Cast: Eiji Gô

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Mitchum · Ken Takakura · Brian Keith · Herb Edelman

Plot Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Eiji Gô · Noriko Matsumoto · Yuko Chishiro

Plot 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 journalist who helped send...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tatsuo Umemiya · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô

Plot This highly stylized Japanese mockumentary examines the downward spiral of a sociopathic thug. While working for one of Japan's biggest crime families, Rikio finds himself committing a variety of brutal...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Plot When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Hideaki Nitani · Ryuji Kita

Plot Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars, Tetsu must become a drifter to keep...

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Miki Sugimoto · Eiji Gô · Tetsurô Tanba · Hideo Murota

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Hiroyuki Sanada

Plot Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Ken Takakura · Sonny Chiba · Kei Yamamoto · Eiji Gô

Plot One of the Japanese Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Etsuko Shihomi

Direction Keiichi Ozawa

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Eiji Gô · Kenji Imai

Plot Goro (Tetsuya Watari) has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Isao Bitô · Takeo Chii · Takuya Fujioka

Plot Minor dispute between the family Sakamoto based in Osaka and Amagasaki Kawahara family becomes a conflict that leads to several deaths in both families. The incident comes just as the...

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Jô Shishido · Kon Ohmura · Kiyoshi Hitomi · Tôru Yuri

Plot When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder...

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot 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....

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Ruriko Asaoka · Mihoko Inagaki · Toshio Sugiyama

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Yumiko Nogawa · Hideaki Nitani · Ichiro Sugai · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot The first in a series of movies about a female yakuza.

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Jiro Okazaki · Eiji Gô · Yaeko Wakamizu · Meiko Kaji

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Reiko Sasamori · Eiji Gô · Shinsuke Ashida

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yôko Yamamoto · Kotoe Hatsui · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Plot Action film about young outlaws around the year 1910.

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima

Plot This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in...

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tatsuya Fuji · Yoshio Harada · Takeo Chii

Plot The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.