Noriko Matsumoto Movies

A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims.

A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set...

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...

1962 Japanese movie

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand...

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

1962 Japanese movie

Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the...