けものみち (1965)

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.

Shinjuku gangster Sabu and his young wife Koiko try to live a normal life, despite the interferences of gang politics and criminal deals. After she saves his life, Sabu's gang-boss, Tominaga, falls in love with Koiko, and sends Sabu into increasing dangerous situations, hoping to cause his arrest, and thus obligate himself to "take care" of Koiko while Sabu is in prison.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words, he was the Japanese Robin Hood. In this film Kunisada (Chiezo Kataoka) arrives to a small town terrorized by an evil gang. He insists that he is not Kunisada, as the word is Kunisada has been executed, but of course the audience know better. Sonny Chiba plays an unusual supporting role as a helpless young man unable to defend himself from the gangsters. He does, however, get to play taiko drums and dance with Junko Fuji (who makes her film debut here). Chiba's father, an old judge who helps Kunisada, is played by Takashi Shimura. The film hardly anything exceptional, but it's a pretty decent jidai geki / yakuza drama.

Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and become the head of the Nanjo-gumi in the second generation. He brutally chivalrously avenges the death of his father by a vicious yakuza linked to extremists within the army through the courage and swordsmanship of naval training!

Priests from a temple solving problems caused by yakuza, taiwanese mafia and hitmen with their fists.

The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of the director of the company, is sexually harassed by him. Kenji beats the director and resigns. He asks his brother Ryota, the manager of the cabaret, to find a job, but his brother refuses him, and he is taken in by Senba, a yakuza boss specializing in smuggling and drugs...

愛する人を殺されたトラウマを抱え、正義も感情も捨て復讐にのみ生きる元警官・兼高（岡田准一）。そこに目をつけた警察は“関東最大のヤクザ組織へ潜入”という危険なミッションを強要する。潜入のきっかけは、組織の中で最もイカれたサイコボーイ室岡（坂口健太郎）への接触だった。警察のデータ分析によるとその男との相性は98%――。監督は『関ヶ原』『検察側の罪人』『燃えよ剣』と今と昔を切り取ってきた名匠・原田眞人。主演は原田と3度目のタッグとなる岡田准一。その演技力と多彩なアクションで数多の賞に輝く名優が、坂口健太郎と共に既存のイメージを180度変えた、狂おしいほどぶっ飛んだキャラクターに魂を吹き込む。さらに松岡茉優、北村一輝、大竹しのぶなど日本映画界最高峰のキャスト陣が、クセの強すぎる猛者たちを好演し、予測不能な物語をスリリングに描き出す。最高最強の狂犬コンビが組織をのし上がる、究極のノンストップ・クライム・エンタテイメント！

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 between the Gamblers' family and the Tekiya family.

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.

潜入捜査官「モグラ」として、凶悪な犯罪組織・数寄矢会に潜り込んだ菊川玲二が、洋上の豪華客船を舞台に組織トップの轟周宝逮捕に向けて奔走する。モグラとして潜るところまで潜った玲二の最後の任務は、過去最大級の取引となる6000億円の麻薬密輸を阻止すること。そんな玲二の前には、轟周宝の長男で最悪の敵となる轟烈雄が現れる。さらには、謎のフェロモン美女・沙門にハメられた玲二は、恋人である純奈との修羅場を迎えるハメになり...。

ある博徒一家の二代目襲名をめぐって、二代目を押し立てる侠気の組長と、そのシマを狙う卑劣な大博徒一家が大激突！その争いの中、関東の大親分との友情、殺し屋との名勝負、鉄火肌の芸者との華麗な恋が鮮やかに織り交ぜられていく。 義理と人情に支えられた任侠道の美しさを真っ向から謳いあげる中に迎える、日本刀が縦横に飛び交う大殺陣のクライマックス！ 高倉健、鶴田浩二、若山富三郎、菅原文太、藤純子、北島三郎といったオールスターが顔を揃えて、ベテラン小沢茂弘監督が任侠映画の魅力を華麗に映像化。

In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

Eighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.

The third installment in the Dark Images series. Contents include"Phantom Doll Keppol", "Gorgeous Accident", "Yakuza Mania", "Extreme Diets", "My Teacher was Watching", "Absolute Winning Horse Racing Predictions" and "I Captured the Devil!".