The best Manzô Shinra’s movies

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that she is terminally ill, and is advised to take her home. During his visit, a suspect shoots one detective dead and leaves Nishi's partner, Horibe, paralyzed. Nishi leaves the police force to spend time with his wife at home, and must find a way to pay off his debts to the yakuza.

Akira admires Genyo Kamiura, the most powerful yakuza. Genyo Kamiura has been targeted numerous times, but he has never been killed. He is called the invincible person. Because of Genyo Kamiura, Akira enters the world of the yakuza. His yakuza colleagues treat him like an idiot, and Akira can't even get tattoos because of his sensitive skin. An assassin is sent to take out Genyo Kamiura. The killers know that Genyo Kamiura is a vampire. Thus begins the apocalypse.

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.

Wada (Masahiro Motoki), a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada encounters a violent, yet sentimental, yakuza (Renji Ishibashi), who takes the liberty of joining his adventure through China. Led on their long and disastrous journey to the mine by Shen, the three men come across something even more magical and enticing...

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated community? Despite the fact that Mayor Amano and the other all male residents have enthusiastically welcomed her and the other three coeds attending Professor Ashihara’s overnight seminar, Mikoto can’t shake the sense of increasing dread that consumes her. Something horrible has happened here. Something that is about to happen again. Because the town has been waiting for her. And the other girls. From the pages of the hit online manga published in Web Comic Gamma, the nightmare is about to begin!

A man returned to his home in Kyoto after being away for a year. As he works his way into film industry as a part-timer, his sister decides to sell their childhood home since both of their parents have passed away. One night, his recalls his father's favorite watch and looks for it, and he stumbles across a notebook titled "My Memories." He starts to read it and sees the words written on the first page saying "The men I loved who passed me by..." and is followed by a record of his father's love life...

The forest where Tomoki Hamasaki, who encountered a restructuring and searched for a place to die, arrived. There were men working in forestry. Tomoki, who was to be helped by their work due to lack of manpower, notices that there is a cute girl among the master who speaks loudly and loosely, Kenji who is silent and has a good craftsmanship. Tomoki is attracted to the girl named Michiko from Tokyo, but she has no island to attach to. One day, a young woman appears from Tokyo in search of Michiko. She knew Michiko's past ... A story of healing of the heart drawn on the stage of nature.

When a traffic surveyor lusts after a thin pretty woman with long hair and begins to stalk her he has no idea that she is married or that she has a husband who is cheating on her. He has the photographs to prove it and drops them off into the mailbox of her home one day. A bizarre love takes root.

Miyako is a frustrated insurance saleswoman stuck in a major dry spell. She tries every trick in the book, including aggressive flirting, which gets her plenty of gropers but no buyers. One day while venturing down a narrow stairwell, she injures her ankle and happens upon Mitsuru who works for some mysterious foreign company. Decked out in high goth style -- complete with long inky black hair and mascaraed eyes -- Mitsuru cuts quite an odd figure, yet his seductive though menacing ways make him difficult for Miyako to resist. Escorting her to his office to treat her ankle, Miyako notices that his all-female staff seem more glassy-eyed and soul-deadened than the average office workers. In fact, they seem almost like zombies. Later, weird things start happening. Mitsuko finds vomit on her doorstep, she seems to be tailed by a shadowy woman in a red dress, and most strikingly, she finds herself utterly powerless against Mitsuru's advances.

Nami’s father was a legendary truck driver, and after his death, Nami inherited the deco-truck With her up-beat personality and super driving technique, Nami is popular among her customers. By coincidence, Nami meets Momoka, a hooker who takes truck drivers as customers. Momoka says to Nami, “I want to start a new life !!” and begs that she wants to be Nami’s assistant. She is overwhelmed by Momoka’s passion, and decides to take her in. One day, after dinner, the two return to the truck and sees that there is a box which they must have forgotten to load. So they load the box back in the truck, and the odd twosome drive away to the next destination. This “box” is the start of trouble for Nami and Momoka. What lies ahead in their destiny?!

Sexy sword-fighter Beniko battles a pack of lecherous wolf-men in this "pinku eiga" version of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.

Yuriko is a miserable house wife forced to live under the emotional and physical abuse of her husband until a criminal breaks in and sets her free.

The small fishing village was polluted by the construction of the factory, and the fishermen were absorbed by the factory manager, Nojima. It was a lively village at one point, but now it is quiet again. Natsuyo is violently fucked by a man on the beach. But she didn't resist. Natsuyo takes a man who doesn't know what he suddenly attacked and gives him a meal. The man Naoya was very similar to Satake. Naoya's unnatural response didn't stop her, but she felt she had a reason. Nojima visited there. Natsuyo hid Naoya in his closet, Nojima screamed at Natsuyo's relatives as usual, and stretched her body into her hand, but was hit hard and returned home.

A girl became an adult at the Akemi bar. Having been kicked out by her family and lacking a social circle, a girl walks alone in the city. A wife and a husband who are bar owners take her under their wings just as if she is one of their own. This girl offers her wiles and love to customers. The regular customers of the bar like her, which helps her gain confidence and have hope again.

A humanity and action drama where the landlady of "Momogiya" struggles. Tsukiko, who succeeded a long-established ryokan, Momokiya, as a female general from her former grand landlord, but her management continues to become difficult. Is it possible to rebuild the management of the ryokan as well as to revive this dark, hot spring town? !!

Kiriko, who works as a staff member of a regional magazine, is a hard worker and has a modest personality. Although he was not a virgin because of the painful experience of the past, he lived a life far from love. I wanted such a small change. My colleague, Hidemi, has the exact opposite character of Kiriko, does more work than anyone else, and is popular with other men. He made sex a gift of stress relief and separated it from love.

A sequel to "Widows Boarding House? I'll Lend You a Valley". Yuko manages the boarding house by herself before her husband. She is thinking of closing the boarding house because of the deficit, but she comforted herself in front of the deceased because of the loneliness of her husband. Sumire Nagai and Iroha Narimiya gorgeous actresses co-star.