Kimihiko Takeda

The backstage romances of an egotistical singer and his under-valued manager, a lovelorn bandman and a nude dancer.

An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku’s iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo (Shinichiro Mikami) takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.