Shirô Yanase

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi had money problems, and he became dependent on the head of the local tekiya and finds himself involved in the tekiya war with the Yakuza.

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.

Japanese crime film

Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

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

A crime film from 1966

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

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."

‘Tattooed Life' begins with a parasol wielding Yakuza assassin attacking a rickshaw. It almost looks like feudal Japan until somebody pulls a gun and we're reminded that it's the 20th century. Post-shooting, the assassin delivers his bounty to his brother (to pay for his art school education) before getting ambushed in one of the few rickshaw-jacking incidents in film history, and being rescued by his art-student brother. In the aftermath, one brother is marked for death by the Yakuza, and the other brother won't go to art school with blood on his hands, so they decide the perfect way to deal with such hardships is to become fugitive construction workers in northern Japan . And why not?

우유 배달을 하는 주키치는 상급 학교에 진학하는 것이 꿈이다. 하지만 집에서는 도박 중독인 아버지 때문에, 학교에서는 강압적인 선도부 때문에 여러 가지 곤란을 겪는다. 강압적이고 폭력적인 기성 질서에 굴복하지 않는 스즈키 세이준 특유의 남성 주인공 상이 잘 드러나 있으며 액션, 코미디, 멜로 등 다양한 장르가 한데 섞인 점이 도드라진다. (2012 스타일의 혁신: 닛카츠 창립 100주년 스즈키 세이준 회고전)

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

20세기 초의 혼란스러운 아사쿠사 거리. 무라타 건설회사와 후지노 건설회사는 계약을 둘러싸고 권력 다툼을 벌인다. 이들은 폭력을 동원해 준공식을 지연시키는 등 목숨을 건 싸움을 벌인다. 임신한 아내를 둔 무라타 건설회사의 오가타 역시 이 싸움에 휘말려 어쩔 수 없이 나쁜 임무를 수행해야 한다.

야쿠자 두목의 딸인 도키코는 단순한 호기심에 친구 하나코와 함께 도박장에 구경을 간다. 그러나 경쟁 조직의 조직원인 후유가 하나코에게 마음을 뺏기고 일은 점점 커지기 시작한다.

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

행실불량으로 학교에서 퇴학당한 도고는 다른 학교로 전학을 가고 그곳 교장 선생님의 집에 강제로 머문다. 이곳에서도 말썽을 피우며 악명을 떨치던 중 도고는 문학을 사랑하는 소녀 에미코를 만나 뜨거운 사랑에 빠진다.

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a doctor. Ryuji leaves home to work at a clinic at a dam construction site where he finds the treatment of the laborers intolerable. But when he challenges the boss, who thinks nothing of murder, he discovers to his astonishment that he is safe because of his father's reputation. Torn between filial piety and his ideals Ryuji is told of the murder of his father by men of a rival gang. He experiences another shock when informed that the woman behind the rival gang is his true mother who was forced to leave his father due to an unwritten code among gamblers.

동반자살로 보이는 사건으로 남자와 여자가 사망한다. 이 중 남자는 성실한 경찰관 다케시타. 그러나 이를 단순 자살로 보지 않는 미즈노 조는 사건의 진실을 캐내기 위해 야쿠자 조직 중 하나인 노모토파로 쳐들어간다. 과감한 색채의 사용과 거울 등을 적극적으로 사용한 독특한 미장센이 인상적인 탐정 스릴러.

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.

쾌활한 성격의 고등학생 지로는 불의를 참지 못하는 성격이다. 지로는 야쿠자들이 동네 상인들을 괴롭히는 것을 보고 친구인 요시오와 함께 싸워 야쿠자를 쫓아낸다. 하지만 요시오가 야쿠자의 꼬임에 빠져들고, 동네 상인들은 지로에게 야쿠자와 계속 싸워줄 것을 부탁하자 지로는 곤란한 입장에 처한다.

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

차 대전에서 아버지를 잃은 지로는 어머니와 함께 살며 하릴없이 놀러 다니거나 차를 훔치며 살아간다. 어느 날 지로의 어머니가 재혼상대로 부유한 재력가인 남바라를 데리고 오자 지로는 심하게 반발하며 더욱 불량한 행동을 하기 시작한다. 전전 세대와 전후 세대의 갈등을 비극적인 이야기 속에 다룬 작품.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to Noboru, a detective and son of Jinsaku, boss of the Otsu gang. That night at the night club, headquarters of the Highlight Group - which Noboru is investigating, Majima meets Joji who knows of his attempt to kill Jinsaku, and resolves to kill him.

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she receives attention from her two older brothers, Yukichi and Shinji. Meanwhile, the exact parentage of Shinji comes to light.

한 남자가 어두운 밤에 하수구로 숨어 들어가 숨겨둔 권총과 다이아몬드를 꺼낸다. 그의 이름은 미야모토로 3년 간의 수감생활을 마치고 감옥에서 곧 출소한 참이다.

뮤지컬 장르 감독으로서 이노우에의 입지를 확고하게 만든 작품. 소이치는 폭력 전과를 가진 반항아지만, 드럼 연주에 타고난 재능을 보이게 된다. 그는 긴자의 클럽에서 환상적인 재즈 연주와 그만의 카리스마로 사람들의 뜨거운 관심을 받게 되지만, 너무 빠른 성공은 화를 부르게 된다. 이 영화로 이시하라 유지로는 일본 최고의 스타로 떠올랐으며, 1957년 일본개봉영화 흥행 3위를 기록했다.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often than not spend their nights getting into brawls. In particular, it focuses upon Tatsuya, a sullen young man, who falls in love with Eiko, a proud upper-class girl.