Koreyoshi Kurahara

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there. (imdb)

Yujiro Ishihara (fresh off the sensational Crazed Fruit) stars as a former boxer working as a restaurant manager, who saves a beautiful, suicidal club hostess (Mie Kitahara) trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer. (criterion.com)

The story of a young man who, upon his release from prison, lashes out at those around him, including a girl he meets.

Dissatisfied by his life, despite his fame, a man abruptly leaves everything to deliver a car to a remote village. Escaping is not so easy, as his girlfriend and reporters are not far behind.

An African American GI and a Japanese Jazz-lover find themselves on the run from the law together.

When her rich husband dies, a woman begins a complicated affair with her father in law.

Concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for promotion. (DVD blurb)

A recreation of the events, both political and military, leading up to the tragic attack on Hiroshima in August 1945.

A docudrama about a family of northern foxes.

The tragic tale of a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war.

Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integrating themselves into the life of the community, which includes Japanese-Americans of both lengthy and brief residence.

Rival racers race at tracks across the world, culminating in a showdown during the East African Rally.

Mako (Junko Natsu) and her delinquent girlfriends do as they please. Seducing men to bed for money, Mako always got what she wanted - until she met Hideo. As she goes about her regular scheme, Hideo strikes back and tries to rape her. Little did he know that Mako's older brother was a Yakuza. (nikkatsu.com)

One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop where she works and breaks all the records she is carrying. The driver of the motorbike, Yukio, works at a printing company. Two immediately become close after the accident and they start meeting each other each day...

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder. (letterboxd)