Kidnapped in childhood. Raised as an assassin. Shiori's spent her entire life following the orders of her mysterious masters, never questioning the commands that have sentenced hundreds to die at her hands. But when a childhood memory suddenly resurfaces, the programming in her head is short circuited and her entire world is turned upside down! Now, before her masters realize she's slipped their leash, Shiori has to escape. But to do so means she must kill again... even the ones who are close to her!
Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the group in-fightings, he learns what it really takes to be Yakuza.
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
The battle for life begins now, which one will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the Yakuza.
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the dangerous task of launching a new office in rival territory.
Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to defeat Scropis. Musashi has joined Team Sea to save the Blue Area. But there is mysterious evil monster, Sandros, who wants to destroy the Earth. Now it is up Musashi and Ultraman Cosmos to defeat Sandros and who’s the other Ultraman?
Молодой якудза Минами — член банды Адзамавари. Его эксцентричность, заставляет порой людей сомневаться в его психическом здоровье, недолюбливает его и босс банды. И однажды он посылает Минами в сопровождение Аники, который однажды спас Минами жизнь. Путь лежит в таинственный город Нагоя и в дороге предстоит встреча со странными обитателями города.
Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill Sasamoto, who betrayed the group and tried to join the fifth Sannokai-affiliated Minamiyama group. This triggered the interruption of the "Yamaha War" by Sannokai and Hayama-gumi.
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.
Osa
Set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human host of Ultraman Tiga) has a son with Rena, named Tsubasa Madoka. Tsubasa is a member of a new team, Neo Super GUTS, the successor to the original Super GUTS.
Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.
The condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own innocence. It was revenge to the true criminal. The target is a fiance, beautiful woman OL of the true criminal. Innocence to take her, and to appeal for by a threatening telephone call. In the escape drama, she mentions the gentleness of the man and knows the truth. The beautiful woman female office worker who I lose a heart to a man gradually and open the body by oneself, and pushes forward self-surrender. The urge to kill of the true criminal who broke into it alone takes two people then. And the truth of the case is uncovered!
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend and her mom in her corner, Akiko suffers awful discrimination at school and at home.
A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had a dangerous escape together.
Ryohel Mihara
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the Mihara family owns a restaurant called “Boston Grill”. Experience the ups and downs of this family and learn how they deal with the everyday problems they are faced with during difficult times.
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Honorable
This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza underworld, focusing on the apprenticeship of a rookie yakuza
Takimura
Shinkichi, Hashiba
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
Japanese drama film.
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.
Otani
Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi's companion commits a crime, which leads him to become a real yakuza. In this way Yoichi wishes to put an end to his hoodlum days, but on the other hand he has to leave his brother Michio behind...
Yoichi Kanazawa
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
Nikkatsu Roman Porno.
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.
Seiichi Kanbara
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
Kenji Igarashi
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.
Dog breeder
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
Katsu
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Gozamatsu no Magohachi
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
Kanbara Seiichi
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
Chiba
Based on Shinichi Mori song
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge, knocked the referee down. Tagami lived with his wife and five children, but when he returned home, Hara, who had been suspended for a month, wanted to receive Tagami's Subaruta training.
Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
Jiro Matsubara
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Film from 1969.
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
Sueo Shige
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Naruse
Two years before they collaborated on the immortal Stray Cat Rock series, director Yasuharu Hasebe and soon-to-be-superstar Meiko Kaji teamed up for this potent gangster flick that also stars the great Joe Shishido (Branded to Kill) and Akira Kobayashi, who would shortly thereafter star in Kinji Fukasaku's epic yakuza series Battles Without Honor and Humanity. Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa (Kobayashi) discovers that his gang has disintegrated while he was in the pen. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang (led by Shishido) who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation. Tough, cynical and violent, Retaliation cheerfully overturns romanticized notions of underworld honour, paving the way for Fukusaku's revisionist yakuza pictures of the 1970s.
Isamu Tsujikawa
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Kawachi
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Hiroshi Kurosaki
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
Japanese drama film.
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, he is determined to reunite with his mother and relay the wonderful news. With a pocket full of hopes and just one clue that may lead him to his mother, Eiji sets off for Taiwan.
Yoshida
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.
Tatsuzo the Viper
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.
Seiji Takano
Цуюко выросла на юге Осаки, в промышленном пригороде, но дом ее стоял на безлюдном склоне скалы. В собственной семье она не видела ничего хорошего: с молчаливого согласия отца, мать расплачивалась своим телом за материальную поддержку от бродячего монаха. Сама красавица Цуюко берегла свою невинность для студента Акиры, выходца из того же поселка. Но как только его не оказалось рядом, местные хулиганы отомстили ей: Цуюко была похищена и изнасилована. Мучимая кошмарными воспоминаниями, Цуюко скитается по Осаке, меняя занятия и мужчин. Она поет в баре, работает моделью, живет в содержанках.
