Michitarō Mizushima

In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Miko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl...

Genre: Action

Cast: Miki Sugimoto

Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction business.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment...

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.

Genre: History

Cast: Jiro Kawarazaki

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese war drama.

Genre: War

Cast: Yoko Minakaze

Japanese drama film and Setsuko Miyuki's film debut.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Anzai

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Japanese film.

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Susumu Fujita

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Enami

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Itoji Koto

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joji Oka

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

A moral fable about discovering money that somebody has dropped

Genre: Family

Cast: Takehiko Kojima

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Genre: War

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

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Cast: Masao Wakahara

With the help of famous yakuza Jirocho, brave and quick tempered Eijiro takes revenge on the death of his close friend.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.

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Cast: Ken Takakura

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's...

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

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Cast: Koji Nakata

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a sailor who embarked on a single underworld to...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Tokizо, the boss of the Tenmaru-gumi group, assists Kikujiro, a traveler on the run. At this time, a tender is being held to conclude a contract for...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

After finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was sent by his wife's cell and Kenmochi detective of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Minoru Ōki

Genre: Action

Cast: Machiko Yashiro

Genre: Action

Cast: Hayato Tani

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Genre: Action

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an...

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

During the era of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, to strengthen the shogunate, many daimyo clans that did not align with the central power were...

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Cast: Kenji Susukida

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

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese horror movie from 1937.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hachiro Daijoji

A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato