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51. With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
106 min | Drama, Romance
Long before the events of the movie Ôki, who was approaching middle age, had a relation to 16-year-old Otoko. She got pregnant, but the child was stillborn. Their relation stopped at the ... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kaoru Yachigusa, Mariko Kaga, Sô Yamamura, Kei Yamamoto
Votes: 336
52. The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A man keeps a young employee tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Miharu Shima, Hatsuo Yamaya, Masao Adachi
Votes: 928
53. Only on Mondays (1964)
94 min | Drama
Yuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
Director: Kô Nakahira | Stars: Mariko Kaga, Akira Nakao, Yasukiyo Umeno, Michio Hino
Votes: 205
54. Secrets Behind the Wall (1965)
74 min | Drama
Japan, 1960. In a housing complex, a young introverted student observes his neighbors through a telescope. The voyeurism of a young man isolated and gloomy, will cause an explosion of madness.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Hiroko Fujino, Aya Mine, Chikako Natsumi, Michito Suzuki
Votes: 584
55. Violent Virgin (1969)
66 min | Crime, Horror
A bunch of violent hippies kidnap and humiliate a young romantic couple, while a nearby yakuza gang observes the situation.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Eri Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Miki Hayashi, Atsushi Yamatoya
Votes: 653
56. Sex Jack (1970)
70 min | Drama
During violent manifestations in late 1960s in Japan, a group of students who called themselves the Rose Colored Regiment hide in the house of a mysterious young man, and have sex with the same girl while waiting for new instructions.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Tamaki Katori, Mizako Kaga, Etsuko Wakayama, Shigeru Ebara
Votes: 533
57. The Affair (1967)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother's lover and gets thrown into a romantic dilemma after succumbing to a rough laborer.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano, Shigako Shimegi
Votes: 439
58. Dear Summer Sister (1972)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
Story is about a Tokyo girl looking round Okinawa island for her long-lost brother and finding he is the tourist guide with whom she has had an affair.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Hiromi Kurita, Shôji Ishibashi, Lily, Hôsei Komatsu
Votes: 223
59. A Man Vanishes (1967)
130 min | Documentary, Drama
Plastics salesman Oshima disappeared without a word to anyone, and has been missing for two years. Shohei Imamura and his crew follow Oshima's fiancé Yoshie and actor Shigeru Tsuyuguchi as they investigate the disappearance.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yoshie Hayakawa, Shôhei Imamura
Votes: 833
60. Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
77 min | Drama
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Yôko Mutô, Rokkô Toura, Hatsuo Yamaya
Votes: 510
61. Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen (1971)
69 min | Documentary
It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan's context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration ... See full summary »
Directors: Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Mustafa Abu Ali, Masao Adachi, George Habash, Susumu Iwabuchi
Votes: 167
62. Killers on Parade (1961)
82 min | Action, Crime
A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Yûsuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo, Fumio Watanabe
Votes: 337
63. The Catch (1961)
105 min | Drama, War
Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their "catch."
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Akiko Koyama, Yôko Mihara, Masako Nakamura
Votes: 308
64. Summer Soldiers (1972)
107 min | Drama, War
A Vietnam veteran deserts from the US Army while on leave in Japan.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Keith Sykes, Reisen Ri, Kazuo Kitamura, Toshiko Kobayashi
Votes: 168
65. Shinjuku Mad (1970)
65 min | Drama
A man comes to Tokyo searching for his son's killer. He ventures into the deep underground of the city where he finds out that the untraceable killer is a mysterious revolutionary gang leader called Shinjuku Mad.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Yûko Ejima, Makiko Harada, Akiko Hirooka
Votes: 465
66. Gozenchû no jikanwari (1972)
100 min | Drama
Two college buddies try to understand a young woman's suicide through her Super-8 films and clips from their summer trips together.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Takuji Hatano, Aya Kunikida, Sumei Shau
Votes: 78
67. Dry Lake (1960)
89 min | Drama
An alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shin'ichirô Mikami, Shima Iwashita, Kayoko Honoo, Hizuru Takachiho
Votes: 203
68. Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)
87 min | Drama
An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management. The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Keiji Sada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Shin'ichirô Mikami, Mari Yoshimura
Votes: 279
69. Akitsu Springs (1962)
113 min | Drama, Romance
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 1,193
70. Human (1962)
117 min | Drama
The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Nobuko Otowa, Kei Satô, Kei Yamamoto
Votes: 222
71. Nippon no akuryo (1970)
90 min | Crime, Drama
Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how identical they look. They decide to trade places with each other.
Director: Kazuo Kuroki | Stars: Yôsuke Enomoto, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eiko Horii, Hideo Kanze
Votes: 113
72. Escape from Japan (1964)
96 min | Action, Crime
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Yasushi Suzuki, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôsuke Machida, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 192
73. Janken sensô (1971)
12 min | Short, War
Two generals portrays World War II through the rock-scissors-bag, but also by some absurd torture techniques.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Mitsufumi Hashimoto, Salvador Tari
Votes: 133
74. Affair in the Snow (1968)
97 min | Drama, Romance
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover, and her ex-boyfriend, who she had platonic feelings for.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Yukio Ninagawa, Miyoko Akaza
Votes: 322
75. Ako (1964)
29 min | Short, Drama
Follows Ako, a 16-year-old Japanese girl, as she spends time working in a bakery and going out with her friends.
