Akira Takahashi Movies

After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes obsessed with finding the woman whose moaning he...

The story of a Japanese sub's last mission during WWII.

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

A young man named Katsu comes to a rural town by the sea, and begins to work as a movie reel carrier in a movie theater. Apparently this town is the...

On a rainy night, the lights in the windows of the apartment complex go out one by one. Chiaki Onda (Junko Miyashita) was waiting for her husband,...

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst....

A strong-willed young prostitute, her developmentally challenged brother, and her aging prostitute mother attempt to survive in 1970s Osaka.

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence,...

The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep...

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

The film is an adaptation of Nakano Yu's play "Sexual Beauty Techniques," serialized as a manga.

Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been...

With her wedding only one day away, Mina spends a night with her former lover Ozaki at a highway motel on the outskirts of Yokohama. On her way back...

A nurse is framed for medical malpractice. In prison she meets the boss of their cell who is in for a crime of passion. They both have a reason to...

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and...

A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For...