В эпоху Шова молодой якудза, преодолев множество сложностей, становится боссом влиятельного клана.
Yuhara
1881 год. Япония ставит задачу освоения Хоккайдо. Но проложить дороги в этих суровых местах можно только силами заключенных. Начальник тюрьмы Кабато, тиран и шут Цукигата Тэнгоку не жалеет ничьих жизней. Какая расплата ждет его за грехи?
Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
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Japanese film.
A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased bymen that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!
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.
Rennyo was the key figure responsible for the restoration of Shin Buddhism in Japan, in particular the Honganji lineage that had a slump in its fortunes during the Middle Ages. According to the legend, his motivation was a pivotal childhood incident at the age of six when his mother summoned him and told him about his destiny to revive the fortunes of the Honganji school to which he was the next in line. She then mysteriously disappeared from the temple. Taking her words to heart, from a background of great poverty and hardship, at the age of 16 he set out to spread the word across the land.
When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first violinist returns to his home and manages to get the orchestra back together for a grandiose performance, saved at the last minute by their original conductor -- and boding well for the future of the die-hard musicians.
Rothbart (voice)
The hero, Prince Siegfried, is out riding one day with his friends when he spies amidst swans on a lake a particularly eye-catching one with a crown on its head, the familiar Princess ...
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Будующий кампаку (канцлер) - Тоётоми Хидэёси приказывает своему вассалу, Сёгэну Сирануи уничтожить крепость клана ниндзя Сандаю Момоти, и завладеть его тайным золотым рудником. Чтобы найти рудник, нужно сложить хвостовики двух кинжалов, карта на которых укажет, где он спрятан. Один из кинжалов находится во владении Сандаю Момоти, главы (асона) клана Момоти. Но кто владеет другим? Сирануи истребляет поголовно весь клан Момоти. Спастись удаётся лишь нескольким детям, в том числе и сыну главы клана - Такамару Момоти.
Iwataro Okabe
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to work on the first night after her marriage. Ten years later, the married couple is still at it. Yauso tends to the house and their children, while Keiko sacrifices family life for life as an overworked nurse. One day, after Keiko comes home utterly exhausted and dejected from her work, Yasuo makes up his mind and writes a letter of resignation in her place. Upon learning of this, Keiko angrily declares that nursing is what she lives for and she will keep on working. Realising that that is one battle he will never win, Yasuo sends a letter to a newspaper -- “Nurses’ husbands, aren’t you having a hard time? Get together nurses’ husbands. Contact me.” There is a tremendous response. This leads to the formation of many unions of nurses’ husbands throughout the country.
Когда молодого солдата, пытавшегося не дать продать свою сестру Каори в проститутки, убивают, его командир, полковник Мияги, пытается исполнить его последнее желание и спасти его сестру. Увидев Каоми на вечеринке в качестве гейши и затем спасая её от попытки самоубийства, полковник Мияги приглашает её жить к себе. Через некоторое время они сближаются, у Каори появляются к нему чувства, но полковник Мияги не может позволить себе ответить ей взаимностью. В ночь пред своей отправкой на войну Мияги наконец признаётся Каори в своих чувствах, но смогут ли они насладиться мирной жизнью вместе, когда начинается жестокое и кровавое восстание военных...
Koizumi Yukinaga
Действие фильма начинается в конце 70-х годов ХХ века в Японии. Во время учений японской армии, группа военных, ночью, во-время передислокации попадает в аномальную зону, после чего попадает во времена самураев, когда Япония была в состоянии междоусобных войн, шел передел территорий. Командир одного из подразделений японской армии, подружившись с одним из правителей, решили с помощью современного оружия, которое естественно тоже попало в те времена, завоевать всю Японию.
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Hidenobu Fujioka
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Kazuaki Yashiro
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Fujii
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Кано — якудза. Он должен убить Мацуоку, который предал их босса. Кано знал, что у Мацуоки была трёхлетняя дочь, поэтому прежде, чем сдаться полиции, он попросил, чтобы его человек, которому он доверял, заботился о ней. В тюрьме Кано продолжал посылать письма девочке, маскируясь под дядю из Бразилии. 15 лет спустя Кано выходит из тюрьмы. Бывший якузда настроен жить, не нарушая закон, однако жизнь вносит свои коррективы.
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.
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
Yoshimatsu Sasamoto
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
Michizou Senbou
Спортивный журнал нанимает не самую известную модель, чтобы та в рекламных целях приняла участие в профессиональном турнире по гольфу. Но Рейко неожиданно оказывается слишком талантливой спортсменкой и выигрывает чемпионат, мгновеннно становясь знаменитой. Но у славы всегда имеются две стороны, а поклонники могут оказаться чересчур назойливы. Вместо того, чтобы пожинать плоды удачи, Рейко оказывается один на один с большими проблемами. Ведь работодателям тоже не слишком нужна слишком яркая «звезда».
Tetsugorō Iwata
Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
Katsunosuke Miura
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Yuji Tadokoro
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Kinugasa
Japanese crime film.
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.
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.
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.
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
Tokumatsu
По одноименной новелле Кэндзи Маруямы. Два друга отправляются на север Японии, чтобы в портовом городе найти корабль, который сможет отвезти их в Африку. Эта нелепая идея не сулит им ни денег, ни славы, ни уважения местных жителей. Малобюджетный фильм изобилует потасовками, издевательствами и эротическими сценами.
Sagawa
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.
Yoshii Haruo
Босс Эгава входил в клан Тогику, но почти все его подручные попали в тюрьму, а после отсидки оказались не нужны Тогику. В компенсацию Эгава получил в подарок бар «Мадрид». Остальные бандиты Эгавы планируют развязать новую войну, в которой они снова окажутся нужны.
Ishiyama
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
Tomoji Okajima
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Sekiguchi
Sohku Yamazaki
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?
Kunimatsu Takanashi
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.
Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks the life of a yakuza hitman.
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls set their sights on one thing: revenge. Miki Sugimoto stars as girl boss Komasa, the ruthless and sadistic leader of the Kanto Gypsies who possesses more than enough brains to match her killer looks.
Narrator
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Tokugawa Yoshinao
Его услуги стоят 500 золотых монет. Если он соглашается выполнить задание, участь его жертвы решена. Но новое задание Итто очень опасно. Он должен убить Оюки, татуированную королеву боевых искусств.
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.
Boss Mangoro
После смертоносной встречи со старушкой на прогнившем подвесном мосту, Затойчи отправляется на поиски ее дочери, чтобы воздать ей честь за гибель ее матери. Он выясняет, что ее дочь, Нисикиги, самая известная проститутка в местном борделе. И чтобы спасти ее от такой греховной жизни, он решает заработать деньги для ее выкупа, но заходит слишком далеко выиграв у местных якудз деньги. И как следствие, все хотят его смерти: местный начальник, фехтовальщик и любовник проститутки. И самое страшное, что Нисикиги совсем не жалеет, что живет такой неправедной жизнью!
Samonji
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.
Kizaki
Исаму Окита с малых лет был предоставлен самому себе, его школой была улица. Он вырос и стал предводителем банды. Во время одной из разборок он с ножом нападает на соперников и в результате садится в тюрьму. Выйдя на свободу, Исаму обнаруживает, что мир слегка изменился, но методы бандита остались такими же, и он намерен отвоевать свою территорию.
Yakuza Boss
When two Girl Bosses fight each other over territory, their enmity is difficult to solve - they are equals in looks, strength, determination, and power of their respective girl gangs. So, the way is open to a mischievous Yakuza Boss who invites them for a peaceful way to decide their feud: a sexual challenge for him to decide who is the better Girl Boss. Trapped, both are subject to the man's lust and sadistic assaults. They escape by joining forces against the yakuza gang, though it costs one of the young women her life - when she was friends already with her former enemy.
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Tatsuya Kayama
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.
A young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when his boss refuses to follow their ancient code of ethics.
Silver (voice)
К мальчику Джиму случайно попала карта, на которой обозначен остров с несметными сокровищами капитана Флинта. Он вместе со своим верным другом-мышонком отправляется в плавание. Но вскоре смельчаков настигают пираты. После неравной схватки друзья терпят поражение, и морские разбойники продают их работорговцу. В тюрьме они знакомятся с пленницей Кэти, внучкой капитана Флинта. Теперь их трое, и вместе они способны не только вырваться из застенков, но и преодолеть самые опасные препятствия на пути к богатству…
The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore.
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Suzaki
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.
1945 год. Терпя поражения по всем фронтам от сил союзников, Япония прибегает к последнему средству – использованию пилотов-камикадзе для атак вражеских кораблей. Но эффективность этих атак не высока, половина пилотов погибает, даже ещё не долетев до своих целей, часть из них сбивают вражеские самолёты, часть силы ПВО противника. Для увеличения эффективности, командование принимает решение создать отряд эскорта, пилоты которого будут прикрывать, и сопровождать пилотов-камикадзе до целей. На должность командира отряда назначают капитана Масато Мунакату, в прошлом он сам участвовал в атаке смертников в заливе Лейте, но остался в живых. Капитан Мунаката отказывается возглавить отряд, так как убеждён, что таким способом не победить в войне. Но переубедить командование невозможно, и осознав, что без эскорта пилоты и дальше будут напрасно гибнуть, не выполнив свой долг, Мунаката вступает в должность.
