Saburō Shōji Movies

A 1971 crime film

A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji...

Real-Life stripper Madoka Mika plays the fictional ROSE RED, a former striptease queen who is now doing roadshow engagements while trying to raise...

A woman and her business partner run a neighborhood bar. He hopes they can be married someday. One evening, a yakuza swaggers into the bar and asks...

A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

A 1970 crime film.

A bar-owner named Kuroki, forlornly waits for his adulterous wife to get back from messing around with her boyfriend. She returns, but because she's...

Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a...

One day, Hara Nobuo witnessed his father assaulting Tokiko, whom he loved as a surrogate mother. Tokiko then committed suicide. As Nobuo grew up, he...

Two tough young street hustlers, Keiko and Kaori, challenge a large organization called the Sukeban Mafia that is involved in drug dealing and...

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

A female hair stylist is torn between two lovers as she waits for treatment in a gynecological ward. She meets the other patients who are there and...

A film adaptation of Koichiro Uno's original work that depicts the madness and debauchery that unfolds in a nurses' dormitory where men are strictly...

A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he...