Movies: Meiko Kaji

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role....

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama....

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In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a trav...

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death....

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Short film about a man, memories and a desk lamp....

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, m...

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance....

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Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of a bloody revenge fought by Nakayama Yasubei, who late married into the Ako clan where he was one of the 47 ronin who took vengeance against the vile L...

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world....

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance......

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the concept of the bad girl in Japan as a product of specific cultural assumptions and historical settings, Bad Girls of Japan maps new roads and old detours ...

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. But even the richest must think about the future. ...

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother....

1965 Nikkatsu youth film....

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a prefectural hospital. The film depicts the daughter's attempt to grow from adolescence to adulthood i...

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama....

A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the hearts of fishmongers and milkmen....