Cinematography: Ichirô Hoshijima

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Yoshiko Mita · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

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

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Sumiko Fuji · Takashi Shimura · Kenjiro Ishiyama

Plot Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know Sakamoto, the leader of a yakuza group, and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza...

Direction Masahiro Makino

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

Plot 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 Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Tetsurô Tanba · Hitomi Nakahara · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in the illegal arms trading was also involved in...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Ken Takakura · Rentarô Mikuni · Kinya Kitaoji · Shinjiro Ebara

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Jun Usami · Takamaru Sasaki · Rin'ichi Yamamoto · Mitsue Komiya

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Saburô Kitajima · Bunta Sugawara · Kenji Imai · Hirohisa Nakata

Plot When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides...

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Kenji Susukida · Tsukie Matsuura · Ken Takakura · Hitomi Nakahara

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Eiji Okada · Harumi Urazato · Ichirô Ryûzaki · Hisaya Ito

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

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

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Tatsuya Mihashi · Noboru Andô · Rin'ichi Yamamoto

Plot Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Sen Hara · Jun Usami · Takamaru Sasaki · Mitsue Komiya

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Shinjiro Ebara · Junkichi Orimoto · Kenji Imai

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kyôsuke Machida · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Sumiko Fuji

Plot Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Sumiko Fuji · Minoru Oki · Kenji Imai

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi · Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Ryutaro Gomi · Eitarô Ozawa · Hizuru Takachiho

Direction Kiyoshi Saeki

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Koji Tsuruta · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Koji Tsuruta · Mamoru Ogawa · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot A gang plans a big bank robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.