Meiko Kaji Movies

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part...

Sawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of his sick father Hideo, but is rejected by his father....

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.

Film from 1967.

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg...

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa, who is most famous today as the definitive artist of "Taisho Romanticism" and for his melancholic...

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board and the faction of the vice-chairman of the...

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

Short film about a man, memories and a desk lamp.

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the city, and Kyoko has taken a job as a nurse at a...

In Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by 'night watch': staying up all night with the deceased, incense burning throughout, to ensure their...