Jou
A rookie detective's friend is brutally murdered by the Japanese mafia, she must revenge for her and bring justice to the world, as an assassin.
Calligrapher
An Australian Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome sets off on a solo adventure to discover Tokyo in order to get away from his overbearing older brother. Along the way he uses his knowledge of the Bard, his sketchbook and his wits to win the hearts of the people he meets.
"National High School Photography Championship Tournament", also known as "Shashin Koshien" is an event held annually in Higashikawa, Hokkaido, Japan's town of photography. Every summer, Shashin Koshien decides which school has the best photography club. Oyama, Sakura, and Mirai from Kansai Academy in Osaka were encouraged by their advisor to join with the aim of letting them experience "a world where people who are challenged could see". Meanwhile, Tsubakiyama Shota, a senior at Sakuragaoka Gakuen in Tokyo is the only member of his school's photography club. Other members resigned thinking that photography won't help in getting them to a university. In spite of principal Saeki objecting to his plans, Shota was still eager to join, forming a team with his childhood friend and a junior volunteer. With over 500 schools all over the country, only 18 schools would be chosen to participate in the event. Competitors fight to capture the beauty of Japan and the human spirit.
Ninjas are enduring, iconic figures of Japan. They were active about 500 years ago during the country's Warring States period. And these days, they're thought to be long gone. But centuries later, one ninja is still with us. 84-year-old Masaaki Hatsumi is a successor of the Togakure school. He teaches a supreme form of self-defense to more than 100,000 students around the world, including FBI agents and army personnel. Hatsumi can easily fend off attacks from these tough disciples and make them unmovable using just one finger. What is the essence of his astonishing art? This program investigates the hidden power of this ninja master.
Ezra Sennett
A bioterrorism incident occurs at a university in Western Australia. Chris and Piers from BSAA's anti-bioterrorism unit head to the scene to investigate, and they cooperate with former S.T.A.R.S. member Rebecca, who is teaching at the university. On the scene, they meet a mysterious young man named Tyler Howard…
First part of a long series of films (V-Cinema) in which we follow the rise of a Yakuza clan.
Sushi Chef
Fish has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery, about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.
Space Sheriff Voicer
The Legend of Space Sheriff Gavan is a special DVD released with Televi-Kun in 2012 to promote the film Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie. It features the second Space Sheriff Gavan, Geki Jumonji and his partner, Shelly as well as the members of the Space Mafia Maku.
First part of a long series of films (V-Cinema) in which we follow the rise of a Yakuza clan.
Hattori Hanzo
킬 빌 1,2 합본 감독판
결혼식에서 머리에 총을 맞은 지 4년 후, 혼수상태에서 깨어난 '더 브라이드'는 복수를 결심한다. 과거 그녀의 보스였던 빌과 그의 국제 암살단의 총에 쓰러졌던 그녀에게는 생사가 걸린 이 싸움은, 비록 그녀가 시작한 건 아니지만 마무리는 반드시 그녀가 지을 것이다.
Matsuba Group was dominant in Gumma but an emerging group begins to mess around their territory. Designated as the leader of a branch, Makino swipes the rival group... but can he take on a horde of rival assassins?
Himself
The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed, and many important actors and directors of the genres are interviewed. Former real yakuza boss turned actor Noboru Ando, Takashi Miike, Sonny Chiba and many more get a chance to speak.
Director
Based on the comic by Tsuru Moriyama.
Based on the comic by Tsuru Moriyama.
Uncle Kamata
반항적인 기질의 션은 자신의 억눌린 감정을 0.01초의 타이밍에 목숨과 거래하는 스트리트 레이싱 매니아. 하지만, 계속되던 무모한 레이싱으로 급기야 큰 사고를 자초하게 되고, 감옥에 가지 않기 위해 도쿄에 있는 아버지에게로 도피한다. 하지만 가깝게 지내지 않았던 아버지와의 만남은 이국 땅의 낯선 문화와 함께 그에게 더욱 커다란 혼란만을 가져올 뿐, 적응을 하지 못하고 방황하게 된다. 그러던 어느 날 미국인 친구 트윙키에게 새롭게 유행하고 있는 익스트림 스포츠이자 젊은이들의 탈출구인 드리프트 레이싱에 대해 듣게 되는 션. 그는 도심의 위험천만한 급커브를 파워풀한 스피드로 질주하는 모습에 매료돼 순식간에 빠져들고 마는데...
Two of the greatest names in the world of Japanese Action Cinema are reunited in the latest film from Japan's action maestro, Kenji Tanigaki. One is "the streetfighter" himself Sonny J.J. Chiba most recently seen in Kill Bill, while the other is Yasuaki Kurata from Fist of Legend, Legend of A Fighter and many other Hong Kong classics. Legend of the Seven Monks brings the two master martial artists together for one final time. Only thier destiny awaits.
Hattori Hanzo I
As the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate becomes firm, Hattori Hanzo struggles against Sarutobi Sasuke and Sanada Yukimura. At the same time, Sasuke and Yukimura are plotting a new trick with the Satsuma clan ....
Hattori Hanzo I
In order to save the daughter of Kuroiwa clan lord who was made ill by the curse of someone, Hattori Hanzo brings the shadow warriors.
Yagyu Jubei
Final movie in the Sarutobi Sasuke Series. たのしいかったです。
azama, Adversiting Company President
이시가키는 아무리 죽여도 더욱 가공할 위력으로 살아 돌아오는 폭력 아내에게 시달리다 살인청부업자를 찾는다. 광고기획자 요코 또한 최면술사 남자친구의 살해를 부탁하기 위해 이들을 찾는다. 한편 최면술사가 죽기 직전 걸었던 최면으로 인해, 한 가족은 자신이 새라고 믿는 가장과의 일상에 익숙해져야 한다. 좌충우돌 끝에 성정체성과 사랑을 모두 찾게 되는 3인조 좀도둑, 보는 사람마다 삶의 목표를 묻는 기이한 살인청부업자 콤비 또한 이 못 말리는 모자이크 영화의 주요 인물. 광고 출신 감독은 짧은 시간 보는 이의 눈을 잡아끌던 솜씨로 기이한 상상력과 블랙유머로 가득 찬 2시간짜리 영화를 완성했다. 뮤직비디오, CF 등 첨단 대중문화 코드를 통해 동시대인들의 무의식적 초상을 그려낸 영화
Hattori Hanzo I
Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory.
Hattori Hanzo
악명높은 데들리 바이퍼의 최고 암살단원 더 브라이드는 임신 사실을 알고 태어날 아이를 위해 피묻은 과거를 청산하고자 한다. 동료들의 눈을 피해 평범한 남자와 결혼식을 올리려는 찰나, 다섯명의 데들리 바이퍼가 그녀를 찾아와 총알세례를 퍼부었다. 5년간의 혼수상태에서 깨어난 더 브라이드는 아이가 죽었다는 사실에 분노의 눈물을 흘리고 복수를 맹세한다. 버니타 그린과 오렌 이시이를 처치한 그녀에게 이제 버드와 엘, 그리고 최종목표인 빌 이렇게 셋이 남았다. 그런데 죽은 줄 알았던 자신의 딸이 살아있다는 소식을 접하게 되고...
Fight Choreographer
악명높은 데들리 바이퍼의 최고 암살단원 더 브라이드는 임신 사실을 알고 태어날 아이를 위해 피묻은 과거를 청산하고자 한다. 동료들의 눈을 피해 평범한 남자와 결혼식을 올리려는 찰나, 다섯명의 데들리 바이퍼가 그녀를 찾아와 총알세례를 퍼부었다. 5년간의 혼수상태에서 깨어난 더 브라이드는 아이가 죽었다는 사실에 분노의 눈물을 흘리고 복수를 맹세한다. 버니타 그린과 오렌 이시이를 처치한 그녀에게 이제 버드와 엘, 그리고 최종목표인 빌 이렇게 셋이 남았다. 그런데 죽은 줄 알았던 자신의 딸이 살아있다는 소식을 접하게 되고...
Part 3 of 4 about Sarutobi Sasuke
Lord Conquerer
The battle between Wind and Cloud has long since passed, but as the most fearsome warriors across the land cross swords in a violent quest to become supreme leader, the two old foes are once again forced to do battle in director Ching Siu Tung's fantasy filled sequel to the 1998 Hong Kong hit The Storm Riders. It's been twelve years since that fateful fight, but true enemies can never stay at peace forever. Legend has it that the seven most powerful weapons will be bestowed on the greatest fighter in the land; making them supreme ruler over all. As legions of worthy warriors make their play for the prize, fate draws Wind and Cloud back into the arena to determine the outcome of an entire nation.
Otosan
A young Japanese woman has been trained to become a professional killer since childhood. Two cops pursue the girl, who has assassinated a Hong Kong official.
Hattori Hanzo I
Toyotomi Hideyori's married granddaughter, Princess Sen, is targeted by someone. Hattori Hanzo, who receives the news, challenges the blocking of conspiracy to recover Senhime.
Makio Mimura
나나하라 슈야와 나카가와 노리코가 BR 법에서 살아남은지 3년의 시간이 흘렀다. 테러의 시대로 접어든 세상에서 사람들은 BR 법을 시행한 국가에 대항하여 수도를 파괴하고, 이에 정부는 나나하라를 테러리스트의 중심 인물로 지명수배한다. 반BR법 조직인 '와일드 세븐'의 리더가 된 나나하라는 자신을 사지로 몰아넣었던 어른들을 상대로 선전포고를 하고, 정부는 다시 BR II 라는 법을 제정하여 또 다른 중학교 3학년생들에게 강제로 군복을 입힌다. BR II는 제한 시간 3일 내에 2명씩 태그 매치를 이루어 나나하라를 발견하여 죽이면 승리하는 것이다. 상대가 학생들이라는 것을 모르는 와일드 세븐은 다시 어른들에 의해 서로가 서로를 죽이게 되는데...
Hattori Hanzo I
Iga ninja led by Hattori Hanzo took back Princess Fuji who was kidnapped by Fuma Clan at the end of the war. However, there were three of them - one being the real Princess Fuji and the others doubles. Not knowing which is the real one, the Iga ninja has no choice but to separate into three teams to deliver the princess to her wedding. The evil hands of the Fuma and the Koga are trying to reach Princess Fuji and the Iga ninja. Their difficult journey has begun.
Hattori Hanzo I
In the time of the peaceful Toyotomi Era, Shinotada, the master of Kochi Family, a source of revenue for the Tokugawa, is trying to marry his younger sister Princess Fuji to Akinobu Sunekazura, who has connections with the rival Toyotomi, in order to bring peace. One of sixteen great warriors of Tokugawa, Hattori Hanzo, entrusts his wish and gathers the remnants of Iga Village, which was destroyed by Oda Nobunaga, and orders them to guard Princess Fuji. The Council of Elders of Sunekazura, hire the Fuma Ninja led by Fuma Kotaro, joined by the Koga Ninja, led by Sarutobi Sasuke, who is serving Hideyoshi Toyotomi, to assassinate Princess Fuji! Can Hanzo Hattori with the Iga remnants prevent this evil plot and protect the princess? Once again, Shinichi "Sonny" Chiba plays the leading role of Hanzo Hattori with his old enemy, Sarutobi Sasuke, played by Hiroki Matsukata. The presence of both famous actors will overwhelm any audience!
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers.
A musical- style comedy movie set in Hakata.
Ichiro Kusakari
산 루엔파의 조직원 산지는 야마다파 두목의 딸 나나꼬와 정략결혼을 한다. 곧이어 그를 중심으로 산 루엔파의 주도권 싸움이 일어나지만, 산지에게 불리한 사건들이 연달아 발생하기 시작한다.
Dagger
The story about a young man whose drinking habit causes disaster for his family and himself.
Himself (archive footage)
Special honoring the grand masters of the martial arts with guest stars from film and television, music performances, live demonstrations, competitions and tributes to Jackie Chan, Bennie "The Jet" Urquidez, Cynthia Rothrock, Billy Blanks, Ernie Reyes Sr., and Shaka Zulu.
Conqueror Xiong Ba
야심이 큰 웅패는 천하회를 조직해 천하의 명검, 보도를 차례로 강탈해 무림 독패를 꿈꾼다. 그 과정에서 절세호검을 가진 보경천과 수음광도를 지닌 섭인왕이 목숨을 잃고, 웅패는 예언가 만사통의 귀뜀에 따라 그들의 어린 아들, 보경운(곽부성 분)과 섭풍(정이건 분)을 제자로 삼는다. 웅패의 천하회는 세력이 점점 커져 이제 웅패에게 대적할 만한 자는 강호를 떠난 검성밖에 없게 된다. 오랜 맞수인 검성과의 대결이 임박해오자 웅패는 다시 한번 자신의 운명을 점치기 위해 10년 전 행방이 묘연해진 토불을 찾는다. 성장한 보경운과 섭풍은 모두 웅패의 딸 공자를 사랑하게 되는데, 웅패는 보경운의 냉혹함이 마음에 걸려 딸을 온순한 섭풍에게 시집보낸다. 결혼식 날, 보경운이 공자를 가로채 떠나려 하자 웅패가 그를 막다가 딸을 죽이게 된다. 결국 사제간의 대결이 벌어지고, 만사통의 증언을 통해 섭풍도 자신의 원수가 웅패라는 것을 알게 된다. 웅패는 무림의 최고 실력자 검성을 꺽고 강호를 장악하지만 풍과 운의 협공을 받아 모든 꿈이 물거품으로 변한다.
