"DIVOC-12" is a project by Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. to produce an omnibus consisting of 12 short films, aiming to enable creators, production staff, and actors affected by the coronavirus infection to continue to engage in creative activities.
Kinuko
The story centers on Kinuko who lives together with her granddaughter Nagisa in the house she once shared with her late husband and where she raised her children. On a spring morning, on the important 49th day after her husband’s passing, the goldfish he had been taking care of suddenly dies. Kinuko wraps its body in camellia flowers and buries it in the garden. She spends her day thinking of the past, cherishing her memories and trivial events. The financial burden of taking care of the house and the garden is becoming too heavy for her and she now faces the logical decision of selling the place…
Dede (voice)
自分の気持ちを言葉にするのが苦手な中学生の琉花は、長い夏休みの間、家にも学校にも居場所がなく、父親の働いている水族館へと足を運ぶ。そこで彼女は、ジュゴンに育てられたという不思議な少年・海と、その兄である空と出会う。やがて3人が出会ったことをきっかけに、地球上でさまざまな現象が起こりはじめる。
享保15年。藩の不正を訴え出たために藩を追われた瓜生新兵衛。追放後も連れ添い続け、病に倒れた妻・篠は、死の床で最期の願いを新兵衛に託す。それは、新兵衛のかつての友にしてライバルであり、藩追放に関しても大きな因縁を持つ人物・榊原采女を助けてほしいというものだった。妻の願いをかなえるため故郷へ戻った新兵衛は、やがてある確証を得て采女と対峙する。過去の不正事件の真相や妻の本当の思いを知る新兵衛だったが、その裏では大きな力が彼を襲おうとしていた。＜名カメラマンの木村大作が、「劔岳」「春を背負って」に続く映画監督第3作として手がけた時代劇。原作は葉室麟の同名小説＞
Reiko Inoue
中学教師の宮本陽平とその妻・美代子は結婚27年目。ひとり息子の正が結婚して安堵する一方、ここ1年通っている料理教室が楽しい陽平は、家で妻と2人きりになると、酔いつぶれた美代子の姿に老いを感じることも増えていた。ある夜、何げなく本棚を物色した陽平は、若き日に初めて美代子に貸した本「暗夜行路」を見つけ、あまりの懐かしさに手を伸ばす。するとページの間から、美代子が捺印を済ませた離婚届が見つかる。
Royal Madam
2015年4月1日エイプリルフール。1年に1度だけ嘘をついていいこの日、街は朝から様々な嘘で満ち溢れていた……。
Fuji Hatori
The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".
Onatsu
サヤは夫のユウタロウを突然の事故で亡くしてしまう。人に対して疑いを抱かないサヤが、一人で息子を抱えることを心配するユウタロウ。成仏できずに、いろいろな人の体に乗り移って、サヤのために手助けをすることに。のどかでどこか不思議な町ささらの人々に助けられながら、サヤは母親として成長する。
Chiharu Kojima
古都・京都。お茶屋・万寿楽にある夜、絶対に舞妓になりたいと少女・春子が押し掛けてくる。春子は必死で頼み込むが、誰も相手にしようとしない。ところが偶然その様子を目にした言語学者の「センセ」こと京野が、鹿児島弁と津軽弁が混ざった彼女に関心を寄せたことから、晴れて万寿楽の仕込み（見習い）になる春子だった。
Hanae ishimoto
徳島県の山間部にある上勝町は人口の約半数が高齢者で、さらには過疎化の一途をたどっていた。そんなある日、農協職員が葉っぱや草を料理のツマとして売ることを提案する。周囲は冷ややかな目を注ぐが、幼なじみの女性3人が葉っぱビジネスに参加することになり、やがて売上高2億6,000万円をたたき出すしっかりとした事業へと成長していく。
Liliko (present)
新潟県長岡市に暮らす昔の恋人だった教師の片山から、生徒が創作した「まだ戦争には間に合う」という名の舞台と花火を見てほしいと手紙で伝えられた地方紙記者の玲子。その機会を生かし、彼女は東日本大震災の被災者を迅速に受け入れた同地の様子も見て回ることに。市内を旅する中で不思議な出来事と人々に次から次へと遭遇する玲子は、それらすべてが空襲や地震から立ち直ってきた長岡の歴史と密接にかかわってくることに気付く。やがて彼女の旅は、過去、現在、未来といった時間を超越したものへと変わっていく。
Chiyoko
古びたアパートに住み、妻も恋人もいない中年のファミレス店員、秀雄。彼が毎日ほっとするのは帰宅後、ラブドールである“空気人形”と接するひと時だ。ある朝、空気人形は突然心を持ち、秀雄が仕事に出掛けてから、メイド服を着て外出。アパートの外の世界に今まで無かった解放感を覚える。やがて空気人形はレンタルビデオ店でバイトするようになり、店員の純一に一目惚れ。だがラブドールと人間は異なり、恋の成就は難しかった。
Sakae Jinnouchi (voice)
