Riichirō Manabe Filmes

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of...

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical's wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid...

Shizuka is the aristocratic wife of the president of a large company. When she wants to divorce her domineering husband, he orders his employee...

Toda, a disillusioned journalist that was once a part of the student movement, recalls his former youth when he meets a confident young woman through...

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

Inventor Goro Ibuki creates a humanoid robot named Jet Jaguar. It is soon seized by an undersea race of people called the Seatopians. Using Jet...

An arrogant and privileged lady of wealth finds she is in need of a loan. The man who offers to help her was a former chauffeur who she had...

Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

Rumiko is a misbehaving girl who got caught stealing the cash her father had at home for bribes. Father would not accuse her of that, but when he...

A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but...

A young man runs a scam selling pigeons that always return to his home. He falls under the wing of Kyoko, an older student whose heart is touched...

A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a...

In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic...

1965 youth / yakuza film

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover...