A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.

This dazzling portrait of an orphaned girl at several stages of her life, from childhood to adulthood, opens with one of the most famous long takes in Japanese cinema, a…

A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend’s father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade’s secrets.

In Somai’s final film, an alcoholic civil servant wakes up under a cherry tree in Tokyo next to a bar hostess with whom he’s impulsively made a suicide pact. Though…