Cast: Masaru Shiga

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 Hideo Gosha

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Junko Miyazono · Ryohei Uchida · Tatsuo Endô

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Reiko Ike · Christina Lindberg · Akemi Negishi · Ryôko Ema

Synopsis Reiko Ike stars as Ocho, a gambler and pickpocket in Meiji Era Tokyo. After sheltering a fleeing anarchist, Ocho runs into the three gangsters responsible for her father's murder, and runs afoul of various yakuza who want her dead.

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 Junji Sakamoto

Cast Arisa Mizuki · Yûma Yamoto · Yuki Tanaka · Claude Maki

Synopsis A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.

Direction Akiyoshi Kimata

Cast Mika Mifune · Toshirô Yanagiba · Mitsuru Hirata · Yumi Asou

Synopsis Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when they all shave their heads for her.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

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

Direction Hiroyuki Nasu

Cast Tôru Nakamura · Kôjiro Shimizu · Yoshie Kashiwabara · Masumi Miyazaki

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Shin Saburi · Toshirô Mifune · Hiroki Matsukata · Bunta Sugawara

Synopsis The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. One of Mifune's very few yakuza film appearances.

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Maya Hiromi · Eiko Matsuda · Masaru Shiga · Kantaro Suga

Synopsis This smutty softcore film from Toei Studios and director Ikuo Sekimoto was one of the growing number of mainstream films to incorporate elements of the low-budget "pink films" which accounted for more than half of Japanese film production at the...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Hiroki Matsukata · Jūzō Itami · Tatsuo Umemiya

Synopsis Action drama about "human torpedoes" used during the Second World War.

Direction Kaizô Hayashi

Cast Shiori Doi · Michiko Furumoto · Shiro Sano · Hana Konoe

Synopsis Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Sonny Chiba · Mikio Narita · Tatsuo Umemiya

Synopsis Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Tsunehiko Watase · Jun Hoshino · Takuzo Kawatani · Ryûji Katagiri

Synopsis After failing a bank robbery two thieves hijack a bus, midst chaos and pandemonium the police try to stop it.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kyôsuke Machida · Junko Miyazono · Minoru Oki

Direction Ikuo Sekimoto

Cast Yuriko Hishimi · Masataka Iwao · Takuzo Kawatani · Eizo Kitamura

Synopsis Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi, she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. However, Oshichi will radically...

Direction Yasuto Hasegawa

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Minoru Oki · Kô Nishimura · Daisuke Awaji

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Takuzo Kawatani · Isao Natsuyagi · Hideo Murota · Kaori Takeda