Screenplay: Yoshihiro Ishimatsu

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Noboru Andô · Mayumi Nagisa · Asao Koike

Plot Street mobster Isamu Okita likes fighting and girls, and is just out of prison for killing a rival in a bath-house. On release, he finds things have changed: old gangs...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Junko Kano · Eiji Funakoshi · Hideo Takamatsu

Plot This film noir from Japan is quite an interesting little genre movie. Shot beautifully in black and white, the film is concerned with the moral decrepitude that results from corporate...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Mako Midori · Kei Sato · Isao Kuraishi

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yumiko Nogawa · Mikio Narita · Mayumi Nagisa

Plot The main character is a man from the WW2 generation who has lost his dreams in post-war Japan. While working as a cook in a restaurant he also earns some...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Yusuke Kawazu · Akemi Negishi · Kô Nishimura

Plot Yumi (Mari Atsumi) is a 19-year-old enrolled in a dress-making school. Her mother (Negishi Akemi) has raised her by working in a bar. One day Yumi is raped by one...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Rin'ichi Yamamoto · Michitaro Mizushima · Kyôsuke Machida

Plot Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Noboru Andô · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Jūzō Itami

Plot Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Tatsuya Fuji · Eiji Gô

Plot In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Masako Motai · Yasufumi Hayashi · Takashi Sasano · Bengaru

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ken Utsui · Junko Kano · Hideo Takamatsu · Shigeru Kôyama

Plot Yasuzo Masumura based his story on prize winning Edogawa Ranpo's book [Hanayaka na shitai]. It's a thriller about a Food Company's boss being killed and the search for his murderer....

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Hideaki Nitani · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still...

Direction Tarô Yuge

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Hideo Takamatsu · Kazuko Miyakawa

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Bunta Sugawara · Minoru Oki · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Jô Shishido · Mie Hama · Rin'ichi Yamamoto

Plot A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Mari Atsumi · Ryo Tamura · Yusuke Kawazu · Ryoichi Tamagawa

Plot A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Ken Takakura · Ken Goodlet · Judith Roberts · Kevin Cooney

Plot Ken, son of a former samurai settles with his family in the west from Japan. Soon his family is killed in front of him by stagecoach robbers, making him aim...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Michi Higashi · Tomoko Mayama

Plot When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.