Known for Acting
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public transport. But he does have two mistresses: Ayumi, who runs a nightclub, and Yoshie, a brothel-keeper. When Tanaka's boss ends up in hospital, second man Kurauchi exerts increasing pressure on Tanaka. Tanaka deliberately has himself wounded by a fighter to dodge several of Kurauchi's demands.
In 1999, advanced science and technology enriched people's lives, but the damage caused when they were misused for crimes or went out of control and went out of control was also great. The Special Rescue Police Winspector (abbreviated as WSP) was established to deal with such a situation. Their purpose is not only to investigate crimes and arrest suspects but also to save the lives of those involved in crimes and disasters.
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
A young woman who runs a bar from a small truck gets in trouble with some hapless yakuza when her drunk boyfriend gets into a fight with them.
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.
Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.
An unknown handsome man showers a woman with red roses. She is smitten and becomes a willing participant in his rather unusual hobby of subjecting women to chains, manacles, cages, piercings, waxing and various sexual humiliations.
A building manager spots a hooded jogger as he brazenly assaults a woman and drags her off. He follows and watches as the poor woman gets raped. After the rapist has left the manager hesitates and approaches the prone woman… and takes his turn. The next day the manager is on the lookout for the jogger, waiting for another chance.
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman from a wealthy family.
A lonely interior designer navigates relationships between an overworked sleepy boyfriend, an older man who already has a mistress and her good looking boss. How is she to choose?
A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.
Secretary Sayo does some corporate snooping for her boyfriend, an upstart executive with a rival company. But she gets busted by the CEO. Poor Sayo is captured and taken to a private torture chamber in the corporate mansion. While the secretary gets punished, the bossman's son becomes infatuated with her beautiful white skin and he assumes the disciplinary responsibilities. Between the floggings, stretchings, and wooden-horse tortures he finds time to cover her body in an elaborate tattoo.
