Kenji Ushio

Narumi, a man out for revenge with the powers he received and a bit of help from the one who saved his life, he creates the persona of Skull Soldier and attempts to discover who really killed his sister.

雑誌掲載だけのオリジナルヒーロー・仮面ライダーゼクロス（ZX）が活躍するTVスペシャル。村雨良が変身するパーフェクトサイボーグ、仮面ライダーゼクロスの誕生と暗黒組織バダンの出現に加え、9人の歴代仮面ライダーが総登場。潮健児も新たな敵・暗黒大使に扮して歴代ライダーと戦う。

Egos kidnaps the children of Information Supervisor Sakaguchi, Yoko and Kenichi. They then blackmail him into stealing the blueprints and completion status of the Battle Fever robo. Tetsuzan Shogun, who joined the Defense Department at the same time as Sakaguchi, is greatly concerned and confronts him. Sakaguchi escapes but vows to make amends. He appears at Egos factory, where they too are building a giant robo, and discloses a false timetable. When Egos orders them killed, Sakaguchi reveals dynamite strapped to his body. He backs away with his children and gets them to safety. He then returns to the factory, and blows himself up to destroy it. Unfortunately, his sacrifice is in vain, as their evil robo is already completed. But Battle Fever’s giant robo is also complete and ready to save the day!

1978 Japanese film directed by Takafumi Nagamine.

While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army.

A group of modern-day ninjas fight the Fuma Clan.

Two bank robbers specialize in "smash and grab" style heists. The thieves dream of escaping Japan and going to Brazil...

インテリやくざ・安藤昇、ゴロやくざ・菅原文太、金筋やくざ・小林旭、影の顔役・丹波哲郎の＜BIG4＞が暴力街に集結した！全国制覇を狙う関西広域暴力団が、遂に最後の拠点・東京に進出してきた。銀座のクラブ買収を口火に、関西VS関東の凄まじいやくざ戦争の幕が切って落とされる!!巨匠・五社英雄監督が、アクション映画の醍醐味を存分に盛り込み描いた大スペクタクル暴力巨編！

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

世界征服を企むショッカーの大幹部・地獄大使 は、富士山頂にスーパー破壊光線を設置し、日本全土を焼き尽くそうとしていた。その野望実現のためには、仮面ライダーこと本郷猛 が邪魔だった。そこで地獄大使は、東日本ロードレースに出場していた本郷と滝和也 を襲撃。さらに、立花藤兵衛、ユリ、エミ を誘拐する。ショッカーの秘密基地に閉じ込められ、絶体絶命に陥った本郷猛に、怪人カミキリキッドと怪人軍団が襲いかかる……。

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.

Pinku from 1971.

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.

Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.

A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.

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.

Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!

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.

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.

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...

Second part of the Zenka mono series.

ボクサーを夢見て上京した男性。彼は、トレーニングに励みながら楽団の音楽にも触れ、充実した日々を送る。しかし、楽団のリーダーが暴力団に脅迫される事件が発生。自らの大切な人々を守るため、彼は復習を決意する。

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

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.

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.

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。

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.

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even discovering their leader, a beautiful young girl named Kagiroi. Guessing that she is the daughter of some ousted daimyo anxious to get back into favor, he is about to unmask her when he is taken prisoner...

The hero tries to unite various gangs.

Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.

Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his son Kenichi. Tired of running, the two settle in a mountain town. Bungo finds work as a lumberjack for the Iwasaki family and Kenichi becomes a student at the local elementary school. Regrettably, their good fortune doesn't last. The yakuza boss, Tomitaka, wants control of the town's lumber and is willing to destroy the Iwasaki to get it. Natsue, Kenichi's estranged no-good mother, returns wanting to take part in the boy's upbringing. And shortly thereafter, a mysterious stranger arrives in town to lay claim on Bungo's life...

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the northern regions.

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.

因縁深い二組の新婚夫婦が、奇しくもハネムーンで同じコースをたどる喜劇。緑魔子とデビューより度々組む渡辺祐介監督が、演技派・川崎敬三を相手役に、小悪魔的魅力を引き出す。会社勤めの彰（川崎）は、結婚するつもりだったタイピストの久美（緑）が親会社の御曹司・庄三郎（人見）を打算で夫に選び、失意の中で同僚の知恵子（磯野）と結婚するが、南紀一周の新婚旅行で久美夫婦と何度も鉢合わせするうちに、恋心が再燃してしまう。

Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.

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.

Japanese drama film.

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

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.

A crime film released in 1965

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

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。

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.

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).

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku swears to dedicate himself to protect the Koganes in time of crisis. Hishakaku’s humble life comes to a sudden halt when the Kogane family becomes involved in a fatal feud with their rival, and Hishakaku’s services are called upon.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

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.

Ichiro (Chiba) is a scrappy little sport in a big car and funny hat always looking for some fun and some extra cash on the side. He and his friends get themselves involved in some shady business dealings involving a kidnapping.

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

暗黒の夜空に広がる断末魔の絶叫！顔を見られたスリは、時々恐ろしい殺人凶行に出るものである。無残に横たわる惨殺死体をめぐって、警視庁捜査陣は俄然色めき立ち、悲嘆にくれる被害者の妻子の身辺はもちろん、現場付近の聞き込みに万全を期すとともに、草の根を分けて現場の検証に乗り出した。その結果、被害者のものと思われる血糊のついた財布を発見。さらには女物の財布やイヤリングなどが見つかる。女物の財布は男娼が以前掏られたものと判明、男娼の証言で胡麻塩頭のスリの存在が浮かび上がってきた。だが翌日、胡麻塩頭の男は轢死体となって発見された―。

オートレース場で大穴が出た瞬間、サラリーマン風の男がガックリと倒れる。群衆を掻き分けて、警視庁捜査一課が遺体の検証に乗り出す。目撃者を尋ねても、観衆が熱狂していた中での出来事であり、何ら手掛かりがなく、証拠品は、手製拳銃による銃弾代わりのパチンコ玉と長田部長刑事がスタンドの隅で拾った焼け焦げた手拭いの端切れのみ。捜査一課は大穴の賞金を払い戻した怪しい男を探り当てる。ダフ屋の池本雄一という男だった。急遽、雄一のヤサに踏み込むが、タッチの差で取り逃がしてしまう。そして、雄一の立ち寄った呑み屋から山村刑事らが指紋つきのコップを押収していると、突如背後から私製拳銃の銃弾に曝され、長田刑事が撃たれてしまう。