Makato
A cold-blooded assassin is out for revenge against an elite corps of Special Crimes Agents headed by Eddie Cook and Vinnie Rizzo. When Cold blooded hit man Makoto escapes from prison, he and his sexy and lethal partner set out to execute the agents who sent them away. As the Special Crimes Agents are systematically gunned down, Cook and Rizzo find themselves in a deadly race to find the assassins and stop the bloodbath.
Jiro 'J.J.' Jintani
Two police officers discover an island laboratory where a madwoman is turning martial artists into superkillers.
Chiba
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
Horikoshi
세계 제2차대전 중 용맹을 떨친 역전의 공군 조종사인 미국 공군 대령 채피(Chappy : 루이스 고셋 쥬니어 분)는 영국 공군의 나이첼, 독일 공군의 라이흐만(Leichman : 호스트 버흐홀즈 분) 그리고 일본 공군의 호리코시(Horikoshi : 소니 치바 분)와 함께 왕년의 에이스들이 모여 평화롭게 지난 날의 2차대전 공중전을 재현하는 에어 쇼를 하며 지낸다. 어느날 현역 공군 중위인 모라레스(Luis Morales : 데이비드 헤레라 분)가 비행기와 함께 추락하고 그 잔해에서 마약을 운반하다가 사고를 당한 것으로 밝혀진다. 페루에서 인질로 잡혀있다가 탈출하여 오빠 모라레스 중위를 찾아온 안나로부터 안나(Anna : 레이첼 맥리쉬 분)와 그의 아버지, 그리고 마을 사람들을 인질로하여 모라레스 중위가 공군기를 이용하여 공군기지를 통해 마약운반을 하도록 강요당한 사실을 채피 대령은 알게 된다. 공군기지를 통한 마약밀매를 은폐하려는 일당으로부터 안나와 채피 대령은 생명의 위협을 받는다. 한편 페루에서 마약 제조, 밀매를 하는 클라이스(Kleiss : 폴 프리맨 분)는 2차대전 독일 전범으로써 마약 밀매뿐 아니라 무기밀매 등으로 세계전복을 꾀하는 불온세력을 모으고 있으며 페루 정부 관리마져도 매수하여 비호를 받고있다. 안나의 탈출로 인해 클라이스는 마을 사람들을 모두 학살하고 산속으로 본거지를 옮기려 한다.
Director
The Yakuza of Japan has infiltrated the universities of Hong Kong and are conducting illegal activities such as underground bare knuckle fights,gambling and drugs. Hong Kong Police team up with the Japanese Secret Service to bring down the ruthless gang but their agents always seem to wind up dead. As a last resort they have a female detective (Sibelle Hu) infiltrate the organization in order to bring them down.
Supt. Yamada
The Yakuza of Japan has infiltrated the universities of Hong Kong and are conducting illegal activities such as underground bare knuckle fights,gambling and drugs. Hong Kong Police team up with the Japanese Secret Service to bring down the ruthless gang but their agents always seem to wind up dead. As a last resort they have a female detective (Sibelle Hu) infiltrate the organization in order to bring them down.
Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.
Mitsutsugu Akechi
During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader. One of the first to vie for power in this way was Saito Dosan, the 'Viper'. His son-in-law, Oda Nobunaga, did in fact unite the nation after subduing all of his enemies, yet falling at last to the treachery of one of his most trusted generals. This story is a pre-cursor to those later events as the brilliant military strategist Saito Dosan rises to power and notoriety as a great lord in his own right. Directed by Kudo Eiichi and with a tremendous supporting cast that includes Nakamura Toru as Oda Nobunaga and Chiba Shinichi as Akechi Mitsutsugu, battle scenes of awesome power and a unique view of Japanese history, this is a marvelous production highlighted by the action scenes done by the Japan Action Club (JAC).
