Teruo Ishii

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

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

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s ...

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for ...

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his ...

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads ...

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and ...

When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. But ...

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother’s attempt to sustain her family.

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: ...

Based on Ito Hajime’s original story, this is the seventh installment in the “Bangaichi” series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio ...