Harumi Ibe

A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.

Murder case.

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.

高倉健から〈千葉ゴルゴ〉誕生！アクション男優No1の千葉真一が、劇画界最高の人気作を題材に、香港長期ロケを敢行。日本映画史上初めてと言われる〈暗黒の聖城・九竜〉にカメラを持ち込んだ。ゴルゴ13という不吉な名で呼ばれる超A級スナイパーが、国際麻薬組織を相手にダイナミックなアクションを展開。香港トップスター“嘉倫”の協力を得て描く娯楽大作。世界の魔窟香港で未だ警察も足を踏み入れたことのない九竜城を舞台に、新機軸のアクションの連続で描く、超人気劇画完全映画化。

Nikkatsu Films sensation Naomi Tani (FLOWER AND SNAKE) stars as a troubled ex-prostitute turned barkeep enchanted by the love of a younger man named Kenichi. After trusting a violent junkie to help with her young lover’s singing career, she is sent to prison for murder. Now known only as Prisoner 101, she spends her days in the dirty prison system full of violent guards and sexually-aggressive inmates.

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno. A sailor has an affair with a teenager mistakenly thinking she’s a prostitute.

瀬戸内海に臨む女子高校に、東京から青年教師・南条が赴任してきた。南条の明るい人柄に生徒たちの人気が集ったが、清水巴だけは反抗的な態度を捨てなかった。運動会で、巴と南条が目かくし競争にコンビで出場することになった。ところが、勢い余って二人は来賓席に飛び込み、巴が気絶してしまった。医務室に運び込まれ、ようやく気がついた巴は、恥ずかしそうに南条に告げた。「先生、私、おしっこしちゃった」南条は仕方なく、巴に下着を買って来てやったのだが、この事が町中に広がり、南条を糾弾する職員会議が開かれることになった。南条は巴の恥をかばい真相を話さないために窮地に立ったが、巴が飛び込んで来て涙ながらに全てを語るのだった。この事件以来、二人は爽やかな師弟愛で結ばれるようになった。夏休みになって、南条は、同僚の女教師・増川先生から講習に誘われて上京したが、突然、巴が現われた。それは南条と増川の同行を知った上での行動だった。南条は困惑した。新学期が始まると途端に、南条と巴が東京に新婚旅行に出かけた、という噂が学校中に広まった。南条は少しも気にしない様子だったが、食当りで学校を休んでいるはずの巴が、馬を乗り回して遊んでいるというので、巴を探しに出かけた。南条は海辺で裸馬を駆って若さを発散させている巴の姿を見つけた。そして、今まで気がつかなかった巴の美しさに圧倒された。その時、巴は南条を馬に乗せると町を駆け抜け、校庭へ走り込んだ。驚き呆れる人々の眼。だが南条は「やっとウップンが晴れた」という巴を、愛しく思うのだった。巴はさらに馬を走らせたが、急に突び出して来たトラックを思わずよけた勢いで、二人は、馬から投げ出され、海に転落、巴は大怪我をした。南条の献身的な看病で、巴は数日後に元気になったが、南条は辞任して帰京することになった。「人を愛することは厳しいことだ。君のことを忘れなかったら、いつか迎えに来る」一緒に連れて行ってくれ、と頼む巴に、南条はこう言って、去って行った。

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Roman Porno from 1975.

About a young man who literally bumps into a prostitute who lives with and looks after her wheelchair-confined brother.

Roman Porno from 1974.

ストリッパー・夕子のヒモの芳介はある日、大金の入った財布を拾い、夕子の元を離れて旅に出る。途中でメイ子という女と知り合う。ほどなくして夕子に見つかり、これから先を相談にした結果、夕子とメイ子でレズビアンショーを始めることに…。

A gang of no-good youths calling themselves "Piranha" terrorize a seaside community by breaking into rich folks' mansions, stealing and raping everything in sight.

Roman Porno from 1973.

Ichijo Sayuri, once the legendary queen of Osaka strippers, has retired to run a sushi shop. She is awaiting her day in court after having been arrested for indecency at her farewell performance. While she was active, she was both the rival and the model for many young strippers. Harumi was one of them. Ichijo Sayuri was the real-life queen of Osaka strippers who was arrested on her final performance.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Roman Porno from 1972.

Depicting female karma and sexual sorrow in the midst of revenge and immorality, a woman betrayed by her lover plans to take revenge on him by seducing his only son and dragging him into a sensual trap, but before long she too is writhing in delight and falling in love with him.

