Saburō Shōji Movies

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

A 1971 crime film

Sold into prostitution by her "uncle", a young girl is so innocent and naive that she doesn't know what she has to do.

A woman who lived an ordinary life as a housewife in a housing complex in the suburbs. One day, a yakuza comes to her to pay off her late mother's...

A female hair stylist is torn between two lovers as she waits for treatment in a gynecological ward. She meets the other patients who are there and...

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...

A backstage documentary and interview with the real life lesbian stage performer Kaoru Kiri mixed with a fictional life of her rejected lover.

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

Inside the club there is the happy beat of music, free flowing beer and generous tips from drunk horny patrons. But for four bar girls the harsh...

A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give.

Two young delinquent girls survive on the streets by selling themselves as high school students. But the local girl gang catches them working their...

A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.

A woman and her business partner run a neighborhood bar. He hopes they can be married someday. One evening, a yakuza swaggers into the bar and asks...

A 1970 crime film.

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.

One day, Hara Nobuo witnessed his father assaulting Tokiko, whom he loved as a surrogate mother. Tokiko then committed suicide. As Nobuo grew up, he...