Ryō Nishida
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
as Okada GonoshinIn the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as uncreditedRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity
as Takano ShinjiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
Movie pageThe Fall of Ako Castle
as uncreditedThis is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as uncreditedWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
Movie pageBattles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as uncreditedAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
Movie pageSamurai Wolf
as uncreditedThis is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives...
Movie pageDoberman Cop
as Det. Takuya TamuraJoji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...
Movie pageAesthetics of a Bullet
as uncreditedA small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan...
Movie pageHokuriku Proxy War
as uncreditedIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
as uncreditedJunko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey...
Movie pageGambling Code and Feuds
as uncreditedIt is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action...
Movie pageJapan's Don
as uncreditedA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
Movie pageViolent Panic: The Big Crash
as uncreditedTakashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...
Movie pageGamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
as uncreditedThe second part of the Gamblers series.
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
as uncreditedThe final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of...
Movie pageThe Yakuza Code Still Lives
as uncreditedAfter spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new...
Movie pageTrials of an Okinawa Village
as uncreditedA boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of...
Movie pageNew 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...
Movie pageReturn of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Movie pageSamurai Geisha
as uncreditedPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
Movie pageBrothers Serving Time
as uncreditedWhile imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...
Movie pageFangs of Darkness: Vengeance
as uncreditedWakayama Tomisaburo plays the role of Ichibei. His father is denounced from his clan and...
Movie pageThe International Gang of Kobe
as White SoldierIn 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun...
Movie pageIsshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
as 徳山五兵衛A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the...
Movie pageThe Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
Movie pageOrganized Crime: Killer's Glory
as uncreditedA professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...
Movie pageOutlaw Cop
as uncreditedA bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs...
Movie pageCode of Wolves
as uncreditedIn gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...
Movie pageThird Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
Movie pageJapanese Godfather: Ambition
as Ichiro FunaseAn ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...
Movie pageEighteen Years in Prison
as uncreditedA former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers 5
as uncreditedSaburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...
Movie pageThe Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
as uncreditedWith a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...
Movie pageSpace Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark
as uncreditedSci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native...
Movie pageJudo vs. Karate
as uncreditedA story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
Movie pageOperation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
Movie pageThe Bandits
as BoyAction drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...
Movie pageWithered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
as KamekuraKogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...
Movie pageGirl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
as NakaharaReleased from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another...
Movie pageNew Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
Movie pageTears of Banishment
as uncreditedNinkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Movie pageGambling Den Heist
as uncreditedAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
Movie pageThe Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
Movie pageThe Shogun and His Mistresses
as Igamono 2Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
Movie pageGamblers
as uncreditedTsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former...
Movie pageDecapitation of an Evil Woman
as uncreditedAn unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history....
Movie pageRub Out the Past
as uncreditedA lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Movie pageGambler: Victory Without Death
as uncreditedTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
Movie pageMessage from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
as BaruThe movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.
Movie pageZorome no San Kyoudai
as uncreditedIn Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...
Movie pageKing of Sha-kin 2
as uncreditedA normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
Movie pageMessage from Space: Galactic Wars
as BaruThe 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru,...
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