The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Yoshino
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?
Japanese crime film
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.
In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organization for the way in which accomplishes it. Upon his return he finds that the fortunes of the group have declined - there has been treachery and desertion. This time with the approval of the seniors he settles the differences with a duel. After winning, however, he declines the position of gang-boss, preferring his freedom, and once more leaves town.
Fujimura
В этом джазово-гангстерском фильме исправляющийся убийца «Феникс» Тэтцу, в ожидании решения внезапно возникших проблем, скитается по Японии, пока в одном из притонов он окончательно не решает возвратиться в Токио и решить проблемы полагаясь только на себя.
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."
A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and the journalist finally comes to the conclusion, which he publishes, that "keeping your virginity until your wedding day will never be a source of regret for either men or women."
Hachiro Surgeon
Вторая мировая война. По равнинам Северного Китая едет грузовик с проститутками, присланными «для нужд военных». Семи проституткам дан приказ: начиная с нынешней ночи, обслужить тысячу солдат на этом фронте. Первый мужчина Харуми в эту ночь, жестокий лейтенант Нарита, решает оставить ее при себе как «свою» женщину. Но ей нравится другой — Миками, солдат с красивыми серьезными глазами…
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.
Koji Himuro, a brilliant gambler, was killed by his brother and lover for discovering cheating gambling. As a result, he vows never to roll the dice, but gets involved in the incident everywhere he goes. The first in the "Black Gambler Series". The feature of this series is that the existing gag was mainly created by accumulating lines and small actions, but in this series, gag is done by exaggerated gimmicks. Film critic Hideo Nishiwaki points out that it may be the influence of the 007 movie series.
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also trying to find the culprit. Based on a true incident.
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Fusae's husband
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....
Kudo
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.
Takeo Minegishi
Поведение жёсткого парня Мидзуно привлекает внимание босса якузда, который немедленно нанимает его на работу. Вскоре из-за Мидзуно развязывается война между бандами.
Miyashita
Гангстерские банды Сакура и Оцуки завладевают армейским имуществом с базы США — и остаются ни с чем: грузовик угнала ещё одна, чужая банда. Полиция сумела поймать только одного человека из этой банды, Манабэ. Манабэ отпущен под залог, и детективы из Агентства 23 начинают большую игру. Детектив Тадзима прикидывается бандитом и спасает Манабэ от мести гангстеров Сакура и Оцуки. Манабэ приводит Тадзиму к своему боссу Хатано. Несмотря на недоверчивость Хатано, Тадзима начинает участвовать в деятельности банды, но наталкивается в клубе на танцовщицу Салли, которой известно, что он детектив.
Yasukawa
Сэйдзи Фудзикура работает в магазине электротоваров г-на Такэи и ухаживает за его дочерью Ёко. Под впечатлением от боксерского матча, в котором победил Хисаси Исихара, Сэйдзи приходит в клуб бывшего чемпиона Адзумы. Гангстер (и тоже бывший боксер) Кэндзиро Ёсида пытается переманить парня в банду якудза. Сэйдзи выигрывает матчи, но продолжает работать электриком. Он проигрывает важный матч, вместе с тренером уволен и дисквалифицирован на три месяца: делавшие ставку на него думают, что он проиграл по сговору. Спустя время, Сэйдзи возвращается к тренировкам. Ему предстоит матч с Исихарой за чемпионский титул, но публика ему не доверяет. Бандиты шантажируют Сэйдзи: бармен Хаясаки якобы потерял рассудок от его удара, Сэйдзи придется плохо, если он не проиграет матч на восьмом раунде. Сэйдзи выходит на ринг с готовностью поддаться...
Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Ôkubo
Молодежный фильм.
Hatsuko's Fiancé
Добросердечный силач Дзиро и вспыльчивый Ёсио — школьные товарищи, они живут на окраине Токио. Мать Дзиро готовится открыть кафе, а отец Ёсио, плотник, работает у нее. Дзиро и Ёсио умудрились выиграть на скачках солидную сумму, но эти деньги отобрал у них молоденький якудза, только что появившийся в округе. Якудза оживились с ростом экономики, и все хозяева лавочек и забегаловок платят им дань.
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Mujo no yume" by Mitsuo Sagawa.
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Kusunoki
Kensuke Shimamura
Тацуо Нисина и Коити Катори — репортеры, знакомые со школьной скамьи и сейчас работающие на газеты-конкуренты. Оба пытаются распутать дело международного картеля наркоторговцев «Нулевая линия», однако подходы к работе у них разные. Катори готов переступить через этические границы ради достижения цели, а Нисина — нет. В немалой степени Нисину удерживает то, что он влюблен. Его любимая Сумико — младшая сестра Катори.
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
Akio Shôji
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.
Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.
1959 Japanese movie
Tokuzo's second son Yoshikichi
A man is wrongfully accused of murder.
Gorô Miyagawa
A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal.