Masaharu Arikawa

Sex and Fury

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tatto...

Oxen Split Torturing

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted veh...

Please Hire Me!

Ex-sword teacher Ihei Misawa is a skilled swordsman but because of his kind and judicious heart, he never fails...

Fireflies in the North

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato...

Samurai Reincarnation

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas...

Yakuza Ladies

When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Jap...

Japan's Don

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domest...

Gate of Youth

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging fr...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from th...

13 Assassins

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his ow...

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dol...

Three Yakuza

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills...

The Marked Man

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

Cops vs. Thugs

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connecti...

The Kyoto Connection

Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to...

Appassionata

This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura...

Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with...

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like hi...

Industrial Spy

Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to...

Samurai Wolf II

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one o...

Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political ho...

Modern Lady Gambler

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, an...

The Tattooed Hitman

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's...

Warrior of the Wind

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinz...

The Story of a Man Among Men

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and...

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as...

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi...

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed...

Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get...

Operation Plazma in Osaka

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime sy...

Tasukenin Hashiru

The Shogun's Vault II

A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate on...

Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musa...

Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the...

The Tattooed Lord

Code of Wolves

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life chang...