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The Suns Burial 1960 In Osakas slum, youth 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 Shins gang Shins an upstart and moves his

Nihon no yoru to kiri 1960 Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists movement in Japan

Ageman 1990 Her childhood was hardly ideal as she was abandoned and grew up without parental love She finds a home and a profession as a geisha who is particularly popular because she has that lucky bone in her that transmits fortune to her patrons She meets a bank manager one day and soon enough th

Supermarket Woman 1996 Goros supermarket is not doing well the rival Bargains Galore threatens his business A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail and life changes

Heaven and Earth 1990 Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to b

Rokudenashi 1960 A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friends father She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle

Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961) An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

A Taxing Woman (1987) Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is complicated by a growing sympathy