Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Gorô Ibuki · Nobuo Kaneko · Kinya Kitaoji · Jô Shishido

Synopsis The war for control of the streets is over, but a new Yakuza faction rises up from the ashes, as the gangsters who survived the carnage of "Police Tactics," including Shozo, are released from prison and are ready to rule...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Hiroki Matsukata · Kunie Tanaka · Eiko Nakamura

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tatsuo Umemiya · Toshio Kurosawa

Synopsis In what was originally intended to be the ultimate chapter in the crime film saga, citizen groups and the law begin fighting back against the Yakuza clans whose bloody rivalry is coming to a climax... a climax that could cost...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Hiroki Matsukata · Nobuo Kaneko · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Synopsis The sixth chapter of Battle without honor and humanity it's a new beginning of the story.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Sonny Chiba · Hiroki Matsukata · Teruhiko Saigô

Synopsis Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Takayuki Yamada · Yusuke Iseya · Goro Inagaki

Synopsis A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seizo Fukumoto · Reiko Ike · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis It is 1963, and the police of Kurashima City have spent the past seven years eradicating the Yakuza gangs which have caused so much strife in the city. The last two remaining gangs, Ohara and Kawade, are in tatters, with...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Yôko Takahashi

Synopsis In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows the battles among yakuza who value land over tradition in this unconventional, 'violence'...

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Yoshiko Mita · Shinjiro Ebara

Synopsis After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess,...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try to squeeze both Yakuza kingpins and government officials by threatening...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Seishirô Katô · Takuya Mizoguchi · Takahiro Miura · Susumu Terajima

Synopsis About the adventures of Rantaro and other ninja apprentices at an elite ninjutsu academy.

Direction Hiroyuki Nakano

Cast Shun Oguri · Yuki Shibamoto · Kei Tanaka · Kyôsuke Yabe

Synopsis TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Sanae Nakahara · Machiko Hasegawa

Synopsis Nemuri Kyoshiro this time gets involved in a plot to replace the shogun successor.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Renji Ishibashi · Yoichi Numata

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Harue Akagi · Ushio Akashi · Kensaku Hara · Utaemon Ichikawa

Synopsis Knightly Advice is an engrossing drama about political infighting in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, based on a true historical incident in the year 1629. The conflict arises from inequality between the shogun's retainers (or knights) and the...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tsunehiko Watase · Mayumi Nagisa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Omar Sharif · Hiroki Matsukata · Toshiyuki Nishida

Synopsis Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Direction Kiyoshi Sasabe

Cast Ayane Nagabuchi · Toshirô Yanagiba · Mitsuro Fukikoshi · Hideko Hara

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Koji Tsuruta · Saburô Kitajima · Hideo Murata

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroki Matsukata · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Synopsis This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks his help in a fight against its rivals. His attention...