Village of Dreams (1996) [Movie] NeoDB Douban

絵の中のぼくの村

director: 东阳一 actor: 原田美枝子 / 松山庆吾 …

other title: 梦幻村庄 / 梦之村 …

年届半百的征三拜访双胞弟征彦的画坊，两人为一本画册，遍访记忆中梦幻的村庄，将时光倒叙至童年生活──1948年，自小有画画天份的□生兄弟，因母亲兼老师的教学态度，使村内同学对他俩轻蔑及冷嘲热讽，于是二人独自游玩，与大自然为伴，以抒发心中情绪；母亲的教育，把孩子对人、事、物的好奇，变成自然的成长……

The Sun's Burial (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban

太陽の墓場

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Kayoko Honoo …

other title: Il cimitero del sole / 太陽の墓場 …

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.

Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb

座頭市果し状

director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Kyōsuke Machida …

other title: Zatôichi and the Fugitives / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 18 : Le Défi …

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Double Suicide (1969) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb

心中天網島

director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Shima Iwashita …

other title: Doppio Suicidio ad Amijima / Double suicide à Amijima …

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.

The Ceremony (1971) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb NeoDB Douban

儀式

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Kenzō Kawarasaki / Atsuko Kaku …

other title: La cerimonia / Die Zeremonie …

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.

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.

The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] TMDB

脱獄広島殺人囚

director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya …

other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.

The Man Without a Map (1968) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb

燃えつきた地図

director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Shintarō Katsu / Etsuko Ichihara …

other title: Le Plan déchiqueté / 燃えつきた地図

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

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

不毛地帯

director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Tetsuro Tamba …

other title: The Corporation / 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.

The Catch (1961) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban

飼育

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Akiko Koyama …

other title: L'addomesticamento / Le Piège …

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'.

Kidnapping Blues (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

キッドナップ・ブルース

director: Shinpei Asai actor: Tamori / Mai Yamato …

other title: キッドナップ・ブルース

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.

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.

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969) [Movie]

新宿泥棒日記

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Tadanori Yokoo / Rie Yokoyama …

other title: Diario di un ladro di Shinjuko / Diário de um Ladrão …

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.

Captive's Island (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

処刑の島

director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Shogen Nitta / Rentarō Mikuni …

other title: La isla de la tortura / 処刑の島 …

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Beast Alley (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

けものみち

director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Junko Ikeuchi / Keiju Kobayashi …

other title: けものみち

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his political schemes. As she descends further into a downward spiral of moral decay, Tamiko realizes that the freedom she sought is merely a new form of entrapment.

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

裸の十九才

director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …

other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.

Diary of Yunbogi (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB

ユンボギの日記

director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Hōsei Komatsu

other title: Diario di Yumbogi / Le Journal de Yunbogi …

Constructed as an experimental montage of still photographs, "Diary of Yunbogi" reflects on poverty and historical responsibility through the imagined diary of a six-year-old Korean boy living in a South Korean slum. Drawing on photographs taken during Ōshima’s 1965 research trip to Korea, the film juxtaposes the child’s daily struggle to care for his siblings with the director’s own reflections on Japanese–Korean relations.

Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB

妖艶毒婦伝　般若のお百

director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa actor: Junko Miyazono / Tomisaburō Wakayama …

other title: 妖艶毒婦伝　般若のお百 / Legends of the Poisonous Seductress Volume 1 - Female Demon Ohyaku

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.

Eighteen Years in Prison (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

懲役十八年

director: Tai Katō actor: Noboru Andō / Asao Koike …

other title: 懲役十八年

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.

The Beast Shall Die (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック

director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Hiroshi Fujioka / Toshio Kurosawa …

other title: 野獣死すべし 復讐のメカニック

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