Yoshio Shirasaka Movies

A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their...

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and...

In the forties in Japan, a group of brilliantly qualified university students are selected to break all ties with their previous lives and form the...

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of...

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...