Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Sonny Chiba · Meiko Kaji · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep into a Japanese crime family based in Hiroshima, finds a...

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 Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Kimiko Ikegami · Kinya Kitaoji · Mitsuko Baisho

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Kinya Kitaoji · Rentarô Mikuni

Synopsis Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content... The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers...

Direction Hideo Nakata

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Haruka Ayase · Satomi Ishihara · Shinji Takeda

Synopsis Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Daijiro Tsutsumi · Jun Hashizume · Yû Hayami · Yûzô Kayama

Synopsis Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the testpilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Shima Iwashita · Rino Katase · Kinya Kitaoji · Masao Kusakari

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Hideko Takamine · Kinya Kitaoji · Keiju Kobayashi · Keiko Tsushima

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 Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Ken Takakura · Rentarô Mikuni · Kinya Kitaoji · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Kyoko Mitsubayashi · Eiji Okada · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Kôichi Dômoto · Yuichi Nakamaru · Yumiko Shaku · Satomi Ishihara

Synopsis A genius sushi chef travels to New York to battle it out with the local competition there.

Direction Takehiko Watanabe

Cast Arata Furuta · Yasuko Matsuyuki · Mirai Moriyama · Yôsuke Eguchi

Direction Kan Ishibashi

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Eita · Yuko Takeuchi · Kinya Kitaoji

Synopsis On April 4, 1959, Detective Rokuro Fujisawa (Takeshi Kitano) takes his dog for a walk. Shortly later, he finds a dead woman. He is able to identify her by searching through her handbag. Her name is Setsuko Ikuta and she...

Direction Ryô Tanaka

Cast Yôsuke Eguchi · Yuta Furukawa · Gaku Hamada · Mari Hamada

Synopsis Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, the con artists: Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family when their head of the family passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen.

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 Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Hiromi Hanazono · Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinya Kitaoji · Satomi Oka

Synopsis Araki Mataemon finds himself in the middle of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road.

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 Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Hibari Misora · Utaemon Ichikawa · Naoko Kubo

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kinya Kitaoji · Kirin Kiki · Mayumi Ogawa

Synopsis The beautiful Yumechiyo returns home with the crushing news that her atom-bomb-induced illness is leukemia. With less than 6 months to live she falls in love with a young man.