Cast: Etsushi Takahashi

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

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

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kazuo Mori

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

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

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

Plot 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...

Direction Andrew V. McLaglen

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yôichi Higashi

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

Direction Yûsuke Watanabe

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

Plot 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...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Yasuhiro Horiuchi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

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

Direction Sadao Nakajima

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

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

Direction Sadao Nakajima

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

Plot 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