The Kanto Mutsumo-kai, one of Japan's foremost gangster organisations, is under the dictatorship of Sugo, the third president of the Ryujin clan, and Saito, its president. Toraji (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), who rebelled against this dictatorship but was unsuccessfully insulated and expelled, is picked up by his uncle Ryuzo and joins the Takematsu Rengokai. Toraji recruits a group of local delinquents headed by Hiroshi Maeda (Yasukaze Motomiya) into his ranks and begins a guerrilla war against the Kanto Rikukai-affiliated Yoshinin-kai. The two expand their power, but Toraji begins to dabble in stimulants and gradually goes berserk. An assassination plot is hatched against Toraji, and Hiroshi tries to stop it.
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never returned. Matsukata Hiroki, one of the last surviving members of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema proves that he has not lost a step as he portrays an older and wiser Yagyu Jubei in a movie that brings the best of samurai filmmaking into the 21st century. Summoned from semi-retirement by Shogun Iemitsu, Jubei is asked to take to the road and investigate a clan rumored to be preparing explosives for a rebellion. With help from a beautiful female ninja they head into the Shirakawa domain where the fighting skills of both are tested time and again as they strive to destroy a conspiracy that could bring a new Warring States Era. In the 1960's Yagyu Jubei was the signature role of the great Konoe Jushiro, father of Matsukata Hiroki. This brings the character full circle.
A Hitman must protect a 15-year-old girl
Sohei Dojima
In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Nishikiyama, are raised together in Shintaro Kazama's Sunflower Orphanage. In the summer of 1980, Yumi Sawamura, a young girl whose parents were accidentally shot and killed during a gang's shootout, joins them in the orphanage. Following a yakuza tradition, the honorable Kazama secretly raises orphans whose parents he has directly or indirectly killed. In return, the children love him as a father and he eventually inducts the teenage Kiryu and Nishikiyama into the Dojima Family, a Tojo Clan affiliate of which he is a senior officer.
Maasan
Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Producer
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.
Innkeeper's Brother
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.
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when the Family is involved in a conflict. Muto is unable to pay his share of funds for the oncoming battle but tells executives of the Family that he would fight at the front line instead. In the wish to protect Muto, Seiji has him arrested by the police. Ignoring the Family executives' mocks of "Muto escaped to prison", Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss...
Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.
Ryuuzô Fukui
Ишиматсу моет посуду в ресторане, часто посещаемом «якудза». Когда одинокий бандит входит в ресторан и начинает стрелять в посетителей, все гангстеры впадают в панику. Ишиматсу спокойно появляется из кухни и бьет бандита по голове табуретом. Это его билет в мир организованной преступности. Он становится жестоким боевиком «якудза», и, благодаря своей жестокости начинает продвигаться по иерархической лестнице. Однако, вскоре становится понятно, что Ишиматсу неспособен функционировать в пределах иерархии «якудза». Его сильный характер и яркая личность делают его незаменимым, но недостаток уважения доставляет больше проблем, чем его кулаки решают. В результате ссоры внутри клана Ишиматсу стреляет в своего босса. Он должен скрыться от возмездия клана. Как одиночка, свободное орудие «якудза», освобожденный от ограничений иерархии, Ишиматсу находит идеальное поле для своих собственных сильных убеждений.
Gôzô Shirane
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
Iwasaki
Tetsuya, a young yakuza, returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against dishonorable enemies and corrupt yakuza politics, he makes an unlikely ally in a rebel cop .
Producer
Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep the peace. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…
Leader of Tamazawa clan
Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep the peace. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…
Soma goes to Masakis allowed back to his former gang, led by Takeda who asked for his help since he had problems controlling their own men. But one fears how Somas former assistant Kokubu, now second in command of Takeda, should react. Soon Soma assassinated by three hired men, but one of them, Karasaki, who has just escaped an assassin is still possible to Masaki for help, explaining that Kokubu hired him. Masaki agrees to help him, but this also means that he exposes himself to danger.
When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
The unexpected death of Fujishima Motoharu, president of a medium-sized firm, triggers a fierce battle over his estate inheritance among family members.
The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
За основу сюжета фильма взята древняя легенда. Существовал клан мертвых, который хочет отомстить клану Сатоми. Были убиты шестеро главных, но седьмая, принцесса Сидзу, сбежала, и теперь за ней начинается охота. Принцесса же так просто сдаваться не собирается, ведь только она вместе с восьмеркой избранных самураев может уничтожить клан…
Главный герой фильма актёр второго плана Ясу. Он снимается вместе со своим другом Гинсиро, очень известным и популярным актёром.
