Movies: Shoichi Ozawa

  • 1979
    Vengeance Is Mine

    Vengeance Is Mine (1979)

    Vengeance Is Mine

    7.51979HD

    A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police....

    Vengeance Is Mine
  • 1983
    The Ballad of Narayama

    The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

    The Ballad of Narayama

    7.41983HD

    In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mounta...

    The Ballad of Narayama
  • 1997
    The Eel

    The Eel (1997)

    The Eel

    71997HD

    A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison....

    The Eel
  • 1963
    The Insect Woman

    The Insect Woman (1963)

    The Insect Woman

    7.31963HD

    A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life....

    The Insect Woman
  • 1989
    Black Rain

    Black Rain (1989)

    Black Rain

    7.51989HD

    Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic bombing, a tragedy that cruelly took the lives of thousands of people and forever marked the harsh ex...

    Black Rain
  • 1974
    Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account

    Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account (1974)

    Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account

    4.51974HD

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

    Kaoru Kiri: The Best Lesbian In Japan, Authentic Account
  • 1965
    Story of a Prostitute

    Story of a Prostitute (1965)

    Story of a Prostitute

    6.61965HD

    Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's ...

    Story of a Prostitute
  • 1961
    Pigs and Battleships

    Pigs and Battleships (1961)

    Pigs and Battleships

    7.01961HD

    In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together....

    Pigs and Battleships
  • 1964
    Intentions of Murder

    Intentions of Murder (1964)

    Intentions of Murder

    7.11964HD

    The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life....

    Intentions of Murder
  • 1978
    Winter's Flower

    Winter's Flower (1978)

    Winter's Flower

    6.21978HD

    Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending let...

    Winter's Flower
  • 1962
    Foundry Town

    Foundry Town (1962)

    Foundry Town

    7.61962HD

    Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education....

    Foundry Town
  • 1966
    The Pornographers

    The Pornographers (1966)

    The Pornographers

    7.31966HD

    Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead ...

    The Pornographers
  • 1967
    Love for an Idiot

    Love for an Idiot (1967)

    Love for an Idiot

    61967HD

    A middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she enslaves him to her whims....

    Love for an Idiot
  • 1972
    Ichijo's Wet Lust

    Ichijo's Wet Lust (1972)

    Ichijo's Wet Lust

    6.21972HD

    Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the m...

    Ichijo's Wet Lust
  • 1968
    Young Challengers

    Young Challengers (1968)

    Young Challengers

    01968HD

    A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of Japan's leading manufacturers of electronic and electric goods....

    Young Challengers
  • 1957
    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era (1957)

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    7.21957HD

    Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for ...

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
  • 1960
    Take Aim at the Police Van

    Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)

    Take Aim at the Police Van

    6.21960HD

    A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer....

    Take Aim at the Police Van
  • 1962
    The Temple of Wild Geese

    The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

    The Temple of Wild Geese

    6.31962HD

    Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the pr...

    The Temple of Wild Geese
  • 1981
    Why Not?

    Why Not? (1981)

    Why Not?

    6.41981HD

    The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan in 1867 and 1868 in the days leading to the Meiji Restoration. It examines the effects of the political and social upheaval of the time, and culminate...

    Why Not?
  • 1986
    Gonza the Spearman

    Gonza the Spearman (1986)

    Gonza the Spearman

    71986HD

    The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their...

    Gonza the Spearman