2010年夏。健二（神木隆之介）は高校２年生の草食系男子。数学オリンピックへの出場を逃し、夏休みの予定は世界中の金融やインフラを担うシステム“OZ”の保守点検をするバイトだけ。ある日、健二は先輩の夏希（桜庭ななみ）に頼まれ、長野県上田市にある彼女の実家に行くことに。憧れの先輩との旅に胸を躍らせる健二。しかし夏希は曾祖母・栄（富司純子）の誕生祝いのために親戚一同が集合した場で、突然、健二が自分のフィアンセだと紹介！実は、夏希が健二を連れてきたのは、病気がちな栄を安心させるための苦肉の策。うろたえながらも、健二はフィアンセのふりをすることになってしまう。
個性豊かな面々が集まり賑やかな宴会がスタートするが、そこに曾祖父の隠し子・侘助（斎藤歩）が現れた。一族の異端児である侘助の登場で、楽しかった宴会の雰囲気は一変。さらに翌朝。仮想世界のOZが何者かによって荒らされ、現実社会でも各所で大混乱が勃発。しかも何故か、健二がその混乱を巻き起こした張本人だと報道されてしまい…！？
Reiko Takayama
Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One girl who just transferred to this school finds a long lost script of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" which was banned from school 11 years ago. Breaking strict school rules and boundaries, she and her friends decide to perform the play. With sentiment, love and passion, the girls cherish the moment of their life before taking the next step towards adulthood.
Shizu Tezuka (as Sumiko Fuji)
Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy life of Noe Isomura (Rena Tanaka) with the difficult family she has married into after her former husband passed away. One day as she tries to brake off a branch of a cherry tree, she is aided by a samurai who she does not recognize but who recognizes her. He turns out to be a former suitor that she never met named Yaichiro Tezuka (Noriyuki Higashiyama) and who teaches swordsmanship to the local samurai. Meanwhile, the powerful new chief retainer of the village enacts land policies that threaten the survival of the local farmers.
Kazue (as Junko Fuji)
死が予定されている人の前に現われて相手を7日間観察した後、その死を“実行”にするか“見送り”にするかの判定を下す、死神の千葉。雨男の彼は今まで晴れた青空を眺めたためしがない。そんな彼の今回の観察相手となるのは、27歳の薄幸なOL、藤木一恵。ある電機メーカーで苦情処理係をする彼女は、最近あるクレーマーからの執拗な電話に悩まされていた。そんな彼女にほだされた千葉は、珍しく“見送り”の判定を下すが……。
Haruko Okada
第二次世界大戦終了後、戦争末期に名古屋を空爆した米軍捕虜を処刑した責任を問われ、B級戦犯として裁判にかけられた岡田資中将。裁判で彼は「一般民衆への無差別爆撃の責任は誰が負うのか、命令により実行した部下の責任は誰が負うべきなのか」と堂々と信念を主張し、戦勝国アメリカによる法廷を戦い抜く。
Matsuko Inugami
信州の犬神財閥の創始者である犬神佐兵衛（仲代達矢）は、腹違いの3人の娘とその息子たち、佐兵衛の大恩人の孫娘、野々宮珠世（松嶋菜々子）らを残してこの世を去る。巨額の遺産が一族の争いの元凶となることを予期した法律事務所の若林は金田一耕助（石坂浩二）に調査を依頼するが、ほどなく一族間で次々と殺人事件が発生する。
Chiyo Tanikawa (as Junko Fuji)
昭和40年（1965年）、大幅な規模縮小に追い込まれた福島県いわき市の常磐炭鉱。危機的状況の中、炭鉱で働く人々が職場を失う現実・苦悩に立ち向かい、町おこし事業として立ち上げた常磐ハワイアンセンター（現：スパリゾートハワイアンズ）の誕生から成功までの実話を元に描いた。ハワイアンミュージックと本格的なフラダンスショーが描かれている。
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, Yoko (Yuriko Ishida) to return to his hometown, Nagasaki, where his mother lives. Takayuki spends his days strolling around Nagasaki, to imprint familiar scenes on his memory. Yoko visits him and insists on staying. Takayuki has major concerns for her future, and his own life. He drives her away, for her own good. After days of affliction, the two reunite. The story leads to an emotive conclusion, the end of his spiritual journey.
Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work together in a CD shop and catch every chance to show their talents. Under the efforts of Masato, his company at last becomes an entertainment giant in Japan.
Satoe
Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his troubles, a man claiming to be his long-estranged father shows up at his house requesting shelter. One of the best of Somai's seriocomic studies of the messiness of family life.
Mother
北尾実加が中学2年の時、高校2年の姉・千津子は、成績優秀でピアノが上手くスポーツも得意で、高校の演劇でヒロインを務め、教師や同級生からも慕われていて、実加も憧れていた。しかし、ある日の登校中に交通事故に巻き込まれ、突然この世を去ってしまう。ところがその後、死んだはずの姉の声が実加の頭の中に聞こえてくるようになった。姉の声は自分にしか聞こえないけれど、自分を確実に見守ってくれていた。
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
昭和初期の東京・山の手を舞台に、中年実業家の男の友情とその妻への秘めた思いを描く人情ドラマ。昭和12年春。中小企業の社長・門倉修造は、会社勤めのまじめなサラリーマン水田仙吉とは気が合い20年来の付き合いだった。その水田が地方転勤から3年半ぶりに東京に戻ってきたため、再び門倉と水田一家の家族ぐるみの付き合いが始まった。
Tsuruji
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?
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.
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Takiko Yano
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…
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships, a more serious threat to Tei and her mine, the menacing presence of rival mining gangs who sense her vulnerability... Nihon jokyo-den:ketto midarw-bana is an outstanding drama, highlighted by wonderful characterizations/performances. Yamashita's excellent direction maintains a rich emotional flow from the opening seconds to the last. Intense and bloody encounters punctuate throughout the engaging multi layered tale!
Tsumagoi Okoma
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take over a rustic hot-spring town. Handling a gun and sword as skillfully as a man, Fuji Junko portrays an appealing personality that differs from Oryu in the Red Peony Gambler series. Tsuruta Koji stars as the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji that tops the list of an impressive all-star cast that includes Endo Tatsuo, Kogure Michiyo, Ashiya Gannosuke, Kitamura Eizo, and many others. This film is an authentic yakuza movie that conveys the true "Matatabi" (wandering gambler) feeling.
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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.
Koshizu
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.
昭和初期、兄貴分の妹と駆け落ちした主人公が、その幸せもつかの間、愛する妻に死なれて一人息子を連れて旅を続けるが、恩義ある親分が殺されたのを知り、幼い子どもと彼を慕う娘をふり切って、仇討ちのために単身殴り込む！
主演の高倉健が、見事なドスさばきを魅せながら、テキ屋魂を画面いっぱいに叩き付ける任侠娯楽大作。メガホンをとる小沢茂弘監督が、渡世の義理と人情の板ばさみに苦悩する男の哀愁や、人情の機微を描き出した意欲作。
A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
Kohide
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
Oryu
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
Oryu
藤純子の緋牡丹博徒シリーズでお馴染みの人気者熊虎親分を主人公にした若山富三郎新シリーズ第１作。日露戦争で大陸に渡った四国熊虎一家がお国のためにご奉仕しようと、軍の仕事を引き受けて九州熊本へと渡る。だが仕事を独占し不当な利益を貪る鎮台一家と激突。暴虐な手段で熊虎一家を潰しにかかる鎮台一家に、熊虎親分と緋牡丹お竜が挑戦。
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the head of Tanuma's family, and slaying others along the way, he then surrenders to the law and serves time.
Before his last year to serve, the head of the Aramasa family falls ill and decides to retire, Ryoji miss chance to be successor, his old friend is reluctant but accepts. Now this gives the Tanuma family a chance for revenge! But with Tomisaburo Wakayama (Sekine) always having your back, how can you go wrong?
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength.
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
Takako
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Ryuko Yano/Oryu-The Red Peony
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.
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Shinji
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
Okyo
“支那で果樹園を作るのが夢だ”という玉井金五郎は生来の気ッ腑のよさと度胸で男をあげ、一家を興すまでになった。その頃、戸畑港では、永田・大庭組と伊崎組一派とが荷役をめぐって争っていた。金五郎は、伊崎の挑戦を受けて立つ。金五郎の肩には、女賭博師・お京が彫った花と龍の刺青があった。
Ryuko Yano
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.
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。
Red Peony Oryu
「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。
Kasuya
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。
O-Ryu
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。
Hibotan no Ryu
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。
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.
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
昭和30年前後、ある地方都市。刑務所を出所した速水は世話になった田島組に戻るが、田島組は新興勢力の本間組と対立していた。速水は組長の娘・敏子にひそかに好意を抱くが、田島組のある組員が本間組に射殺されてしまう。速水が単身、本間組に殴り込みをかけると警察に逮捕されて、ふたたび懲役へ。そこで昔なじみの流れ者・黒島と再会するが、黒島は本間組の世話になる身だった。塀の外では田島組と本間組の抗争が激化する。
Pinku from 1968.
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.
Hiroe
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan members oppose and Ishido is elected. When Matsuda is freed, he doesn't accept this decision.
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
O-mino
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Reiko Shiratori
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Ofuji
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs.
お仲
「日本侠客伝 白刃の盃」の中島貞夫の同名原作（『平凡』連載）を、自身と、「任侠柔一代」の金子武郎が共同で脚色し、「兄弟仁義 関東三兄弟」の山下耕作が監督した歌謡時代劇。撮影は「お尋ね者七人」の鈴木重平。
Part two.
The Domain: White Blade
A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.
The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.
Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
Part one.
Otaki
九州の侠客議員として知られる吉田磯吉の長男・敬太郎が書いた自伝をもとに、マキノ雅弘監督が鶴田浩二主演で映画化。明治中期、新工業地帯として胎動し始めた北九州の港町・若松を舞台に、熱烈な郷土愛に燃える吉田磯吉が青春の全てをかけて悪徳ヤクザ一家に敢然と闘いを挑む。磯吉を慕い、彼のピンチを救う鉄火芸者・お竜を藤純子が好演。この役は後年、藤純子の当たり役である『緋牡丹博徒』シリーズの女侠客・緋牡丹のお竜の原型となった。
時は元禄。幕府の財政が困窮し老中は米価の値上げを図るが、江戸っ子たちが騒ぎ始めたため、直参旗本赤柄組に取り締まりを命じる。しかしそれもうまくいかなかった。老中は町奴と旗本を喧嘩させて、それを口実に取り潰そうと目論むのだが…。
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.
Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa
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
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
Hatsue
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.
Okayo
桜吹雪の刺青と胸のすくような啖呵でおなじみの“遠山の金さん"を鶴田浩二主演で描いた娯楽時代活劇。
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
「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。
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.
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.
Yukiko Matsuhashi
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
深川で運送業を営む木場政組は、ライバルである沖山運送の妨害工作に悩まされていた。争いを好まぬ木場政が病死したことから、沖山運送はますます勢力を伸ばしていく。除隊し組に帰ってきた辰巳の長吉は、組が小さくなっていくことに心を痛める。木場政の子分である赤電車の鉄が、沖山兄弟の手により殺害される事件が発生するが、沖山はすでに警察署長や代議士を抱えていた。木場政に恩義のある客分の清治は、日に日にエスカレートする沖山運送の営業妨害を許すことができず、一人で沖山組に殴り込みをかけるが、逆に返り討ちに遭ってしまう。
Osato
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful life with his mother far away from the seat of government in Edo. Not wanting to inconvenience his father anymore his plan is to stay away from the city and enjoy life like a normal man. Unfortunately for him, his past comes back to haunt him in the person of his mortal enemy, the one swordsman that is skillful enough to defeat him. This is the most perilous moment of Shingo's life as he must face his deadliest foe in a battle to the death!
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in love with her. Yasaburo, the oyabun of the Nishikawa Gang, loves her very much too. However, as he likes Tatsu's dynamic personality, he volunteers to become a go-between for their marriage. Yasaburo gets tipped off by Yajima who wants to take over the territory of the Nishikawa Gang, and is arrested and imprisoned. After his release, Yajima tries to kill him. Ginjiro, a lover of Tamaryu respects Kimiyakko as an older sister and a follower of Tatsu, is murdered. After the third marriage ceremony just between Tatsu and Kimiyakko, Tatsu goes off to the place of fighting.
Young swordsman Shintaro must fight against evil officials who plot to overthrow the youthful Shogun.
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.
Kayo
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and strongest of all the gang bosses, he went on to survive the end of the samurai era and become a successful businessman. But first, he must survive against all odds in order to build his reputation and develop his strength. Powerful portrayals of the group are led by the great Tsuruta Koji with help from the likes of Matsukata Hiroki.
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.
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.