Однажды Гинсиро приходит к Ясу домой вместе с актрисой Конацу, которая беременна от Гинсиро, и, чтобы избежать скандала, они просят Ясу жениться на Конацу и стать отцом её ребёнка. Конацу тяжело переносит беременность, и её каждый день навещает Ясу. В это время, чтобы заработать больше денег, он соглашается на опасную роль с трюками. Когда Конацу выходит из больницы, она начинает открывать для себя настоящего Ясу и решает выйти за него замуж. Как-то раз появляется Гинсиро и жалуется на то, что у него наступила чёрная полоса в жизни и Ясу, чтобы поддержать друга соглашается, снятся в одном с ним фильме со сложным трюком. В день съёмок между друзьями происходит неожиданная ссора. Конацу очень переживает за Ясу, и в момент трюка она теряет сознание, но когда приходит в себя, она видит Ясу обнимающего их дочку.
Дайсуке Камикадзе — бывший гимнаст, а в настоящее время тренер университетской команды по гимнастике. Его увольняют с работы и он решает украсть 70 миллионов йен, деньги, заплаченные студентами за обучение. Акира — бывший студент этого же университета, отчисленный за неуспеваемость. Он также решает похитить эти 70 миллионов йен. Во время нападения на бронированный фургон, Дайсуке опережает Акиру и забирает себе все деньги, но Акира не намерен сдаваться… Когда о деньгах узнают бандиты, главным героям приходиться объединить силы…
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...
Torii
История повествует о том, как сорок семь бывших поданных самураев из Ако, ставших ронинами, отомстили за смерть своего господина, даймё Асано Такуми-но-Ками Наганори, церемониймейстеру при дворе сёгуна Токугава Цунаёси по имени и титулу Кира Кодзуке-но-Сукэ. В 1701 году Асано был приговорён к совершению харакири за то, что обнажил меч в стенах дворца Сёгуна и напал с оружием в руках на высокопоставленного чиновника Кира в ответ на оскорбления с его стороны. Тем же указом Сёгуна клан Асано был распущен и его имущество конфисковано. Потеряв своего господина и замок, как и источники дохода, около полсотни ронинов во главе с главным советником клана Оиси Кураносукэ дали клятву кровавой мести, понимая, что за это их ожидает смертный приговор.
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.
Lazare
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.
Ronin
Фильм начинается с внезапной смерти второго сёгуна династии Токугава - Хидэтада. Вскоре после этого его старший сын Иэмицу узнаёт, что отец умер не своей смертью. Он был отравлен учителем фехтования Ягю Тадзима, поскольку собирался сделать своим наследником второго сына - Таданагу. Преданный своему воспитаннику Иэмицу, честолюбивый и безжалостный Ягю отравляет Хидэтаду, чтобы не допустить такого поворота событий. Подозрения в насильственной смерти сёгуна приводят к тому, что начинается борьба за престол. Таданага и его сторонники (в том числе и князь Овари) пытаются доказать виновность Иэмицу в смерти отца. Но поскольку доказательств у них нет, то они со своими дружинами в знак протеста оставляют замок сёгунов в Эдо. Иэмицу должен быть объявлен сёгуном Указом императора. Однако императорский двор начинает свою игру. Придворные императора сталкивает сыновей покойного сёгуна в попытке прекратить правление самураев и уничтожить сёгунат Токугава.
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Katsugi Kanai
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.
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.
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
Two bank robbers specialize in "smash and grab" style heists. The thieves dream of escaping Japan and going to Brazil...
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
Pinku from 1975.
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.
Arai
Погибают члены одной и той же банды. Перед смертью все они видели тигра и на их телах раны от тигриных когтей, хотя свидетели уверяют, что никакого тигра не было. Репортер Акира Инугами (Сонни Тиба) расследует таинственные смерти и выходит на Мики, певицу, ставшую наркоманкой. Акира узнает, что именно погибшие бандиты изнасиловали девушку и заразили ее сифилисом. Может их смерти как-то с этим связаны. Акира продолжает расследование и никто не знает, что у него у самого есть тайна. Акира последний представитель клана Инугами и в полнолуние в нем просыпаются волчьи инстинкты.
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.
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
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?
Судьба сводит вместе «бунтарей без причины» — двух молодых неудачников, разочарованных в жизни и не обременённых моралью.
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.
Toshio Ueda
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…
Kenichi Mishima
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.
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where she meets Yuki, and the two of them manage to escape. Their plan is meet up with the robber who avoided capture, get ahold of the cash, and get for away from the big city.
Shuji Yano
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Skeleton Maru
During the Edo period, Henshin Ninja Arashi and his allies fight for peace.
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.
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
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.
