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6.6

♡ 3

Akihisa Okamoto Director

Kunie Tanaka as

Ryôji Hayama as

Shin'ichi Chiba as Nezu

Renji Ishibashi as Yakuza Thug

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.

Graveyard of Honor

1975

7.1

♡ 12

25%

based on novel or book

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Kôji Fujiyama as

Jirô Sagawa as

Osamu Yamanouchi as

Kunie Tanaka as Katsuji Ozaki

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1974

6.9

♡ 3

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Tomisaburô Wakayama as Aoki Naotake

Kunie Tanaka as Gen Sakagami

Tsunehiko Watase as Noboru Kitami

Nobuo Kaneko as Yamamori

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

Kogarashi Monjirô: Kakawari gozansen

1972

6.2

♡ 3

Sadao Nakajima Director

Minoru Ôki as

Kunie Tanaka as

Eiko Nakamura as

Hideo Shimada as

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?

A Class to Remember 3: The New Voyage

1998

6.6

♡ 1

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kunie Tanaka as

Kimiko Yo as

Hidetaka Yoshioka as

A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technical college to gain new qualifications. She meets others looking for a new start in life, including a former salaryman with whom she begins a furtive romance...

A Class to Remember

1993

7.0

♡ 3

japanese school

Yôji Yamada Director

Takashi Sasano as

Kunie Tanaka as

Masato Hagiwara as

Keiko Takeshita as

A cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood for adult students on the fringes of Japanese society.

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

1973

5.7

♡ 6

Kôzaburô Yoshimura Director

Hideyuki Tanaka as

Naoya Uchida as

Kotoe Hatsui as Director of the Juvenile Training School for Girls

Kunie Tanaka as Soldier mania

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

Sôshun monogatari

1985

6.4

♡ 4

Romance

Shin'ichirô Sawai Director

Nenji Kobayashi as Coffee shop owner

Tomoyo Harada as Hitomi Okino

Kaneko Iwasaki as Mrs. Takenaka

Kunie Tanaka as Okino, Hitomi's father

A Japanese high school student passionate with photography discovers love while confronting the past choices of her dead mother.

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

1971

6.9

♡ 5

Comedy

Yôji Yamada Director

Kunie Tanaka as Fukushi Sensei

Hiroshi Inuzuka as Officer

Shin Morikawa as Tatsuzo

Hisao Dazai as Umetaro

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

1970

7.3

♡ 9

79%

Kenji Misumi Director

Masayuki Mori as Dark Lord Yamikubo

Osami Nabe as Mistress Auctioneer

Kunie Tanaka as Packhorse Driver

Tatsuya Nakadai as Ronin

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.

Hitokiri

1969

7.4

♡ 12

Hideo Gosha Director

Kei Yamamoto as

Kunie Tanaka as Gaoler

Tatsuya Nakadai as Hanpeita Takechi

Mitsuko Baishô as Onimo

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

1966

7.2

♡ 5

70%

Kazuo Ikehiro Director

Seishirô Hara as

Hisashi Igawa as Eigoro

Michiyo Yasuda as Kichi

Kunie Tanaka as Man speaks a lot

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Cops vs. Thugs

1975

7.2

♡ 3

96%

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Takuzô Kawatani as

Kunie Tanaka as

Mizuho Suzuki as Assistant Chief Miura

Hiroki Matsukata as Kenji Hirotani

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.

Proxy War

1973

7.3

♡ 4

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Daisuke Awaji as

Kunie Tanaka as Makihara Masakichi

Takuzô Kawatani as Saijo Katsuji

Tatsuo Endô as Shigeo Aihara

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

The Demon

1978

7.4

♡ 9

92%

Yoshitarô Nomura Director

Keizô Kanie as Akutsu, Sôkichi's colleague

Mizuho Suzuki as Detective

Kunie Tanaka as Policeman

Ken Ogata as Sôkichi Takeshita

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

parent child relationship

8.0

♡ 24

100%

Thriller

wedding

Akira Kurosawa Director

Kunie Tanaka as Hitman

Takeshi Katô as Itakura

Toshirô Mifune as Kôichi Nishi

Masayuki Mori as Public Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu

1966

5.9

♡ 3

Crime

Teruo Ishii Director

Ken Takakura as

Kichijirô Ueda as

Kunie Tanaka as

Teruo Yoshida as

Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo, and directed by Ishii Teruo of "Kamba 101: Killing Bouncer" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also directed "Abashiri Bangaichi: Confrontation in the South" in the same series.

The Inheritance

1962

7.4

♡ 6

Masaki Kobayashi Director

Tatsuya Nakadai as Kikuo Furukawa

Kunie Tanaka as Man in bar

Misako Watanabe as Rie, Senzô's wife

Yûsuke Kawazu as Sadao

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Final Episode

1974