Дотонбори — увеселительный квартал в Осаке. Именно здесь живёт 19-летний Кунихико, недавно оставшийся без родителей. Кунихико работает в небольшом кафе, хозяин которого относится к нему как к сыну, и учится в художественной школе. Однажды утром, когда он рисовал картину на мосту, он встретил Матико, молодую женщину, гулявшую с собакой. В этот же день судьба снова сводит их вместе и он узнает, что она когда-то была гейшей, а теперь держит бар, который ей подарил старый бизнесмен, выкупивший её из гейш. Кунихико и Матико проникаются друг к другу симпатией, но на пути их счастья стоит множество преград. У хозяина кафе также есть сын Масао, лучший друг Кунихико, помешанный на бильярде. Масао постоянно играет на деньги и чем больше он выигрывает, тем больше становится его желание подняться ещё выше. Он не замечает, как своей безответственностью портит жизнь не только себе, но и своим близким.
Sakae Oya
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.
A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship during the Second World War.
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.
Существует поверье, что в пруду Ясягаикэ живет дракон. Много лет назад жители деревни заключили с ним сделку. Каждый день колокол храма должен звонить три раза. До тех пор, пока этот порядок будет соблюдаться, дракон не станет выходить из воды, и деревня не будет затоплена. Акира приехал из Токио несколько лет назад, чтобы записывать местные легенды и рассказы. Он взял в жены местную красавицу, сиротку Юки, а сам сделался звонарем в храме. Легенда о драконе настолько поразила его, что когда предыдущий звонарь умер, Акира решил взять на себя соблюдение соглашения с драконом. Но с наступлением засухи многие в деревне хотели бы, чтобы пруд разлился. Хочет этого и божество водоема – принцесса Сираюки, уже давно мечтающая воссоединиться со своим возлюбленным.
Otto Frank (voice)
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Mondo Murai
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying man and young woman who had been brutally attacked, they set out for Kaga Province to wreak vengeance on the responsible parties. Don’t miss this exciting journey into Japanese history!
Kentaro Yokokawa
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Koizumi
Legendary detective returns
Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.
Besho
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.
Goda
Japanese crime film.
Hada
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.
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.
Yakuza Boss
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Kendo Terauchi
Приговорённая к смерти Юки получает помилование от секретного агента правительственной полиции Кикуи. Взамен он хочет, чтобы Юки убила анархиста Рансуи и нашла секретный документ, который тот скрывает. Выполняя приказ, Юки обнаруживает, что данный документ — письмо, обличающее Кикуи. Всегда находясь на стороне правосудия, она присоединяется к Рансуи, чтобы изобличить и уничтожить агента.
Oshima Humio
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Asakichi
В порту города Йокогамы сходит с корабля главная героиня фильма Отё. В результате досадной ошибки наркоторговцы, которые переправляют наркотик с помощью девушек, принимают ее за одну из перевозчиц. Когда ошибка выявлена, девушку бандиты усыпляют, а сами скрываются. Вскоре Отё приходит в себя возле трупа молодой девушки, а в ее руках оказывается окровавленный нож…
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in women, but in his new status.
Дзёкичи продолжает свой поход мести. Ему удаётся выследить второго злодея, Чогоро, и напасть на того. Незадача в том, что нападает на своего недруга герой во время встречи боссов якудза (Чогоро был там особым гостем). Атака приводит к безрадостным результатам — Чогоро остаётся в живых, а вот Дзёкичи чудом избегает смерти. К тому же якудза объявляют его человеком вне своего мира. Дзёкичи остаётся в полном одиночестве. Но не прекращает поход.
Miko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. Successful for a short time in ruling the streets it isn't long before Miko and her crew run afoul of the local Yakuza, and are forced to turn to Reiko Ike, a ronin Yakuza girl, and sister to one of the top Yakuza in Kyoto, for help, leading to a murderous showdown at a small coastal resort.
Pinku from 1971.
Yakuza Boss
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the girls' gang is questioned by her female rivals, and the all powerful Yakuza Boss. She inspires loyalty to her girls, and to men to the extent of many of them literally giving their lives for her - in a world of knife and gun fighting, bike and car chasing, and violent death.
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
Chief Senda
At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
Hideo Tokuzawa
The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict between the Gamblers' family and the Tekiya family.
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations.
This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
Furuya
Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.
Pinku from 1971.
Boss Toubei
Ванг Конг, однорукий меченосец из Китая, спасает от смерти маленького мальчика, случайно оказавшегося на пути самурайской процессии. Не потерпевшие вмешательства самураи хватаются за мечи, что приводит к гибели нескольких крестьян. Стремясь уничтожить всех свидетелей этой бойни, убийцы начинают охоту за Вангом Конгом. Тем временем Затоичи знакомится с мальчиком, которого спас Ванг Конг. Его отец стал одной из жертв самурвев, и перед смертью он просит Затоичи позаботиться о его сыне. Взяв его с собой, Затоичи вновь отправляется в странствия и вскоре встречается с Вангом Конгом. Не доверяя своему новому знакомому, за голову которого назначена награда, Затоичи не знает, что стравить их между собой выгодно местному боссу, который видит в этом хороший способ увеличить свое влияние. Двое отважных воинов говорят на разных языках и в конце концов окажутся по разные стороны баррикад в битве, в которой выживет только один.
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.
Dobashi
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
Samezu no Masagoro
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
Ronin
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)
Драма, посвященная событиям 7-го декабря 1941 года, когда японская армия нанесла сокрушительный удар по военно-морской базе США — Перл Харбор.
Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi had money problems, and he became dependent on the head of the local tekiya and finds himself involved in the tekiya war with the Yakuza.
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…
Japanese crime film
Tokuzo Sekiyama
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...
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.
Iwasa
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
Bunzo
Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival. While longing to live and love like other women, she realizes that she can never have a normal life, her sword which she holds on to like a security blanket will always come between her and such a life...
Film with Junko Miyazono.
Japanese crime film
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Oike
Film directed by Kenji Misumi
Chief of Staff Soka
Это история о выдающемся японском адмирале Ямамото Исороку, спланировавшем атаки на Перл-Харбор и Мидуэй. Ямамото Исороку был одним из немногих японских военачальников выступавших против участия Японии в войне.
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
Yasaburo Oba
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
Tonomura
Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated flying-angel pattern and in this way brings much pleasure to her patron. A young hoodlum named Shinnosuke also covets the tattooed maiden. He, decorated with the design of a famous thief, finally gets to her and she responds as she rarely does with her older lover. Also in love with her is a young girl named Okimi who has herself tattooed with a courtesan design just to please the older woman. Having done so, however, she becomes fair prey to the tattoo-loving Tonomura who loses no time in seducing her.
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
Geki
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
Ukichi Tsurumura
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.
Detective Kuroshima
During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...
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!
Kichinosuke Koizumi
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
Hidanokami Arakawa
Четверо мальчиков отпраляются в опасный поход через гору Мадзина, чтобы спасти своих отцов и братьев, которых захватил в рабство жестокий самурай. Но единственный способ спасти их — пробудить свирепого горного бога Мадзина.
Kizaki
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
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.
Bunsho Tei
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Kito
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
Tsukuru Tachibana
Kanzaki
After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi. Kanzaki-gumi captures the Toshin-gumi oil fields mined by the first boss. Umebayashi explodes in anger and attacks Kanzaki-gumi, but...
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of jail.
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.
A crime film released in 1965
Yoda
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
Tatsuzo Karasawa
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.
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.
Молодой интеллектуал, пытавшийся уклониться от военной службы по соображениям совести, вынужден служить в японской армии в Маньчжурии. Там он совершает попытку дезертирства, присоединившись к бывшему гангстеру и похитив поезд.
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Atobe
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
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.
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.
На перевале Сагато происходит ограбление группы самураев, перевозивших золото. Погибают пятеро самураев и якудза Гэнсити, ставший свидетелем нападения. Труп шестого самурая, Куроки Ханбэя, не обнаруживают, решая что именно он и украл золото. Спустя несколько лет, пересекаются дороги двух молодых людей, разыскивающих Куроки. Один из них — сын убитого якудзы, ищет пропавшего самурая с целью мести. Другой — сын Куроки, желающий снять обвинения со своего отца. Данный фильм результат еще одного плодотворного сотрудничества режиссера Мисуми и актера Итикава. На этот раз, помимо традиционных элементов самурайского кино, режиссер добавил немного детектива и неожиданных поворотов сюжета.
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfil a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century.
A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners, too. Co-starring some of the biggest name in movies at the time, including Kataoka Chiezo and Tanba Tetsuro this film is loaded with surprises. From the opening moments when prisoners carry out their own form of justice, killing a crooked ex-constable, it is clear that this is the work of a visionary filmmaker.
Te
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
Boss Yoshida
Мошенники и шулера, проституция и месть в стиле Якудзы — основа многих фильмов, снятых японским кинорежиссёром Сейджуном Сузуки. И кинокартина «Странник из Канто» не стала исключением. Эта стремительно разворачивающаяся мелодрама, красочная и наполненная событиями, стала жемчужиной своего жанра. Якудза-телохранитель оказывается в эпицентре борьбы за власть между своим боссом и его конкурентом. Судьбе было угодно столкнуть его с таинственной красавицей — роковой женщиной из его прошлого, и теперь ему предстоит выбирать между страстью и долгом чести.
Sukegoro Iioka
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.
Toribu
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.
