Movies: Kimihiko Takeda

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

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 takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insol...

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town....

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