Masataka Iwao
Oxen Split Torturing
as uncreditedTwo short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are...
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The Street Fighter
as SagaTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
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Return of the Street Fighter
as uncreditedMartial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
as YamaneTerry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as KinagashiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as WadaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
as Yajuro MasakiIn the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami...
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Samurai Reincarnation
as Yasui TobeiAfter surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
as uncreditedIn the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Genji TsuneokaWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as uncreditedShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as uncreditedOnimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
as Goro OsoneKiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Shuzo YoshikuraAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Doberman Cop
as Hostage Negotiator NakataniJoji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...
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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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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
as uncreditedA Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a...
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The Kyoto Connection
as uncreditedChristina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap....
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The Second Is a Christian
as uncreditedThe story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very...
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Yakuza Ladies
as Tatsuo KakinumaWhile her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s...
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Sure Death 4
as uncreditedHaving been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as Masaharu KusumotoA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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The General and His Empire of Joy
as uncreditedZenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks,...
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Eleven Samurai
as uncreditedThe lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as uncreditedIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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Roaring Fire
as GondoOn his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as Prison RapistThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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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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Story of a Nymphomaniac
as SailorNatsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader....
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
as KazunariThe wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a...
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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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The Shogun Assassins
as uncreditedThis is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Winter's Flower
as uncreditedKanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
as uncreditedAn unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history....
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The Magic Serpent
as KidoIn ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...
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Ryuji
as SekiyaRyuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy...
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New 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...
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The Great Duel
as uncreditedA cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a...
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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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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
as uncreditedThe fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and...
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Another Battle
as uncreditedFormer childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
as KitamuraTest driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as uncreditedThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
as Giichi ArahamaAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
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The Rugby Star
as uncreditedThe success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their...
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
as uncreditedReconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after...
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Company Buggers
as uncreditedHiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as uncreditedTwo Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful...
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A Legend of Turmoil
as Katsuhiko SugimotoA story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned...
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
as uncreditedThe film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting 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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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Prefectural Police CommanderGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
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Labyrinth Romanesque
as YoshimotoA serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
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Baian the Assassin
as Genpachiro IsakaThis is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the...
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
as uncreditedIt is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop...
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The Duel in the forbidden territory
as uncreditedThe wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship...
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The Dropout
as uncreditedDetective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was...
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Gate of Youth
as uncreditedThe story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal...
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The Accomplice
as uncreditedThis hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro...
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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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Carlos
as uncreditedV-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
as uncreditedAfter spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new...
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Gambling Den Heist
as TsukasaAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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Duel of Blood and Sand
as uncreditedFrustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
as uncreditedThe last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori +...
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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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Virgin Breaker Yuki
as DetectiveBased on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki,...
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
as uncreditedEven after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white...
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The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
as uncreditedYagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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The Lowly Ronin: Hanayama Daikichi
as uncreditedLow-caste former samurai Hanayama Daikichi and his gambler friend Hanji of Yaizu, come to a once...
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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 Blazing Valiant
as HayashiJo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare...
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Shadow Warrior of Nobunaga Oda
as uncreditedIn Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to...
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A Story of Modern Chivalry
as uncreditedA hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of...
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Rub Out the Past
as uncreditedA lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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The Karate 2
as Genzo OdaThis is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as uncreditedUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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Ninja Gangsters 2: The Lullaby of Hell
as uncreditedThe second in Norio Nanjo’s “Secret” series. The former secret phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata)...
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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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Professional Killers
as Oiwa's subordinateA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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