Movies: Rokkō Toura

  • 1971
    The Ceremony

    The Ceremony (1971)

    The Ceremony

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    Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades....

    The Ceremony
  • 1974
    The Tattooed Hitman

    The Tattooed Hitman (1974)

    The Tattooed Hitman

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    The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese m...

    The Tattooed Hitman
  • 1992
    Dialogue

    Dialogue (1992)

    Dialogue

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    A man hires a Private Investigator in order to find proof that his wife has been cheating on him. Soon, we learn that the man’s plan is to set the wife up, divorce her and remarry again in America with the daughter of his boss....

    Dialogue
  • 1969
    Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

    Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)

    Diary of a Shinjuku Thief

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    In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect....

    Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
  • 1971
    Silence

    Silence (1971)

    Silence

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    Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor....

    Silence
  • 1972
    Dear Summer Sister

    Dear Summer Sister (1972)

    Dear Summer Sister

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    14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale’s tourist attractions, quickly del...

    Dear Summer Sister
  • 1964
    Brand of Evil

    Brand of Evil (1964)

    Brand of Evil

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    A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly condu...

    Brand of Evil
  • 1961
    The Catch

    The Catch (1961)

    The Catch

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    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 their “catch.”...

    The Catch
  • 1960
    Blood Is Dry

    Blood Is Dry (1960)

    Blood Is Dry

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    An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own advantage by turning the incident into an advertising campaign. With the success of the campaign, howe...

    Blood Is Dry
  • 1973
    The School Deviate Waru

    The School Deviate Waru (1973)

    The School Deviate Waru

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    Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school pri...

    The School Deviate Waru
  • 1966
    Silence Has No Wings

    Silence Has No Wings (1966)

    Silence Has No Wings

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    Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points....

    Silence Has No Wings
  • 1975
    Shimane Prison Riot

    Shimane Prison Riot (1975)

    Shimane Prison Riot

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    Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsie...

    Shimane Prison Riot
  • 1970
    Mission: Iron Castle

    Mission: Iron Castle (1970)

    Mission: Iron Castle

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    The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant...

    Mission: Iron Castle
  • 1965
    Sword Devil

    Sword Devil (1965)

    Sword Devil

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    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 man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him...

    Sword Devil
  • 1991
    Crossroads in Tokyo

    Crossroads in Tokyo (1991)

    Crossroads in Tokyo

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    A three parts movie following people forgotten by a society that modernizes at the price of expelling part of its individuals....

    Crossroads in Tokyo
  • 1973
    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Musashi (1973)

    Miyamoto Musashi

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    In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Koji...

    Miyamoto Musashi
  • 1972
    The Horrible Obsessions

    The Horrible Obsessions (1972)

    The Horrible Obsessions

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    Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs....

    The Horrible Obsessions
  • 1978
    Lost Love

    Lost Love (1978)

    Lost Love

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    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 found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Noga...

    Lost Love
  • 1970
    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

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    Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yam...

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
  • 1975
    The International Gang of Kobe

    The International Gang of Kobe (1975)

    The International Gang of Kobe

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    In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs....

    The International Gang of Kobe