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The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period....
Henchmen
Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years...
Red Peony Gambler
The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu was requisitioned by the occupation forces. When...
Mother's Ambition
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on...
Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang
The Night of Martial Law
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When...
Scoundrel
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...
Rogue
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...
Castle of Owls
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
Stakeout
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai...
Shogun Assassin
It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...
Ninja Hunt
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
The Kamikaze Guy
The Actress and the Three Rascals
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
前科・仮釈放
Main Street in the Underworld
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and...
Osaka Tough
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into...
Kanto Street Peddlers
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
Bridge
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...
Tale of Scarlet Love
The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five...
Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.
I Will Buy You
Kingdom of Samurai
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Black Lizard
A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Yasushi Inoue.
White Blaze
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Life of Hishakaku 3
Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by a private corporation; they band together to...
Not Forgotten
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.
Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo...
The Desperate
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji...
Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
Yakuza Law
Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...
Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu
The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu...
Passion Fire
Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...
The Imposter
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...
Hana no shôgai
During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who...
お役者変化
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...
荒木又右衛門
Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a...
A Matter of Valour
A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizing they're both at a brink in their lives they'll...
Sotobori murder case
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...
Eight Men to Kill
1953 Japanese movie
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Return of the Outlaw
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
The Yakuza Awaits
Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen
Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...
大当り男一代
Ai no Noutan
Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is...
Confronting Fear
Japanese drama
Mune yori mune ni
Kaze no uchi so to
The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
Flying in the Air
Toei yakuza film.
Story of Japanese Bad Men
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Japanese crime film.
Tokyo Drifters
A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his true nature and dream of shaping the world according...
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Secret Agent 101
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Human Torpedoes
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...
The Last Kamikaze
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
Outlaw Cop
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...
With Wife, Children, and Friends
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...
Tsukigata Hanpeita
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...
Shingo's Ten Duels
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
Internal Sleuth
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
Rise and Fall of Chivalry
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...
The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...
Internees of Kampili
In old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like no other. This is the story of a young boy with...
Watari, the Ninja Boy
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...
Warrior of the Wind
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers,...
Trials of an Okinawa Village
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining...
Bloodiest Flower
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...
Blood of Revenge
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
Hoodlum Match
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...
The Chivalrous Life
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...
The Great Duel
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of...
Female Ninja Magic
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Code Between Brothers 2
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord...
The Fort of Death
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is...
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.
The Domain
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in...
Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
Third Generation Boss
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal,...
Yakuza on Foot
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...
Gambler's Legacy
A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investigation reveals that he and his wife were at odds...
Eyes of Children
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows...
Brothers of Capones
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth of this accident starts to chase a up-and-coming...
The Face
In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an exciting black and white sequel to the classic...
Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...
The Path of the King
After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead man, who appears to be his doppelganger, and gets...
Horrors of Malformed Men
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...
The Hard Core Criminal
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...
House of Gamblers
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Once and For All
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the...
The Red Silk Gambler
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Team of Ruffians
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a...
The Karate Man and the Spy
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
The Marked Man
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Japanese romantic comedy film.
The Adorable Trio
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who runs a small restaurant, and his son is in love...
Tokyo Omnibus
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back...
A Wad of Notes
Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...
North Sea Chivalry
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
Legends of Honor
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
Seven Gamblers
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes...
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...
Ninja's Mark
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...
The Boss
Closing Time
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is...
Tale of Ninja Duty
A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko, another diver, as a rash act. Her attitude,...
Red Pants
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Carlos
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...
A Yakuza Goes Home
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will...
Gamblers and Racketeers
Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunate’s solid gold statue of Ieyasu...
Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head
The Big Ambition
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Tears of Banishment
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
The Brawling Angel
The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised three children. A film that lightheartedly depicts a...
Love du Jour
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...
Prison Gambler
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten...
Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Dagger
The Tattooed Lord
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Bikkuri Sanjuushi
Duel of the Underworld
A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after an assassination their henchmen will struggle to...
Histories of the Chivalrous
A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
Yakuza Vassal
Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street performer family with a nationwide organization...
The Shogun's Vault III
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left...
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
Gambler Biography
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters