1962 • Japan • Directed by Tomu Uchida

In stark contrast to the monochrome naturalism of his earlier masterwork Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, visionary master director Tomu Uchida took inspiration from Bunraku and kabuki theater for arguably his strangest and most lavishly cinematic film, The Mad ...

1966 • Japan • Directed by Kenji Misumi

On the shores of the mystical Lake Yakumo sit three villages. The despotic Lord Danjo Mikoshiba (Takashi Kanda) has his eye on the fertile lands of the peaceful Chigusa clan, and takes the opportunity to invade during a ceremony marking the passing of Lord...

1965 • Italy • Directed by Duccio Tessari

In The Return of Ringo, the gunslinger, Ringo, now a veteran of war, disguises himself as a Mexican in order to take revenge on outlaws who have stolen his property and taken his wife.

1968 • Japan • Directed by Noriaki Yuasa

What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios’ much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)? The answer is 1968’s The Snake Girl and the Silver-Hai...

1968 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

The Strange World of Coffin Joe is an anthology horror film hosted by Zé do Caixão featuring three short films directed by José Mojica Marins which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic profes...

1966 • Italy • Directed by Mino Guerrini

Mino, a young count who lives with his dominant and jealous mother, begins in a downward spiral into madness after his fiancée, Laura, dies in an accident.

1963 • United States • Directed by Roger Corman

In Roger Corman's gothic tale of the supernatural, starring Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff and Dick Miller, the ghostly apparition of a woman is seen by an 18th Century French Lieutenant. After two failed attempts to keep up with her, he heads to th...

1966 • Japan • Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

IMPRISONED IN HIS OWN HOME!

The Threat is a gritty crime drama in the vein of Kurosawa's High and Low, set against the backdrop of a rapidly modernising Japan that has left many of its citizens behind.

Misawa (Rentarō Mikuni, Fugitive from the Past, Ve...

1966 • Italy • Directed by Damiano Damiani

When a young historian (Richard Johnson, Zombie Flesh Eaters) is lured to work for an ageing woman, only to be held captive when he becomes obsessed with her beautiful daughter (Rosanna Schiaffino, The Killer Reserved Nine Seats).

1967 • Brazil • Directed by José Mojica Marins

The success of At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul embedded Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe) in the psyche of Brazil.  With his iconic long fingernails, top hat and cape, writer, director, star José Mojica Marins became the living embodiment of his creation, a...

1967 • Italy • Directed by Giovanni Fago

Giovanni Fago's Vengeance is Mine (1967; a.k.a. $100,000 for a Killing), Garko and Camaso once again lead the cast, this time as estranged half-brothers - one a Confederate soldier now riding with renegade outlaws, the other a bounty hunter tasked with br...

1966 • Japan • Directed by Kazuo Mori

Lord Arakawa (Tōru Abe) rules over a mountainous region of Japan with an iron fist, using kidnapped villagers as slave labor, mining materials from the steaming sulfur pits to produce gunpowder. A group of four young boys – Daisaku (Shinji Horii), Kinta (Mas...

Director Teruo Ishii ('Blind Woman's Curse', 'Horrors of Malformed Men'), the Godfather of J-sploitation, presents 'Yakuza Law' (AKA 'Yakuza's Law: Lynching') - a gruelling anthology of torture, spanning three district periods of Japanese history and bringing to the screen some of the most brutal...