Movies: Masato Hoshi

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association....

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine....

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case....

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does....

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Pinku from 1975....

Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide....

A Violent School Revolution...

Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya....

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto....

In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. ...