A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.Read More »
Kei Satô
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Kinji Fukasaku – Gyangu domei AKA Gang Alliance (1963)
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Yasuzô Masumura – Dai Akutô AKA The Great Villains (1968)
Yasuzô Masumura1961-1970CrimeDramaJapanPsychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.Read More »
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Kaneto Shindô – Yabu no naka no kuroneko aka Kuroneko aka Black Cat From The Grove (1968)
Kaneto Shindô1961-1970DramaHorrorJapanPlaying on the legend of ghosts returning in the form of cats to seek vengeance for their deaths, Kuroneko [Black Cat from the Grove] tells the tale of a mother and daughter, raped and killed by marauding samurai, and their supernatural revenge.Read More »
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Masahiro Shinoda – Akane-gumo AKA Clouds at Sunset (1967)
Masahiro Shinoda1961-1970AsianJapanQuote:
A Japanese soldier Tsutomu Yamazki deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over in this melodrama from director Shinoda Masahiro. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money. The woman is told by a Geisha Mayumi Ogawa that she gave up her virginity cheaply. The resort town begins to feel the influence of the modern world as the sabre-rattling that preceded World War II begins to change their lives forever. ~ Dan Pavlides, RoviRead More » -
Shirô Moritani – Dankon AKA Bullet Wound (1969)
1961-1970ActionJapanShirô MoritaniThrillerThriller about a Japanese-American CIA agent (Kayama) in Japan.Read More »
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Kaneto Shindô – Onibaba AKA Devil Woman (1964)
Drama1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtHorrorJapanKaneto ShindôSynopsis:
In the Fourteenth Century, during a civil war in Japan, a middle-aged woman and her daughter-in-law survive in a hut in a field of reed killing warriors and soldiers to trade their possessions for food. When their neighbor Hachi defects from the war and returns home, they learn that their son and husband Kichi died while stealing supplies from farmers. Soon Hachi seduces the young widow and she sneaks out of her hut every night to have sex with him. When the older woman finds the affair of her daughter-in-law, she pleads with Hachi to leave the young woman with her since she would not be able to kill the warriors without her help. However, Hachi ignores her request and continues to meet the young woman. Read More » -
Nagisa Ôshima – Kôshikei AKA Death by Hanging (1968)
1961-1970CrimeDramaJapanNagisa OshimaQuote:
A clinically presented series of stark white, unembellished placards illustrates the sobering statistical data for the overwhelming public sentiment against the abolition of the death penalty as an off-screen narrator (Nagisa Oshima) provides a snide, but impassioned rebuttal to popular opinion by presenting a objective documentary of the austere and impersonal milieu associated with the methodical process of carrying out a state execution through the specific example of the appointed hanging of a convicted rapist and murderer known only as ‘R’ (Do-yun Yu): an empty, minimalist sitting room that provides an illusive, parting glimpse of a semblance of home for the condemned prisoner as he makes his way into the execution room, an assembly of unnamed official guests waiting in a segregated viewing room to witness the macabre ceremony, a procedural rehearsal of the chamber’s fail-safe sequence as the prisoner is blindfold and fitted with a noose, the actuation of trap door, the median measured time of 18 minutes before the heart completely stops and a staff physician (Rokko Toura) is able to record the official time of death. Read More »