Akira Shioji
Oxen Split Torturing
as uncreditedTwo short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are...
Movie pageNeo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
as ShoeshinerJunko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Aoki HikojiroShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
Movie pageLegend of the Eight Samurai
as GenjinThe evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the...
Movie pageThe General and His Empire of Joy
as uncreditedZenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks,...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as PriestRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
Movie pageA Taxing Woman
as Mr. FudoIntrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering...
Movie pageThe Street Fighter
as Liang Dung-YatTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
Movie pageNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as GamblerBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
as uncreditedThe seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...
Movie pageCops vs. Thugs
as ShiotaWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
Movie pageFall Guy
as YamadaGinshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry...
Movie page13 Assassins
as Yahachi HoriiA sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...
Movie pageGraveyard of Honor
as uncreditedA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his...
Movie pageSamurai Wolf
as uncreditedThis is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
as TokuOryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...
Movie pageNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as uncreditedThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
Movie pageThe Street Fighter's Last Revenge
as Gô ÔwadaTerry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a...
Movie pageAn Ocean to Cross
as CaptainSet in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism...
Movie pageGirl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
as SatakeThe Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang...
Movie pageThe Tattooed Hitman
as uncreditedThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
Movie pageNew Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
as uncreditedFormer inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand...
Movie pageSamurai Wolf II
as uncreditedKiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their...
Movie pageGambler's Legacy
as uncreditedA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...
Movie pageBohachi Bushido: The Villain
as uncreditedThe Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have...
Movie pageEighteen Years in Prison
as uncreditedA former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...
Movie pageMiyamoto Musashi
as A GhostIn this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the...
Movie pageJapan's Top Gangster
as uncreditedA boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...
Movie pageNuns That Bite
as uncreditedA woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and...
Movie pageNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
as uncreditedThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
Movie pageWicked Priest
as uncreditedDuring the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two...
Movie pageHanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
as uncreditedA kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes...
Movie pageThe Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
Movie pageSister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
as Kiichiro KaiharaKiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about...
Movie pageMorning Breeze in Edo
as uncreditedThe sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers 5
as Juzo OnimaruSaburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...
Movie pageHouse of Gamblers
as uncreditedKen Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden...
Movie pageThe Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
as uncreditedThe third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...
Movie pageEight Men to Kill
as uncreditedThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
Movie pageThe Most Perverted Post War Crimes
as uncreditedReconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after...
Movie pageBlue Rain Osaka
as uncreditedA woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance...
Movie pageMiyamoto Musashi
as Togiya KosukeIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
Movie pageThree Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
Movie pageTerrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
as uncreditedWe find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her...
Movie pageGamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
Movie pageMemoir of Japanese Assassinations
as uncreditedThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
Movie pageViolent Panic: The Big Crash
as uncreditedTakashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...
Movie pageKiller's Mission
as uncreditedIchibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to...
Movie pageSasuke and His Comedians
as uncreditedOsaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as uncreditedThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
Movie pageEleven Samurai
as uncreditedThe lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic...
Movie pageThe Mad Fox
as BanditA court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope...
Movie pageSeven Gamblers
as uncreditedHanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...
Movie pageThe Magic Serpent
as uncreditedIn ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...
Movie pageThe Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as uncreditedThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
Movie pageRoad Warriors
as uncreditedA dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the...
Movie pageThe Domain: The Naniwa Story
as uncreditedSecond film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as...
Movie pageGirl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Detective AGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
Movie pageLullaby for a Tough Guy
as uncreditedA ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
Movie pageKanto Street Peddlers
as uncreditedKokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
Movie pageBungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
as uncreditedA young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection...
Movie pageFlames of Blood
as uncreditedThe story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of...
Movie pageThe Great Duel
as uncreditedIn this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his...
Movie pagePatience Has An End
as uncreditedYoung coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the...
Movie pageIshimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
as uncreditedMatsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors...
Movie pageThe Karate Man and the Spy
as uncreditedIn the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and...
Movie pageThe Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedFour ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...
Movie pageStory of a Nymphomaniac
as uncreditedNatsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader....
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
as uncreditedPart 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers and the Young General
as uncreditedThe last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori +...
Movie pageA Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as uncreditedPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
Movie pageDuel of Blood and Sand
as uncreditedFrustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving...
Movie pageDecapitation of an Evil Woman
as YoshizoAn unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history....
Movie pageKanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara...
Movie pageEvil Boss vs. Henchmen
as uncreditedA high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
Movie pageThe Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as uncreditedThird part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's...
Movie pageA Scream from Nowhere
as uncreditedIn 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of...
Movie pageOkoma, the Orphan Gambler
as uncreditedTaking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling...
Movie pageSamurai Geisha
as Banba thugPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
Movie pageThe Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
Movie pageBlood of Revenge
as uncreditedOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
Movie pageGambler: Victory Without Death
as uncreditedTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
Movie pageThe Silk Hat Boss 2
as uncreditedThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
Movie pageTragedy of the Coolie Samurai
as uncreditedGonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager...
Movie pageEnlisted Yakuza
as uncreditedIt is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of...
Movie pageKogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
as ShoujuuMonjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their...
Movie pageCompany Buggers
as uncreditedHiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and...
Movie pageRestoration Fire
as uncreditedMegastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic...
Movie pageWarrior of the Wind
as uncreditedA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
Movie pageAsian Beat: I Love Nippon
as uncreditedCommentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian...
Movie pageFive Ronins
as uncreditedThe story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl,...
Movie pageWicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedThe long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...
Movie pageThe Story of a Geisha
as uncreditedIn the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
Movie pageThe Okinawa War of Ten Years
as uncreditedAfter World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza...
Movie pageFemale Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
as uncreditedFemale ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
as uncreditedThe final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of...
Movie pageKamen Rider Super-1: The Movie
as Emperor Terror MacroThe Dogma Kingdom attacks the Matagi (mountain tribe) village of Yamabiko to steal the sacred...
Movie pageBrothers Serving Time
as uncreditedWhile imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...
Movie pageShowdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
as uncreditedTetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...
Movie pageThe Decisive Power of Aikido
as uncreditedIt is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop...
Movie pageHikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
Movie pageCode of Wolves
as uncreditedIn gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...
Movie pageTravels of Hibari and Chiemi
as uncreditedPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of...
Movie pageHeiji, the Detective
as uncreditedFamous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an...
Movie pageEx-Convict - Territory of Rampage
as uncreditedThe third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki...
Movie pageIndecent Family: Mother & Daughter
as uncreditedA rich retired middle-aged man is seduced by young bar dancer and she moves into his mansion. He...
Movie pageEcho in the Mountains
as uncreditedA man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called...
Movie pageThird Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
Movie pageTeam of Ruffians
as uncreditedPrisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Movie pageCases of Umon:A Woman with An Umbrella
as Matsuya's guestsRyutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the...
Movie pageCastle of Flames
as uncreditedIn 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed:...
Movie pageThe Drifting Gambler
as uncredited8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
Movie pagePuppets Under Starry Skies
as uncreditedA young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl...
Movie pageGambler Biography
as Obake No IchiHistorical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
Movie pageFighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedRichshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha,...
Movie pageBride of White Castle
as uncreditedA young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young...
Movie pageThe Blossom and the Sword
as uncreditedTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
Movie pageBlack Ninja
as uncreditedHistorical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.
Movie pageCruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
as uncreditedA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his...
Movie pageZorome no San Kyoudai
as uncreditedIn Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...
Movie pageThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Movie pageMark of Blood
as uncreditedThree young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
Movie pageThe Duel at the Satta Pass
as uncreditedA variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a...
Movie pageThe Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
Movie pageWoman Mobsters
as uncreditedBank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the...
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
as uncreditedUpon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...
Movie pageWhistling Drifter
as Gold pannerFriendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
Movie pageGamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
as uncreditedThe second part of the Gamblers series.
Movie pageShingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
as uncreditedThese are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is...
Movie pageGood Rascals
as Merchant AA group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
Movie pageModern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
Movie pageSakura Official
as uncreditedAs Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan...
Movie pageDream Street
as JojiA comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
Movie pageWatari and the Fantasticks
as uncreditedWatari and his ninja friends continue their battles against evil people in long ago Japan.
Movie pageGreat Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant
as Elder Botan of the Moz ClanA V-Cinema tokusatsu movie released by TOEI and Bandai Visual. Creature design by Keita Amemiya....
Movie pageThe Bandits
as Chan MyôkyûAction drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...
Movie pageThe Adventures of Jirokichi: A thousand coins
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating...
Movie pageGolden Ninja
as uncreditedJust after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of...
Movie pageUniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe
as Gozo EbisawaThree high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of...
Movie pageThe Racketeer Ishimatsu
as uncreditedAction-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that...
Movie pageNihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan
as uncreditedIemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face....
Movie pageOnihei Hankachō
as uncreditedHasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...
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