After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her.
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Kinpachi
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.
Yabuki
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.
Sanji
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.
Lord Ozeki
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
Hirukawa
Hirosuke, a medical student with almost no recollection of his past, is trapped in an asylum, despite being perfectly sane. After escaping from the loony bin, and being framed for the murder of a circus girl, he spots the photo of a recently deceased man, Genzaburo Komoda, to whom he bears an uncanny resemblance. By pretending to have been resurrected, Hirosuke assumes the dead man's identity, fooling everyone, including Komoda's widow and mistress. Whilst at the Komoda household, Hirosuke recalls memories that convince him to travel to a nearby island, home of Jogoro, the web-fingered father of Genzaburo. Whilst on the island, Hirosuke not only discovers Jogoro's plans to build his 'ideal community' (by transforming perfectly normal humans into hideous freaks), but also the awful truth behind his own identity.
Hatsutaro Ochiai
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
Yoshio Kodaira (segment "Kodaira jiken")
A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras.
Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers: Takahashi Oden, the last woman beheaded in Japan, Sada Abe, a crazy lover, Kunihiko Kodaira, a rapist-killer and finally, the Toyokaku case, a woman who did everything to own a hotel.
Kamarkim (voice)
Аладдин влюбляется в прекрасную рабыню, которую продают на невольничьем рынке Багдада. Девушку зовут Мириум, и она нравится молодому безумцу до такой степени, что он похищает её из-под носа работорговца.
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Horitatsu
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
Japanese crime film
Lucifer
Бедный юноша Пьер и принцесса Роза полюбили друг друга, но на их пути множество преград, и самая опасная из них — злой, ужасный Люцифер, всемогущий волшебник, властитель Ада, решивший жениться на красавице! Хорошо, что у Пьера и Розы нашелся настоящий друг, веселый и находчивый, хитрый и храбрый кот Перро. Никто и ничто не может I помешать ему, разве что преследующие его коты-наемные убийцы…
Japanese crime film.
Terauchi
A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
Tetsunosuke Kanehara
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…
Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trail that involves the Shogun's harem, hidden christians, and positively pregnant politics!
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
Tsuji
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Три истории о пытках времён эпохи Эдо. Первая: инцест брата и сестры. Вторая: любовные похождения монахинь. Третья: одержимый татуировщик.
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
Makino Bingo-no-kami
A tragic love story involving the 5th Shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty and a woman who became one of his concubines.
Matasaburo Tachibanaya
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
Два главных героя, капитан-лейтенант Осато и лейтенант Мисима прилагают все усилия для развития подводных диверсионных сил, торпед-камикадзе и их использования в японском флоте. Однако они наталкиваются на стену непонимания и неприятия. Только в тот момент, когда поражение Японии в войне почти неизбежно, принято решение о внедрении этого разрушительного оружия. При одном из тренировочных погружений Осато погибает и теперь завершить дело всей его жизни должен Мисима.
Boss Gonzo
Главному герою предстоит сопроводить 6-ти летнего мальчика по имени Риота к его отцу, художнику Сакити в далёкую деревню Мэйбар. Некий путник, случайно оказавшийся свидетелем разборки между Затойчи и пятью бандитами на проселочной дороге окажется сильнейшим ронином по имени Акацука. Прибыв в Мэйбар, выяснилось что отец ребенка, художник Сакити находиться в плену у местного начальника Гонзо, и без помощи Затойчи ему никогда не освободиться. Вскоре выясняется, что Гонзо с подельниками промышляют фарфоровыми изделиями с запретными изображениями, а ронину Акацуке поручили с этим разобраться. Тут дороги Затойчи и Акацуки пересекаются вновь.
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
A 1967 crime film
Tatsunosuke
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro.
First Lieutenant Ôoka
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Kimura
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gambling. For when he is about to marry the daughter of a police official, the rival again interferes and this time it is a fight to the finish -- the end of his enemy.
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
Kawamoto
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
Matoba
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
Narrator (voice)
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Sawakichi
Томе родилась в 1918 году и почти сразу же началась ее жестокая жизнь секс-рабыни. Она подозревает, что даже ее собственный отец сожительствовал с ней. Вскоре у нее рождается дочь Нобуко. Наконец, в 23 года ей удается выйти замуж, но ненадолго — от ее мужа беременеет служанка. Вскоре Томе попадает в тайный публичный дом и со временем становится его хозяйкой.
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agents (jidanya), mediators between the parts and the insurance companies to avoid time-consuming legal actions that could come when no settlement is reached (while cheating both parties out of some piece of the settlement pay). Genkichi is a well versed old-timer, that sees how his freshly out of collage son struggles to fit into the business, while at the same time facing one of his lowest rivals in a car crash incident.
Tatsu
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.
Actor
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Пятнадцатилетняя сирота Вакае работает в ночном баре, где она научилась пить, курить и даже воровать. Однажды Вакае встречает своего товарища детских игр Сабуро, приехавшего из Токио, где он работал на фабрике. Теперь он безработный, получает пособие. Сабуро всячески старается помочь Вакае. Он уговаривает девочку вернуться в школу, помогает ей догнать класс, дает деньги, чтобы уплатить за учебу. Для Вакае Сабуро был единственным, кто относился к ней по-доброму. Но, поссорившись с родителями, Сабуро уезжает работать на птицеферму. Однажды вечером Вакае приезжает навестить друга, а ночью на ферме вспыхнул пожар и девушку обвиняют в поджоге. Ее отправляют в детскую исправительную колонию...
Hanai
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Портовый город Йокогама. Сабуро Минаками потерял родителей во время войны, он ещё подросток, но должен выживать один в этом мире. Его наставником становится господин Китани, которого он называет старшим братом. Однако Китани заставляет его заниматься грязными делами. Он взимает мзду с временных рабочих в порту, которые отчаянно пытаются прокормить свои семьи. Рабочие не намерены это терпеть, они хотят организовать профсоюз, чтобы защитить свои права.
Toshio Kosaka
Популярный участник телевизионных шоу Дайсаку Кита известен по всей стране. Его окружают толпы поклонников. Они заключили с его менеджером Норико странное соглашение: чтобы сберечь свежесть чувств, они не будут заниматься сексом и даже не будут целовать друг друга. Однако такие отношения им только в тягость, Дайсаку постепенно перестаёт понимать, ради чего он живёт. В этот момент он встречает в Токио девушку, которая полюбила врача, живущего в далёкой деревне на Кюсю. Ради любви девушка купила для возлюбленного старенький джип, но не знает, как переправить его на другой конец страны.
Japanese action film.
Трагическая история любви, продолжающаяся 17 лет, начинается в последние годы войны. Безнадежно больной Сюсаку Кавамото ищет пристанища в глухой деревушке. Его страдания трогают сердце юной Синко, она спасает его жизнь, но все больше привязывается к нему душой. Ей непонятно, почему избежавший смерти её возлюбленный мечтает о самоубийстве. Она готова бороться до конца, но жизнь готовит ей новые испытания.
Акико потеряла слух, когда ей было 3 года. Она умеет говорить и читать по губам. Но она не верит в то, что может быть счастлива. Жизнь только раз за разом подтверждает её опасения. В послевоенное время страдают все, даже самые здоровые люди. Встреча с глухонемым Митио не сулит ей избавления от страданий. Только по прошествии 10 лет в семье прорастают ростки счастья. Выживут ли они?
Hayakawa
Господин Исино — респектабельный чиновник известной компании, у него есть жена, двое детей, приличная зарплата и молодая любовница. Неожиданная встреча на ночной улице дает ему возможность обеспечить алиби невиновного человека, но для этого ему придется признаться в наличии внебрачной связи, и тем самым полностью разрушить свою устоявшуюся жизнь.
Парикмахер Тоёмацу Симидзу в самом конце войны призван на военную службу. По приказу высшего начальства он участвует в казни американских военнопленных. После окончания войны его отдают под трибунал, как военного преступника.
Перемещение шекспировского Макбета в средневековую Японию. После грандиозной победы на поле брани, заблудившись в дремучем лесу, лорды Васидзу и Мики наталкиваются на загадочную вещую старуху, которая предсказывает великое будущее Васидзу, и еще более великое — потомкам Мики. Выбравшись из леса, они действительно получают вызов и почетные назначения от императора. Васидзу, подстрекаемый амбициозной женой, и задумывает пойти дальше предсказаний старой колдуньи, но судьба есть судьба…
«Тринадцатая ночь»: 13-й день девятого месяца — это традиционный праздник любования луной. Поздним вечером Осэки приезжает в дом родителей, чтобы рассказать, как мучительно ей жить в доме мужа. Она ищет у родителей понимания и защиты. «В последний день года»: Оминэ обращается к хозяйке за помощью. Она должна спасти дядю, который воспитал её. Если он не оплатит долг до конца года, его ждет крах. «Мутный поток»: Рики надоела жизнь продажной женщины. Её пугает бродящий за ней Гэн, который растратил на неё все свои сбережения. Господин Юки совсем другой, он богат и беззаботен, но захочет ли он взять её в жены.
