First part of a long series of films (V-Cinema) in which we follow the rise of a Yakuza clan.
First part of a long series of films (V-Cinema) in which we follow the rise of a Yakuza clan.
Juzo Kurokawa
Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young idol, Sylvia , who is the main character at the "Flower Earth Festival 2008" organized by Denodo. Sylvia has been threatened by someone to resign from the main character role. Tadano starts investigating while supporting Yamanishi, the event organizer. However, Tadano is struck down by a mysterious giant of a man. Yamanishi, who has obtained important information, is murdered, and Sylvia is kidnapped. Tadano realizes that Anzai, Yamanishi's right-hand man who has been eyeing the chairmanship, is the mastermind behind this. Tadano rescues Sylvia and brings her to the event venue.
Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.
After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city.
Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was shot dead by a member of the Umeyama group dividing the place. This is the beginning of the "Osaka War" that shook the world of Japanese gangsters.
A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.
Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work together in a CD shop and catch every chance to show their talents. Under the efforts of Masato, his company at last becomes an entertainment giant in Japan.
Seizo Matsuki
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
The fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the Kansai yakuza who are planning to advance to the Kanto region by taking advantage of the off-track betting dispute.
A rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization!
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.
Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
Toshimitsu Hanamura
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate.
The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
Detective investigates a murder connected to cocaine in a coin locker
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work.
A painfully splendid adventure has begun!
Owner of Hotel Sanno
О мятеже националистически настроенных офицеров японской армии, произошедшем 26-29 февраля 1936 года. Мятеж организовали молодые офицеры-националисты, которые были убеждены в том, что побороть в стране политическую коррупцию и крайнюю бедность в сельской местности можно лишь путём устранения нескольких высших политиков…
Ken Tadokoro
В одном из районов Токио после летних каникул планируется снести старую школу. Единственный человек, который серьёзно переживает по этому поводу, — преподаватель японского языка Накадзима. Он решает во время летних каникул провести специальные дополнительные занятия для отстающих учеников, которые бы остались у них на память о старой школе. Занятия в отличие от обычных проходят по желанию самих учеников. Дети хотят знать, как понравиться учительнице, как кататься на роликах и многое другое, что не объясняется на обычных уроках. Совместные игры-занятия сплачивают их, а настоящая дружба рождается, когда они готовятся провести праздник специально для отца одной девочки, больного раком. Чтобы доставить ему радость, им приходится преодолеть много трудностей.
The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
Japanese drama film.
Kyubei Hori
Начало 1930-х годов. Исполнитель традиционных баллад нанива-буси Каиэмон Тотюкэн с чужой женой уезжает в Америку. Они надеются добиться славы и успеха, вдвоем исполняя свои баллады: он будет петь, она — аккомпанировать. В Сан-Франциско они останавливаются в гостинице «Иокогама Хаус», которую патронирует местная японская мафия. Однажды Косомэ, спутница Каиэмона, проигрывает в карты саму себя и становится проституткой в этой же гостинице. Каиэмона прогоняют, и он бродит по улицам в японском костюме, исполняя свои баллады. Японский гангстер Ган Тэцу приводит как-то раз Каиэмона в клуб, где в него влюбляется певица Лилиан, обожающая все японское, особенно самураев. Тэцу скоро становится главой японской мафии. Ей противостоит Фрэнк Капоне, брат знаменитого гангстера Аль Капоне, работающий в связке с китайской мафией. С объявлением сухого закона Тэцу начинает тайно делать сакэ.
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
Muraoka
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Masao Machida
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
Sotaro
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or seen her.
Shinichi Iwai
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
Sanada Nobuyuki
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Kawazu
Дело происходит в середине 18-го века. Гомё — глава одной из трех преступных группировок Эдо, дает у себя приют женщине, которая пыталась покончить с собой, и одноглазому ронину Ятаро Танигаве, который не помнит своего прошлого. Оба они оказываются странным образом связаны с кланом Китамаэ, расформированным в результате интриг министра сегуна Танумы и его приспешника Симогуни, бывшего казначея клана Китамаэ. Неожиданно Гомё оказывается в самом центре этой грязной истории, связанной с уничтожением клана Китамаэ.
