Movies: Bokuzen Hidari

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then the...

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form....

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era....

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers....

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches....

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1959 youth comedy....

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous for its bullfights. Today there is also a bull market in the village, and there are extremely many pe...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. ...

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town....

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state....

An Ishiro Honda film....

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord....

In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked out the infirmary's doctor and taken his place. A trio of students notice the trick and dress up as ...

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and a husband he is frequently drawn to taverns....

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life....

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Nobuko is a widow who lives with her stepchild Tamiko and her brother Junjiro. The family's gatekeeper, Komatsu, is attracted to Tamiko, but she is encouraged to marry a doctor and he is afraid to tell her his feelings....