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強奪 (2000)
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Friendship and violence
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Sasou Onna (1995)
Character: Masato Ohkubo
A film adaptation of Toshio Kamata's "Rape." A suspense thriller depicting the paranoid delusional psychology of fans. Masayuki Danmasa originally wanted to be a writer of children's stories, but the violence novel he wrote to fill in the blanks became a big hit and became a popular author. The content of his works is so extreme that even his wife Yasuko's reality is so different from Masayuki's actual image. One day, while Masayuki is away, Yasuko receives a call from a woman who calls herself Tomoko Abe. She says that the woman was raped by Masayuki, so Yasuko decides to meet Tomoko. Yasuko is relieved by her story, which has no basis or evidence, but Tomoko's harassment of her escalates, and she finally puts her self-made scenario into action. Masayuki, who doesn't know anything, falls into her temptation and ends up writing the experience into a novel as planned...
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平成悪名伝 ザ・まむし (1997)
Character: Tobishitaro
Tobikantaro has just been released from prison and is greeted by his younger brother Kakuji. Together, they have 23 convictions and are the most villainous duo in the world, who have made Osaka tremble with fear as the "Tobikan Kaku" duo. On a whim, Tobikataro falls in love at first sight with a beautiful woman and is forced to rescue her. The villainous duo eventually become embroiled in a conspiracy behind the mayoral election, and hit out at the gangsters...
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暴力列島 (2013)
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Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.
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暴力列島2 (2013)
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Released after 4 years in prison, a family captain is shocked by how drastically his organization and private life has changed, and he won't sit by.
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故郷 (1999)
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Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon across Japan.
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実録 九州やくざ烈伝 兇健と呼ばれた男 (2003)
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How many did I kill? I remember about fourteen, but beyond that, I've no idea. Unbound by past or future, this man lived utterly in the present. His fierce, half-life is depicted here. The legendary hero most feared by Kyushu's yakuza—his spectacular life story is resurrected now!
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極道の妻たち Neo (2013)
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Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa (Rina Koike), who is chased by Azami (Natsuki Harada). Azami is the wife of Kato (Masayuki Imai), boss of the Kato gang in the Saikyo Alliance. Years ago, Azami's lover was murdered by Mitsuru Kiba. To get revenge, she married Kato. Through the girl Sakura Nishizawa, Kotone and Azami unexpectedly meet and become involved in a large conspiracy.
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カポネ 六本木錬金の帝王 (2004)
Character: N/A
With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld.
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俺の空 [刑事編] 闇の制裁 (1998)
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A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but...
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右向け左！自衛隊へ行こう (1995)
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Based on the manga of the same name by Buronson (Yoshiyuki Okamura).
The story of a young man who volunteers to join the air force for selfish reasons, but grows through rigorous training and interaction with his friends.
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愛について、東京 (1992)
Character: Hitoshi
In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating by a former yakuza now running a pachinko parlor, a tense triangle forms as money, power, and personal ties collide.
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しあわせカモン (2012)
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In 2004, singer-songwriter Matsumoto Tetsuya wrote an autobiography that included a section about his relationship with his troubled mother. Writer-director Nakamura Daisuke adapts that story to film with Shiwase Come On, his directorial debut. The film covers the marriage of Tetsuya's mother and yakuza father, his mother's drug habit, his stay at an orphanage and his reconciliation with his mother after becoming an adult. In addition to writing and performing the film's theme song, Matsumoto Tetsuya also composed the score to this touching film. In 2011, Shiawase Come On won Grand Prix at the 2011 Okuradashi Film Festival, a film festival dedicated to screening unreleased Japanese films.
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Treasure of the Black Jaguar (2010)
Character: Katsu Taka
Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary.
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ウィンズ・オブ・ゴッド (1995)
Character: Makoto Tashiro
After a car crash, a comedy duo wake to discover themselves in an army infirmary. At first they think they are in jail, then slowly realize that it is August 1945 and their colleagues are actually training for one-way flights to American battle ships.
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東京魔悲夜 (1995)
Character: Sho Saimon
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
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かぐらめ (2015)
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A woman bears a 13 year grudge with her father over the traditional dance he was performing that caused him to be absent from her mother's death, until they reconnect over the very same dance.
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東京魔悲夜2 (1996)
Character: Sho Saimon
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
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眠らない街 新宿鮫 (1993)
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Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
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GANGSTER 東京魔悲夜-外伝 (1996)
Character: Sho Saimon
Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.
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遊びの時間は終らない (1991)
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A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't catch him. TV networks begin to broadcast the operation nationwide. TV audiences are amused and root for the runaway robber and police grows desperate to arrest him to save their face. However the robber remains at large.
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トライ (2003)
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At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He steals arms from the Japanese military and sells them to the rich Chinese.
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静かな生活 (1995)
Character: Arai
A melodrama about the life of a mentally disabled young man and his devoted sister after their famous novelist father and housewife mother go to Australia on a business trip.
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四十七人の刺客 (1994)
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Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
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その日のまえに (2008)
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Toshiko does not have long to live. She wants to make the most of her time while she can and takes a sojourn to where her true hometown for which she has so much nostalgia and admiration. With her husband on her side she remains can-do and keeps her chin up, but can only lament the passing of time and what will happen next to everyone and everything she loves.
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