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4.4

♡ 2

Crime

Yûji Makiguchi Director

Hideo Murota as

Takuzô Kawatani as

Pinko Izumi as

Maki Tachibana as

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

Empire of Passion

1978

7.0

♡ 15

80%

70%

based on novel or book

husband wife relationship

Horror

regret

relationship problems

Romance

sexual obsession

suspicion of murder

Nagisa Ôshima Director

Kenzô Kawarasaki as (as Kenzo Kawarazaki)

Hiroko Isayama as Bride

Takahiro Tamura as Gisaburo

Takuzô Kawatani as Inspector Hotta

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan

1992

7.0

♡ 5

Biography

History

Jun'ya Satô Director

Yûji Ueda as

Oleg Yankovskiy as Kirill Gustavovich Laksman

Takuzô Kawatani as Koichi

Ken Ogata as Koudayu Daikokuya

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

For Kayako

1984

6.9

♡ 1

Kôhei Oguri Director

Jun Hamamura as Akio Matsumoto

Takuzô Kawatani as Irujun Im

Takeshi Katô as Kyusu Im

Tokie Hidari as Shinsyun Ku

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

Usugeshô

1985

6.6

♡ 1

Crime

Hideo Gosha Director

Shingo Yanagisawa as Hideyuki Akiga

Takuzô Kawatani as Ichiro Makabe

Atsuko Asano as Teruko Jodokoro

Ken Ogata as Tokichi Sakane

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

Nihon jokyo-den: tekka geisha

5.8

Kôsaku Yamashita Director

Takuzô Kawatani as

Ai Sasaki as

Tôru Abe as Yasukawa

Bunta Sugawara as Yukichi

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.

Yakuza Graveyard

1976

7.0

♡ 5

100%

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Nobuo Kaneko as Akama

Takuzô Kawatani as Kajiyama

Masataka Iwao as Masaharu Kusumoto

Nagisa Ôshima as Muramoto

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Doberman Cop

1977

6.7

♡ 1

Crime

Kinji Fukasaku Director

Tatsuo Endô as Fujikawa

Takuzô Kawatani as Hiyoshi Kinoshita

Masataka Iwao as Hostage Negotiator Nakatani

Shin'ichi Chiba as Joji Kano

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.

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.

Okoma: The Orphan Gambler

1971

6.5

♡ 1

Shigehiro Ozawa Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Takuzô Kawatani as Jihei

Kôji Tsuruta as Joji Tsukuba

Shizue Natsukawa as Otami

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take over a rustic hot-spring town. Handling a gun and sword as skillfully as a man, Fuji Junko portrays an appealing personality that differs from Oryu in the Red Peony Gambler series. Tsuruta Koji stars as the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji that tops the list of an impressive all-star cast that includes Endo Tatsuo, Kogure Michiyo, Ashiya Gannosuke, Kitamura Eizo, and many others. This film is an authentic yakuza movie that conveys the true "Matatabi" (wandering gambler) feeling.

Proxy War

1973