Naojiro
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
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."
a crime film from 1965
Shinkichi Mikami
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…
Kenichi Sekiguchi
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.
Kurokawa
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
Akira
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
Toshio Tanimura
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
Токио, начало 1900-х. Кикудзи — один из тех, кто работает на банду Мурата-гуми. По непонятной причине на него нападает таинственный наемный убийца в плаще и шляпе — Ёсимура. Затем Кикудзи навлекает на себя гнев Сакурады и других членов Мурата-гуми, которые однажды вечером подстерегают его в засаде…
Takizawa
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?
Миками и Исидзука, полицейские детективы в Иокогаме, преследуют наркоторговца. В процессе погони преступника сбивает грузовик, и при этом исчезает портфель, который он имел при себе. Полицейские допрашивают владельца съестной лавки, Хираоку, находящегося поблизости, но тот отказывается сотрудничать. Когда Хираока пытается совершить побег из полицейского участка, Миками стреляет и убивает его. Начинается служебное расследование, детективов обвиняют в излишнем давлении на обвиняемого. Проходит четыре года. Миками работает на строительстве дамбы на севере страны. Он узнает, что его бывший напарник, уволившись из полиции, внезапно разбогател и собирается жениться на дочери Хираоки. Миками возвращается в Иокогаму, чтобы свести счеты с прошлым.
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.
Ginji Tachibana
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of wolves. By chance, they were found by and became a members of a yakuza family. Five years later, Take dominated the port town as a young boss.
Masaya Nozaki
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....
Hideo Nomoto
Поведение жёсткого парня Мидзуно привлекает внимание босса якузда, который немедленно нанимает его на работу. Вскоре из-за Мидзуно развязывается война между бандами.
A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.
Manabe
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.
Kenjiro Yoshida
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...
Hiroshi Ozaki
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.
Jiro
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.
Keisuke Shirato
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime
Jirô Sugita
Дзиро Сугита растет без отца, его воспитывают мать и женатый любовник матери, Намбара. Ситуация раздражает молодого человека, тем более, что отец его погиб на войне, а Намбара работает в компании «Мицубиси», делавшей танки для войны. Дзиро прожигает жизнь с такими же, как он, молодыми бездельниками, промышляющими кражей машин. В этой компании царят свободные сексуальные нравы, и забеременевшая от своего дружка Эцуко думает лишь о том, где бы достать деньги на аборт. Другая девушка, Тосими, сочувствует ей и хочет помочь. Она симпатизирует Дзиро, но он ведет себя с ней низко и относится как к проститутке. Намбара в разговоре с Дзиро добивается, чтобы юноша признал факт его близких отношений с матерью. В результате Намбара попадает в ловушку: Эцуко заманивает его на пляж, чтобы соблазнить и получить деньги для аборта, а Дзиро приводит мать, чтобы продемонстрировать ей неверность любовника.
Akira
Полиция и журналисты устраивают засаду, ничего не подозревающий Акира попадает в капкан. Он проклинает газетных писак, которые сдали его полиции. После освобождения из тюрьмы он случайно встречает обидчика и решает ему отомстить. Насилие, обман, джаз, музыка Чайковского, абстрактная живопись и реальные жертвы - это «Заводной апельсин» по-японски.
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives in Sadogashima Island, Niigata, Japan. Of course, Shinji meets yet another beautiful girl named Noriko, who closely resembles the famous actress Ruriko Asaoka again. Of course, Noriko is in trouble. Of course, Shinji's yet another skilled rival named "Tetsu, the Gunman" comes to Sado shortly. Of course, the villain tries to kill Shinji and Tetsu. Of course, Shinji solves the problem and leaves Sado suddenly.
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.
Toshio
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.
Yasuo Kawase
Yoshio
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immediately sold it to Matsuko - another pauper. Soon, the weapon that moves from hand to hand, becomes a tool of many crimes.
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective who is trying to catch a fleeing young criminal.
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.
Yasuo Kitaoka
Kenji Kawazoe
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while the police are trying to catch him on suspicion of murder.
Kaoru Shirafuji
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...
Yasushi Nanjô
Tamio Takagi
По одноименному произведению Ёдзиро Исидзуки. Сюжет основан на тайнах состоятельной семьи Тасиро, в которой воспитывается дочь и два сына. Ни для кого не секрет, что младший сын Синдзи рожден от связи отца семейства с гейшей. Свидетелем семейных драм становится Такако Курамото, которую наняли в качестве репетитора для дочери, которая ещё ходит в школу.
