Sumiko Minami

1959 Japanese movie

At Shizumoto, a geisha shop not far from Ginza, a group of geisha are going about their day, putting up a modest resistance to the tragedies of life....

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

A samurai who slashes a young girl's mage appears in Edo, and she is never caught.

Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long...

1962 Japanese movie

A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his...

A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife,...

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the...

Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find...

A young couple and his wife's sister live in a housing complex. When her wife becomes suspicious of the relationship between her husband and her...

1962 Japanese movie

A tough female cop matches wits with a blackmailing killer.

Akiko is the heir to a yakuza clan. Hitoshi, who has been kicked out of the rival Hono Clan after attempting to seduce Akiko, kidnaps her at the...

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

An upwardly-mobile banker's boss introduces him to the adopted daughter of a wealthy client. He falls in love with the girl and wants to marry her,...

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly...

1962 Japanese movie

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

1962 Japanese movie

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

A high school girl gets into trouble when she takes on a part-time job as a substitute bride. At the wedding hall, she runs away with a man just...

A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles...

Mio is a young woman whose husband is a millionaire's son. When he becomes impotent following an automobile accident, she begins an affair with their...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months...

A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after double crossing them in a fixing scam. Seijun...

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...

Oman travel from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha...

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the...

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Hairstylist Misa meets S&M enthusiast Ippei and is convinced to give it a try. Then later, Ippei's ex-wife, who happens to be one of Misa's beauty...

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime...

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only...

Kyōko is a woman with a promiscuous past who is sexually unsatisfied with her marriage. Her frustrations lead her to have hedonistic dreams, such as...

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the...

A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.

For a little extra money a college student agrees to pose as a nude model for a magazine. But she finds out too late that the magazine is a...

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach...

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming the hardship of life.

A lighthearted comedy that tells the story of love and the cheerful heroism of a young salesman pursuing a man's dream.

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of youth.

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series.

Sanada Bunkichi, an alcoholic musician who had lost all motivation to live, was a man who seemed to be supported by the kind consideration of his...

1961 Japanese movie

A story of the conflicting friendship and love between two young men over a young girl from a working-class neighborhood.

1965 Japanese movie

1957 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie