Bontarō Miake Movies

A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

Film directed by Eichi Koishi and starring Wakao Ayako

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's...

Ren Yoshimura directed this Daiei melodrama that was based on the novel entitled "Pandora's Box" by Dazai Osamu.

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

A melodrama in which two lovers reunite after a long journey through life.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign.

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...

Taki no Shiraito is a very independent young woman with a famous water juggling act in a travelling carnival troupe. She falls in love with an...