After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...

A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Hiroko Hosokawa, a female lawyer, defends Mrs. Asakura, who suffocated her child in her grief after her husband died penniless following an industrial accident. The prosecutor is Hiroko's sister's husband Kono, who also sent Hiroko's fiance, Yamaoka, to jail for his liberal views during the war. Yamaoka has just been freed, but is seriously ill from his time in prison.

岩园贞义（竹中直人 饰）是一名住在群居公寓里、相貌平平的公司小职员，早年感情曾受伤害，因此希望得到一份身心合一的完美爱情。某夜岩园劫持了慢跑的高中女生桦岛邦子（小岛圣 饰），本以为将遭受强暴的桦岛却受到岩园的殷勤对待，岩园表达了自己的想法，遭到的却是一阵痛骂。随着相处时间增长，两人的关系却日渐和谐。 　　在温泉旅行中，桦岛放弃逃跑的机会，回到岩园身边，两人开始以叔侄身份公开出入公寓，在房间里尽情享受鱼水之欢。不久东窗事发，岩园甘愿接受制裁，桦岛则称这一切都是两厢情愿。 　　改编自松田美智子的报告文学作品——《女子高校生诱拐饲育事件》，取材自真实事件。

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be attracted towards Iko, the beautiful daughter of their landlady.

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Written and directed by renowned Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba, Hadaka no shima, Genbaku no ko), "Black Board" tells the story of middle school bullying taken to the point of homicide in this 1986 classic.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation.

This is one of the first Japanese films distributed by ATG, preceded only by Teshigahara's Pitfall (おとし穴). Based on Nogami Yaeko's 1922 novel The Neptune (海神丸), which was in turn loosely based on real life events. It is the story of the ship Kaijin Maru, that is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm, and the four people on it, becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out. #6 in Kinema Junpo's listing for 1962. Starring Shindo regulars Tonoyama Taiji, Otowa Nobuko and Sato Kei, and scored by the wonderful Hayashi Hikaru.

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama's alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film work with Shindo.

Ginko, the daughter of a poor shoemaker Ginzo, a child was sold to a geisha. From a student she became a real geisha and made her debut under the name of “Peony”. Great anguish caused Ginko molestation host teahouse. In Ginko have a favorite person – doctor Kurisu, but she is forced to leave him and return home in Tokyo. But here, she had all the same poverty. Parents again sell Ginkgo, this time to the north. There she first landlord was going to marry her, but interferes with his mother, who has decided not to allow this marriage, shameful for the honor of the house. He eventually marries another girl. Caught in a quandary, Ginko returns to Tokyo and the third time it becomes a geisha. Hard work, constant bullying Ginko adjusted to the disease. Mistress of her first promises to break a contract in which she serves as Ginko, but when Ginko finally recovers, the owner easily abandons his promises and demands that Ginko continued to work on it.

Everyone knows Kaneto Shindo from his horror classics 'Kuroneko' and 'Onibaba' and although they're both undoubtedly great films, I've been more impressed by his lesser-known works, like 'Wolf' and 'Human' and now, 'A Scoundrel,' which could be the greatest of the lot. Set in the war-torn 14th century, the film concerns the governor of a province whose chamberlain (the phenomenal Nobuko Otowa, Shindo's wife) tells him of a woman she knew in the Royal court whose beauty could tear a nation apart. The foreshadowing is not so subtle. 'A Scoundrel' was co-written by Shindo and Japan's beloved Junichiro Tanizaki (an author who has not impressed me much, although I've only read very little), and is at once humorous, suspenseful, gruesome, and absolutely fascinating.

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

アンモラルな恋愛をテーマにした、ピエル・コデルロス・ド・ラクロ原作の「危険な関係」の三度目の映画化。　憎く燃えたぎるジェラシーと、ゲーム的に存在する性の中でくり広げられる男と女の邪悪な関係。やがてジェラシーの波紋は、貞淑な人妻の真実の愛を深く傷つけてゆくのだった。

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

◆生誕130年 映画で読む直木三十五◆ 黒岩重吾の直木賞受賞作を映画化。女性の愛憎を描いたサスペンスドラマ。

非行に走った娘とそれを更生させようとする両親との凄まじい闘いを描く。超ベストセラーとなった穂積隆信原作の同名ノンフィクションの映画化。穂波由布子は中学2年生。彼女は幼児時代に腹部腫瘍の大手術を受け、その後遺症で体が弱く髪が赤かった。その髪の色が不良女生徒グループの気に障り、凄まじい乱闘の果てに由布子の体と心は傷ついた。家の貯金通帳から十万円を引き出した由布子は、親友の笹原明子と連れだって家出する。

谷崎潤一郎の戯曲『無明と愛染』を「触角」の新藤兼人が脚色、「座頭市喧嘩太鼓」の三隅研次が監督した文芸もの。撮影は「殺し屋をバラせ」の宮川一夫が担当した。 南北朝時代。戦火を免れた山寺に、無明の太郎と異名をとる盗賊が、白拍子あがりの情人愛染と爛れた生活を送っていた。自堕落な愛染、太郎が従者のように献身しているのは、彼女が素晴らしい肉体を、持っていたからだった。晩秋のある夕暮、京から太郎の妻楓が尋ねて来た。太郎は、自分を探し求めて訪れた楓を邪慳に扱ったが、彼女はいつしか庫裡に住みつき、ただひたすら獣が獲物を待つ忍従さで太郎に仕えた。それから半年ほども過...