Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôko Seki · Makoto Kobori

Plot Kanji Watanabe has served in a monotonous bureaucratic position in City Hall for 30 years, providing for a son who only seems to care about his money. He is seemingly...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Plot Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Nobuo Kaneko · Gen Kimura · Ikuko Môri

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Shingo Yamashiro

Plot Kinji Fukasaku's revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

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

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Kojiro Kusanagi · Kô Nishimura · Mari Shiraki

Plot Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Nobuo Kaneko · Setsuko Katô · Yoshirô Katô · Akira Kobayashi

Plot Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

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 Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Naomi Hoshi · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein, director Seijun Suzuki and leading man Jo Shishido used this film to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear....

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Reiko Oshida · Nobuo Kaneko · Junzaburo Ban · Yumiko Katayama

Plot Juvenile delinquent Rika gets released from the reform school and ends up protecting the debt-ridden father of her friend from local gangsters.

Direction Koji Hashimoto

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Keiju Kobayashi · Yosuke Natsuki

Plot From out of the South Seas comes a gigantic monster that attacks Tokyo and devastates Japan. The American version of the film added Raymond Burr as a reporter named Steve...

Direction Hiroshi Matsuno

Cast Yasunori Irikawa · Nobuo Kaneko · Kikko Matsuoka · Kô Nishimura

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Tadao Nakamaru · Yôko Yamamoto · Kumi Yaguchi

Plot Crazy 1970s action movie from veteran genre filmmaker Inoue Umetsugu.

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Kyoko Asagiri · Yasumi Hara · Takashi Kanda · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Rokuro Sugimura

Cast Tetsuya Takeda · Wakako Sakai · Yoshi Tamano · Midori Sono

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôko Enami · Mikio Narita · Makoto Satô · Nobuo Kaneko