Shima Iwashita

The Demon

Admin — Sat, 07 Oct 1978 00:00:00 +0000

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi – and his very surprised and angry wife Oume – and disappears.

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

Admin — Sat, 31 May 1975 00:00:00 +0000

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Silence

Admin — Sat, 13 Nov 1971 00:00:00 +0000

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

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

Admin — Sat, 18 Apr 1970 00:00:00 +0000

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Captive’s Island

Admin — Sat, 02 Jul 1966 00:00:00 +0000

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman

Sword of the Beast

Admin — Sat, 18 Sep 1965 00:00:00 +0000

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

An Autumn Afternoon

Admin — Sun, 18 Nov 1962 00:00:00 +0000

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her.

Harakiri

Admin — Sat, 15 Sep 1962 00:00:00 +0000

Aging samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the home of Kageyu Saito and asks to commit a ritual suicide on the property, which Saito thinks is a ploy to gain pity and a job. Saito tells Tsugumo of another samurai, Motome Chijiiwa, who threatened suicide as a stratagem, only to be forced to follow through on the task. When Tsugumo reveals that Chijiiwa was his son-in-law, the disclosure sets off a fierce conflict.

Killers on Parade

Admin — Sun, 19 Feb 1961 00:00:00 +0000

Mod-sixties visuals and black humor mark this wild New Wave masterpiece about a vengeful contractor who hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.

The River Fuefuki

Admin — Wed, 19 Oct 1960 00:00:00 +0000

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.