Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Takashi Shimura, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kaori Momoi, Hideo Murota
A pardoned thief who bears a strong resemblance to a samurai who is a warlord and is hired as his replacement. After the commander dies, he is forced to take over the army...
Stars: Susumu Fujita, Masanobu Ôkubo, Yoshi Katô, Kôji Sekiyama, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Three robbers escape with their loot, but two of them are killed by the third. Their bodies are brought to the beach after a disaster, but a policeman named Yumikasa suspects them because their names are not on the passenger list and...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô, Hideo Murota
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss's widowed niece and...
Stars: Shinji Nomura, Isao Hashizume, Mahito Tsujimura, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hideo Murota
If tax evasion is an art, the businessman (Willer Hideki Gondo) is as skilled a painter as Rembrandt. Therefore, a determined female tax collector will have to go to great lengths to collect tax from her.
Stars: Asao Koike, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
A yakuza gang is driven out of Yokohama by a large gang from Tokyo. They move to Okinawa to start all over again with as much violence as possible.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Asao Koike, Isao Natsuyagi, Asao Uchida
The conflict between the Hirono family and the Yamamori family (and their allies) is exacerbated by ambitious underlings and police efforts to crack down on the gangs.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Asao Uchida, Nobuo Kaneko, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Yakuza boss Shuzo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the family affiliations of local gangsters prove to be highly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate...
Stars: Hisao Takeda, Alistair Browning, Jack Thompson, Tom Conti, Geoff Clendon
During World War II, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural gap between British POWs and Japanese POW camp commanders to prevent bloodshed...
Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Fumio Watanabe, Saburô Date, Kôji Fujiyama, Shinzô Hotta
After cooperating with the police, Matusa is again sentenced to prison and sent to one of the worst women's prisons in the country.
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Kasahara, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shinzô Hotta
"Matsu", known as "Scorpion" among the inmates, is locked up in the worst part of the prison on the charge of attacking the warden and disturbing the public order. Having only one day to visit someone, he attacks the prison chief again. This causes more brutal punishments and...
Stars: Saburô Date, Kôji Fujiyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Hideo Murota, Torahiko Hamada
Based on the true story of Ryukyu Ishikawa, an ambitious man who becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia, but he is unable to control his anger.
Stars: Hiroshi Inuzuka, Yoshiko Tanaka, Miki Sanjô, Hideo Murota, Tokuma Nishioka
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to discover the family connection that might connect them...
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Isuzu Yamada, Ichirô Nakatani, Isao Natsuyagi
Following the death of the Tokugawa Shogun, it was revealed that he had been poisoned by his son's guards in hopes of getting him despite his stuttering and birthmark that undermined his respectability. Imitsu and...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Nagisa Ôshima, Hideo Murota, Kin Sugai
A police inspector intervenes in the work of the yakuza, but as soon as he realizes that the police are negotiating with these groups, he unites with his group and...
Stars: Asao Koike, Asao Uchida, Kôji Fujiyama, Takeo Chii, Hideo Murota
A yakuza gang member, feeling disrespected and lacking in authority, decides to lead the rest of the gangs he once belonged to in order to keep his area safe...
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Nobuo Kaneko, Hideo Murota, Hôsei Komatsu, Tatsuo Endô
After the murder is proven, Masayuka Yeda and his accomplice are transferred to Hiroshima Prison. But it is easy for a man like him to escape from prison.
Stars: Seizaburô Kawazu, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katô, Michitarô Mizushima
Released from prison, the Yokohama yakuza is looking for a carefree life. But after the death of his boss, now the task of leading the group is on him. His small group is caught in a bloody battle against a large group of yakuza and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô, Kyôichi Satô
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his bosss enemies almost overwhelming.
Stars: Akira Nagoya, Chieko Baishô, Hideo Murota, Akira Hamada, Tanie Kitabayashi
A person is constantly tested and faced with tragedy, wherever he goes, he is involved in it, a man can finally face the peace and perfection of love or rest with what he has left from his hometown, his family, love or himself.
Stars: Renji Ishibashi, Yûki Meguro, Tetsurô Tanba, Kan Mikami, Hideo Murota
There is almost non-stop violence and the violent behavior of children is increasing day by day. Fires and blowing up cars are increasing day by day...
