Takeshi Katō

The Geisha House

The Geisha House

Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprenticeship within the traditional community of ...
Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.
XX: Beautiful Weapon
5.4

XX: Beautiful Weapon

A blind female assassin lives alone in a remote house; her superiors occasionally send her “clients” / targets that she shoots right ...
Free and Easy 4

Free and Easy 4

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san’s nephew joins Hama-chan’s department at ...
Company Executives

Company Executives

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
Fighting Elegy
6.9

Fighting Elegy

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, ...
High and Low
8.4

High and Low

1963  

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
Pigs and Battleships
7.4

Pigs and Battleships

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
The Bad Sleep Well
8.0

The Bad Sleep Well

In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and ...
Endless Desire
7.2

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried ...