Nobuo Kaneko Movies

A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a living as a shogi gambler (shinken-shi), and Ryuzo...

Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is...

A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

1966 film directed by Kudo.

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu,...

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of...

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the...