Yoshio Harada

Yumeji (1991) imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji’s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games.

While investigating a rash of mysterious suicides, a rookie detective discovers chilling connections between the victims while facing her own past.

Martial arts thriller about a businessman who is the only witness to a murder. After he sees a woman being beheaded, Racine is pursued by the ninja assassins of Kinjo, the killer. Only one man, a mysterious warrior named Takeda, may be able to save his life.

The Stray Cat Rock series stars Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Blind Woman’s Curse) who with these five films began her reign as the badass action queen of the era. In these five tales of rebellious youth she stars alongside the gorgeous Bunjaku Han (Love Letter) and Tatsuya Fuji (In the Realm of the Senses).