Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinya Kitaoji · Sonny Chiba · Meiko Kaji · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep into a Japanese crime family based in Hiroshima, finds a...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

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

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 · Hiroki Matsukata · Kunie Tanaka · Eiko Nakamura

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 Bunta Sugawara · Hiroki Matsukata · Nobuo Kaneko · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Synopsis The sixth chapter of Battle without honor and humanity it's a new beginning of the story.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Noboru Andô · Mayumi Nagisa · Asao Koike

Synopsis Street mobster Isamu Okita likes fighting and girls, and is just out of prison for killing a rival in a bath-house. On release, he finds things have changed: old gangs no longer have the power they once enjoyed. So he...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seizo Fukumoto · Reiko Ike · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis It is 1963, and the police of Kurashima City have spent the past seven years eradicating the Yakuza gangs which have caused so much strife in the city. The last two remaining gangs, Ohara and Kawade, are in tatters, with...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Seizo Fukumoto · Meiko Kaji · Hideo Murota

Synopsis The Owada clan sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Noboru Andô · Akira Kobayashi · Isao Natsuyagi · Ryoji Hayama

Synopsis An retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Direction Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Cast Kenji Sawada · Bunta Sugawara · Kimiko Ikegami · Yûnosuke Itô

Synopsis A misfit high-school science teacher decides to build his own atomic bomb. He goes by the terrorist codename "Nine" - a symbolic reference to the eight nations who possess nuclear weapons (America, Soviet Union, England, France, China, India, Israel, South...

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Ryunosuke Kamiki · Chiaki Kuriyama · Etsushi Toyokawa · Hiroyuki Miyasako

Synopsis A young boy becomes an unlikely hero when he is chosen as the “Kirin Rider" and must lead Japan’s ancient Yokai spirits in their war against the evil monsters. Remake of the 1968 film “Yokai Daisenso". It’s tough being ten...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Yuka Asagiri · Yûko Asuka · Shun Domon · Hiromi Namino

Synopsis The film is based on 5-part animated series which itself was based on Masaaki Soto's adult manga. A young student is seemingly normal, but keeps a savage torture/bondage chamber in his cellar (he lives alone in a big house once...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

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

Synopsis 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 Kentaro Horikirizono · Tsuyoshi Inoue · Keishi Ohtomo

Cast Ian Moore · Cynthia Cheston · Manami Fuji · Seiichi Kanise

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Sumiko Fuji · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ken Takakura

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Satomi Ishihara · Tadanobu Asano · Mitsuru Hirata

Synopsis Tamako is a 13-year-old girl in her first year at high school. Her grandfather (Kenzo) returns home from prison and proceeds to deal with her school bullies. As Tamako starts to gain respect for her grandfather the pair find themselves...

Direction Noboru Nakamura

Cast Miyuki Kuwano · Mikijiro Hira · Keisuke Sonoi · Masuyo Iwamoto

Synopsis A woman is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriend.