Also Directed by Kō Nakahira
The mod band "The Spiders" has just come back from a tour of the US and one of the members, Sakai Masaaki, is working on cutting off the skin of a tambourine he bought. The tambourine is jeweled with what he thinks are fake gems, but actually a ring of spies has used the instrument as a way to smuggle in diamonds. The beautiful spy girl (Mari Annu) sits diagonal to him, and it’s there that they first lock eyes. The spy follows the band throughout the film, trying to retrieve the tambourine from "Masa" as he’s referred to through violence or seduction.
First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.
The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris.
Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
Whodunit from Japan.
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
