Chi wa kawaiteru (1960)
An insurance company employee threatens suicide after a massive layoff is announced by the management The company takes advantage of his threat by turning it into an advertising campaign
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
An engineers wife returns home with a lost teenager A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and realit
Escape from Japan (1964)
As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a robbery
Erosu purasu gyakusatsu (1969)
Two interwoven stories The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s The second centers around two 1960s students researching Osugis theories
Bitter End of a Sweet Night (1961)
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder
Flame and Women (1967)
A sterile man arranges for his disapproving wife to receive artificial insemination, after which she starts nourishing a strong desire for the childs biological father
Wuthering Heights (1988)
A retelling of Emily Brontes tale of vengeance and obsessive love, set in medieval Japan
Rokudenashi (1960)
A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friends father She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle