Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Yukichi Mori (an old man in a retirement home)
盗まれた石膏像の首をめぐって起こる連続殺人事件を解決する金田一耕助の活躍を描くミステリー・コメディ。横溝正史の原作『瞳の中の女』の映画化
Jusuke Mega
昭和二十五年に起った天銀堂殺人事件の容疑者、元子爵椿英輔は忌わしい嫌疑を恥辱としてか信州で自殺をとげたが、夫人[火禾]子は今尚英輔の幻影に悩まされていた。令嬢美彌子の頼みで名探偵金田一耕助は一夜椿邸で行われた目賀博士の砂占いに列席した。集った人達は[火禾]子、美彌子、目賀博士の他、[火禾]子の叔父玉虫元伯爵と妾菊江、[火禾]子の兄新宮利彦と妻はな、道楽息子の一彦、椿家執事木下善四郎、書生三島東太郎などであったが、博士の占い通りその夜玉虫伯爵は何者かに殺害された。耕助は英輔の日記の空白を手がかりに神戸に赴き、以前英輔が別邸の管理人植辰の妹お駒を尋ねる目的があった事を調べ上げる。お駒も既に殺害されていたが、お駒の養子宗二郎が失踪している事と、妙光院の痣とり地蔵尊の裏面に彫られた文字から秘密を嗅ぎ出し、急拠東京へ引返す。しかし椿邸では新宮利彦が殺されていた。居並ぶ人々の前で三島青年が動揺しているのを見届けた耕助は逮捕状を携えて再度椿邸の門を潜るが、一同は鎌倉の別邸に行った後だった。その頃鎌倉では新宮利彦と[火禾]子の間に兄妹姦淫の子として生れた三島青年実は宗二郎が、目賀博士と[火禾]子に詰めよっていた。驚いた[火禾]子は青酸カリの盛られた鎮静剤を飲んで一瞬にして絶命。直後到着した耕助は一同の前で始めて事件の顛末を発表した。－－今から二十数年前、[火禾]子は兄利彦に犯されて一児を生み落し、叔父玉虫伯爵はその子を宗二郎と名付け植辰の妹お駒に預けたが、椿家財産横領を企む目賀博士は宗二郎が幼年で死んだ後、植辰と謀ってその子治雄の片腕に火焔太鼓の痣を彫りつけて宗二郎に仕立て上げ、椿家乱倫の実状を明かして復讐を誓わせたのである。かくて真相を知らぬ治雄を三島東太郎の仮名で椿家の書生に送りこんだ目賀博士は英輔に[火禾]子の行状を告げて自殺に追い込み、その亡霊の恐怖を利用して玉虫伯爵、利彦、お駒、[火禾]子と次々に殺害したのである。鋭い耕助の推理と植辰の証言に、目賀博士は拳銃を取って乱射するが、耕助の反撃に挫け、遂に警官に捕われた。...
Shôzaemon
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
関東ヤクザの一大勢力、東竜会幹部の加納は、東竜会を関西連合と合併させようと画策していた兄貴分の松岡を殺すはめとなり、まだ幼い松岡の娘・洋子の世話を舎弟の南に託すと、旭川刑務所に送られる。それから15年後、服役を終えて加納は出所するが、彼の不在の間に東竜会の連中はすっかり様変わりしていた。服役中、ブラジルにいる伯父と偽って洋子と文通していた加納は、すっかり美しく成長した彼女の姿を目の当たりにする。
Detective Tawashi
手塚治虫の「ブラック・ジャック」のエピソード「春一番」をもとに、大林宣彦が映画化。インターハイを目指すテニスの選手千晶は、練習中に左目にボールを受け失明する。責任を感じたコーチの今岡は、ブラック・ジャックの助力を請おうと丘の上に建つ彼の邸宅を訪れる。
Wholesaler
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's sent to an all women prison where she's not exactly welcome. Her fellow inmates torture, humiliate and try to kill her; but the Scorpion prevails long enough to get some justice.
Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.
The success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their title, including this semi-bonkers sports comedy/drama. Sonny Chiba's brother Jiro Chiba stars as a Rugby player whose team must find a way to beat the opponent. It's a standard storyline without any major surprises, but works surprisingly well. Training scenes are relatively nuts; much better than the actual matches actually, which tend to go on forever. There is no sex, nudity or graphic violence, making this a family friendly affair. Sonny Chiba appears for about 7 minutes during the last third as a truck driver who comes to Jiro's rescue.
菅原が日本最大の暴力団組長に果敢に挑む。仁義なき戦いシリーズでは主人公が組長に利用され翻弄される役割であったが、遂に暴れ犬文太の真骨頂をこの最終作で見ることができる。
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.
Wang Long-Ming
香港の裏町で李紅竜は香港警察刑事・湘徳輝と待ち合わせをしていた。湘の従妹・秀麗が一ヶ月前から行方不明になり、湘は秀麗の捜索に紅竜の力を借りることにしたのである。だが紅竜が湘と会った時には、湘は何者かにナイフで刺されていた。湘は横浜にいるスージーという女が秀麗の手がかりを握っていると言い残して死ぬ。秀麗の娘・梨花を伴い横浜へ向かった紅竜は、横浜で暗黒街のボス・王龍明の配下たちに襲われる...。
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
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.
Genkurobei
盗んだ車でドライブを楽しんでいたルパン三世は、その途中で刑務所に護送中だった峰不二子に出会い、彼女を手に入れるため脱獄に協力するが、不二子はルパンを置き去りにして一人で逃げてしまう。警察に捕まったルパンは銭形警部からの取り調べを受けるが、「脱獄に協力したという証拠も証人もない」という理由で釈放される。その直後、ルパンは自分のことを探していた次元大介に出会い、自分の素性を知ることになる...。
Inspector Maruyama
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
Kowloon Dingsau
Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's blood-feud with Terry over a disputed debt.
Kowloon Dinsau
Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's blood-feud with Terry over a disputed debt.
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior, Chief Detective Sato, Murakami works feverishly to trace the location of his pistol, ultimately clashing with a gang of youthful Okinawans.
Teruo Miyaji
昭和35年の広島市繁華街、白昼にやくざの杉原が殺される。所詮、ばくちのもつれによる殺しだが杉原は病気療養中の村岡組長の舎弟であり、彼の死で村岡組の跡目が空席となる。組の継承は組長から直盃を下ろされた者のみ資格があり順当にいけば村岡舎弟である打本昇[打本組]のはずだが、杉原の仇を討たないため周囲から推されずにいた。
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
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.
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate.
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
敗戦直後の広島県呉市。闇市の食堂でレコードを聞いていた広能昌三のもとへ友人が怪我をして駆け込んでくる。刀を振り回している暴漢に襲われたと言い山守組へ連絡を頼まれた広能は事務所におもむき大勢で現場に駆けつけ、広能は暴漢を射殺するが逮捕され刑務所に収監されてしまう。
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
Kinzo of Imaichi
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?
Shukichi
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
石本久吉の原案を、「関東やくざ者」の小沢茂弘がシナリオ化し、自ら監督した“博徒”シリーズ第六作目。撮影は「日本侠客伝 関東篇」の吉田貞次。 1965年製作／90分／日本
配給：東映 大正末期。関東梅島会の総長である梅島甚兵衛は、震災で焼けた吉原遊廓にかわってひらけてきた亀の井の治安を守るため、南を黒田一家、北を竹内一家と二分し、それぞれの縄張りを治めさせた。黒田一家の小頭、秩父弥三郎は一家の大黒柱として評判もよく、親分万吉の信頼も厚かったが、弥三郎を慕う万吉の娘美恵に横恋慕する代貸の古野は、竹内組に内通し、万吉の印鑑を持ちだしては弥三郎の名義で竹内から金を借り私腹を肥やしていた。一方の竹内も、亀の井の独占を企み、弥三郎を消すべく、関西の流れ者火の玉五郎を使って闇打ちをかけ、さらに、事をあらだてまいという、万吉の態度をいいことに、弥三郎の弟分久五郎の恋人で女郎のお米を、病気の同僚をかばった罪で私刑にし、助けに入った久五郎にも因縁をつけてきた。みかねた弥三郎は自ら進んで制裁を受け、事を解決しようとしたが、ききいれず久五郎に重傷を負わせた竹内にたまりかねて、その片腕を斬った。万吉は渡世の面子上、弥三郎に破門を言い渡した。老母と傷ついた久五郎を残して三島の久五郎の姉たかのもとで暮すようになった弥三郎は、再び腕の保養にやってきた竹内に出会い、火の玉五郎と相対したが弥三郎の侠気にふれた五郎は、自分のおろかさを悟って改心した。しかし亀の井に楽園をつくり莫大なもうけを企む竹内は次次と土地を買いしめ、邪魔者の久五郎や万吉を殺して、一気に縄張りをひろげた。これを知った弥三郎は、こらえていた怒りを爆発させ五郎とともに竹内組に殴りこんだ。乱闘の末、竹内らを倒した弥三郎を前に、詳細を知ってかけつけた梅島会長は、弥三郎の破門を解くことを約束した。
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Detective Yamabe
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations.
This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
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!
Haderuma
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
Teacher Mayama
Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.
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.
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
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.
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
Okura
警視庁と横浜県警本部は、腕利きの刑事・隼田と峰尾を八城会に潜入させ、組織の壊滅を図っていた。会の傘下には西が仕切る西組、三好が仕切る潮会、唯一の資金ルート・阿久津商事があり、隼田は八城会と大倉組の抗争を利用してうまく西組に潜り込む...。
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Otaguro
Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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?
Toramatsu
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.
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.
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
Muto
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!
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Tsuneo
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt trap by a rotten gambling den owner (Tatsuo Endo) and his dishonest card dealer (Isamu Nagato). The plot is standard stuff and features too much talk, but there's also a decent balance between melodrama and lyricism in the form and storytelling. Tsuruta was a perfect fit for these kind of roles, with the stoic and emotional sides nicely mixed in his screen persona.
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Rinsuke
“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。
Minegishi Ryuhei
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...
Kenzo Kitamura
「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。
Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!
昭和23年、復員して故郷新橋に戻ってきた末広勝治は、駅前で若い日本人の女が進駐軍兵士に連れ去られようとしたところを助けたため、MPに逮捕され北海道米軍刑務所へ送られた。勝治はそこで通訳のジミーや中国人の王と親交を深める。4ヵ月後、再び新橋に戻った勝治は、石津組と華僑連合の対立の中で徐々に頭角を現すようになり、いつしか露天商から銀座の顔役と称される程になった。
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。
Kentarô Taguma
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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.
Teruo Hamada
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.
The One-Arm
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Ikada Oriemon
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...
Tatsu
橘真一が送られてきた網走刑務所には、青鬼と呼ばれる冷酷無比の刑務所長がいた。青鬼の仕業で独居房に入れられた真一は、隣の独居房にいる瀕死の日系露人と知り合う。男は自分が死んだら代わりに棺桶に入って脱獄するよう言い残す。
Nakao
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
Detective Nakanishi
Ônuma
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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.
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Shunzo Tokitsu
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.
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。
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
北海道北端の網走刑務所。殺人傷害8年の刑で服役していた橘真一は、所内で起った脱獄騒ぎには眼もくれず、雑居房の仲間たちの羨望の眼差しに送られて仮出獄となった。さしあたって行くあてもない橘は「社長が俺の保釈金を出してくれる筈だ」という病身の葉山の願いをかなえてやろうと、釧路港の志村運送店へ赴くが、そこは運送店とは名ばかりでオンボロトラックが一台あるきり、とても保釈金を出す余裕などなかった。
Tokizо, the boss of the Tenmaru-gumi group, assists Kikujiro, a traveler on the run. At this time, a tender is being held to conclude a contract for the construction of the railway. Tokizo, who made the highest bid, was bought by the head of the Wakatsuki section of the Kansai Railroad, who was thinking about the country, and won by suppressing Takebe-gumi, who used bribes. However, not everything went as smoothly as planned...
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.
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
A crime film released in 1965
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.
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.