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara | Stars: Miki Irie, Teruko Hasegawa, Yoko Matsushita
Votes: 444
76. A Flame at the Pier (1962)
92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he... See full summary »
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Takashi Fujiki, Kôji Nanbara, Kyôko Kishida, Mariko Kaga
Votes: 160
77. Naked Bullet (1969)
72 min | Drama
A yakuza flees from his boss with a young waitress and is tricked into returning to the fold. For his efforts, he is tortured and beaten, and she is raped and discarded like trash. Five ... See full summary »
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Miki Hayashi, Eri Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa
Votes: 146
78. Bad Boys (1961)
89 min | Drama
An improvisational film depicting life in a boys' reform school.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Yukio Yamada, Hirokazu Yoshitake, Koichiro Yamazaki, Yasuo Kurokawa
Votes: 144
79. Ninja bugei-chô (1967)
123 min | Animation, Action, History
The vengeful son of a murdered feudal lord meets a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime in this unusual animated film where still manga drawings are accompanied with sound.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Rokkô Toura, Kei Yamamoto, Hôsei Komatsu, Noriko Matsumoto
Votes: 241
80. Ori (1964)
11 min | Short, Fantasy
An experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Eiko Kujo, Mr. Nippon, Yoshihiro Tachiki, Ken Takeuchi
Votes: 296
81. The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Shôichi Ozawa, Fumio Watanabe
Votes: 269
82. Sexual Play (1969)
71 min | Drama
On the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggle, a free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape is being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students
Directors: Masao Adachi, Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Natsu Nakajima, Kazuo 'Gaira' Komizu, Yukiko Manabe, Akemi Murayama
Votes: 49
83. Gendai kôshoku-den: Teroru no kisetsu (1969)
78 min | Drama
From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Yûko Ejima, Tomomi Sahara, Hitomi Suma, Hiromasa Haruta
Votes: 147
84. She and He (1963)
110 min | Drama
In a sterile building complex, a woman gains a sense of altruism after encountering a street beggar and his blind orphan, much to her husband's disapproval.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Sachiko Hidari, Kikuji Yamashita, Eiji Okada, Akio Hasegawa
Votes: 230
85. Confessions Among Actresses (1971)
124 min | Drama
The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima, Miyoko Akaza
Votes: 266
86. Punishment Island (1966)
87 min | Drama, Mystery
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Akira Nitta, Kei Satô, Kinzô Shin, Taiji Tonoyama
Votes: 265
87. History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess (1970)
105 min | Documentary
A documentary film showcasing life in postwar Japan as seen through the eyes of a bar hostess.
Director: Shôhei Imamura | Stars: Chieko Akaza, Etsuko Akaza, Tami Akaza, Fukumi Kuroda
Votes: 237
88. One Way Ticket to Love (1960)
82 min | Drama
The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kazuya Kosaka, Noriko Maki, Hideo Asami, Yôji Doki
Votes: 171
89. The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1971)
72 min | Drama
In the wake of Yukio Mishima's suicide, two suicidal couples are about to face their memories and frustrations, before they strive to heal their scars for good, by hook or by crook.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Eriko Shima, Hiroshi Yajima, Takeshi Shima, Tamaki Katori
Votes: 121
90. Orgy (1967)
68 min | Drama
A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Ken Yoshizawa, Miki Watari, Misako Andô, Miki Hayashi
Votes: 49
91. Amai yoru no hate (1961)
85 min | Crime, Drama
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Michiko Saga, Teruyo Yamagami, Sumiko Hidaka
Votes: 280
92. Datai (1966)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A gynecologist attempts to rid the world of sexual problems by separating sex on the one hand and reproduction, which he feels should be left to artificial wombs.
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Mikio Terashima, Reiko Ensho, Nami Katsura, Yuri Nishi
Votes: 67
93. Sain (1963)
56 min | Drama
The struggles of a woman and her male partner - where the woman suffers from a sealed vagina - in a world that views her as an object of pleasure and reproduction.
Director: Masao Adachi | Stars: Hiroshi Takeda, Kyôko Kimura, Kumiko Muraoka
Votes: 54
94. Farewell to the Summer Light (1968)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Tadashi Yokouchi, Paul Beauvais, Hélène Soubielle
Votes: 264
95. Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)
143 min | Documentary
This important film compiles "Magino Story" footage taken by Ogawa for a period of more than ten years after he moved to Magino village.
Director: Shinsuke Ogawa
Votes: 59
96. Violence Without a Cause (1969)
71 min | Action, Crime
Three young men from the countryside spend their lives in Tokyo alternately complaining about their boring existence and brutalizing people. When they come to violent ends themselves, they claim to be victims of society.
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu | Stars: Muraoka Hiroshi, Toshimasa Sakaguchi, Kazuya Jô, Rei Ikegami
Votes: 154
97. Flame and Women (1967)
101 min | Drama
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the child's biological father.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Mayumi Ogawa, Takeshi Kusaka
Votes: 254
98. Clouds at Sunset (1967)
106 min | Drama
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start over. When a young maid falls for him, he talks her into sleeping with an older man for money.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Shima Iwashita, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Kei Satô, Mayumi Ogawa
Votes: 39
99. Good-for-Nothing (1960)
88 min | Action, Crime
A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Masahiko Tsugawa, Hizuru Takachiho, Yûsuke Kawazu, Junichiro Yamashita
Votes: 414
100. Aido: Slave of Love (1969)
105 min | Drama
Aido is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she can no longer tell fantasy from reality.
Director: Susumu Hani | Stars: Yuri Suemasa, Kenzô Kawarasaki, Kimiko Nukamura, Rumiko Tanuma
Votes: 25