Cast: Naomi Hoshi

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 Akinori Matsuo

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Wa Yan · Izumi Ashikawa · Hideaki Nitani

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Shôbun Inoue · Yôko Kosono · Akira Kobayashi · Masanori Machida

Direction Nozomu Yanase

Cast Jô Shishido · Ryoji Hayama · Reiko Sasamori · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa

Plot Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Misako Watanabe · Nobuo Kaneko · Keisuke Noro

Plot A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. The two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Kôji Wada · Mayumi Shimizu · Shin Morikawa · Arihiro Fujimura

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Shôki Fukae · Akira Kobayashi · Yôko Kosono

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Jô Shishido · Izumi Ashikawa · Joji Ai · Daizaburo Hirata

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Chiemi Eri · Jerry Fujio