After a clumsy painter indirectly becomes the witness of a murder, the murderers chase after him in order to kill him too.
When the two lovers Yukio and Minoru meet again after four years of separation, they find that their old feelings are not dead. The problem is that Yukio is now married. But things get ...
Exhausting and mind-blowing.
The story of Angela Sandau, a young seamstress who, by falling in love with juvenile delinquent Caesar, finds herself on the road to crime.
A gang of thieves try to smuggle a valuable stolen painting out of the country.
One of a duo of ninkyô films dealing with violent yakuza clan conflict, both starring Takahashi and Kobatashi. The other is called FIGHT aka FRIENDLY ENEMIES.
A hairdresser Gerda has an affair with Dr Nikodimov, a married man past his prime. Savarinova has had her hair done by Gerda in fashionable style. She is ill at ease at a family party. Her ...
A good example on ninkyô eiga.
A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night ...
While in prison for murder, a man learns that his best friend and girlfriend have made plans to steal his fortune. Enraged, he escapes prison and tracks them down with the intent to kill again.
The exemplary accountant Antonín Safránek (Rudolf Hrusínský) lives his orderly life as a citizen of a small town. His wife Eliska (Slávka Budínová) brings up their three children and ...
The ship, carrying a consignment of arms for the Algerian revolutionary movement, leaves for Tangier. Bulgarian counterintelligence intercepts a letter leaking the precise dates of the ...
As with actor Umemiya's TEIO pictures, this is a loosely-linked series.
Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyôden" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.
A series of mysterious murders confounds the country's secret services, as they investigate, discreetly but persistently, every aspect of the case. With the help of a number of coincidences...
A young man attempts to prove that he has given up a life of crime but he finds that society is not so forgiving of an ex-convict.
Yet one more great riveting, hard-boiled little action gem.
The fast-moving picture is a bit a hybrid between the ninkyô and the emerging jitsuroku sub-genres.
Bong-seo stays at an inn run by ambitious Ji Tae-bu. He pretends to be courting the innkeepers daughter, but all the while he is planning a way to cheat Ji out of everything she owns
Nagato is starring in a dual role in this gangster action comedy.