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The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Gambler's Farewell
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Operation Diamond
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
The Kamikaze Guy
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong...
Ohyaku: The Female Demon
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
A Doting Parent’s Lullaby
Main Street in the Underworld
Gang's Upward Strategy
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by...
Gambler: Victory Without Death
Hell's Companion
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...
Mid-August Commotion
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...
Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series...
Silk Hat Boss
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...
Japan Organized Crime Boss
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...
A Fugitive from the Past
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Yukyo-retsuden
1959 Japanese movie
Keishichō monogatari 108 gōsha
Keishichō monogatari gao no nai on'na
Darling Escape
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...
Fugitive Scoundrel
A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets...
Song of Yakuza
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
The Thinking Leaf
If You're Man Enough
A Single Flower Withered
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26...
Homicide
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
The Yakuza Awaits
1962 Japanese movie
I. George monogatari taiyō no ko
A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
First Love of Okon
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business...
Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...
The Outsiders
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
The Second Bullet is Marked
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Tokyo Untouchable
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
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a...
Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who...
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
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
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
Run, Genta, Run!
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...
Foul Play
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Life of Hishakaku 3
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Love Lost in Tears
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty...
Abashiri Prison
Organized Violence II
Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Graveyard of Honor
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Violent Streets
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...
Killer's Mission
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
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her...
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
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
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Pinku from 1971.
Wolves of the City: First to Fight
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...
The Orphan Brother
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Patience Has An End
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 mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
Gambler's World 2
Gambler's World
A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific...
The Golden Bat
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Organized Violence
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Team of Ruffians
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
Desperate Hoodlum
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
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Once and For All
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
Storm Party
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs...
A Kamikaze Cop
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...
Thugs of Shinjuku
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to...
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep...
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Code Between Brothers 2
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant...
Excursion to Treasure Isle
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Military Comfort Woman
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family....
Code Between Brothers: All New
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Yokosuka Navy Prison
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern...
Glorious Fights
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
The Sand City in Manchuria
Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...
A Taxing Woman's Return
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...
Detective Duel
A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is...
365 Nights
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha and the Girl of Osaka
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Tears of Banishment
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Murder on The Last Train
Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Four Sisters
Police Precinct
Police Precinct Part 2
Speed Crazy
Duel of the Underworld
Hell's Kitchen
Fearful Witch
Delinquent Street
Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in...
Drifting Detective: Black Wind in Harbor
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...
Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer
The Eighth Enemy
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.
Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
The Man of Seven Faces
A Devil of a Gentleman