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles of Maki, the beautiful night club singer and one of the leaders of the ring. One by one, Maki's discarded lovers vanish and Tatsuno faces a similar fate. Tatsuno confesses to his identity under torture and this leads to the murder of his undercover colleague. He realizes that his career is ruined and this, plus Maki's charm, induces him to join the smugglers. Before submitting his resignation, however, he leads the police on a wild-goose chase while a big narcotics transaction is taking place in another part of town, and this puts him among the leaders of the underworld. When Maki turns her attention to a youthful singer, Tatsuno realizes that he has gambled his whole life and lost. So he stabs the tantalizing beauty, and is in turn shot down in a gangland revenge killing.
Boss Yagiri Tokyuro
Слепой меченосец Затоiчи соглашается помериться силами с головорезами из местной якудзы. Не рассчитав последствий, он побеждает одного за другим. Пора уносить ноги. Но тут выясняется, что в той же деревне находится Танэ — когда-то потерянная возлюбленная Затоiчи, ныне ставшая подругой одного из самураев. Это травматическое известие нарушает планы сурового воина, и он остается в деревне. Тем временем жажда мщения толкает побежденных нечестивцев на решительные меры.
Ryuzo Goda
Kurobe
Молодежный фильм.
Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Japanese action film.
Deputy Chief Kawanishi
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Detective A
On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown to his family and colleagues. A bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to procure the money for themselves, enlisting the aid of impostors and blackmail.
Kenji Funaki
A love melodrama.
Strife between competing lumber mills.
Nitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs but also helps one of the more decent hoodlums find the killer of the hood's brother.
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young man who has a master license menkyo kaiden in the art of swordsmanship, but weak against lies and women. A remake of Bungaku no Issue, shot by Sadao Yamanaka in 1933.
Несмотря на то, что Ситиноскэ родился бедным и слепым, он с детства имел ярко выраженную склонность к злодеяниям.
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
Hanji Takebayashi
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
One of the earliest of subeban/ girl boss type eiga
Akahori
На ночной дороге обстрелян тюремный фургон. Дайджиро Тамон, отвечавший за перевозку заключенных, вынужден уйти в полугодовой отпуск. Чувствуя вину за то, что не смог предотвратить убийства, он начинает собственное расследование. Но с чего начать, когда вопросов больше, чем ответов? Клубок запутывается еще больше, когда на сцене появляются мертвая стриптизерша и дочь владельца агентства по найму.
Yoshimura
Story of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
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.
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Watarai Gunsô
Японский пацифист и социалист, неспособный противостоять ужасным последствиям отказа от военной службы по соображениям совести, преображается в результате своих попыток пойти на компромисс с требованиями Японии военного времени.
Миямура
Нобуо – необузданный хулиган, только что вышедший из школы-интерната, который изо всех сил пытается полностью порвать со своим прошлым.
Mihara
Миямото выходит из тюрьмы после трехлетнего срока. У него на руках бриллианты, повисшие с последнего дела. Он хочет продать их, а вырученные деньги отдать Михаре, который по его вине стал калекой. Проведение сделки поручается Ояне, бывшему компаньону. В условленное время на встречу приходят продавец, покупатель и неизвестные с оружием…
Молодой врач обнаруживает, что в мэрии города есть запись о его смерти. Он и некоторые его друзья пытаются найти человека, который сообщил об этом, и раскрыть сомнительную группу преступников со зловещим заговором.
Действие фильма происходит в Токио в 1950-е годы. Сёити мечтает стать барабанщиком в джазовом ансамбле. Он не обделен талантом, но из-за своего необузданного характера часто попадает в неприятные ситуации. Хозяйка джаз-банда Мияко берет его под свое покровительство, после того как ее протеже и любовник Чарли Сакурада изменил ей с танцовщицей Мэри и ушел из ансамбля, чтобы начать самостоятельную карьеру. Соперничество Сёити и Чарли не ограничивается музыкальной сценой, иногда свое превосходство приходится доказывать кулаками. Но больше всего Сёити страдает оттого, что мать считает его ни на что не годным тунеядцем. Пример младшего брата Эйдзи, учащегося в музыкальном колледже, служит ему постоянным укором…
Iida
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Matsu
Ночью в районе склада пьяный главный инженер был зарезан кем-то. После рассвета два моряка присоединяются к экипажу ржавого грузового судна «Кайё Мару». Один из них — Сэнкити Номура, преследующий своего врага, чтобы отомстить за смерть отца. Капитан корабля Онидзамэ, взял Сэнкити по договорённости с его живым ещё отцом, с которым они были старыми приятелями. Другой, Кэйдзо Сасаки, — человек с орлиным взглядом находится на борту с тайной миссией.
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...
Kanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a dark shadow. Raised by her father, Jusaburo, who is the owner of the Matsukawa troupe, she grew up without knowing the love of her mother. She has been on stage since she was a child, but oneday she cried and complained to her father, and she stopped going to school. In a mock exams, Kanako overtook her classmate Tetsuji to take the lead. That evening, Kanako went to the Yasue Theater in the neighboring town with Eikichi, and saw the affair of her stepmother, Yumi, who should have been resting due to her illness. The man ran away in a hurry, and Yumi confessed that Kanako's mother, Miyako, had also run away for the same reason...
Shinzo Takaoka
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date. (source: Nikkatsu International)
Murayama
Прошло пять лет с тех пор, как умер ее муж. Фуюко живет в тихом пригороде, в маленьком, но уютном доме со своими тремя прекрасными дочерьми. Харуко, старшая, является ведущим вокалистом в прп-группе. Нацуко — прилежная девушка, она проводит дни занимаясь балетом, работая над собой. Акико, младшая из трех, — книжный червь, которая нашла свою нишу в философии. Хотя у сестер может и не быть ничего общего, есть одна вещь, с которой они все согласны; «Маме нужен новый муж».
A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attracting a crowded audience.
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Inspector Hanada
Триллер по мотивам произведения Рампо Эдогавы. Директор крупной компании Сёго Исэ, давно не поддерживает отношения со своей обезумевшей женой. Охваченная жаждой мести она является к его любовнице. Защищая любимую, Сёго убивает свою жену. Теперь ему во чтобы то ни стало надо скрыть следы преступления и избавиться от всех улик.
A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on the quay while his assistant Shinsuke is away.
Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.
Yamagami
По одноимённому произведению Акиры Вакацуки, посвященному жизни и смерти поэтессы Фумико Накадзё. Реальные люди представлены в книге и фильме под именами Оцуки и Симодзё. Фумико несчастна в браке, её муж неудачник, он злоупотребляет снотворным, бьёт её и заводит связи на стороне. Всё заканчивается разводом. В одинокой женщине просыпается чувственность, она смело выражает в стихах всё, что кипит в её сердце. Она готова на всё, но неожиданно у неё диагностируют рак груди...
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Gô Momoyama
В процветающем токийском районе Гиндза женщина, продающая коллекцию произведений искусства своего бывшего мужа, пытается опознать мужчину, который нарисовал её портрет пятнадцать лет назад.
Second baseman Aoike
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.
Company president
1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.
Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman Hayashi and seeked their own careers in the film industry.
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead.
Police Department Manager
По мотивам романа пролетарского писателя Сунао Токунага. История о длительной забастовке рабочих крупной типографии, о стойкости забастовщиков, которую не смогли сломить ни голод, ни насилие.
Героиня этой истории активно участвует в борьбе своих коллег против увольнений, угнетения и полицейского произвола.
Японская драма, ставшая блестящим дебютом известной актрисы Кинуё Танаки. Вторая женщина, сделавшая карьеру режиссера в Японии, она также сыграла небольшую роль в этой истории. Фильм «Любовное письмо» исследует пределы любви, говорит о необходимости прощать и о ранах, которые наносит война. Герой истории тяжело переживает окончание войны. Он пытается найти свое место в мире. Мужчина пишет любовные письма другим людям, обсуждая в них собственные принципы и желания. Но принципы рушатся, когда герой встречает свою бывшую подругу Мичико, женщину с темным прошлым.
Tetsudou-shokuin
Пожилая супружеская пара едет из провинции в Токио навестить своих детей: сына, ставшего доктором, и дочь, открывшую салон красоты. Дети слишком заняты, чтобы заниматься с родителями, и отсылают их на курорт. После бессонной ночи на шумном курорте родители возвращаются в Токио. Перед тем как уехать, мать проводит ночь со вдовой другого сына, а отец встречается со своими старыми, пьющими дружками. Выходит так, что только вдова сына оказывает старикам достойный прием с любовью и вниманием, которые им так нужны. У собственных детей скоро будет причина пожалеть о своем пренебрежении родителями, но к этому моменту эмоциональные связи уже будут обрезаны. Нет ничего удивительного в том, что они так легко возвращаются к жизни, в которой они поглощены только самими собой.
Sergeant Aoki
Japanese war drama.
Older brother Taro Ichi
Исторический детектив, в котором необычный священник раскрывает истину о странной смерти служанки в гареме сёгуна.
Drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
Tajima
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.
Господин Канэко и господин Тамаи решили провернуть выгодную сделку, они хотят купить дом задешево и продать его дорого, но в доме живет бедный художник с большой семьей, который не хочет покидать это дешевое жилье. Господин Канэко решает выжить эту несговорчивую семейку и въезжает в дом со своей капризной любовницей.
X
A 1948 Japanese film.
В голодном послевоенном Токио умирает последний слон. Неужели вся эта огромная туша пропадет даром? Сотрудники научной лаборатории готовы пойти на смелый эксперимент.
Japanese war movie.
The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.
Japanese Warmovie
