Shirō Yanase

Lone Rebel

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted w...

Youth of the Beast

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

I Am Waiting

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A Man With Dragon Tattoos

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are...

Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the e...

Kanto Wanderer

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu i...

Law of the Outlaw

Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei...

A Colt Is My Passport

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister...

Man Who Causes a Storm

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom...

Fight of the Gamblers

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himse...

Tattooed Life

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962 Japanese movie

Gambler's Dilemma

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yaku...

Carmen from Kawachi

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko...

Underworld Beauty

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stash...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Man at the Bullfight

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yuji...

A Slope in the Sun

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of...

Born Under Crossed Stars

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko...

Smashing the 0-Line

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer...

The Bride is Fifteen

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. T...

Foggy Night Blues

Teenage Yakuza

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

The Gun Like Lightning

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from...

The Incorrigible

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, t...

The Call of Blood

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Black Strait

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the...

The Dragon Crest

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Family Crest: Die Like a Man

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their res...

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

Hitoribotchi no futari daga

1962 Japanese movie

The Flower and the Angry Waves

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her....

Peonies And Dragons

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due...

A Turning to Hell

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is writte...

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to...