Lost Love
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are…
Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man’s quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old…
Karate Killer
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he’s out, he begins working…
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war…
Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.
The Catch
Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with…
The Sun’s Burial
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,…
Night and Fog in Japan
Uninvited guests crash a former student radical’s wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.