Priest
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Detective Kaneko
Two people disappeared, engineers of the company Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered the order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of Harima held an established custom, the inspection of the arms warehouse. The Government Inspector Okuno Magodayu found a slight bit of dirt on the point of a spear and mentioned it with disdain. Ezaki Shinpachi heard it and started an argument with him. Magodayu then sent a a letter of challenge to him because he felt insulted by a low-ranking underling without a title. As it turned out Magodayu was killed. Since then, Shinpachi and the Okuno family have had continuous revenge duels. The tension mounts as this story builds to an extremely violent climax, when blood must pay for blood if the clan is to survive!
Hayashida
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates.
The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
江戸時代史の謎である甲府宰相怪死事件の真相をえぐる、スリルと興奮に満ちたサスペンス時代劇。四代将軍・家綱の世、大老・酒井忠清は甲府宰相・綱重を五代将軍に推すことによって政道をわがものにしようと企んでいた。この陰謀を破壊せんと軍学者・山鹿素行の下に結束した、十人の暗殺者の凄絶な争いを描く。
警視庁柔術師範選抜大会に敗れた柔術一家は、恨みを晴らそうと講道館を狙っていた。総大将の外遊中のこととて、矢面に立ったのは本郷四郎。その恋人ミキの兄で沖縄の唐手使い与那嶺拳心も、妹をふったと感ちがいして、彼の命を狙っていた。
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Kusunoki
A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
Detective Kaneko
A 16-year-old high school student Midori Matsumoto was found dead on the banks of the Tama River. The only clue is shoe marks on rubber soles. From the interview of witnesses, it became clear that Midori was walking with a guy last night. In addition, it turned out that Midori was close to a college student Kimoto, and a high school student Miyazaki. According to his friends, Miyazaki had an alibi, but Kimoto did not. A unique work in which the problems of teenage sex are considered from the point of view of the murder of a girl. The 21nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Detective Kaneko
A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to the daughter-in-law of the Sayama, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her.
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in response to Kikuya, the head of the Asahina family, refusing to join the Syndicate. Yamaoka relentlessly pursues the Asahina family and uses his brother Komatsu to kill Shibaki, Kikuya's brother, who owns Nagoya territory. When Kikuya receives information that a general meeting of the Brown and Yamaoka Syndicate is to be held in Nagoya, he is determined to root out the syndicate and rushes to Nagoya, ready to die...
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.
Detective Kaneko
This time, the investigation division is investigating the case of a man who confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago, adhering to the constitutional provision that "confessing a suspect is not a crime." The 20nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Priest Agon
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.
Detective Kaneko
The investigation team of the police department is chasing a vicious criminal who kidnaps children, the key to catching the villain this time is the phone. The 18th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover’s twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Kuribayashi
横溝正史の同名小説を「ひばり民謡の旅 べらんめえ芸者佐渡へ行く」の渡辺邦男脚本・監督により映画化。共同脚本は「維新の篝火」の結束信二。撮影は「ひばり民謡の旅 べらんめえ芸者佐渡へ行く」の渡辺孝、音楽は「新黄金孔雀城 七人の騎士」シリーズの山田栄一が担当した。原作を大きく逸脱したストーリー、スポーツカーを駆り美人秘書を従える金田一耕助と、異色の内容となっている。
人気歌手の和泉須磨子が鬼首町鬼塚村に里帰りする途中で何者かに惨殺される事件が発生。死体の横にあるラジオからは彼女の新曲「鬼首村手毬唄」が流れていた。鬼首町警察の磯川警部らが事件を担当することになり、名探偵として知られる金田一耕助も温泉宿に泊まり調査を開始する。須磨子の生家である仁礼家は鬼塚一の富豪だったが、当主の剛造はなぜか手毬唄に怯えていた。剛造の長男の源一郎と次女の里子は、半年前に剛造のもとに届いた脅迫状が須磨子の死と関係があるとにらむが、その源一郎は直後に死体で発見されてしまう。金田一耕助はそれが他殺であることを見破るが、村のお告げ婆から湯治客の放庵が村の暗い過去を知っていると教えられるのだった。
Detective Kaneko
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.
'Capone'
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.
