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完全な遊戯 (1958)
Character: Tetsutarô Matsui
College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even more serious crime.
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秘帳 女浮世草紙 (1968)
Character: N/A
A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.
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地図のない町 (1960)
Character: Shinsuke Tozaki
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.
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美徳のよろめき (1957)
Character: Tsuchiya
A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
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俺の血が騒ぐ (1961)
Character: N/A
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.
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最後の戦斗機 (1956)
Character: N/A
The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed
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渡り鳥故郷へ帰る (1962)
Character: N/A
Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
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傷だらけの掟 (1960)
Character: 露木五郎
An action masterpiece depicting the brotherhood of a younger brother (a student yakuza who breaks the gang rules and the law), and an older brother who prays for his brother's happiness while becoming a gangster to the old yakuza.
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日蔭者 (1972)
Character: N/A
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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獣のいる街 (1958)
Character: N/A
Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.
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街燈 (1957)
Character: 能瀬精一郎
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.
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あらくれ (1969)
Character: Goro
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.
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東京の人 (1956)
Character: N/A
Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.
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川上哲治物語 背番号１６ (1957)
Character: Coach Toi
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.
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アカシアの雨がやむとき (1963)
Character: N/A
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.
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アラブの嵐 (1961)
Character: N/A
Japanese action film set in Arabia.
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お転婆三人姉妹 踊る太陽 (1957)
Character: N/A
It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful daughters. Haruko, the eldest, is the lead vocalist in a band. Natsuko is the conscientious type, who spends her days in ballet classes beautifying herself. The youngest of the three, Akiko is a bookworm who found her niche in philosophy. Although the sisters may appear to have nothing in common, there is one thing they all agree on; "Mom needs a new husband".
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家族の選択 (1983)
Character: Ryutaro Katsuoka
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.
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暗黒の旅券 (1959)
Character: N/A
A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
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最後の突撃 (1957)
Character: N/A
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of “Smuggling of the Body”, also directed by Yutaka Abe, and Shigeyoshi Mine of “Densuke's Propaganda” was in charge of the shooting. The main performers are Michitaro Mizushima of “Smuggling of the Body”, Ryoji Hayama of “The Sorrowful Garden”, Shoji Yasui of “The People of Okino”, Shiro Osaka of “Lonely Man”, “Tetsuji Kawakami Story 16” In addition to Hiroshi Nihonyanagi, Shinsuke Maki, Isamu Kosugi of the "Hunger Soul", Ko Mishima, Satoshi Nishimura, Saburo Hiromatsu, Hiroshi Kondo and others.
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広域暴力 流血の縄張 (1969)
Character: Kazuo Itakura, Itakura Clan boss (as Ryôji Hayama)
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?
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地獄の曲り角 (1959)
Character: Maki
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
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海峡、血に染めて (1961)
Character: Katsumi Funakoshi
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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海から来た流れ者 (1960)
Character: N/A
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
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地球40度線 赤道を駈ける男 (1968)
Character: N/A
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 fiancée Reiko.
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女浮世風呂 (1968)
Character: Shinzo
A public bath house is the scene of illegal female slave trading operations in 18th century Japan and government spy Shinzo is sent in to expose the ringleaders as well as working to get a law passed eliminating coed bathing.
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若くて悪くて凄いこいつら (1962)
Character: N/A
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
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花と竜 (1962)
Character: N/A
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
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不良番長 どぶ鼠作戦 (1969)
Character: N/A
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
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昭和残侠伝 人斬り唐獅子 (1969)
Character: N/A
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
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白夜の妖女 (1957)
Character: Socho
Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.
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男なら夢をみろ (1959)
Character: N/A
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.
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姐御 (1969)
Character: N/A
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
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あゝ決戦航空隊 (1974)
Character: N/A
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
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誘惑 (1957)
Character: Shôhei Matsuyama
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
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乳房よ永遠なれ (1955)
Character: Akira Ôtsuki
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
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関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩仁義 (1970)
Character: N/A
The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.
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やくざ刑事 (1970)
Character: Miura Kingo
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
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日本暴力団 組長くずれ (1970)
Character: N/A
Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.
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姿なき拳銃魔 (1964)
Character: N/A
A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe.
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秩父水滸伝 影を斬る剣 (1967)
Character: Kakunoshin Okada
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...
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修羅の群れ (1984)
Character: N/A
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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高原のお嬢さん (1965)
Character: Yoshino
Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attracted to the beautiful young lady who is visiting the villa when he goes out to the town…
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東京は恋する (1965)
Character: N/A
Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away... Akira Saiga of "Dainippon Chambera Den" wrote the story, and Nozomu Yanase of "Northern Town" directed this youth work. Film by Muneo Ueda of "Early Youth Blue Fruit".
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どじょっこの歌 (1961)
Character: N/A
A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.
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早射ちジョー 砂丘の決斗 (1964)
Character: Hirose
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
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前科おんな殺し節 (1973)
Character: Boss Oba
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
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暴力街 (1974)
Character: Futahashi
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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無頼 黒匕首 (1968)
Character: Tatsuzô Hatooka
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
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関東刑務所帰り (1967)
Character: Senpachi Kawade
Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock…
The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
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霧に消えた人 (1963)
Character: N/A
The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.
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夜の狼 (1958)
Character: N/A
A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.
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続・飢える魂 (1956)
Character: Tachibana's Old Friend C
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.
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実録・私設銀座警察 (1973)
Character: N/A
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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君は恋人 (1967)
Character: Ryoji Hagawa
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
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霧笛が俺を呼んでいる (1960)
Character: N/A
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 investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story...
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横浜暗黒街 マシンガンの竜 (1976)
Character: N/A
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.
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無頼非情 (1968)
Character: Sawada
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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関東テキヤ一家 天王寺の決斗 (1970)
Character: N/A
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is targeted by rotten yakuza (Asao Koike and Tatsuo Endo), who have lured local senior female boss (Nijiko Kiyokawa’s) rebellious but not entirely indecent son Goro Ibuki to their side.
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無鉄砲大将 (1961)
Character: Goro
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
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縄張はもらった (1968)
Character: Kitakata
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
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十六歳 (1960)
Character: N/A
Senko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the badminton club. Her father, Kinzo, remodeled her barn and lent it to her only Mikayo. Senko was somehow envious of her flashy life... In a tragedy with a girl living in the base as the main character, Katsumi Miki of "Life like a weed" adapted the original story of Muraji Uchiki and directed by Eisuke Takizawa of "Ajisai no Uta".
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昭和やくざ系図 長崎の顔 (1969)
Character: N/A
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken over by the Matsui Group, a new gangster setup. So he becomes head of the Takama Group to regain lost territory. With the cooperation of all the Bosses from Tokyo to Nagasaki, who had known his father, Keiji recovers the rights to put on shows at the City Hall. As he had feared, however, Matsui begins to interfere with his plans. Keiji's men are furious, but he knows better than to take up the cudgels with Matsui at this important time. Whatever Matsui does, Keiji goes one better. Frustrated and bitter, Matsui calls in the help of Koiwa, a killer. Now, having tried his best to oust Keiji but finding that he is made of sterner stuff than he had counted on, he decides to have Koiwa do away with him for good.
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山口組外伝 九州進攻作戦 (1974)
Character: N/A
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
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新兄弟仁義 (1970)
Character: N/A
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...
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みな殺しの拳銃 (1967)
Character: Midorikawa
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
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直撃地獄拳 大逆転 (1974)
Character: N/A
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it’s a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.
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俺に賭けた奴ら (1962)
Character: N/A
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
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第三の死角 (1959)
Character: N/A
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a fixer trying to buy Toho out. One day, Yoshikawa is ordered to take a look into the information leakage which had resulted in a serious fall of the company stock price. Following his order, Yoshikawa reunites with Kaji but their relationship gets complicated through the presence of Akiko, the daughter of Kubo, chairman of Toho Corporation. There is an obvious financial conspiracy and several men are killed - Who is the true mastermind behind all the plots?
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昭和残侠伝 吼えろ唐獅子 (1971)
Character: N/A
A story of lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Character: Admiral (uncredited)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる (1972)
Character: N/A
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
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関東兄弟仁義 仁侠 (1971)
Character: N/A
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the ninth and last film in the Duty of Brotherhood series.
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北国の街 (1965)
Character: Takenaka
Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima.
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抜き射ち三四郎 (1962)
Character: N/A
Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!
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遊侠三国志 鉄火の花道 (1968)
Character: N/A
The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his daughter Orin (Ruriko Asaoka) and the son of notorious Gyotoku clan, but Orin’s heart belonged to Shinjiro (Yujiro Ishihara), a member of her father’s clan.
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「流木」より 女豹とならず者 (1957)
Character: N/A
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose love and action unfold against the backdrop of a rice field in the middle of a vast forest.
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新宿の与太者 (1970)
Character: N/A
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
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爆破３秒前 (1967)
Character: Uetsuki
“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone renegade from the shadowy espionage bureau that honed his killer instincts to a razor’s edge, the implacable Yabuki teams up with fellow mercenary crime fighter Yamawaki. Together, they follow a trail of stolen gems leading from the final days of WWII to a contemporary conspiracy that reaches into the highest corridors of corporate power and nefarious international villainy.
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懲役三兄弟 (1969)
Character: N/A
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
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