Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Renji Ishibashi · Mako · Yuichi Minato

Synopsis A young Japanese salaryman is sent by his company to a remote Chinese village to evaluate precious Jade that is found there, but before he arrives meets the yakuza who was sent to tail him to protect his bosses interest...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Michiyo Oguso · Akihiro Tomikawa · Shingo Yamashiro

Synopsis Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad...

Direction Shuji Terayama

Cast Tsutomu Yamazaki · Mayumi Ogawa · Yoshio Harada · Yôko Takahashi

Synopsis In a tale that is visually stunning in certain segments, director Shuji Terayama (who died before this movie was released) has woven a spell of magic and social reprobation around the forbidden love of two cousins. Su-e (Mayumi Ogawa) and...

Direction Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Akihiro Tomikawa · Junko Hitomi · Goro Mutsumi

Synopsis The final film, and the final confrontation between Ogami and Retsudo. With most of his family already dead at Ogami's hands, Retsudo launches one last plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member...

Direction Kazuo Mori

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

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ken'ichi Endô · Masatô Ibu · Renji Ishibashi · Hiroshi Mikami

Synopsis When a convenience store robbery goes wrong and the thieves hole up in a Tokyo hospital, holding more than thirty people hospital, famed negotiator Shuhei Ishida is called in to handle the case. But there is a complication: Ishida’s cancer...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Karina · Shihori Kanjiya · Kento Hayashi

Synopsis Four youths share a two bedroom apartment in a corner of Tokyo. A series of assault cases occur in the same district. Eighteen year old Satoru, a male prostitute, joins them as a new house mate. Their daily life slowly...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Masaya Kato · Mickey Curtis · Takashi Miike

Synopsis A tale of greed, honour and revenge amongst the yakuza, Agitator concerns an executive from the Tenseikai Syndicate attempting to gain power by arranging for two smaller rival gangs - the Shirane and Yokomizo - to unite under his name....

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Misa Shimizu · Nagiko Tono · Masatoshi Nagase · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masaya Sato · Shôko Aida · Naomi Akimoto · Narimi Arimori

Synopsis After his boss is murdered by a hired hit-man. Asuzam known as a fanatically loyal, headstrong and merciless Yakuza sets forth to exact his revenge on the people responsible for his boss's death. Expect a large body-count, lots of hand...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryo Ishibashi · Eihi Shiina · Tetsu Sawaki · Jun Kunimura

Synopsis A man is asked to sit in on a number of auditions. One of the women presented so interests him that he takes her telephone number. Later, he rings her and sets up a dinner date. But she is not...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideki Sone · Sho Aikawa · Kimika Yoshino · Shôhei Hino

Synopsis Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Cast Naoto Takenaka · Teruyuki Kagawa · Renji Ishibashi · Gregory Pekar

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Shido Nakamura · Yoko Maki · Yôsuke Eguchi

Synopsis An urban noir by Kazuya Shiraishi about cops and gangsters in 1988 Hiroshima, based on a bestselling novel by Yuko Yuzuki. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Ryôsuke Miki · Ken'ichi Endô · Mika Katsumura

Synopsis After Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi)'s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend (Kenichi Endo) go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Tomokazu Miura · Kippei Shiina · Ryo Kase

Synopsis In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over saké. Long-time yakuza...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Sho Aikawa · Renji Ishibashi · Hitoshi Ozawa

Synopsis After a rapid-fire montage of two groups of gangsters, one Japanese, the other ethnic Chinese, killing each other and everybody else on screen, DEAD OR ALIVE's story begins when a police officer announces, "Round up everybody who looks (suspicious), even...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Mickey Curtis · Ken'ichi Endô · Renji Ishibashi

Synopsis Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Cast Junichi Okada · Rie Miyazawa · Tadanobu Asano · Arata Furuta

Synopsis Set in 1702, Hana yori mo naho looks back a full three centuries to a time when samurai clans offered monetary rewards to the samurais who succeeded in taking on a revenge act. The central character is a young samurai,...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideaki Ito · Masanobu Ando · Koichi Sato · Kaori Momoi

Synopsis Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Django... West drinks from East, East drinks from West and Takashi Miike, at this point in his career, raises his glass fearlessly to surprise us with another of his brilliant ideas: a spaghetti-western disguised as...