Masahiko Tsugawa

A lonely retired girl’s High School Principal who’s lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he ...

A girl from a wealthy family falls in love with a working-class boy.

From a true incident that happened in 1960’s Japan. This drama is contemporary in setting but medieval in its characters and emotions as it ...

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 ...

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro ...

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring ...

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another ...

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor ...

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student ...

Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: ...