Suekichi
Sinopsis Cuando el segundo sucesor de la familia Tachibana sigue las reglas del mundo Yakuza y trata de asesinar al jefe del Grupo Okad, accidentalmente herirá a su hija y la dejará ciega. A partir de aquí se desencadenará una sangrienta y cruel venganza.
Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
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 in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Aclamado y tórrido drama de alto contenido erótico. Prestigiado por la crítica por ser Suzuki uno de los directores japoneses que rompió los modelos clásicos al tiempo que varios realizadores hacían lo mismo en Europa, el film, no exento de un notable sadomasoquismo y mucha naturalidad en la filmación del arte del amor, narra la historia, en el Tokyo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, de una prostitutas japonesas que cobijan a un criminal, por el cual acabarán todas suspirando.
A un mafioso recién salido de la cárcel, merced de algunas arreglos hechos por un capo local, le es encomendado de manera inmediata un atraco perfecto. Hacerse con el dinero recaudado en el hipódromo. El plan, bastante fácil en el papel, se ve pronto complicado cuando nada ocurre de la forma planeada y nuestro héroe descubre que sus servicios fueron contratados sólo para intentar asesinarlo posteriormente.
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
