Ikuo Kogiso
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A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
Black River

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.
Bitter End of a Sweet Night

Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of holding the weather trackers as hostages and assaulting their next incoming supply ship; but at the station they are told that a serious typhoon is on the way, so the ship will be delayed.
A Woman in the Typhoon Area

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Love New and Old

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.