Cast: Kenjiro Ishiyama

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Synopsis This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kanbi Fujiyama · Eiko Taki · Masako Myojo

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Rentarô Mikuni · Kô Nishimura · Yuko Hamada

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 Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Gorô Ibuki · Ryuji Kita · Asao Koike

Synopsis In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Kenjiro Ishiyama · Kikue Môri · Shôgo Shimada · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Takashi Shimura · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Synopsis Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know Sakamoto, the leader of a yakuza group, and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs. At the same time he meets a prostitute who...

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Manami Fuji · Michiyo Oguso · Yûnosuke Itô

Synopsis [Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Eijirô Tono · Takahiro Tamura · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Yusuke Kawazu · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Saori Maki

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Minoru Oki · Fumio Watanabe

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Yukiko Todoroki

Synopsis In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has refused to follow in the footsteps of his gambler father and decided to become a...

Direction Motomu Ida

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

Synopsis Action film about young outlaws around the year 1910.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Daisuke Kato · Kayo Matsuo · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Direction Akinori Matsuo

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Masako Izumi · Shôbun Inoue · Nakajirô Tomita

Synopsis When an ex-con gambler, betrayed by his former gang, falls for a cop's daughter, he is forced to take a deadly street rivalry into his own hands. Also known as: The Dragon and the Tiger

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Tatsuo Umemiya · Hayato Tani · Reiko Ohara · Koji Nambara

Synopsis Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Saburo Date · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Teruo Ishiyama · Reiko Kasahara

Synopsis A blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a remake of a 1957 film. It was the final picture...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hitoshi Ueki · Hajime Hana · Kei Tani · Hiroshi Inuzuka

Synopsis Comedy has the proprietors of a tonkatsu (deep-fried pork) restaurant match wits with a Chinese developer.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Chikage Awashima · Kamatari Fujiwara · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Ryôsuke Kagawa