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Follows the adventures of Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma together known as Oni-Baku, Shonan's strongest fighting duo as they try to lose their virginities, while trying to survive through high-school. The series is considered the prequel to GTO showing Onizuka as a teenager before he became the world's greatest teacher
1977 Shochiku adaptation of Natsume Soseki's novel.
1995 DTV Japanese film. Based on Ayumi Tachihara's manga.
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A cobbler gets selected as heading his neighborhood association for measures against the impending earthquake hitting Tokyo.
Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money from his Agricultural Association and travels to the Philippines for the wedding - only to discover that it was all a scam. Stranded in Manila with no money, Masao ends up staying to work. One day he meets a beautiful farmer's daughter, Christina (Alice Dixson), reawakening not only his chances for love, but also his love for farming.
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 culminates in a revelrous march on the Tokyo Imperial Palace, which turns into a massacre. Characteristically, Imamura focuses not on the leaders of the country, but on characters in the lower classes and on the fringes of society.
Eikichi Onizuka and Ryuji Danma are the deadly duo, Oni-Baku (Demon Explosion), with the sole mission of losing their virginities. As they turn away from the gang life to accomplish this, old enemies resurface to haunt them, and new ones appear to take their fame.
When a number of biker gangs ranging from small to large started to appear in Yokohama, Hiromi Katayama united them at the risk of his own life. Set in the present, this OAV tells the story of Toshi Ikeda, a young rookie who returns to Yokohama to join Katayama's group. There, he will encounter an old friend and things will turn violent when the yakuza gang Mad Emperor attacks them.
The Japanese karate master Muhashi spent some time in Hong Kong studying various Shaolin martial arts styles. Soon the narcotics brigade calls in his help to combat a powerful drug and prostitution syndicate.
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a gambling den, where he bets the condolence money for his mother's funeral. No surprise to learn he loses the lot. Not the hard-boiled yakuza story it seems, this is a comedy featuring many new artists who were making a name for themselves at the time.
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
The city of Yokohama has become a lawless district for biker gangs. One particular gang, the "Crazy Babies", has a 17-year-old leader called Hiromi Katayama that is famous throughout the entire Kanagawa alliance as being a strong fighter with a devout sense of morality. However, when a young rookie by the name of Toshi Ikeda wants in, he swears to Katayama that he wi...
This work depicts the life of a young woman, set in China and Japan, just before the end of the war.
A coming-of-age film in which Junko Sakurada, who was immensely popular as a girl star, plays the leading role in a movie for the first time. Based on Keiko Ochiai's book of the same title, the film tells the story of a 17-year-old girl's first love and growth who yearns for an older teacher.
The battle gang Yakuza Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi) and the brain gang Yakuza Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara) from the University of Tokyo challenge the summit decisive battle of the extreme society.
Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the country teeters over the brink into the Second Sino-Japanese War.
A young girl travels between Yokohama and Yokosuka, searching for her older sister to tell her about their mother's death.
A high school girl is invited to an old family's historic Hinamatsuri (Girls' Festival), but becomes entangled in an anomaly caused by the curse of the Hina dolls.
The martial arts group Jin and the economic yakuza Yoshiro Jinyoshi combination ended the conflict with the homology group, and after receiving the orders of Sumida River Association Chairman Sunagawa, Jin was finally appointed as acting leader of the Sunagawa group. Mizuta, the leader of the Ryugumi, who had long wanted to smoke the existence of the two, was dissatisfied with this decision of Sunagawa, and suspected that Sunagawa might be trying to take over the Sumida River Association and eventually the Kanto Ichienkai in the future.Come to embrace. Paddy looks at Aoki, the remnant of the Kurokawa group, who was once crushed by the two, trying to hold his breath while Hitoshi is still in the position of acting group leader.