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
Shunroku Kazama
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.
Jûdayû Araki
1722 год, город Эдо. Вот уже десять лет в окрестностях орудует банда воров под руководством загадочного Кумокири. Мошенники совершают дерзкие, продуманные ограбления и остаются неуловимыми. Амбициозный самурай Шикуба, начальник отряда по расследованию грабежей и поджогов, считает поимку главаря делом чести. Но все его представления о справедливости и законе рушатся, когда он узнает тайну, которая окутывает прошлое лихого преступника…
Fukushima
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Kaizu
В 1972 году формальный суверенитет над префектурой Окинава вернулся от США к Японии. Банды с большой земли устремились урвать свой кусок, но встретили сопротивление местных якудза, которые объединились в союз, дабы не допустить на свою землю чужаков. Однако не все местные боссы оказались истинными патриотами, некоторые были готовы влиться в крупнейшие токийские банды, что привело к большой войне якудза на Окинаве.
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
Gangster
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
Sumitomo Mitsui
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
Noshiro
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.
Lt. Kaida
1963 год. С того дня, как босс Охара отправился за решётку, в Курасиме не стихает война между бандами. Молодой наследник отбывающего срок босса Кэндзи Хиротани уже несколько лет намеревается восстановить власть своего клана в городе, но пока не в состоянии этого сделать. У его соперника Кавады больше денег, людей и связей наверху, но зато у Кэндзи есть своя бригада и хороший друг — инспектор уголовной полиции Куно, который всегда готов прикрыть его в случае неприятностей. Куно не считает себя продажным полицейским, так как деньги никогда не были для него приоритетом. Просто он считает, что во всём должен быть свой порядок. Если якудза — неизбежное зло, значит, его нужно просто научиться контролировать. А кому это сделать, как не сообразительному парню Хиротани? Признаться, Куно даже сам помышлял в молодости о том, чтобы стать бандитом, но потом решил, что работать в полиции куда круче и выгоднее.
Kozaburo Imai
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Вице-адмирал Императорского флота Японии Ониси Такидзиро, блестящий стратег, один из немногих, кто смотрит в будущее. Он знает, что Япония не может выиграть Тихоокеанскую войну. Поскольку военная обстановка становится критической, он предлагает отчаянный план, чтобы вынудить врага договориться о мире и избежать позора сдачи - самоубийственные атаки камикадзе - летчиков-смертников. Это истинная история человека, который организовал разрушительные нападения камикадзе, и трагических последствий его рокового решения...
The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same time, she gives money to Riki, a young aspiring photographer, and has a relationship with him. Riki gets to know Emika and falls in love with her at first sight. When Riki asks Ineko for money to buy a car, Ineko sells Emika's virginity to Ohashi.
Shinichi Iwai
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.
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Shinichi Iwai
Преемник семьи Мураока, самой могущественной семьи якудза в Хиросиме, жестоко убит средь бела дня на центральной улице города. В постепенно развивающейся борьбе за место преемника проныра Утимото гнусно ставит палки в колёса боссу Ямамори, который хочет стать новым боссом семьи Мураока…
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
Ryusuke Akutsu
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
Hiroshi Wakasugi
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.
This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Осужденная за убийство босса мафии главарь молодежной банды Нами выходит из тюрьмы, чтобы завязать с криминальным прошлым. Она нанимается в качестве хостес в ночной клуб Гинзы. Но нравы этого района заставляют вспомнить старые навыки.
Pinku from 1971.
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someone seeks to fill the seat of power.
Pinku from 1971.
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
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.
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
Shinjiro Asahi
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.
