Screenplay: Haruhiko Ôyabu

Direction Takumi Furukawa

Cast Jô Shishido · Chieko Matsubara · Tamio Kawaji · Yûji Odaka

Plot Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Ichiro Kijima · Misako Watanabe · Akiji Kobayashi

Plot When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. Youth of the Beast (Yaju no Seishun) was a breakthrough for director Seijun Suzuki, introducing...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Naomi Hoshi · Tamio Kawaji

Plot Assigned a standard Yakuza film in the hardboiled vein, director Seijun Suzuki and leading man Jo Shishido used this film to flip the Japanese gangster film genre on its ear....

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yôko Tsukasa · Seizaburô Kawazu

Plot Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned...

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 Eizô Sugawa

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroshi Koizumi · Eijirô Tono · Nobuo Nakamura

Plot A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. One...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Masumi Harukawa · Chitose Kobayashi · Isao Yamagata

Direction Haruki Kadokawa

Cast Masao Kusakari · Rebecca Holden · Nana Kinomi · Atsuko Asano

Plot The story of Kitano Akio competing in the All-Japan Road Race Championship, the International Class A 500cc class.

Direction Nozomu Yanase

Cast Jô Shishido · Ryoji Hayama · Reiko Sasamori · Nobuo Kaneko

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jun Fubuki · Kei Sato · Mikio Narita

Plot Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Asami Kobayashi · Yoshio Aoki · Kai Ato

Plot A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.