Wada's grandfather
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...
Фильм состоит из двух новелл, первая рассказывает о преследовании христиан в средневековой Японии. Вторая — о жизни японского дома терпимости 19 века. Фильм изобилует кадрами изощрённых пыток и казней.
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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…
Это история Рюко Сэндзо, которая с ранних лет, после смерти матери, воспитывалась отцом, игроком по имени Сэндзо Яно в Кумамото. В год, когда Рюко исполнилось 18 лет, её отец был убит и ограблен. Убийца так и не был найден, но на месте преступления был обнаружен кошелёк, который он случайно обронил во время нападения. Одержимая местью, Рюко покидает свой клан и отправляется в странствие по стране в надежде отыскать убийцу отца. Проходят годы. Рюко становится известной под именем игрок Орю и за татуировку цветка на плече, получает прозвище «Красный Пион». Странствия приводят её в Осаку...
Клан Абэ собираются несправедливо расформировать по причине опрометчивых действий соседнего князя, оказавшегося братом сёгуна. Управляющий клана Абэ разрабатывает план, чтобы убить обидчика во время возвращения из Эдо, но ситуация осложняется, когда в неё вмешивается один из старейшин. Одиннадцати самураям поручается отомстить обидчику.
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro.
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
Part two.
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.
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord.
Hayato Sakai
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take possession of the “Sword of Heaven and Earth.” The film stars the father and son of Jushiro Konoe and Hiroki Matsukata.
Третья часть пенталогии Утиды Тому о легендарном мастере меча Миямото Мусаси. Этот персонаж хорошо известен по трилогии Инагаки с Тосиро Мифунэ в главной роли. Здесь роль Мусаси с успехом исполняет не менее талантливый и разносторонний актер - Накамура Кинноскэ. Странствия Мусаси продолжаются. На этот раз ему предстоят встречи с предствавителями двух известных школ владения мечом - Ягю и Ёсиока.
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible involvement in a nefarious plot to take over rule of the Hizen Shimabara clan by assassinating the rightful lord, his son, and install one of Shogun Ienari’s offspring as daimyo.
When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he must find the culprit and exact revenge. His return sets off a series of violent incidents and incites a high ranked female skilled in sword to test his mettle after he unwittingly offends her. The ever delightful Misora Hibari co-stars with the great Tsuruta Koji in this exciting tale set in the earliest days of the Tokugawa shogunate. Lots of exciting swordfights highlight this entertaining motion picture!
Дзиро Сано — преуспевающий владелец ткацкой фабрики, обладающий, помимо приличного состояния, редкой добротой и отзывчивостью к людям, чем вызывает искреннее уважение у окружающих. Единственное, что омрачает его жизнь, — врожденное уродство лица, в силу чего, дожив до зрелых лет, он так и не обзавелся ни женой, ни наследником. Случай сводит Дзиро с гейшей Оцуру в увеселительном квартале Эдо — Ёсиваре. Оцуру — бывшая заключенная, она вынуждена обслуживать Дзиро, когда другие девушки в ужасе разбегаются. Ее честолюбие и жажду обогащения добродушный человек принимает за любовь. Дзиро Сано решает выкупить девушку у ее алчного хозяина и сделать главной гейшей. Череда трагических неудач и предательство той, кого он полюбил, ломают жизненное благополучие Дзиро, доводя его до саморазрушающей ненависти и жажды отмщения…
