Jiro Shirai

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiro Shirai

At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Edward Albert

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Terumi Azuma

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed...

Genre: History

Cast: Jirô Chiba

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kaishu Katsu

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hiroko Yakushimaru

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura