Yakuza Boss
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 can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
Ryoko sigue cosechando éxitos en la oficina de impuestos donde trata con políticos corruptos, evasión de impuestos y el hampa...
Una bella mujer de ciudad es raptada por un bandido que acaba enamorándose de ella. Tras el secuestro, el bandido tratará de cumplir todos los deseos de su presa, pero los caprichos de la mujer son cada vez más descabellados.
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
Agente Zero es una policía que utiliza sus propios métodos para hacer frente a los delincuentes. Después de que ilegalmente mate a un violador de una manera violenta, es enviada a prisión y despojada de su placa. Pero poco después, la hija de un político rico es secuestrada por una banda sin escrúpulos. Agente Zero sale de la cárcel con la misión de encontrar a la hija del político.
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Yamashita
Tras lograr fugarse de prisión, busca a su amiga Yuki para esconderse con ella un tiempo. En la huida mutilará a un policía, que pondrá todo su empeño en vengarse y acabar con Nami. Tercera entrega de la saga Sasori.
Nitayu's Side Close
Cuarta entrega de la serie de adaptaciones al cine de imágen real del famoso manga escrito por Kazuo Koike y dibujado por Goseki Kojima. Narra las aventuras de un ronin que deambula por el Japón del shogunato Tokugawa acompañado de un niño. En esta ocasión Ogami es contratado para acabar con una asesina tatuada, mientras Gunbei Yagyu, un antiguo enemigo que ha encontrado a Daigoro por casualidad, le desafía en duelo.
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 threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.
Kanbei
Primera en una serie de adaptaciones al cine de imágen real del famoso manga escrito por Kazuo Koike y dibujado por Goseki Kojima. Narra las aventuras de un ronin que deambula por el japón del shogunato Tokugawa acompañado de un niño. Esta película narra los orígenes del personaje y también es conocida por su título literal:"Lone Wolf and Cub: Child and Expertise for Rent".
Pinku from 1971.
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.
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
Segunda parte de la exitosa 'Yakuza Deka'. En esta ocasión el agente Hayata (Sonny Chibba), experto en artes marciales, se infiltra en dos de los más peligrosos “gangs” del mundo del hampa japonés, para acabar con ellos y llevarlos ante la justicia. Los problemas surgirán una vez la verdadera identidad de Hayata es descubierta por uno de ellos.
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
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. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
Otsubo Komazo
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 starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.
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 Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
Okinawa
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Nada más salir de la cárcel y esperando por una vida tranquila, un yakuza de Yokohama llamado Tetsuo Tsukamoto debe coger las riendas de su familia tras la muerte de su jefe. Su pequeña banda está en medio de una contienda entre un gran grupo yakuza de Osaka y la alianza de Tokyo por el control de la ciudad. Él trata de mantenerse fiel al viejo código yakuza, pero eso no le prepara para enfrentarse con los nuevos matones, que viven y luchan sin honor. (
Pak
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, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
Esta historia ocurre en medio de la era Meiji en Nagoya. Oryu vaga por el país, tratando de limpiar su apellido. Con una recomendación escrita de Kumatora, ella aparece en la puerta de la familia Nishinomaru. Al mismo tiempo, la familia se prepara para la competición de juego en el Festival de Netsuda, que ellos han estado recibiendo para generaciones. Mientras tanto, la familia Kinbara conspira para asumir la competencia. Y ahora fuerzan a Oryu a estar implicado en la lucha …
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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 cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...
Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
Bunzo
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 and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
Gondô
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Aooni
Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
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 serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
Okazaki
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
Motoyama
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
Izaki
Nazo
Adaptación a imagen real de 1966, que parte del manga de Daiji Kazumine. El cometa Icaro se encuentra en rumbo de colisión contra al Tierra y los científicos de Naciones Unidas deciden utilizar un potente láser para destruirlo, pero para activarlo necesitan un mineral especial que solo se encuentra en una isla del pacifico. Se organiza una expedición y al llegar allí, dentro de unas antiguas ruinas, se encuentran una tumba donde descansa desde hace mas de 1000 años Golden Bat, listo para despertar si las fuerzas del mal atacan. No podía ser más oportuno ya que la Tierra no solo se enfrenta a la destrucción de Icaro, sino que el malvado Nazu y sus secuaces planea evitar que los terrícolas se defiendan y así provocar su destrucción.
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
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 keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.
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 criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
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, none are connected other than starring the famous Ken Takakura as the main Character. This story begins with Ken Takakura's character coming to Osaka after his brother's death. Another exciting yakuza story with superb yakuza action!!
Detective Horiguchi
Un exitoso hombre de negocios es acechado por su pasado cuando una prostituta lo reconoce como asesino.
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
Sonny Chiba plays a low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work. He falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother (Saburo Kitajima) later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes. The film is charmingly old fashioned, utilizing many studio sets and Showa era music; however, the film's real strength is the breezy romance between Chiba and lovely Chiyoko Honma.
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 offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.
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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.
Detective Yano
1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river.
Un ambicioso oficial que desea destruir a un honesto gobernador, ordena a sus secuaces que lo capturen junto a toda su familia. A pesar de sus intentos de huída, el gobernador es capturado y muere en prisión. La madre también muere, pero se transforma en grulla. Robin y su hermana tienen algo más de suerte: son vendidos como esclavos al intendente Sansho. Robin trata de escapar de la crueldad a que son sometidos, pero su hermana cae en un río donde se convierte en sirena. Robin con la ayuda de sus amigos animales, un perro, un oso y un ratón, tratará de recuperar las posesiones arrebatadas y poner fin al tráfico de esclavos de Sansho. Estilizada adaptación del cuento clásico "El intendente Sansho", que ya había filmado Kenji Mizoguchi en 1954.
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 a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like its predecessor, the film runs barely over one hour and never drags. It’s a little less goofy, but doesn’t have as beautiful landscapes the first movie had. Not an especially good film, but for fans of Fukasaku and Chiba it’s an entertaining if flawed 60 minutes.
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 plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.
Extraterrestres del planeta Neptuno intentan invadir la Tierra a bordo de un platillo volante. Por fortuna, el superhéroe Space Chief les plantará batalla a bordo de su coche propulsado por cohetes.
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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 fought against evil in olden times.
Detective Yoshioka
Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
Miyata
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.
