Cast: Etsushi Takahashi

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yûko Kusunoki · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu is the biography of early 20th-Century socialist (and eventual anarchist) rebel Sakae Osugi, and the three women in his life: Hori Yasuko, his wife; his jealous, second lover, Itsuko Masaoka, a militant feminist (a/k/a Kamichika Ichiko) and...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Yoshie Minami · Tadahiko Sugano · Shigako Shimegi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Sô Yamamura · Chishu Ryu · Seiji Miyaguchi

Synopsis Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo

Synopsis Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Rentarô Mikuni · Hisaya Morishige · Etsushi Takahashi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shima Iwashita · Etsushi Takahashi · Minori Terada

Synopsis Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

Cast Edward Fox · Denholm Elliott · Chris Penn · Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis True story of British and Australian POW's held by the Japanese in Thailand. Near the end of the war the fittest of the POW's were moved by rail and ship to Japan, and during the sea journey the convoy comes...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Naoko Otani · Tamao Nakamura · Tetta Sugimoto · Atsuro Watabe

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

Cast Yoshio Harada · Naoko Otani · Shimokawa Shinpei · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Osamu Takizawa · Shinsuke Ashida · Hideki Takahashi · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Junko Natsu · Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Hiroki Matsukata · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Asami Kobayashi · Kaoru Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Makoto Fujita

Direction Junichi Suzuki

Cast Kimie Shingyoji · Kippei Shiina · Miyako Yamaguchi · Masahiko Abe

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Kei Yamamoto · Hideki Takahashi · Mizuho Suzuki · Shinsuke Ashida

Synopsis Yamamoto Satsuo directed this masterful 9 hour epic trilogy on the effects of war on the five generations of a single Japanese family. Based on Gomikawa Jumpei's (The Human Condition) bestselling novel, the film trilogy skillfully blends newsreel and archive...

Direction Yasuhiro Horiuchi

Cast Sachiko Ayase · Mickey Curtis · Tadao Nakamaru · Osamu Ohtomo

Synopsis After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific experiment: Yokoda's brain will be transplanted into a super-powered robot body, making him...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Takahiro Tamura · Etsushi Takahashi

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Chiezô Kataoka · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Koji Tsuruta · Hiroki Matsukata · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Direction Kazuo Takahashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsuko Shihomi · Morio Kazama · Jun Etô