A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
Shunsuke Goto
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds.
Tokutaro Shindo
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Kato
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers! At the same time, Inugami also discovers the truth behind his family heritage, and that he may not be the last of his kind.
Kato
アメリカ人ハリーはある時、旧友からある助けを求められた。それは、日本滞在中にヤクザ組織の東野組に誘拐された旧友の娘の救出。東野組とビジネスを交わしていた旧友がトラブルを引き起こしたことがその原因であった。また、旧友はハリーがかつて進駐軍兵士として日本にいた頃、彼にある恩義ができたヤクザ幹部・田中健に協力させれば奪還できると判断した。こうして仕方なく日本へ向かったハリー。だが、再会した健は既にヤクザの世界から足を洗っていた。
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
Mitsuki Bunzo
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
Takeo Gunji
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
Ginji
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet tough geisha, becomes the boss. But will she be able to confront a yakuza gang trying to take over the area?
Ginji
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someone seeks to fill the seat of power.
Tusegoro
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
Shinkichi Shimizu
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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 opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
Shinjiro
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back and saves the town that is becoming run-down from yakuza’s ill deeds.
A crime film released in 1969
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
Yuichiro Sakaki
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.
横浜育ちで表参道のマンションに住む元秘書のりん子は貿易会社社長・野呂の世話を受けている。恐妻家の野呂はランチタイムだけ顔を見せていた。野呂の息子・勝行は父の行動に疑いを抱いて尾行し、父の妾がりん子だと知る。勝行は以前りん子に密かに想いを寄せていたのだ。だが、勝行と立ち寄った小料理屋で知り合った船員姿の俊夫と出会い、勝行を店に残して浮気をしてしまう。横浜で育ったりん子は船員姿に弱かったのだ。数日後、ゴーゴー喫茶に出かけたりん子はアフリカに行ったはずの俊夫と再会する。実は、俊夫は自動車のセールスマンだったのだ…。
Fujimatsu
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
Tokichi
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
昭和32年、暴力団や愚連隊が我がもの顔で歩く新宿の街に、フラリ一人の男が降り立った。男は天涯孤独の身の上で、少年院、刑務所とヨセバ暮らしを繰り返し、今また五年の務めを終えてシャバへ出たところであった...。ある暴力団抗争の渦中に巻き込まれた一匹狼が、悪の華咲く新宿で、ドスを片手に血の雨降らす痛快アクション巨編。
Fujimatsu
「緋牡丹博徒」シリーズ第3弾。明治中期、渡世修行中のお竜（藤純子）は、熱田神宮大祭の勧進賭博を控える名古屋随一の西之丸一家に草履を脱ぐが、賭博を仕切る貸元の座を狙う金原一家に恩義のある渡世人・花岡（高倉健）と、双方の仁義なき抗争に巻き込まれていく。
Danshichi
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
シリーズ第二作。明治17年、上州で生糸の流通をめぐる勢力争いが起きる。渦中の戸ヶ崎組とつながりのある緋牡丹お竜は、急ぎ上州へ向かう。しかし戸ヶ崎組は弟分だった笠松一家に滅ぼされていた。情け容赦のないやり方を目の当たりにしたお竜は、義憤のうちに笠松一家へと乗り込む。
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
Fujimatsu, the Immortal
牡丹の刺青に女を封じた男勝りの度胸と啖呵。日本映画史に燦然と輝くヒロインが誕生！藤純子の代名詞となった任侠シリーズ第1弾。博徒・矢野組の組長だった父の仇を討つため、女博徒となって旅を続ける竜子。“緋牡丹のお竜”の異名を取る彼女は、あるいざこざに巻き込まれたところを片桐という博徒に助けられ、彼に惹かれていく。
Sadao Koike
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
Ogano Genpachiro
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Chin Yômei
博徒あがりの一匹狼が、戦塵巻き起る満州大陸を舞台に、馬賊ゲリラや悪徳日本諜報機関を相手に真の日本人魂を謳いあげる。全篇の三分の二を台湾をはじめとした海外ロケで綴る、大スケールの男性アクション。
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
Tasaburō
5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When imprisoned, he is repeatedly transferred from one prison to another, because no one can handle him.
The Domain: Severed Relations
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.
Katsuhiko Sugiyama
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.
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
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.
Ishigami
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
The second part of the Gamblers series.
Kubo
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completing his sentence, he immediately takes revenge on Hanawa, but as he leaves, he is unaware that a boy is watching him. Toru's new employer asks him to kill a competitor in drug sales, but...
Kansuke Sugiyama
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.
Hiroshi Kitagawa
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
昭和13年。士官学校を卒業したばかりの陸軍少尉・三好次郎は、草薙中佐という軍人の面接を受けてから1週間後、まだ出来たばかりであり、後に“中野学校”と呼ばれるスパイ養成機関に第1期生として入学。厳しい訓練が1年間続く中、脱落者が次々と出るありさまだったが、次郎は着々と成長していき、ついに実戦へ駆り出される。それは英国領事館の外交電信暗号コードブックを入手せよという困難な任務だった。
Yokota
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
橘真一と秀が「網走刑務所」を出所した。行くあてもなく、ぶらりと顔を出したのが道南射撃大会の会場。ひょんなことからその決勝戦に出場するハメになった橘は、名射撃手の鮫島を相手に勝ち進み、優勝商品の仔馬を手に入れた。しかし、これには訳があり、影で栗田という男が、橘と同時に発射し優勝させていたのだ。狙いは商品の仔馬である。それを売った金を折半しようと言うのだ。前祝いとして浴びるほど酒を飲んでいる三人のところへ鮫島が現れて争いとなるが意気投合。すっかり酔っ払っていると、信という男が現れて仔馬を言い値で買おうと言い出した。
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
Japanese drama film.
やくざ稼業から手を引き、原爆で打ちのめされた長崎港の再建に着手して規模を拡大した旭統一率いる旭組。それに眼をつけた安井は、縄張りをもぎとろうと悪行の限りを尽くす。そのあくどさに我慢出来なくなった旭組の橘真一は、統一に内緒で殴りこみ、安井に重傷を負わせて刑務所送りになる。まだ17、8才のガキだった。それから数年後、刑期を終え、すっかり立ち直った長崎港の桟橋に降り立った橘真一だが、相も変わらず横暴を極める安井組に、再度の網走づとめを覚悟して、単身殴りこみをかける。
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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.
A crime film released in 1965
網走刑務所に入れられた新入りの受刑者・橘は、自分の組の親分のために傷害事件を起こし、懲役3年の刑を言い渡されたヤクザ。殺人鬼・鬼寅の義兄弟と称して幅を利かせる受刑者・依田や、同じ新入り受刑者である権田と衝突しながらも、真面目に毎日を過ごす。そんな橘が仮釈放を受けられる見込みが立ったころ、妹から母親が難病にかかったとの連絡が届く。一方、刑務所の所内ではベテラン受刑者の間で脱走計画が進行していた。
「日本侠客伝」の笠原和夫「狼と豚と人間」の深作欣二それに「いれずみ突撃隊」の石井輝男が共同でシナリオを執筆、石井輝男が監督したアクションもの。撮影は「牝」の星島一郎。
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Sutebei
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of five Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in hopes of continuing the bloodline. Princess Sen and the five female ninja escape from Osaka castle by blending in with the handmaidens. Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu who was supposed to rule all under the heavens was informed of this secret. So Ieyasu orders five samurai of the Iga Ninja clan (brought by Hattori Hanzo) to stop the Toyotomi bloodline by killing the Kunoichi ninja. An attack of ninja magic arts unfolds in a battle of the sexes.
Takashi Asakawa
歌手志望のチンピラ青年。彼の夢はアメリカへ歌の修業に行くこと。ある日、彼は麻薬中毒の兄貴分らと共にヤクザの金を強奪するが、潜伏先の地下室で仲間割れが始まり・・・。
『東京ギャング対香港ギャング』（とうきょうギャングたいホンコンギャング）は、1964年公開の日本映画。鶴田浩二主演、石井輝男監督。東映東京撮影所製作、東映配給。併映『宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗』（中村錦之助主演、内田吐夢監督）。
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
Hamuro
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts when her family borrows money from the gangsters, setting off a series of incidents which lead to tragedy.
A 1961 crime film.
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
恋人のために暗黒街に良心を売った拳銃の名手が、ボスの奸計に激怒して遂に起つ、早射ちのスリル溢れるアクション巨篇。
Sada
A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.
Ryuji Murakami (Masao)
A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As time passes the correspondence slows to a trickle. Then nothing. The manager persuades the girl to visit the boy. She does, but she's totally unprepared for her bizarre discovery.
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.
