Il figlio di un autista viene rapito, ma è il frutto di un errore di persona. Il vero oggetto del desiderio per lo studente protagonista era il figlio di un industriale. Il commissario di polizia indaga in ricerca del rapitore e si addentrerà nei gironi di un inferno senza uscita.
Il fulcro della vicenda è la vendetta di Nishi, il cui padre è stato licenziato da una società. Nishi si fa assumere senza che nessuno sospetti e dopo essere diventato dirigente sposa la figlia del capo. Ma non riuscirà a portare a termine la vendetta, causa un suicidio.
Tetsu è stato uno yazuka, ma ora sta rigando dritto: quando però una gang rivale minaccia di scatenare una nuova guerra per il predominio sul territorio, lui non potrà che schierarsi con il vecchio boss...
Muraki, appena uscito di prigione, è disgustato dalla vita e trova sfogo nelle bische. Qui incontra Saeko, strana ragazza dell'alta borghesia giapponese molto abile nel gioco d'azzardo. Muraki e Saeko diventano amici e incominciano a frequentarsi, ma ben presto Muraki si rende conto che l'intento di Saeko è quello di cercare emozioni sempre più forti.
Un cecchino uccide due prigionieri a bordo in un furgone della polizia. Il poliziotto a guardia del furgone, Tamon, viene sospeso per sei mesi. Deciso a scoprire la verità Tamon inizia ad investigare sui motivi di questo duplice omicidio, mentre attorno a lui il pericolo sembra addensarsi sempre di più.
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken her demigod son, Osaru, who does not take kindly to thieves.
Betrayed and disgraced, big-city reporter Kazuya Mizuno is banished to a desk at Kaname's boring little town newspaper. But Kaname isn't as boring as it seems on the surface. Not with characters around like Shimeko, a girl genius with a childlike lack of propriety, and her ace fisherman/folk-singer dad. Or the overbearing and unpleasant local Shinto priest, a former Christian cultist. Or Endo, Kazuya's new colleague, a bitter drunk after his son's suicide. Or Kin, a former terrorist, now a hermit on his boat engaging in secret "research." Or perhaps most importantly Teruko, the hypnotically beautiful bar owner, the focus of all manner of innuendo and intrigue. Something mysterious, even mystical, is going on Kaname, and hapless Kazuya is about to be thrown into the middle of it.
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.