Hōsei Komatsu
Lady Snowblood
as Genzô ShibayamaYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
as uncreditedA sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster...
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Madam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds
as Takeo Miyamoto(宮本威夫)In the exotic location of Los Angeles, California a business woman enjoys all the men in her...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as uncreditedAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Death by Hanging
as District attorneyA Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as TsujiAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
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Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus
as Rhisley (voice)A simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre cult based around the...
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Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
as uncreditedAgainst the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Makoto NarasakaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Profound Desires of the Gods
as ShimajiriTokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
as Loan OfficerA high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is...
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Diary of a Shinjuku Thief
as uncreditedIn Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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A Taxing Woman's Return
as SaruwatariRyōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure...
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Farewell to the Ark
as uncreditedA surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions...
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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
as HanaokaAn upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help...
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Double Suicide
as TaheiSuccessful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the...
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The Ceremony
as Sakurada IsamuOshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses...
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Choji Snack Bar
as MatsumotoEiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...
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Violence at Noon
as Shino's fatherTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a...
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The Sun's Burial
as uncreditedIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Pleasures of the Flesh
as EgiA corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase...
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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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Zatoichi and the Fugitives
as MatsugoroZatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
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Tattooed Life
as Yamano SenkichiAfter his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his...
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Band of Ninja
as OnkichiA young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an...
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Silence Has No Wings
as uncreditedFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...
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Rape and Death of a Housewife
as Kurazo UtagawaThree young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a...
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The Daring Nun
as Ichizo SogaOne of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she...
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The Revelation of a Geisha
as uncreditedAfter the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on...
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Monster of Frankenstein
as Frankenstein's Monster (voice)The film centers around the life of Victor Frankenstein. After creating the monster together...
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
as uncreditedReiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local...
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The Horrible Obsessions
as uncreditedDetective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after...
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Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
as uncreditedAkira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but...
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Ohyaku: The Female Demon
as uncreditedOhyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a...
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Temptation of Eros
as MiyoshiTane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Tadashi TakinoTwo Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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Organized Violence
as uncreditedA war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
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Japan's Don
as uncreditedA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
as uncreditedNinth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his...
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The Japanese Belly Button
as Right wing / Ishii, the strip theatre ownerHelen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
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The Highest Honour
as Sergeant Major YabeAfter a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Shigemitsu SanadaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as uncreditedThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
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Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me
as uncreditedThe first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedThe long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...
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Beast Alley
as uncredited"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite...
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The Marked Man
as uncreditedA man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
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Sex Education Mistresses
as ShinjiAn erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex,...
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Shinran: Path to Purity
as uncreditedIn the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one...
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Song of Dawn
as MakiMusical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
as uncreditedAndo on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old...
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Three Gamblers
as Denpo ChoThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
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The Strangling
as uncreditedThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company...
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Eros Nights in Tokyo
as uncreditedA horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously...
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Time Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
as uncreditedA former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
as uncreditedPart 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
as uncreditedSuehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce...
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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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A Portrait of Shunkin
as Ichizo(市蔵)Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is...
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Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
as ShindoAfter serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison....
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Captive's Island
as uncreditedSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
as uncreditedA professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...
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The Beast Shall Die
as Yusuke YajimaKunihiko Date (Hiroshi Fujioka), a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action...
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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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Yakuza on Foot
as Officer SongAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Kidnapping Blues
as Pawn Shop GuyA man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to...
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A Young Man's Stronghold
as uncreditedA 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
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The Days of No Return
as uncreditedThe story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of...
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Village of Dreams
as GrandfatherTells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2....
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Red Paper Lantern
as uncreditedA young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their...
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Adults Games
as uncreditedThe girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual...
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City of Beasts
as IwanoUniversity student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a...
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Brave Red Flower of the North
as uncreditedAn exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of...
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The Shogun Assassins
as NarratorThis is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Dan-no-ura Night
as uncreditedTaken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between...
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Company Executives
as uncreditedA fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away.
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Yuki
as Oyakata (voice)Up in Heaven, Yuki’s grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go...
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Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
as uncreditedComedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.
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Dissolution Rites
as uncreditedSawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in...
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The Sea of Genkai
as uncreditedTwo yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean...
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The Man Without a Map
as uncreditedA private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is...
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Farewell to Rock'n Roll
as uncreditedThere is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry....
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
as uncreditedMid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Eve-chan no hime
as ShimotsukaA new high school teacher is secretly given a mysterious floppy disk. It leads her into danger...
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Short and Fat
as Iwaki's fatherA high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's...
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Shameless School
as Matagoro ArakiComedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
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No More Comics!
as Show HostStuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions...
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The Dawn of Asia
as uncreditedThe Dawn of Asia (アジアの曙) is a TV drama consisting of thirteen episodes about the...
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Pink Tush Girl: Love Attack
as Kôhei KikawadaRena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978)...
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
as HebigumaThe second part of the Gamblers series.
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Never in the Morning!
as MisakiA free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more...
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Dragon Princess
as uncreditedA karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He...
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The Woman Gambler's Supplication
as uncreditedEleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Naked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
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Lefty Fencer
as uncreditedAs a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
as uncreditedA crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and...
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The Murder Corps
as uncreditedA violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...
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Lullaby for a Tough Guy
as uncreditedA ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
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The Hoodlum Priest
as uncreditedThe first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in...
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Diary of Yunbogi
as NarratorThis ethereal montage of still images with darkly somber undertones, Yunbogi’s Diary is based on...
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The Last Swordsman
as Serizawa KamoPersonal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
as FishermanThree students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a...
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The Bandits
as Ba TôtenAction drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...
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The Far Road
as uncreditedSet in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
as uncreditedWhen a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
as uncreditedTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
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Parole
as uncreditedThree men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
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Bokyo
as KatsuoIn 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the...
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Dear Summer Sister
as Kôsuke Kikuchi14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko...
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Wicked Priest
as uncreditedDuring the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two...
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Mahjong Hishoden: Ryu the Caller
as Suekichi MarukoThere is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
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Nomugi Pass
as uncreditedThe story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early...
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Dangerous Games
as AiharaDrama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th...
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Shimane Prison Riot
as uncreditedJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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Troubleman Laughs and Kills
as ActorKensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
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Ore no sora
as Gonjiro KurodaBased on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly...
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Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
as uncreditedYabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as...
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King of the Widow-Killers
as uncreditedThe third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the...
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Female Neo-Ninjas
as uncreditedThree cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for...
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Oishinbo
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
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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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Tanshin funin jōji no himitsu
as HiraiwaAn office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and...
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Without Complaint
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
as uncreditedIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created...
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
as uncreditedTelevision production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan,...
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Troops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
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Postwar Secrets
as uncreditedEverybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel...
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Code Between Brothers 2
as uncreditedThe services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal...
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Serial Killer: Coldblooded
as uncreditedBased on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.
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Military Comfort Woman
as uncreditedMovie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese...
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Ninja's Mark
as uncreditedWhen the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes...
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The Experience
as uncreditedTwo boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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Shura ga Yuku 6
as uncreditedSet in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the...
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Judo vs. Karate
as uncreditedA story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
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Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
as IshiyamaAfter being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of...
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"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2
as uncreditedSequel to "Guys Who Never Learn".
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Rapewoman: Dirty Sunday
as IshimotoA single woman starts receiving obscene phone calls at home. Feeling fearful she stays at the...
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Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique
as Genzo FujitaInspired by a street interview about married sex life a TV food show host accidentally finds a...
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
as uncreditedA young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection...
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The Virgin Masquerade
as SakubeThree female college students become involved with a land developer. When a rich client and his...
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The Life of Chikuzan
as GotoA 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player...
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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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Seven Gamblers
as uncreditedHanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...
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Getting Wild With Our Monkey
as KajiyamaA down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the...
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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
as Kojiro NumazawaSumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo...
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Downtown Blues
as uncreditedThe desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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Violent Fraternity
as uncreditedSet in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's...
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The Forgotten Imperial Army
as (voice)Oshima exposes the fact that many wounded soldiers cannot receive compensation from the Japanese...
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Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold
as uncreditedA man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and...
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as KiyozoMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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Please Hire Me!
as uncreditedEx-sword teacher Ihei Misawa is a skilled swordsman but because of his kind and judicious heart,...
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Netchū Jidai
as uncreditedThis light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and...
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Netchū Jidai: Keiji Hen
as uncreditedThe struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch.
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