Saburō Shōji Movies

A woman and her business partner run a neighborhood bar. He hopes they can be married someday. One evening, a yakuza swaggers into the bar and asks...

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza and his horny girlfriend.

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep...

Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a...

A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.

A 1971 crime film

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

A yakuza family goes into show business.

On the advice of their horoscopes, a scenario writer, a producer and a director take a working vacation to a hot spring in the hopes of finishing...

A woman who lived an ordinary life as a housewife in a housing complex in the suburbs. One day, a yakuza comes to her to pay off her late mother's...

One day, Hara Nobuo witnessed his father assaulting Tokiko, whom he loved as a surrogate mother. Tokiko then committed suicide. As Nobuo grew up, he...

A 1970 crime film.

A film adaptation of Koichiro Uno's original work that depicts the madness and debauchery that unfolds in a nurses' dormitory where men are strictly...

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their...

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

Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh...

A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's...