Michitarō Mizushima
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
as Itakura Naizen-no-ShoIn the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by...
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Ronin-gai
as TaheiNear the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district...
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13 Assassins
as Sawara HeizoA sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as KawagishiThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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The Executioner
as Hakusessai KogaThree men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
as Eisuke TogasakiA local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
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Take Aim at the Police Van
as Daijirô TamonA sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended...
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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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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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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
as uncreditedHe was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not...
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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 Horrible Obsessions
as YogiDetective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after...
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Girl Boss Guerilla
as IchiroMiko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up...
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
as uncreditedA boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
as uncreditedThe tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a...
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The Naked Woman and the Gun
as uncreditedA Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri
as uncreditedFormer soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the...
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Modern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
as uncreditedFierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
as uncreditedJirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
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A Revengeful Raid
as uncreditedIn this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho,...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
as uncreditedThe ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
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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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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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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
as uncreditedHidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a...
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Peonies And Dragons
as uncreditedYakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost...
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Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
as TsujidoThe fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he...
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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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Tetsugen
as uncreditedJapanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
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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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Outlaw: Kill!
as uncreditedGoro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is...
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Life of Hishakaku
as uncreditedAfter eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf....
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Last of the Wild Ones
as uncreditedA legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
as uncreditedThe son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza...
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Brothers Serving Time
as MatsuiWhile imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
as uncreditedThis biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his...
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Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
as uncreditedThis is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a...
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
as uncreditedYakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
as IwasaAfter World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of...
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
as uncreditedKosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living...
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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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Wild Spirit
as IchinosukeIt has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of...
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Roar of the City
as uncreditedThis action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman...
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Exiled to Hell
as uncreditedIt is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the...
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Shimizu no Jirocho den
as uncreditedBased on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.
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Pursuit At Dawn
as uncreditedThis little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period...
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Kanto Drifter
as uncreditedYoung man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss...
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Gambler's World 2
as Zensaku KanôThriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Showdown at Nagasaki
as Jusaku SaitoWhen Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment...
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Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
as uncreditedExciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
as MizuharaGoro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime...
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Hibari is Fashion Crazy
as uncreditedUnder a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. ...
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Fighting Disposition
as uncreditedWith the help of famous yakuza Jirocho, brave and quick tempered Eijiro takes revenge on the...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
as uncreditedThe third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
as uncreditedKatsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by...
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New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
as uncredited
The Drifting Gambler
as Ichizo Yamagata8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Flesh Smuggling
as uncreditedA true semi-documentary drama depicting a record of a sheriff's challenge to the vivid evil of a...
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Saigo no totsugeki
as uncreditedA narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The...
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Underworld Beauty
as MiyamotoThe moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen...
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
as uncreditedSomewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a...
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The Cheating Underworld
as Tsunekichi MatsukiGangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
as Sangorô OiwakeDuring the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a...
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Covered Wagon
as uncreditedA Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from...
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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
as Akagawa DaizenA story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely...
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The Killer
as uncreditedA former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a...
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Yakuza Official
as uncreditedBunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.
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柳生の兄弟
as 柳生十兵衛During the era of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, to strengthen the shogunate, many daimyo...
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Osaka Tough
as uncreditedThe film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people...
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New Snow
as uncreditedMinowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the...
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Homeless Dog
as uncreditedFirst movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
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Fill the Cup with Blood
as uncreditedSecond delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn...
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Born Fighter
as GennosukeStory about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.
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Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
as SatarôPeriod film about the legendary detective Umon
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
as uncreditedIn this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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Tomorrow There Will Be Fine Weather
as uncreditedLost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames...
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Farewell to the Highland Station
as Toshio NomuraA young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in...
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Hyōchū no Bijo
as uncreditedBased on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.
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Wounded Beast
as uncreditedA tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister...
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
as Nagi UkonThe life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth...
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
as uncreditedIppei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that...
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Gate of Flesh
as uncreditedA pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may...
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Evil Reward
as uncreditedAfter finishing his sentence, Ryosuke Ogiwara, who left the prison gate, got into a car that was...
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Tale of a Boy: Noble Heart
as TeacherA moral fable about discovering money that somebody has dropped
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One Man's Chivalry
as uncreditedTokizо, the boss of the Tenmaru-gumi group, assists Kikujiro, a traveler on the run. At this...
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