Detective Kaneko
Detectives of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the Tama River. As usual, the film runs only one hour and doesn’t depart too far from the usual formula; however, it greatly benefits from frequent outdoor locations that were missing from the previous film. It also touches far more serious topics, such as child abuse and mental insanity. 16th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Detective Kaneko
The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was stolen. The three suspects have alibis, but who then killed the guard and broke into the safe? The 15th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department. Sonny Chiba's first film role as one of the seven detectives.
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
Detective Kaneko
An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discovered unidentified body of the drowned man was Hirasaka. Moreover, the land in front of the station, owned by Hirasaka, was sold by someone. Suspecting that this is a planned murder, the Investigative Group, fearing the escape of the criminal, begins to act secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.
Detective Kaneko
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was determined. Detectives Hayashi, Kaneko, Nagata and Yamagata begin their investigation, suspecting the parents of the murdered child. They use a towel, baby diapers and bruises on the baby's body as clues in the investigation. Who killed the baby?
Detective Sato
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
構想の雄大さ、物語の妙は戦後屈指の長編力作と評された武田泰淳原作の大ベストセラー「森と湖のまつり」に巨匠内田吐夢監督が全情熱を傾けた一大ロマン。アイヌ青年と女流画家との美しいロマンを中心に、滅び行く民族の運命を背負って起ち上がる若者の魂と被圧迫民族の姿を、火と燃える二つの恋と、男と男の誇りを賭けた凄絶な対決を北海道の大原野に描いた雄渾の叙事詩。
A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating the missing person's case from a wealthy family.
Second Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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―。
Kawamura
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Detective Kaneko
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。
A film about the rivalry between Captain Gondo and the harpooner Yosuke Yamagami, working on the best whaling ship Hayabusa Maru. One day they will have to face a giant, monstrous whale.
Nomoto
斬新なスリルと迫力が好評の『警視庁物語』シリーズ第4作。夜の赤坂で、自動車窃盗が出没。今回狙われたのは、56年型黒セダンで、持ち主の外国人紳士が射殺された。捜査本部は、二手に別れて犯人が乗り捨てた車の検証と、殺された外国人の婚約者の訊問を進めていった。調べを進めるうち、盗まれた車は大阪方面で売捌かれているとの情報を得て、関西にも特別捜査指令を出した。広範囲にわたる捜査の末、捜査陣は事件解決へと辿りつくことができるのか？
Detective Kaneko
午前１時過ぎのガソリンスタンドに一台のタクシーが滑り込んだ。当直の勤務員には馴染み深い運転手であった。運転手はいつになく口数が少なく、ガソリンが満タンになると支払いを済ませてまた車を駆って去って行った。当直員は折巣に入って帳簿整理にかかる。彼は走り去った筈の今のタクシーがヘッドライトを消してまた静かにスタンドに近付いてきたことを知らない。数分後、銃声が響く。血だるまの死体を残して、タクシーは闇の中に消えて行った…。
The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant fought against evil in olden times.
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...
Detective Kaneko
夜明け前の東京を目指す東北本線上がり貨物四二六列車。最後尾の郵便貨車の中では3名の乗務員が郵便物の整理に励んでいた。
深夜の深川でタクシー強盗殺人事件が起った。巧妙な手口から犯人を常習犯と睨んだ警視庁捜査一課の長田、宮川の両刑事は、遺留品を手掛りに柳橋に飛び、農林省官吏須見に嫌疑がかかるが、彼の情婦由美の言葉から、白マスク、革ジャンパーの男が犯人と推定されるに至った。だが、この事件が解決を見ないうちに、続いて新橋で同一手口による新事件が発生し、今度は運転手の屍体が見つからなかった。
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.
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Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.
Detective Kaneko
The corpse of a man is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo, the victim was a man named Genzaburo Sakai, who was engaged in debt collection. The shoe shiner Kinoshita, who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Detective Kaneko
In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An autopsy showed that the victim was about 40 years old, 170 cm tall, had bad teeth, and had been strangled about a month ago. The police department begins an investigation, Detectives Hayashi and Kitagawa set out to investigate the origin of the rosary, and Detectives Nagata and Watanabe begin interviewing construction workers. In the end, it turns out that the rosary belongs to some new religion...
The 19th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".