Hiroshi Matsunaga
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Окацу живёт со своими родителями и готовится к свадьбе. В городе и округе неспокойно - комендант Дзюдаю занимается контрабандой табака и истязает местных крестьян. Отец Окацу требует от Дзюдаю прекратить бесчинства и собирается отправить “Заявление о преступлениях” в Эдо. По приказу коменданта семью Окацу хватают и пытают. Мать и отец покончили жизнь самоубийством, а Окацу удалось сбежать. Она собирается доставить “Заявление” по назначению, но все дороги оказываются перекрыты.
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Matsukichi came to Yokosuka relying on his old friend Mitsuo Nakai from the Nakai gang, but Nakai was killed and the gang disbanded. Matsukichi discovers that the Shimanaka gang is behind everything, and from her the thread reaches the Navy. With the help of grenades and sword, Matsukichi, nicknamed "Bomb Man", sets off a disorderly rampage.
Hiroshi Kosaka
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…
Miyata
Wataru Emoto
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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.
Takeshi Kogure
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
Kazusaburo Funakoshi
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.
Goro
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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.
Masa
Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
Jiro Fukumoto
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Ryuichi Kitagawa
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
Eijiro Kikukawa
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Otojirô
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
Shinjirô Ôizumi
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fulasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both.
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a brutal war for territory between the clans according to the merciless laws of the yakuza.
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.
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Goro
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second-generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.
Toshihiko Takagi
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his proprietress is forced to turn to a successful businessman, owner of entertainment establishments and bars. But she has nothing to guarantee the return of the debt, and then she offers herself as collateral. A drama about the contradictory nature of human feelings.
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.
Shigemi Nitta
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
Eisuke Enjo
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.
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
Hideo Matsunaga
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her.
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in response to Kikuya, the head of the Asahina family, refusing to join the Syndicate. Yamaoka relentlessly pursues the Asahina family and uses his brother Komatsu to kill Shibaki, Kikuya's brother, who owns Nagoya territory. When Kikuya receives information that a general meeting of the Brown and Yamaoka Syndicate is to be held in Nagoya, he is determined to root out the syndicate and rushes to Nagoya, ready to die...
After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku swears to dedicate himself to protect the Koganes in time of crisis. Hishakaku’s humble life comes to a sudden halt when the Kogane family becomes involved in a fatal feud with their rival, and Hishakaku’s services are called upon.
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Kuroki
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
Munekata
Спецагенты бросают вызов ювелирному контрабандному синдикату. Погоня начинается на Кюсю и продолжается от Кобе до Иокогамы.
Герой картины, репортёр-коммунист Куроки, изгнан из крупной газеты во время чистки красных в 1950-е годы и теперь ведёт богемный образ жизни. Он подрабатывает в небольшой газетёнке и в поисках сенсационного материала случайно обнаруживает тайную организацию, снабжающую оружием реакционные правительства стран Азии, в том числе и антиреволюционные силы в Южной Корее. Однако, когда ему в руки попадают нити этого грязного дела, накопившееся в нём неприятие властей и Америки вдруг прорывается, и он с головой уходит в расследование. Но всех свидетелей убивают у него на глазах. Ему удаётся установить, что этой организацией руководит некий Такаяма. Но материал, собранный журналистом, газета боится публиковать, не желая вступать в конфликт с американскими властями, с которыми связан Такаяма. Тогда Куроки решает обратиться за поддержкой к прогрессивной печати Японии, потому что бороться с врагом в одиночку нельзя.
1962 Japanese movie
Dr. Hatsushi
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
Shigeo
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.
Kenji Mamiya
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of the director of the company, is sexually harassed by him. Kenji beats the director and resigns. He asks his brother Ryota, the manager of the cabaret, to find a job, but his brother refuses him, and he is taken in by Senba, a yakuza boss specializing in smuggling and drugs...
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
Fujio
Самый обычный дневной рейс из Токио в Саппоро с остановкой в Мориоке. Но только на этот раз на борту пассажирского Showa R2D2 — 26 пассажиров, 4 члена экипажа и один убийца.
The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.
Kogoro Akechi
Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.
Yûsei ôji / Waku-san
When an alien force tries to invade Earth to steal a powerful new rocket fuel, a mysterious hero intervenes.
