Cast: Ryoji Hayama

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Synopsis Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her husband has an extra-marital affair that leads to a divorce,...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Keiji Itami · Keiko Izumi · Nobuo Kaneko

Synopsis Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Jô Shishido · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryoji Hayama · Takashi Kanda

Synopsis Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their...

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 Atsushi Mihori

Cast Reiko Ike · Yumiko Katayama · Chiyoko Kazama · Masami Sôda

Synopsis Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt...

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Bin Amatsu · Ryohei Uchida · Asao Uchida

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Ryohei Uchida · Toshiaki Minami · Ryoji Hayama

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Michitaro Mizushima · Ryoji Hayama · Sachiko Hidari · Mieko Hirooka

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Hiroyuki Nagato · Masayuki Mori · Mihoko Inagaki

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Yôko Minamida · Mihoko Inagaki · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Etsuko Shihomi

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

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

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Synopsis Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on Fuji’s disgusted sister, Masako Izumi. But soon the young hoods...

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Synopsis Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideki Takahashi · Ryoji Hayama · Asao Uchida

Synopsis A lightning-paced 60's crime film from Japan's Nikkatsu Studios, 3 SECONDS TO EXPLOSION packs enough subterfuge and action into its 84 volatile minutes to fill out a dozen pictures made anywhere else.

Direction Ren Yoshimura

Cast Takahisa Aida · Kyosuke Aihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Yuko Chishiro

Synopsis Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Chiezô Kataoka · Minoru Oki

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ryoji Hayama · Sachiko Hidari · Hiroshi Kondô · Mari Shiraki

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Izumi Ashikawa · Mari Shiraki · Tomio Aoki

Synopsis The Perfect Game is a shockingly amoral tale of delinquency, rape, and murder that was to Japan, what In Cold Blood was to American cinema. College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes...

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji

Synopsis A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup exchange offering) involves the preparation of a still-alive fish to...