A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell the building through illicit means.

Zatoichi the Outlaw

1967

Japanese

7.0

♡ 7

56%

Satsuo Yamamoto Director

Rentarô Mikuni as Asagoro

Tatsuo Endô as Boss Tomizo

Mizuho Suzuki as Shusui Ohara

Kenjirô Ishiyama as Tatsugoro

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

American Yakuza

1993

English

5.6

♡ 13

42%

Frank A. Cappello Director

John Fujioka as Isshin Tendo

Toni Naples as Mrs. Campanela

Viggo Mortensen as Nick Davis / David Brandt

Nicky Katt as Vic

When Nick Davis leaves prison after one year in solitairy, he is hired to operate a forklift in a warehouse in the harbor owned by the Japanese Yakuza patriarch Isshin Tendo. The place is assaulted by the Italian Mafia lead by Dino Campanela and Nick rescues and saves the life of Shuji Sawamoto, who is the representative of Yakuza interests in America. Shuji hires Nick to work for Yakuza and becomes his godfather in the family after his oath to join Yakuza. However, Nick is a lonely FBI undercover agent assigned to penetrate the criminal organization. When the FBI discovers that Campanela is organizing a massive attack to destroy the Yakuza, Nick's boss Littman calls off the operation to leave the dirty work to the Italian Mafia. But the connection of Nick with Shuji and his goddaughter Yuko forces him to help his Japanese family.

Chocolate

2008

Thai

6.9

♡ 52

female martial artist

gang

thailand

yakuza

Prachya Pinkaew Director

Hiroshi Abe as Masashi

Pongpat Wachirabunjong as No.8

JeeJa Yanin as Zen

Ammara Siripong as Zin

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay.

Darc

2018

English

5.8

♡ 52

30%

Julius R. Nasso Director

Candus Churchill as

Simon Chin as Corpulent Fuck

Dawn Olivieri as Ivy

Shô Ikushima as Shigeru Kageyama

To bring down a global human trafficking ring, an Interpol agent recruits the help of a brutal criminal with inside knowledge of the yakuza.

Winter's Flower

1978

Japanese

6.7

♡ 5

Yasuo Furuhata Director

Tôru Minegishi as

Ken Takakura as Hidetsugu Kano

Mitsuko Baishô as Merry

Yoichi Miura as Otohiko Takeda

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!

Dead or Alive

1999

Japanese

6.7

♡ 13

55%

Takashi Miike Director

Kazuki Kitamura as

Shingo Tsurumi as Chen

Susumu Terajima as Inoue

Sei Hiraizumi as Police Chief

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

Shinjuku Swan

2015

Japanese

6.0

♡ 12

95%

live action adaptation

live action adaptation of manga

outlaw

yakuza

Sion Sono Director

Young Dais as

Erika Sawajiri as Ageha

Yûsuke Iseya as Matora

Ken Yasuda as Matsukata

Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.

Samaritan Zatoichi

1968

Japanese

7.2

♡ 10

80%

Kenji Misumi Director

Shôsaku Sugiyama as Kinsuke

Chôchô Miyako as Ohaya

Ryûtarô Gomi as Sashichi

Kô Nishimura as Sosuke Saruya

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.

The Symbol of a Man: The Rule for a Vagabond

1965

English

6.0

♡ 4

Action

yakuza

Eisuke Takizawa Director

Hiroshi Kondô as

Hideki Takahashi as

Shôbun Inoue as (as Akifumi Inoue)

Meiko Kaji as (as Masako Ôta)

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi

1969

Japanese

7.1

♡ 3

Masahiro Makino Director

Ken Takakura as

Kôji Fujiyama as

Seizaburô Kawazu as

Kôichi Yamada as

Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

Blind Swordswoman: Hellish Skin

1969

Japanese

6.8

♡ 1

Sadatsugu Matsuda Director

Jûshirô Konoe as Hanbei

Kikko Matsuoka as Oen

Yôko Matsuyama as Oichi

Tadao Nakamaru as Tanbei Magari

Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges before confronting her greatest rival. While longing to live and love like other women, she realizes that she can never have a normal life, her sword which she holds on to like a security blanket will always come between her and such a life...

On the Road Forever

1964

Japanese

6.7

♡ 4

Action

Drama

yakuza

Kenji Misumi Director

Kenjirô Ishiyama as Genshichi the Red Sheath

Shôsaku Sugiyama as Hambei Kuroki

Raizô Ichikawa as Ipponmatsu

Eiko Taki as Osei

A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest peasants into slavery.

Adrenaline Drive

1999

Japanese

6.9

♡ 3

76%

Shinobu Yaguchi Director

Takuji Suzuki as

Yôji Tanaka as

Yutaka Matsushige as Kuroiwa

Masanobu Andô as Satoru Suzuki

A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.

Fireworks

1997

Japanese

7.7

♡ 30

96%

Takeshi Kitano Director

Kanji Tsuda as

Shûji Ôtsuki as

Yoshiyuki Morishita as Hoodlum B

Susumu Terajima as Nakamura

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

Yokohama ankokugai mashingan no ryu

1976

Japanese

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.

Kaoyaku akatsukini shisu

1961

Japanese

6.3

♡ 3

Kihachi Okamoto Director

Hideo Sunazuka as

Tadao Nakamaru as

Jun Tazaki as

Yûzô Kayama as Jiro

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Nihon bôryôku rettô: Keihanshin koroshi no gundan

1975

Japanese

5.9

♡ 2

Action

Crime

yakuza

Kôsaku Yamashita Director

Tatsuo Endô as

Tatsuo Umemiya as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Ryôko Ema as

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.