Screenplay: Hirô Matsuda

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Sonny Chiba · Hiroki Matsukata · Teruhiko Saigô

Plot Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tatsuo Umemiya · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô

Plot This highly stylized Japanese mockumentary examines the downward spiral of a sociopathic thug. While working for one of Japan's biggest crime families, Rikio finds himself committing a variety of brutal...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Noboru Andô · Kenji Imai · Akiko Kudô

Plot A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rie Yokoyama · Isao Natsuyagi · Fumio Watanabe

Plot After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Mikio Narita · Reisen Lee · Yayoi Watanabe

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Fumio Watanabe · Kayoko Shiraishi · Hiroko Isayama

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Miki Sugimoto · Eiji Gô · Tetsurô Tanba · Hideo Murota

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 Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Vic Morrow · Philip Casnoff · Etsuko Shihomi

Plot In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played a comic actor in...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Yukiyo Toake · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Kenichi Hagiwara · Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Koichi Takemoto · Minoru Yamada · Itaru Orita · Manuel San Fernando

Cast Mitsunobu Kaneko · Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama · Kôichi Chiba · Akio Itô

Plot A young boy aids in the fight against a mechanized terrorist organization as the sole controller of a prototype giant robot.

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Yôko Shimada · Yuya Uchida · Youki Kudoh · Hitomi Kuroki

Plot A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Omar Sharif · Hiroki Matsukata · Toshiyuki Nishida

Plot Elite lawyer Ryoko enlists the help of a foreign mafia in rescuing her son from a criminal who holds grudge against her.

Direction Sadao Nakajima

Cast Mariko Okada · Yûko Natori · Morio Kazama · Kei Sato

Plot Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Tsuya, who loves painting more than anything and is hopeless at...

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Scott Wilson · Ronny Cox · Gitan Ôtsuru

Plot In 1946, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and twenty-seven other Japanese officials stood trial for war crimes at the Tokyo Trial. This is their story.

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Ryudo Uzaki · Mieko Harada · Shigeru Matsuzaki · Jinpachi Nezu

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Kunie Tanaka · Noboru Mitani · Yôko Mihara

Plot Bunta Sugawara stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Ken Takakura · Kunie Tanaka · Reiko Ohara · Teruo Yoshida

Direction Kazuki Omori

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Ken Ogata · Yûko Kotegawa · Tatsuo Umemiya

Plot A stockbroker turned yakuza has been ordered to ask the boss of another yakuza outfit to be the substitute emcee of a succession ceremony - the passing of the baton...