Mikio Narita

SYNOPSIS:
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he’s in contact with.Read More »

The third film in the female revenge Scorpion movies, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, finds its heroine, Nami Matshushima (Meiko Kaji) hiding out in the city, and branded public enemy #1. A dogged police detective (Mikio Narita) corners her on a subway but loses an arm as a result, and Nami finds refuge from the dragnet with Yuki (Yayoi Watanabe), a down-and-out prostitute living in an incestuous relationship with her brain-damaged brother. The pair of women soon run afoul of a local gang of villains led by a sadistic, gender-bent female crime lord named Katsu (Reisen Ri), who inflicts forced abortions on the girls working for her, and tortures Nami before confining her in her own private dungeon.Read More »

Haruo Kuramoto works in a company where he wants to climb by marrying the director’s daughter. But he has a problem: he maintains a secret relationship with Reiko, secretary in the same company, whom he has made pregnant and who under no circumstances intends to give him up.Read More »

This film is a sequel to Yasuzo Masumura’s popular “Hoodlum Soldier”. In this the two soldiers desert in Manchuria, steal an army truck, and end up in the hands of the military police. They also become involved with a brothel-keeper and eventually start a brothel themselves. Again captured they break out and face yet more adventures.Read More »

Synopsis:
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning…Read More »

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.Read More »