Cast: Takuzo Kawatani

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Kiichi Nakai · Takuzo Kawatani · Atsushi Watanabe

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Gorô Ibuki · Nobuo Kaneko · Kinya Kitaoji · Jô Shishido

Plot 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...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Shingo Yamashiro

Plot Kinji Fukasaku's revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tatsuo Umemiya · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot In what was originally intended to be the ultimate chapter in the crime film saga, citizen groups and the law begin fighting back against the Yakuza clans whose bloody rivalry...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Meiko Kaji · Seizo Fukumoto · Takuzo Kawatani

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Tatsuya Fuji · Takahiro Tamura · Takuzo Kawatani

Plot Oshima takes the tradition of kaidan-eiga (ghost stories), so widespread in Japanese cinema, to construct this beautiful film on a passionate and tragic love affair that defies social taboos.

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Shima Iwashita · Takashi Yamaguchi · Shogoro Ichikawa

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

Plot Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Renji Ishibashi · Yoichi Numata

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Minoru Oki · Nijiko Kiyokawa · Kyôsuke Machida

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tsunehiko Watase · Mayumi Nagisa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Kanako Higuchi · Tatsuya Nakadai · Keiko Oginome · Masahiro Motoki

Plot A woman raised by a restaurant-owning family follows in her late father's footsteps and becomes a yakuza gambler. After years away from her adopted family, she bumps into her younger...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Isao Bitô · Takeo Chii · Takuya Fujioka

Plot Minor dispute between the family Sakamoto based in Osaka and Amagasaki Kawahara family becomes a conflict that leads to several deaths in both families. The incident comes just as the...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Miki Sugimoto · Hideo Murota · Takuzo Kawatani

Direction Masahiro Shimura

Cast Reiko Ike · Yûko Kanô · Hiroshi Nawa · Jun Aida

Plot A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

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

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Sumiko Fuji · Ryo Ikebe · Michiyo Kogure

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Mariko Ishihara · Masanori Sera · Mari Natsuki · Takuzo Kawatani

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Minoru Oki · Shingo Yamashiro · Bin Amatsu

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Yuko Hamada