Yōzō Tanaka
Yōzō Tanaka is a Japanese screenwriter. He was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo. After joining the production department of Nichigeki Music Hall, he started writing radio scripts. While he was a student at Waseda University, he met Atsushi Yamatoya and Kaname Kawachi. Before becoming... Read full bio →
Natsu no niwa: The Friends
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Yumeji
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Sêrâ-fuku to kikanjû
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
Onna kyôshi: Yogoreta hôkago
A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment.
Kagerô-za
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
Tsigoineruwaizen
A surreal period film following an university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
Jigoku
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave.
Bôsô panikku: Daigekitotsu
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
Ikenie fujin
A former husband with a dark obsession returns to his ex-wife’s life, ready to unleash a torrent of cruel, perverse devotion.
Hana to hebi
The elderly Senzô Tôyama orders his employee, Makoto Katagiri, to kidnap and train his wife Shizuko in order to break her pride so that she will submit to his desires.
Aiyoku no wana
A delirious roman porno re-imagining of Branded to Kill from Atsushi Yamatoya, one of Branded to Kill's screenwriters and Suzuki's regular collaborators.
Koroshi no rakuin
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.