Ryōhei Uchida

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroko Ogi

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryotaro Sugi

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rika Aoki

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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Cast: Shinsuke Minami

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kikko Matsuoka

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Shinoda

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

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Cast: Masaya Takahashi

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

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Cast: Jō Shishido

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

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Cast: Shiori Hayase

Genre: History

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A 1970 crime film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

Genre: Western

Cast: Jō Shishido

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.

Genre: Action

Cast: Asahi Kurizuka

An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

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Cast: Keiji Sada

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives...

Genre: Music

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando)...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

As Japan is preparing to host the Olympics, a gang member wanting to go to America is sought after by the police after helping his friend conduct a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yasushi Suzuki

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroko Ogi

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryōhei Uchida

Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

This is a story of love between a society girl and a yakuza boy. Mami lives an ordinary life in Tokyo, being with her friends and studying. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūsuke Kawazu

Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

1970 Toei movie.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tachi

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

In the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese martial arts.

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Cast: Shunya Wazaki

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

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing death on the gallows for maltreatment of Allied...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The daughter of the wealthy Soga family is kidnapped and her fiance is murdered. But the kidnappers, Tatsu and Sanko are unaware that Tatsuko is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hisako Tsukuba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A wife gets a call from a man claiming to be from her husband's company. He tells her that he will come to pick her up on his behalf. But when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Johnny Ohkura

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Muga Takewaki

A yakuza 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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryōhei Uchida

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo and the Shinsengumi. Hijikata Toshizo is a...

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Cast: Asahi Kurizuka

Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Two men perform a robbery on an airplane before parachuting to safety, and a newspaper reporter attempts to solve the crime.

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star in this rare Monkees and Beatles inspired secret agent movie. During their Asian tour spies try...

Genre: Music

Cast: Shochi Tanabe

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.

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Cast: Shingo Yamashiro

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Kishida

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Comedy about two employees who work against their boss.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoko Suizenji

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells the man that she is the mistress of a religious...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Chizuko Arai

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Hiroko Ogi

Kaori, the principal of Tanimoto Gakuen, a major player in the beauty industry, is aiming to expand into Shinjuku in order to make further progress....

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Cast: Ichiro Araki

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Noh mask maker is unable to carve the young Noh masks he has ordered, and when a beautiful woman invites him to join her in town for a change of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsune Shibata

1965 youth / yakuza film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Muga Takewaki

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuji Odaka

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Part two of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Shin Saburi