Masato Furuoya

After the death of his friend Tetsuji, Ryo (Takashi Naito) and his biker gang drift apart. Ryo runs a bar, while Reiko wants to get married and have a normal job. As the first anniversary of Tetsuji’s death approaches, Zaji, Yuhi, and Nemu work to fix a bike for the legendary “Yokohama Ryo” to ride. Meanwhile, a mysterious man (Hideo Murota) seeks to destroy any remaining biker gangs. Ryo is pulled back into that world by both friends and enemies, and is expected to live up to his own legendary figure that he no longer wants anything to do with.Read More »

Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man’s words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.Read More »

The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a pro-reformist militant and his girlfriend, Ogino is starting to wonder if he’s really cut out to be a doctor.Read More »

Little known 1980’s exploitation flic with violent ending

During the Second World War, a young man from a secluded village is denied the chance to serve in the Japanese army through his tuberculosis. Highly intelligent, although isolated, he lives with his kindly grandmother. Taking advantage of the times he enjoys the company of several married women, but once news of his disease spreads he becomes increasingly socially ostracised and plots revenge…Read More »

There’s a Nobura Tanaka masterpiece lurking behind this lurid title. Today many critics feel Tanaka was the best director in Nikkatsu’s pink film stable, but in the 70s his work was constantly overshadowed by other studio masters like Chusei Sone and Tatsumi Kumashiro. This film was his first major “break-through.” Despite the “objectionable” necrophilia scenes, the movie was applauded by the mainstream press, praised for Hideo Murota’s remarkable performance , and honored by the Japanese Academy of Films and Motion Pictures and Kinema Jumpo as the best film of 1979.Read More »