Cast: Renji Ishibashi

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Renji Ishibashi · Mako · Yuichi Minato

Plot 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...

Direction Kenji Misumi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Shuji Terayama

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yoshiyuki Kuroda

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Isao Yukisada

Cast Tatsuya Fujiwara · Karina · Shihori Kanjiya · Kento Hayashi

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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 -...

Direction Kei Kumai

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

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yukihiko Tsutsumi

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

Direction Kazuya Shiraishi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takashi Miike

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

Plot 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...