …

A blind masseur kidnaps young women and kills them and then make sculptures of them, while a mysterious dwarf spreading severed body parts around. Detective Akechi Kogorô investigating crimes.

The 5-Man Army (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

Un esercito di cinque uomini

director: Don Taylor actor: Peter Graves / Bud Spencer …

other title: Un esercito di 5 uomini / Exército de 5 Homens …

At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.

The Classroom of Terror (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

暴力教室

director: Akihisa Okamoto actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Hiroshi Tachi …

other title: The classroom of terror / 暴力教室

Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.

Conflagration (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

東京湾炎上

director: Katsumune Ishida actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Hiroshi Fujioka …

other title: Terrorfahrt ins Ungewisse / 東京湾炎上 …

Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an economically devastating ultimatum.

Blood of Revenge (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

明治侠客伝 三代目襲名

director: Tai Katō actor: Koji Tsuruta / Sumiko Fuji …

other title: Le Sang de la vengeance / 明治侠客伝 三代目襲名

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.

Mysterious Dwarf (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

一寸法師

director: Seiichiro Uchikawa actor: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi / Mitsuko Miura …

other title: 一寸法師

The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas.

An Outlaw (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

ならず者

director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Tetsuro Tamba …

other title: Un hors-la-loi / ならず者

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.

To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

誘拐報道

director: Shunya Ito actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Rumiko Koyanagi …

other title: 誘拐報道 / Yūkai hōdō

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

A Flame at the Pier (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

涙を、獅子のたて髪に

director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Takashi Fujiki / Tamotsu Hayakawa …

other title: Lágrimas en la melena del león / 涙を、獅子のたて髪に

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.