Hideo Sunazuka

It has been two years since unsuccessful cartoonist Tsube started to live with Kuniko casually in a small apartment.

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu".

1995 DTV Japanese film. Based on Ayumi Tachihara's manga.

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Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

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Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.

Another entry in the "Female Teacher" series.

A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.

Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls sick and is rescued by a fisherman with who she shares her life with.

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

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.

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.

Zatoichi regresa a una aldea que había visitado tres años antes y que le trae buenos recuerdos. Sin embargo, desde hace dos años, la región sufre una hambruna que atrajo al pueblo a varios grupos de bandoleros, ya que era de los pocos lugares que todavía tenían provisiones. Para acabar con los bandoleros, se contrató a un clan yakuza. Por otro lado, al mercenario Yojimbo le ofrecen una gran recompensa por la cabeza de Zatoichi.

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

En la época de decadencia del shogunato de los Tokugawa, el emperador enviaba tropas a los pueblos para liberar a los siervos del Shogun. Gonzo, un soldado que formaba parte de esas tropas, tras llegar a las cercanías de su pueblo, decide adelantarse y hacerse pasar por el capitán para difundir un mensaje. Pero en el pueblo tendrá que lidiar con los comerciantes corruptos y el actual administrador jefe

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

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 dock operator.

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

A salaryman comedy.

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

Five young men have many financial troubles, but this only brings them closer together.

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously, he fends off other assassins and with the help of reporter Keiko Tsurumaki and car mechanic Bill Otomo, eventually discovering that a "population control" association is really an assassination squad led by Shogo Mizorogi, who has been training patients of a mental asylum to become killers.

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.

Una misteriosa isla ha sido colonizada por una extraña organización terrorista de tintes comunistas llamada Red Bamboo, que ha esclavizado a la población indígena y que se dedica a la fabricación de bombas atómicas. En esta isla vive la langosta gigante Ebirah, que se encarga de devorar a todos aquellos que intentan escapar del lugar, hasta que un rayo despierta a Godzilla, dormido casualmente en el interior de una gruta de la isla.

Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama set in China and depicts battles over opium.

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.

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 stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.

Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfil a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

Sukezaemon, un pirata, naufraga en un rincón extraño del mundo. Con su compañero, un mago llamado Sennin, Sukezaemon se enreda en una conspiración del malvado primer ministro para la sucesión a la muerte del rey Raksha.

Kichi es un poderoso ninja que huye del clan Takeda, y más concretamente de otro ninja llamado Saburoza. En su viaje conoce a dos hombres misteriosos. El primero es un enemigo sin demasiadas ganas de jugarse la vida; Doko Harima. El otro es un alegre vagabundo convencido de que algún día será el señor de Japón, y su nombre es Tokichiro Kinoshita. Este último les convence para unirse a los Bashaku y transportar 300 rifles hasta su señor Nobunaga Oda

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Soldiers on the front lines in China during World War II are besieged by guerrilla attacks and attempt to destroy an enemy fort.

Tobe is a small-time crook who runs a prostitution business of blonde girls, as well as sells pornographic pictures. He frequents a cafe run by two women, one of them a young widow with a son. They like him and think that he is an ordinary office worker. One day, Tobe accidentally discovers pictures of an acquaintance, Kanzaburo, with a woman and sets out to blackmail him. He soon finds out that Kanzaburo died in a train accident but things may not be what they seem

An early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last Gunfight and The Big Boss) despite being alternatively known as "Death of the Boss." While Okamoto did not write this film and took on the project because he was assigned and "just doing [his] job" according to an interview with Chris Desjardins in Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film, he did express a general excitement about working in action cinema (which shows through in this film's energy.)