Cast: Ryoji Hayama

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yûzô Kawashima

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

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

Plot 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)...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

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 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

Plot 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...

Direction Mio Ezaki

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

Plot 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....

Direction Motomu Ida

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

Plot 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...

Direction Ren Yoshimura

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Toshio Masuda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tamio Kawaji · Noboru Andô · Tomomi Satô

Plot Twelve pre-existing criminals, commonly known as Goro-kun Masaro Taro, finished a second-half imprisonment in two years and was issued at the welcoming brotherly winning battle. They face confrontation of the...