Takezawa
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
В 1943 году, военное положение Японии становится затруднительным. Хамамура Синкичи, оставив свою возлюбленную Михо, изъявляет желание поступить в Военно-Морской Авиационный Корпус "Цучиура", несмотря на то, что его отец погиб на войне. Проходя тяжелую учебную подготовку, он становится отличным пилотом, и вместе со своими однокашниками планирует отдать свою жизнь ради спасения своей страны. Также, Акио, младший брат его возлюбленной, поступает в Юношескую Летную Школу. А в это время, в Военно-Морском Флоте идут работы по созданию управляемой ракеты, на основании немецкой ракеты V1. Но из за сложного военного времени, у создателей ракеты не остается времени на создание управляющего блока ракеты, вследствие чего принимается решение предоставить управление ракетой человеку. Эта ракета, длиною в 6 метров и имеющая вес в 1.2 тонны, получила название "Токкотай-Оока", что по-японски означает "Божественный ветер, сносящий лепестки цветущей сакуры".
Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
Jinkuro
Окацу — приемная дочь известного мастера меча. Она в совершенстве познает боевые искусства и ее приемному брату Ринтаро кажется, что отец любит ее сильнее, чем его, родного сына. Ринтаро уходит из дома и, будучи азартным игроком, попадает в неприятность. Глава местного управления хочет отомстить отцу Окацу за старые обиды и использует эту ситуацию в своих нуждах (хозяин игрового дома — его приятель). Он обменивает сына на отца, жестоко пытает его до смерти и насилует Окацу. Вырвавшись из плена, она планирует месть и приступает к ее осуществлению. На ее пути встает профессиональный убийца — охотник за головами.
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Murai
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer Sawada and his spunky sister Tomoko. The boys also find part time night jobs as roving minstrels in the club district courtesy of benevolent gang boss Asakawa. Of course, they run afoul of boss Karasawa's cruel gang. Karasawa also has it in for Asakawa, and this indirectly throws a spanner into the works as far as Isamu's burgeoning success as a kickboxer. When Asakawa 's HQ is burned to the ground by Karasawa's men, Asakawa tries to kill Karasawa - which, of course, leads to his own gruesome death. Isamu goes on the rampage with his sword, wiping out Karasawa and men.
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.
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
The Domain: Severed Relations
Isao
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan members oppose and Ishido is elected. When Matsuda is freed, he doesn't accept this decision.
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.
Man with Black Glasses
Nishimura
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Sakazaki
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Yakuza families clash over a lucrative fishery business.
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
Ginji
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
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.
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent story with expert fighting. Sena Denemon is the rarest of government officials, a man of integrity, sent on a mission to uncover the corruption that ran rampant during the Edo Period. Refusing bribes, and willing to put his life on the line to raise his son properly, heinfuriates the corrupt Inspectors; thus endangering his own life. Along with his two trusted vassals, he makes a brave effort to alert the Shogun to the plot which is being carried out. After the battle, his son Ichitaro joins the Chichibu ninja group in order to master fighting so he, too, can fight the forces which have brought about so much suffering.
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.
Sonny Chiba plays a low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work. He falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother (Saburo Kitajima) later gets drawn into the yakuza business against his own wishes. The film is charmingly old fashioned, utilizing many studio sets and Showa era music; however, the film's real strength is the breezy romance between Chiba and lovely Chiyoko Honma.
Shiga
A yakuza man is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
Sonny Chiba in an adaption from Ryutaro Kondo work
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...
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Goro Ishihara
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
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.
Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
1962 Japanese movie
Saburo
After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.
Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Ichiro Kawasaki
The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When detectives at Shiogama Station followed the man's tracks, it turned out that he had come from Ueno.
Итиро, безрассудный сын частного детектива, задиристый маленький спортсмен в большой машине и забавной шляпе, всегда ищущий немного веселья и немного дополнительных денег на стороне. Он и его друзья ввязываются в какие-то теневые сделки, связанные с похищением людей.
'Whisper'
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Tetsu
Главный герой этого вестерна по-японски Горо Саёндзи — бродячий искатель острых ощущений. Отправляясь расследовать подозрительную авиакатастрофу в Красной долине, он раскрывает заговор с участием якудза и теневого магната, целью которого является выселение старого фермера с его земли для постройки на этом месте курортного комплекса. Теперь Горо должен помочь старому фермеру и его дочери справиться с этими преступниками.
Sabu
Тосио и Кимиэ давно хотят пожениться, но работа проводника на железной дороге не позволяет зарабатывать столько, чтобы содержать семью. Тосио отправляется в дальний рейс, полный решимости уволиться и заняться собственным бизнесом, чтобы обеспечить свою любимую и её родных.
Wu
До окончания Второй мировой войны остаётся месяц. В центре маньчжурской пустыни в маленьком посёлке находят пристанище бандиты, торговцы опиумом, русские эмигранты и японские барыги. Среди всей этой грязи романтичный доктор Сода пытается спасти мир от болезней и несправедливости.
Kira
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...
One of the earliest of subeban/ girl boss type eiga
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?
