Minoru Ōki
Shogun Assassin
as Master of DeathA Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
as Benma HidariIn the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Yagyu RetsudoIn the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors,...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
as Yagyu RetsudoIn the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami...
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Horrors of Malformed Men
as Kogorô Akechi / ManservantAfter escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious...
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Flying in the Air
as uncreditedThe movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.
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Red Peony Gambler
as uncreditedRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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The Red Silk Gambler
as uncreditedWith her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a...
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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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I Will Buy You
as Gorô KuritaA talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the...
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The Karate Man and the Spy
as uncreditedIn the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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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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Hoodlum Match
as uncreditedA good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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Stakeout
as Takao Yuki, the police detectiveTwo detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as TatsutaroPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
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Shingo's Ten Duels
as Yagyu TajimaThe classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he...
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Tears of Banishment
as uncreditedNinkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
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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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Black Lizard
as Kogoro AkechiThe cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel...
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The Fort of Death
as Mochizuki YataroThe second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group...
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Watari, the Ninja Boy
as uncreditedIn old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like...
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Return of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as uncreditedThe Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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The Face
as Saburo IshiokaA notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the...
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The Chivalrous Life
as KoikeRyoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work...
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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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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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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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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
as BanriRyotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this...
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Bridge
as uncreditedA 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
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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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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as uncreditedThird part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's...
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Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
as uncreditedThe fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo,...
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Human Torpedoes
as uncreditedStory of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as uncreditedWith his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...
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Yakuza Law
as uncreditedA story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
as uncreditedThe timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl!...
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The Kamikaze Guy
as uncreditedAn elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
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A Yakuza Goes Home
as Jiro FukamiShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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Hana no shôgai
as 多田帯刀In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times,...
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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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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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Code Between Brothers 2
as Risaburo UmeharaThe services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal...
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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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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
as uncreditedYakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There...
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Rise and Fall of Chivalry
as uncreditedA reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head
as uncreditedIchibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the...
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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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Castle of Owls
as GoheiMovie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon,...
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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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Female Ninja Magic
as Tsuzumi HayatoIn Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's...
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Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
as KokichiLesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
as uncreditedJirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
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Rogue
as Kenzo SawadaCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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Blood of Revenge
as uncreditedOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
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お役者変化
as 三浦小次郎During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar,...
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The Imposter
as 宮本小次郎Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior...
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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The Marked Man
as uncreditedA man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
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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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Warrior of the Wind
as Koriki DenjiroA suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and...
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The Path of the King
as uncreditedWhen the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members...
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Yakuza on Foot
as Tokujin KoAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Gambler Biography
as Osamu KawadaHistorical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
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The Desperate
as uncreditedA noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
as Minokichi ShimotakiMonjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their...
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A Wad of Notes
as SanjiroA lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After...
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Prison Gambler
as KumagayaA film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which...
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大当り男一代
as 新三Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn...
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Legends of Honor
as uncreditedFirst ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
as uncreditedThis is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series
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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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Brothers of Capones
as uncreditedSuperbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his...
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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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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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Internees of Kampili
as Tadashi YamajiIn the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects...
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North Sea Chivalry
as uncreditedInosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in...
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Henchmen
as NakanishiThe three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city...
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Yakuza Vassal
as uncreditedA young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.
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Gambler's Legacy
as SenzoA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...
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Internal Sleuth
as uncreditedWhen 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
as uncreditedMumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way 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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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
as uncreditedRichshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha,...
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Outlaw Cop
as AochiA bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs...
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Eight Men to Kill
as Kanoke TatsuThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
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Mother's Ambition
as uncreditedThe Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in...
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鞍馬天狗 天狗廻状
as 菊谷又三郎In the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, in Kyoto, Osan and her companion Yahē were seeking...
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Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedIt's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous...
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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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Life of Hishakaku 3
as uncreditedThird part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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Confronting Fear
as uncreditedFormer boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his...
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
as Lord HayatonoshoWhen the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the...
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Team of Ruffians
as uncreditedPrisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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Red Pants
as uncreditedA woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by...
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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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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Shun-donThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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Love du Jour
as uncreditedThe proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
as uncreditedKokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...
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Tale of Scarlet Love
as uncreditedAssistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a...
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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
as uncreditedShinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political...
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Tokyo Omnibus
as uncreditedThe story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow...
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A Matter of Valour
as uncreditedChushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented...
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White Blaze
as uncreditedA masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel...
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Sotobori murder case
as uncreditedA taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While...
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荒木又右衛門
as 河合又五郎Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but...
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Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
as uncreditedIn a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create...
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
as uncreditedA young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his...
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The Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Katsura KogoroDuring the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the...
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Histories of the Chivalrous
as uncreditedA Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However...
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Eyes of Children
as uncreditedA man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An...
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Gokinzo Yaburi Ieyasu no Kubi
as uncreditedThis is the third installment in the series that was broadcast on Fuji TV's "Historical Drama...
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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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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
as Shinnosuke DateSumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo...
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Once and For All
as uncreditedFilm concerning warring yakuza families.
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Jōka
as 郷土弥平The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was...
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Bounty Hunter
as Mochizuki YataroContinuing the adventures from the film series, Shikoro Ichibei is back with his cache of unique...
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