Fumio Watanabe

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

In Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action ...

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, ...

In Osaka’s slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student ...

Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: ...