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An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an...
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual...
In the Realm of the Senses
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Two friends who work together at a Tokyo laundry are increasingly alienated from everyday life. They become fascinated with a deadly jellyfish.
Bright Future
The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict...
Blood Vendetta
Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who...
Women's Police
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
The Cleanup
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The...
Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.
The Blazing Continent
Ultimate Gun Action!
Gun Breath A Perfect Night to Die
Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
A Gangster's Morals
A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist macho pigs led by the evil Baron, who hate...
Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug...
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious...
Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
Empire of Passion
A 1971 crime film
Night Butterflies
1962 Japanese movie
Wakai senpū
The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a hostess burdened with a large compensation payment...
Pleasure Resort Troubadour's Song
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her suddenly decides to get married and move out. Through...
Soup Opera
A Single Flower Withered
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...
Seishun no Sabaki
The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and...
Aircraft Carrier Ibuki
Twenty-three-year-old Ken has difficulty coping with the death of his father. His mother send him to his uncle Takuma in Japan.
Kamataki
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...
Bloody Territories
When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.
Kill or get killed!
Three high-school students tangle with indulgent yakuza and lackadaisical police as they set out in search of the class bully, who has been kidnapped.
P. P. Rider
A stolen military aircraft with nuclear missiles on board crashes in the snowbound Northern Japanese Alps. Two teams of rangers from Japan's Defense...
Midnight Eagle
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always...
Velvet Hustler
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets...
Bad Girl Mako
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
Greatest Boss Of Japan
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers,...
Massacre Gun
Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about...
Women's Police: Part II
Tatsuo and his daughter Haru run Takano Tofu Store in Onomichi. They begin their work before dawn every day. They carefully select beans to make...
Takano Tofu
ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting...
Pandemic
Story of Rikidozan, a sumo wrestler who can only achieve limited success in Japan because he's half Korean. But when Rikidozan goes to the United...
Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinaire
A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.
KISS ME
A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage...
Golden Partners
It's about the reunion of a long-estranged father and his son amid lost memories and scattered fragments of lives.
Great Absence
Pinku from 1969.
Prisoner of Lust
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
Let Him Rest in Peace
76-year-old Oda Momojiro (Fuji), who lost his beloved wife and was living a lonely life, reunites with Sakura (Yamaguchi Karin), with whom he worked...
Go! Go! Sakura Club
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...
The Aftermath of War
A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates...
Youth Bell
A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.
Night of Sorrow
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...
100 Gamblers
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of...
Prince of Wolves
Work life for Shunsuke Osaki has been success after success, but at some point his family began to slip by the wayside. As his elderly father begins...
Blossoms Bloom
At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility...
Snow on The Blades
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger...
Savage Wolf Pack
Yamashita Takako works in the food section of a department store. She pays frequent visits to a reputable local Chinese restaurant about opening an...
Flavor of Happiness
As a young child, Hana loses her family to a devastating tsunami that wipes out her town. At a shelter, distant relative Jungo sees her wandering and...
My Man
Bōkyō no umi
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the...
Black Sun
Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud....
Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen
A scientist desperately wanting to prove that mermaids exist is ostracized from the scientific community in Japan. He settles down in Australia...
ACRI: The Legend of Homo-Aquarellius
The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be...
Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71
A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he...
At River's Edge
Wakai futari
The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal...
Fearless Comrades
Hanatani Village in the valley of Tokushima Prefecture is going to be submerged when a dam is constructed. In order to preserve the beauty of the...
The Village Album
A film-within-a-film from Kawase's "Radiance" (2017). The film depicts a man who is obsessed with the woman of his destiny and clings to the past,...
Where Does the Sand Go?
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...
Black Strait
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...
The Reckless One
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with...
Retaliation
Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the...
The Singing Gunman
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...
Break Out
As famous photographer, Yuta Suzumori's (Tatsuya Fuji) health is worsening he tells a childhood story of when he saw a kappa in his hometown village...
Kappa
Chivalrous Pride
Living with her son and aging father-in-law, the beautiful widow is bewildered by the passionate love of a middle-aged man who forcefully enters her...
Until Spring Comes
A dream collaboration between five directors who represent the modern Japanese film industry! An omnibus work composed of five short films has been...
The Short Films Everyone started out as a child
Initially, Ambivalent Future was intended as a film about the production of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Bright Future". But director Fujii has taken the...
Ambivalent Future: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face...
Secret Zone of Tokyo
The movie "Umizaru" is the story of 14 young Japan Coast Guard officers who take part in a grueling training to become rescue divers. They must...
Sea Monkey
In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an...
Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
Metamorphosis
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
The Rough One
After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.
The Man in White
He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas...
My Dad and Mr. Ito
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
Guys Who Never Learn
The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world.
Radiance
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
A rowdy, young yakuza takes revenge against a gang of thousands for the death of his boss.
The Man in White Part 2: Requiem for the Lion
Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.
Light of Africa
Akira is a hunter in a village where wolves disappeared 100 years ago. After he overspends community money on his obsessive hunts, his coleagues...
The Wolves of the East
A group of elderly women come together to sell vegetable leaves.
It's a Beautiful Life - Irodori
The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Chase That Man
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
Yakuza Skirmishes
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro...
Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda,...
Dangerous Games
A Chinese man who is living illegally in Japan bluffs his way into a job preparing traditional Japanese soba noodles.
Complicity
Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One...
Woman Gambler
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...
Blood for Blood
Masaru and Yukiko have been married 44 years. They have three children who live independently from them. Masaru and Yukiko enjoy their peaceful days,...
Only the Cat Knows
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a...
Melody of Rebellion
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the...
Gambling Kitten
A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
The Stormy Man
Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
Showdown in Gangland
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....
Blood Shed
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself...
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Teenage Yakuza
An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...
Shutsugeki
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...
The Guys Who Put Money on Me
The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to...
Taking the Castle
Song of my Life
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...
The Four Loves
Ittetsu and Maitsuko are married, but they are not just any normal couple. They robbed a bank and took a cool million or two from the capitalists....
Typhoon Family
The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.
Gambler's Dilemma
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft...
Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified middle-aged man and a dog who seems to have died...
Star Watching Dog
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko,...
Onna no Iji
Today is a new day with hopes. A youth hymn that depicts a young truck driver growing up in love with a dream while being supported by his friends...
Nakamatachi
Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.
Three Wild Cats
Japanese crime film
Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...
The Fatal Raid
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
Kiri ni Kieta Hito