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridge, Shanao (later Yoshitsune), a young man of small and fragile stature passed by. He wore a nice sword and played the flute.
Producer
Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.
Director
Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spots that is terrorising the area. It attacks and kills men, but it feasts only on women.
This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger son of Shogun Hidetada has signed a dangerous pact with the intention of preventing his older brother Iemitsu from taking his rightful place as heir to the shogun's seat. During the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate highly skilled ninja groups carried out secret missions, and it falls upon Iga Jigoza's force of 17 ninja to infiltrate the enemy's stronghold and steal the pact from Negoro leader Saiga Magokuro.
Umei Tamon
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle in a series of duels that could change the destiny of Japan.
Makoto Ushiyama
Producer
Iba Shoemon
에도(지금의 동경) 막부의 3대 장군인 도쿠가와 이에미쯔는, 자애로운 군주로서 명망을 얻고 있었다. 그러나 말년에 술과 여자에 취해 정세판단력 마저 흐려져 끝내는 본 부인에게 얻은 첫째 아들 다께치요를 없애고 첩에게서 얻은 자식을 자신의 후계자로 올릴 생각을 하게된다. 이에 이에미쯔는 다께치요를 없앨 생각으로, 가관식을 빌미로 한 음모를 꾸미기에 이른다. 한편, 사쿠라 일문의 수장인 호타 마사모리의 저택에서 지내고 있던 다께치요에게 가관식을 치르기 위해 에도로 급히 돌아오라는 장군의 명령이 내려지고, 다께치요를 친자식처럼 보살피고 있는 호타는 장군의 명령이 의심스럽지만 장군의 영을 거역할 수 없어 할 수 없이 보내기로 한다. 대신에 다께치요를 경호할만한 무사 7명과 호타의 아들인 마사토시와 그의 병사들 그리고 유모 야지마 등을 같이 붙인다. 그러던 어느 날, 한 광산 근처에서 하룻밤을 머물게된 일행은 장군의 사주를 받은 로주 아베의 군대에게 공격을 받는다. 이때 처절한 혈투 속에 대다수의 병사들이 죽게되고 다께치요와 마사토시 그리고 7명의 사무라이들과 유모만이 살아남아 간신히 도망을 친다. 계속 되는 쫓고 쫓기는 적들의 공격에 7명의 무사들은 한 명씩 최후를 맞이 하게되고, 계속 다가오는 포위망 속에 높은 절벽과 깊은 계곡, 험한 산 속에서 과연 그들은 에도에 도착할 수 있을는지.
Yagyu Jubei
Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep his post. Meanwhile a fishmonger named Isshin Tasuke who bears an amazing resemblance to Shogun Iemitsu may be called upon to put his life on the line by acting as the Shogun's double. At the same time, the tragic story of Banzuiin Chobei and Mizuno Jurozaemon is unfolding.
Bunshichi
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in turn by an unseen force. He begins to suspect the work of assassins, but whose side are they on?
Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.
Yakuza boss
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
Archival Footage
This collection of archive footage from martial arts films offers an array of power-packed kicks, chops, leaps, and other dramatic fighting moves from expert martial artists Sonny Chiba, Carter Wong, Bruce Lei, and others.
Sonny Sullivan
Lewd, long-haired karate kid Kotaro Shindo spends his days causing amok at the prestigious Tsurugamine Academy, until the Disciplinary Committee decides enough is enough, and puts a bounty on his luscious locks. Meanwhile other sinister forces are working in the shadows to put Kotaro to use for their own ends.
Inuyama Dosetsu Tadatomo
사토미가의 시즈공주(静姫)는 성을 공격한 괴무장들의 손아귀로 부터 달아나던 중 일행을 잃고 산 중을 헤매다 신베이(犬江親兵衛)라는 남자를 만난다. 그러나 신베이가 남장한 공주가 실은 여자라는 사실을 알아차리고 달려들자 그것을 피해 달아나다 이누야마 도세츠(犬山道節)와 이누무라 다이카쿠(犬村大角) 를 만나 성을 공격한 자들이 타마즈사(玉梓)의 부하들이며 사토미가에 걸린 저주와 팔견사의 존재에 대해 듣게 된다. 두 사람은 공주에게 자신들과 함께 다른 동료들을 찾기를 청하고 곧 세 사람은 길을 떠나게 된다. 한편 신베이는 자신이 만났던 남장여인이 사토미가의 공주라는 것을 알고 그녀를 타마즈사에게 넘겨 사무라이가 될 생각으로 공주 일행을 뒤 쫒는다. 이후 두명의 동료를 만난 일행은 적의 습격을 무찌르고 나머지 4명의 팔견사를 찾기 위해 여행을 하는데 그 때 그들을 기다리고 있던 신베이에 의해 공주가 납치 당한다.
공주와 신베이는 계속 티격태격하지만 타마즈사의 부하들이 마을을 습격하고 아이들을 잔인하게 죽이는 것을 보고 그들의 무덤을 만들어주는 것을 계기로 조금 가까워지게 된다. 그러나 그들을 잡아 적에게 넘기려는 마을 주민들의 공격을 피해 도망친 동굴안에서 헤어졌던 동료와 다른 2명의 팔견사를 만나게 되면서 신베이는 그들에게 쫒겨나게 되는데……
Iga no Saizo
Kabamaru is a young boy raised and trained by his grandfather as a ninja. After the sudden death of his grandfather, he starts living with Mai, his grandfather’s mistress, who is a school director. He is asked to help out on struggles against other schools, as he is master of the ninja mystical arts. As time passes he will make lots of friends as well as enemies, and fall in love with Mai.
전국시대, 하극상의 기운을 타고 마츠나가 돈조는 주군 미요시 씨의 미희를 자기 것으로 만들려고, 다섯 사람의 요술승에게 명하여 미약(媚藥)을 만들게 하여, 미녀사냥을 명하였다. 그 음모를 꾸민 것은 요술승의 뒤를 봐주는 정체불명의 과심거사였다. 미녀사냥의 표적은 이가닌자 후에후키 죠타로의 연인 유키오였다. 전국 혼란의 시대를 무대로 미약(媚藥)을 쫓아, 이가닌자(伊賀忍者) 후에후키 죠타로와 전설적인 요술사 과심거사의 싸움을 그렸다.
Actor (as Shin'ichi Chiba)
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet.
Mr. Magic
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his sister and his twin brother Toru. Joji’s quickly finds his sister Chihiro who is now blind and lives with their uncle. Joji one evening accidently over hears his uncle who has ties to the criminal underworld discussing his various illegal operations. Joji ‘s eavesdropping is discovered by his uncle who offers him a chance to join the organization. Joji promptly turns his uncle’s offer down which immediately puts his life in danger.
Action Director
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.
Daisuke Kamikaze
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.
Prince Ido
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is stolen. American sailors and Japanese samurai are sent to find it.
Jubei Yagyu
1638년, 시마바라의 난. 기독교 신자들에 대한 박해에 대항하는 마지막 몸부림. 도쿠가와 막부는 3만 7000몀의 농부에 대해 12만명에 달하는 군대를 동원한다. 아마쿠사 시로를 필두로 한 기독교 집단의 요술에 대한 두려움이 일으킨 과민반응이 었다. 100일에 거친 살육이 끝났을 때 그 땅에 살고 있던 모든 사람들의 머리는 잘려 있었고 그곳에 신은 없었다.
Shiranui Shogen
토요토미 히데요시의 장군 시라누이(소니 치바)에 의해 막부의 리더 모모치가문은 몰살당한다. 구사일생으로 중국으로 도망친 어린 아들 타카마루(사나다 히로유키)는 몇 년간 쿵푸를 수련하고 복수를 위해 일본으로 돌아온다. 아버지의 유품인 칼 속에 숨겨진 금의 지도를 탐내는 쇼군 히데요시의 오른팔이자 실권자인 시라누이와 유명한 닌자 가문의 지도자 핫토리 한조 또한 타카마루를 쫓는다. 귀환해서 닌자 사부에게 인법을 배우는 타카마루, 옛 모모치 가문의 추종자들과 중국에서 온 소녀 아이린, 어릴 적 여자 친구이자 핫토리 한조의 여동생 오츠와 힘을 합쳐 쇼군에 대항한다
Dr. Yamauchi
치명적인 바이러스가 퍼지며 지구상 인구의 대부분이 죽는다. 유일한 생존자는 아탁티카의 과학자 집단. 이들은 완전한 파멸에서 지구를 구하고 치료약을 개발하기 위해 고군분투한다.
당시 나온 일본영화 중 가장 큰 예산으로 제작된 영화이며, 대부분 미국 배우들이 캐스팅되었다. 전설적인 배우 글렌 포드나 영원한 줄리엣 올리비아 핫세 등이 주인공을 맡고 있으며, 소니 치바도 몇 안 되는 일본인 배우 중 한 명으로 출연하고 있다.
A made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
Katsutoshi Otomo
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics
Lt. Yoshiaki Iba
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
겉으로는 평범하고 온순한 회사원인 아사쿠라는 사실 어둠의 뒷골목을 종횡무진하는 범죄자다. 강도, 암살 등 돈을 벌기 위해 어떤 짓도 서슴지 않던 그는 자신이 근무하는 회사와 관련한 모종의 음모가 있음을 눈치챈다. 오야부 하루히코의 장르 소설을 원작으로 한 작품으로 거침 없는 폭력 묘사와 경쾌한 분위기가 강렬한 충돌을 일으킨다.
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Samon Shimoguni
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
Fuwa Kazuemon
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuza guys who used to be best friends since their childhood, and brother fights brother. It results in the biggest yakuza war in Okinawa.
Prince Hans (as Sonny Chiba)
평화로운 제루시아 행성은 야만스러운 가바나스 제국의 침략에 의해 완전히 폐허가 된 상태. 간신히 살아남은 사람들의 앞날은 위태롭기만 하다. 현명한 지도자는 8개의 성스러운 리아베 씨앗을 우주에 뿌린다. 이 씨앗들은 우주를 떠돌며 자신의 주인으로 합당한 영웅들을 선택해야 한다. 과연 제루시아 행성의 운명은 어떻게 될 것인가. (2003년 제7회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Jûbê Yagyû
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.
Drunkard
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but it advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye. Her coach knows of a mysterious doctor 'Blackjack' who lives in a secluded house, who might be able to help. 'Blackjack' agrees to do the operation, but for a 'substantial reward'! Her sight is regained, but now she starts to see a mysterious man that is invisible to those around her....
Duke Togo (Golgo 13)
Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determined to stop Togo no matter the cost. The result is an explosive adventure through the seamy, violent streets of Hong Kong.
The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance truckers. This time Momojiro falls in love with beautiful Minako in Sado, Niigata.
Joji Kano
살해당한 여자의 유골을 거두려고 신주쿠에 온 오키나와 이시가키 섬의 형사. 그러나 그는 그곳에서 연예계의 소용돌이치는 음모에 연루되는데... 흉악범죄 전문 경찰청 특수범죄 수사과, 통칭 "특범과" 소속 카노 조지. 강력 범죄자를 매번 사살하는 카노를 언론과 세상은 비난하지만 본인은 상관치 않는다. 극악 범죄자에게는 비정한 카노인데, 어린이나 노인, 갱생하는 경범죄자에게는 물론 살인 등 과거에 무거운 죄를 짊어진 범죄자도 사정에 따라서는 일자리 등을 봐주거나 하는 착한 면도 있다.
당초는 카노와 그 상사인 특범과장 니시타니 경시 2명뿐이었다. 특범과로 신주쿠 경찰서에 온 폭력단 담당 형사 미야타, 여형사의 미모리, 여경 아야카와 사키, 미국에서 온 캬티·쿠라사와 등의 멤버가 추가된다. 특범과는 강력범죄 전문이지만 특히 각 과가 경원시하는 사건을 담당한다. 원작은 "주간 소년 점프"에 연재된 인기 극화이지만 영화에서는 극화되기 이전 주인공의 서막 편을 담고 있다.
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
Sensei Masutatsu Oyama
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
Mu Yun Tek
This mid-1970s martial arts classic stars Sonny Chiba as Mu Yun Tek, a young man trained in the Thai fighting style since childhood to one day avenge his parents' death. When a fellow student kills their teacher, Mu Yun's thirst for vengeance grows. The brutal action never stops as Mu Yun teams up with an Interpol agent (Tadashi Yamashita) to find the culprit, who insists that their former master was a drug dealer who had to be destroyed.
Tsuneyoshi Sakota
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Seigou Kunigami
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.
Wataru Kangi
Kamiki (Sonny Chiba) is a career criminal who is given the chance to break out of prison for the 33rd time. Afterwards Kaimiki teams up with a bunch of thugs who design prison escapes for money.
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.
Shuuhei Sakata
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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.
Doshin So
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and gangsters get the worst of it, as Mr. Soh builds up his school on the island of Shikoku.
Kazuma Higaki
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
Mas Oyama
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed aikido and where he has learned martial arts.
Bartender
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes natters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.
Sensei Masutatsu Oyama
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.
Aoki
약 1,500명의 승객을 태운 하카타(博多=후쿠오카)행 "히카리 109호"는 9시 48분 정각에 도쿄역(東京駅) 19번 홈을 떠난다. 열차가 도쿄역에서 약 50여km 떨어진 사가미하라(相模原)에 이르렀을 때 국철(国鉄)※본사의 공안본부로 109호열차에 폭탄을 장치했다는 전화가 걸려온다. 특수장치가 내장된 이 폭탄은 열차의 속도가 80km 이하로 떨어지면 폭발한다고 하면서, 그 증거로 삿포로(札幌) 근교의 화물열차를 폭파해 보인다. 이 완벽한 폭파계획은 불황으로 도산한 정밀기계공장의 경영자였던 "오키타 테츠오(沖田哲男)" 일파에 의한 것으로, "오키타"는 국철본사에 5,000만 달러를 요구하는데...
Akira Inugami
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers! At the same time, Inugami also discovers the truth behind his family heritage, and that he may not be the last of his kind.
Kenichi Hyuga
Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to escape and take revenge?
Ryuichi Koga
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it’s a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.
Takuma Tsurguri
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
Seiichi Hibiki
일본인과 홍콩인을 부모로 가진 이홍룡은 3개월 전 도쿄에서 수수께끼의 실종을 한 오빠에 대해 알아보려고 일본을 방문했다. 오빠는 홍콩 경찰의 마약 전담반으로 일본의 마약 조직을 수사 중이었던 것이다. 홍룡은 권법의 은사로, 오빠가 신세를 지고 있던 소림사 권법도장 후지타 토오루를 찾았다. 그리고 여자 권법의 달인 하야카와 에미를 소개받았다. 그녀는 홍룡을 동정하고, 언제라도 힘이 되겠다고 약속한다. 홍룡은 조직에서 마약 환자로 몰린 홍콩의 여자 마약 G멘 팬 신으로부터 조직의 비밀의 일부를 알게 되는데...
Ryuichi Koga
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer.
In the spring of 1945, Murakami, an apprentice officer, was ordered by the General Staff Headquarters to be assigned to the secret 33rd Eastern Unit, known only to the upper ranks of the General Staff. This is where secret warriors, spies and guerrillas, are trained. Eventually, a variety of training will be held, from pistols, karate, martial arts to pickpocketing wallets.
Takuma Tsurugi
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
Takuma Tsurugi
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.
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
Tatsuya Wada
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
Keitaro Shinjo
Robot Detective K and his human colleagues battle the criminal organization BADDO. Theatrical release re-edited from episodes 1-9, 11, and 12 of the TV series with newly-added narration.
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?
Katsutoshi Otomo
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Haruo Kikuchi
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
Toru Ibuki
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Ryuji
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
Shiro Hayata
Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.
Shiro Hayata
Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.
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.
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
Hayata Shiro
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
Sho Onuma
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Mitsuo Fujiki
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…
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.
Kazuo Yamamoto
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Komakichi Sugimoto
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
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 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
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.
Second Sublieutenant Hanzawa
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
Dr. Yamatone
A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
Bungo Endo
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
Ken Abe
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men capture the pair and keep them prisoner in their underwater city.
Mitarai Ken
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.
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.
Toru Sasayama
34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.
Lawyer Ohki
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.
Shinichi 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).
An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba
Japanese action film.
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.
Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.
Takao
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
Sonny Chiba plays a low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work. He falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother (Saburo Kitajima) later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes. The film is charmingly old fashioned, utilizing many studio sets and Showa era music; however, the film's real strength is the breezy romance between Chiba and lovely Chiyoko Honma.
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.
Sonny Chiba in an adaption from Ryutaro Kondo work
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
Shinkichi Hayami
A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
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.
1962 Japanese movie
Nagashima
A story about the nature of office workers today.
Detective Nakagawa
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.
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.
Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like its predecessor, the film runs barely over one hour and never drags. It’s a little less goofy, but doesn’t have as beautiful landscapes the first movie had. Not an especially good film, but for fans of Fukasaku and Chiba it’s an entertaining if flawed 60 minutes.
Goro Saionji
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.
Detective Nakagawa
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.
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.
Tachibana - Scientist / Space Chief
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