Roman Porno from 1972.

First of Nikkatsu's many Roman Pornos involving nurses.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1972.

Roman Porno from 1971. Sequel to Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts (1971).

渡哲也の松竹第一回主演映画。極限まで追いつめられた男女の壮烈な愛と掟を感動的に描くアクション映画。共演は范文雀、岩下志麻ら。主題歌「哀歌」も渡哲也が歌い上げている。

Japanese crime film.

　田上悠三はプロ野球の審判員として、今日も若い審判員、今村たちの勤務ぶりを厳しく観察していた。グランドでは、二軍同志の試合が行なわれ、その中でクロスプレーの末、今村の優柔不断なジャッジに腹をたてた選手の一人、原が今村を突き倒した。これを見た田上はコミッショナーに報告するとともに、今村たちを厳しく叱った。やがて一軍のナイターが始まり田上は主審のポジションに全神経を傾けた。そんなある日、田上家に一カ月の出場停止を喰った原が、田上のスパルタ教育を受けたいと知人の紹介でころがりこんで来た。むげに追い帰すわけにもいかず、ぐずぐずしているうちに、掃除を手伝うやら、わんぱくぞろいの子供の世話をやくやらで、いつの間にか田上家の一員として生活するようになる。

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

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata group.

An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.

クラブのボーイ・渉は夜の世界を巧みに泳ぐプレイボーイ。洗練された容貌にものをいわせ、口からでまかせ、女を口説く憎めない男だが、渉にいれあげる女も多かった。「千人斬り」を目指す野長瀬社長はスナックで知り合った千津子を口説いていたが、ドライな千津子は誘いを巧みにかわしていた。そんな千津子をみた渉は自らも交際を迫るがあっさり振られてしまう。だが、一度や二度で振られて引き下がる渉ではない。千津子を強引に誘い出すことに成功するのだが…。

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

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。

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...

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured in a match. When the latter is found dead, he cannot believe it is suicide and decides to investigate. Sure enough, a group of gangsters is behind his death and, resenting his intrusion, try to ruin him and to pin the murder of his young friend's fiancee on him. At the last minute he shoots it out with the villains and emerges with his reputation intact.

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

A crime film from 1966

TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometown with his own eyes. Ken, who was entangled in this land's boss Samejima and collapsed, was rescued by Shingo Kazama, a mountain man who works at the quarry. Samejima, who doesn't like Shingo, tries to interfere with Shingo's work...

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.

Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

A boy who dreams of being a yakuza leader is reformed by a girl's pure love for him.

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.

Japanese action film.

A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.

As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolves. By chance, they were found by and became a members of a yakuza family. Five years later, Take dominated the port town as a young boss.

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

紙幣印刷用のスカシ入り和紙十億八千万円相当が強奪され、運転手二人が殺されたという臨時ニュースに、拳銃の腕は無敵だがガラスの音に弱い“ガラスのジョー”こと近藤疑次は部屋を飛び出した。同じころ“週刊犯罪”の編集長・通称“計算機の啓"は、古いグラビアに載っている、贋金づくり日本一“坂本名人”の顔をにらんでいた。もうひとり、ニヤリと笑ってジムを飛び出したのは、通称“ブル健”こと芹沢健。三人の目的は、スカシ入りの紙を盗んだ連中に、贋幣の名人・坂本老人を高く売りこむことだ。肝心の坂本名人は、二日後に東南アジアから帰国予定。その日、羽田空港で顔を合わせたガラスのジョー、計算機の哲、ブル健の三人は顔なじみのためギョッとしたが、素知らぬ顔。ところがようやく姿を現した坂本名人は、ポーカーフェイスの秀、ビッグの修という二人の殺し屋に車で連れ去られてしまった。二人は、和紙輸送の運転手たちを殺した張本人だ。ジョーは秀の持っていた特殊拳銃を手がかりに、平和ビルの一室をつきとめた。だがそこには秋山とも子という若い美人がひとりだけ。彼女はパリ行の貯金をするために電話番のアルバイトをしている学生だった。そこにジョーの乗り込みを探知していた相手から電話がかかり、彼女もクビになってしまった。ジョーのせいで失職したと、どこまでもついてくるとも子に、さすがのジョーもがっくり。その頃、キャバレー・アカプルコの秘密の地下室では、坂本名人がせっせと銅版を掘っていた…。

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

1962 Japanese movie

Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime