Asao Uchida
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as General Hideki TojoIn the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
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Street Mobster
as Eisaku OwadaAfter serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
as Kenmotsu SugitoIn this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Kenichi OkuboWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as UnokichiIn the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed...
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The End of Summer
as IshaThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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Irezumi
as TokubeiOtsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Kenichi ÔkuboAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Samurai Reincarnation
as Sakai Utanokami TadayoAfter surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Okubo KenichiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Kikuo OyamaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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A Colt Is My Passport
as TsugawaA gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
as uncreditedComing out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Kenichi OkuboShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Sister Street Fighter
as Tetsudo FujitaLi Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug...
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The Betrayal
as Yaichiro IssakaA naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai...
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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
as uncreditedKoryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who...
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A Killer's Key
as AsakuraRaizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Asajiro NozakiThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
as uncreditedGetting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself...
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Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
as DainichiboWhen a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and...
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A Kamikaze Cop
as uncreditedAn undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two...
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Zoku izuko e
as uncreditedSequel to "真実の愛情を求めて 何処へ" (1954). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.
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The Pornographers
as FurukawaSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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Sword Devil
as YaichiroHanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick...
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Gateway to Glory
as uncreditedA young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the...
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Secret Assignment
as OoniwaIn the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time...
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Yakuza Ladies 3
as uncreditedUpon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his...
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Love for an Idiot
as Doctor HanamuraA middle-aged factory engineer trains, marries, and ultimately loses a teenage bride after she...
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Karate for Life
as uncreditedThe last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in...
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Lone Wolf Isazo
as uncreditedIsazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his...
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The Last Kamikaze
as uncreditedWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
as uncreditedThis is the thirteenth film in the series.
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as FukuyamaAfter a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they...
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Father of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedVice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
as uncredited[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out...
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Succession
as Iwao GankinA former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as Iwama KakubeeThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
as uncreditedSecond film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
as uncreditedThe seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...
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Bloodiest Flower
as uncreditedA dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine...
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The Most Dangerous Game
as KohinataThe first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
as Eisaku ObaA yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to...
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The Fearless Avenger
as uncreditedThirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as Tomitaro SugiyamaThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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The Hot Little Girl
as OnodaA model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.
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Mission: Iron Castle
as uncreditedThe Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
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Ankoku gai jingi
as uncreditedA big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it...
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Outlaw: Heartless
as YasuokaGoro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a...
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Living Skeleton
as EjiriA ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and...
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Master Fencer Sees the World
as uncreditedA historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the...
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The Domain
as uncreditedThe feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as uncreditedConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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An Ode to Yakuza
as IshikawaTatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a...
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
as uncreditedIn the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Third Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
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Back Stairways
as uncreditedA young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the...
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The Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
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Diamonds of the Andes
as uncreditedRomantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has...
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Japan's Top Gangster
as uncreditedA boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
as uncreditedAn undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination...
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Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
as Masukichi DomotoTurbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.
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Japan's Don
as Kikuo OyamaA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
as uncreditedToru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
as MuraiThe great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s...
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Games
as uncreditedA 16-year-old girl works in a factory to pay her late father’s debt. When she makes up her mind...
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Hoodlum Soldier
as uncreditedA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in...
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Dissolution Rites
as KawashimaSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
as uncreditedYoung Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
as uncreditedThe Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new...
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The Flower and the Dragon
as uncreditedA story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman...
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Dead Angle
as uncreditedElite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
as uncreditedAn honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of...
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
as IwakiriIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
as uncreditedThe third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...
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Yakuza Vassal
as uncreditedA young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
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Eight Men to Kill
as Hotta BungoThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
as uncreditedBack after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his...
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Three Generations of Yakuza
as uncreditedThe film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not...
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House of Gamblers
as uncreditedKen Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden...
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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
as uncreditedMatsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors...
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The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
as uncreditedThe story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses...
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
as uncreditedAttacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
as uncreditedSet loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most...
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Girl with Bamboo Leaves
as uncreditedYasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
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Tora-san, the Expert
as uncreditedTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Did the Red Bird Escape?
as uncreditedA young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.
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The Bad Boss 3
as uncreditedA story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
as uncreditedIn the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...
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The Sex Check
as uncreditedKen Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by...
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Fun on the Run
as NittaComedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
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Two Enemy Women Gamblers
as uncreditedTwelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Gambler
as Kan'non no InkyoThe main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is...
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Rainbow Over the Pacific
as uncreditedRainbow Over the Pacific is a tale of romance that moves from the streets of Tokyo to the...
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Fearless Comrades
as uncreditedThe first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but...
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Watari, the Ninja Boy
as Momochi SandayuIn old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like...
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A Legend of Turmoil
as Takeshi HashimotoA story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned...
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The Drifting Gambler
as Masagoro Ochiai8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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The Private Police
as uncreditedAfter the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an...
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A Wad of Notes
as MojitokuA lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
as uncreditedIn turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as...
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The Thieves' Who's Who
as uncreditedIn the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
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０計画を阻止せよ－総理大臣誘拐！！－
as OwadaSamonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that...
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High School Juniors (Part II)
as uncreditedA story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their...
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The Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
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Three Seconds to Zero Hour
as Tachihara“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic,...
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Prison Break
as uncreditedSet up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is...
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Scoundrel
as uncreditedShimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his...
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Kyoto Yokai Map 3: The 800-Year-Old Female College Student Who Lives in Toribenyama
as uncreditedMatsuko, an assistant professor of history, discovers ancient human bones at Toribeyama, and her...
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A Samurai’s Lie: Beloved Wife
as uncreditedIsozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap...
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Hikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Internal Sleuth
as CommissionerWhen 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective...
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High-School Outcasts
as Principal KurokiTsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and...
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
as uncreditedGokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
as uncreditedEighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his...
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The Virgin Witness
as uncreditedA father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere...
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The Great Villains
as ManagerPsychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school...
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The Tide Does Not Return
as YasudaReiji and Takashi, although they are brothers, differ from each other like fire and water -...
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The Man Gang
as Soichiro ShinryuBased on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.
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Immortal Guy
as uncreditedKosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the...
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The House of Wooden Blocks
as uncreditedOn his return from school, young Ichiro finds his father in bed with his adopted sister, Namie....
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The Woman Gambler
as uncreditedSecond film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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The Third Contest
as uncreditedMondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a...
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Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip
as uncredited14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
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Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies
as TaheiAboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who...
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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The Street Car Game
as uncreditedComedy around a motorman and a conductor of a streetcar.
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Ayako
as uncreditedAn ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family,...
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A Lonely Gamble
as Junzo HigashinoIn post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a...
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The Phantom Thief Nezumi Kozo and the Tattooed Judge
as uncreditedMagistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing...
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Young Boss: Prison Release
as uncreditedThe further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
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The Invisible Swordsman
as uncreditedA coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
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The Seburi Story
as AyutachiThe culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy...
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The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village
as GenkaiTarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was...
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Hurry on a Sail to Dream
as Junji OkimuraYuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the...
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Hoodlum Match
as uncreditedA good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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The Claws of the Divine Beast
as uncreditedBased on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in...
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Misty Kid of Wind – The Glass Cape
as Grandfather of KarinKarin has lived alone in a secluded mountain village with her consumptive mother since her...
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Make Way for the Jaguars
as OnigashiraA plot by an evil mastermind to eliminate the lead singer of the Japanese "Group Sounds" rock...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
as uncreditedSeijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...
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The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate
as uncreditedThe life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb...
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The Dangoro Party in the Sky
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great...
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Black Trump Card
as uncreditedChairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law,...
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Season of Love
as YamazakiPinky and Yoko are about to graduate. Full of hope and uncertainties they embark on a tale of...
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Women's Police
as Shuroku TakumaAround Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep...
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Black Ninja
as uncreditedHistorical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.
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The Mayor's Secret
as uncreditedA mayoral candidate and his love child.
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
as OizumiOne spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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