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In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jun Hamamura

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

It tells the story of a couple who fall into a trap set up by a sinister organization. One of them is a guy who is framed for the murder of his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yōko Mihara

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara