Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
Kataku no hito
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work
Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
Graveyard of Honor
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
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.
Rampaging Dragon of the North
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both.
Japan Organized Crime Boss
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Gambler's Farewell
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
Virus
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Hiroshima Death Match
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
Yakuza Graveyard
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
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
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.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Proxy War
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.
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Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Hiroyuki Sanada
as
Kunihiko Yasuoka
Keiko Matsuzaka
as
Machiko
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Tetsuo Takeuchi
Mariko Kaga
as
Yuki
Renji Ishibashi
as
Kazuo's father
Mieko Harada
as
Keiko
Nenji Kobayashi
as
Bunta Sugawara
as
Isamu Okita
Kôji Fujiyama
as
Prisoner
Keijirô Morozumi
as
Takigawa
Yumiko Nogawa
as
Masataka Iwao
as
Tatsuo Endô
as
Shin'ichi Chiba
as
(as Sonny Chiba)
Kunie Tanaka
as
Katsuji Ozaki
Tomisaburô Wakayama
as
Aoki Naotake
Tsunehiko Watase
as
Noboru Kitami
Nobuo Kaneko
as
Yamamori
Michitarô Mizushima
as
Tatsuo Umemiya
as
Tadao Nakamaru
as
Kôji Tsuruta
as
Gunji
Kôichi Satô
as
Iemon Tamiya
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Kuranosuke Ôishi
Saki Takaoka
as
Oiwa
Eijirô Tôno
as
Admiral Nagumo
Bill Zuckert
as
Adm. James O. Richardson
Richard Erdman
as
Colonel Edward F. French
Rosemary DeCamp
as
Grace Tully - Roosevelt's Secretary
Yûko Asuka
as
Koga Kunoichi
Masayo Banri
as
Akiko
Seizaburô Kawazu
as
Masayohi Iwasaki
Eiji Okada
as
Riichirô Maejima
Stuart Gillard
as
Dr. Ed Meyer
Alberta Watson
as
Litha
Bo Svenson
as
Maj. Carter
Takuzô Kawatani
as
Kajiyama
Nagisa Ôshima
as
Muramoto
Mizuho Suzuki
as
Assistant Chief Miura
Hiroki Matsukata
as
Kenji Hirotani
Takeshi Katô
as
Takashi Ebata
as
Constable Maekawa
Daisuke Awaji
as
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