Movies: Shirō Shimomoto

On their way to school two sisters are raped by a gang of punks in full view of the passengers on the subway. When one sister commits suicide the other quits school and picks up a yakuza boyfriend who teaches her how to shoot. When the boyfriend is k...

The man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking home, he saves Jun from getting raped by two hoodlums. A few days later, he sneaks into her house but gets discovered. Later, as he watches his son subdu...

In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama ...

Two people who have suffered the loss of a loved one meet by chance at a train station and lose themselves in a melancholy affair....

On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, Nana's youn...

A woman is raped on a crowded subway but no one reports it to the police. A TV studio exploits the incident to boost ratings. Even the reporter sent to interview the gang members who committed the crime is victimized....

Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything e...

The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother, Asako, is torn by grief and puts a curse on t...

The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film....

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Seventeen year old female high school student Sadako Hashimoto is a lonely and bullied child. The homeroom teacher, Miyamoto, nagged and preached to the truant Satoko, sparking a desire. Satoko has aspirations for the female teacher Nanshunko, who ha...

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend....

Nami is a seemly ordinary high school girl but she has vivid masochistic visions that excite her and practices binding herself tightly with rope. One day she is attacked by two delinquent girls. Muraki, a teacher with a weak heart, sees this and scar...

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ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other variet...

A middle-aged man walks up to young man who is sitting under a tree and shoots him. The film then flashes back to 1981, where a young woman steals a car with a baby strapped inside. She decides to raise the child as her own, and teaches him to shopli...

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices....

The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film....

An older brother who can't fit into society, a father who has given up on his future, and a younger sister who is tied to the house. This is the story of the small steps these three people take. The Great East Japan Earthquake suddenly changed the p...

Mika, the sultry hostess who rescues the bruised, penniless manga artist Keichi from a seedy, neon‑lit rip‑off club. After he’s beaten for failing to pay an outrageous bill, Mika can’t abandon him—she slips him into her private sanctuary. By the glow...