Cast: Harumi Sone

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 Kinji Fukasaku

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

Synopsis 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 deglamorize the traditional cinematic portrayal of organized crime, instead painting...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Synopsis 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 is coming to a climax... a climax that could cost...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Noboru Andô · Kenji Imai · Akiko Kudô

Synopsis A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

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 Sakichi Satô

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sho Aikawa · Arata Furuta · Erika Okuda

Synopsis Two friends (Aikawa bald as a cue ball and Asano with a spectacular afro hairdo) who work at a fire extinguisher factory take on a horde of living dead from the Black Fuji, a colossal mountain of toxic waste products...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Fumio Watanabe · Tetsurô Tanba · Seizaburô Kawazu

Synopsis The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Sô Yamamura · Kenji Imai · Eitarô Shindô

Synopsis Takakura is a young gang boss tricked by the villainous Toru Abe. His underlings, lead by Chiezo Kataoka, start planning for revenge after Takakura dies in jail.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Sumiko Fuji · Yoshi Kato

Synopsis Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyô-den" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Rentarô Mikuni · Tetsurô Tanba · Ken Takakura

Synopsis Two violent gangster gangs started a war between them. The police open their investigation with the help of an infiltrate.

Direction Ten Shimoyama

Cast Aya Sugimoto · Guts Ishimatsu · Jun Kaname · Satoshi Matsuda

Synopsis Where does love and lust lead you...if you never die? What destiny awaits an immortal? Is there a destination for immortal love and lust? Shigenori Takechi of IZO incorporated these philosophical questions into his screenplay. Ten Shimoyama of Shinobi turned...

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Reiko Oshida · Masumi Tachibana · Yukie Kagawa · Bokuzen Hidari

Synopsis The first film in the Delinquent Girl Boss series sees Rika as a freshly graduated reform school delinquent. After a brief introductory sequence on campus, we flash forward to the outside world, Rika having been released and allowed a chance...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Keishiro Kojima · Kiyoshi Nakajo · Asami Sawaki · Kôji Shimizu

Synopsis After the murder of Soma, Masaki's right hand, a mysterious murderer kills several of his teammates. To him, Masaki Karasaki need to ally with one of the men who killed Soma. Third and last work of Miike in front of...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Ichirô Ryûzaki · Toshi Amatsu · Tatsuo Endô

Direction Shinji Murayama

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kyôsuke Machida · Akira Kobayashi · Renji Ishibashi

Direction Yuki Otsuka

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Shôhei Hino · Harumi Sone · Daisuke Nagakura

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Koji Tsuruta · Shinjiro Ebara · Hiroki Matsukata

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Naoko Kubo · Ken Takakura · Eijirô Yanagi · Toru Abe

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Naoko Kubo · Issac Saxson · Robert Dunham

Synopsis A gangster planning to rob the wages from US army barracks enlists a team of outcasts: a Korean immigrant, a black American soldier and a blonde nymphomaniac. The problem is that another similar gang has its eyes set on the...