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6.1

♡ 4

Seijun Suzuki Director

Chikako Hosokawa as

Hiroshi Kondô as

Nobuo Kaneko as

Ichiro Kijima as

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

The Man with a Shotgun

1961

6.3

♡ 4

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Izumi Ashikawa as

Yûji Odaka as (as Yuji Kodaka)

Takashi Ebata as Ken

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

The Sleeping Beast Within

1960

6.7

♡ 6

Seijun Suzuki Director

Kotoe Hatsui as

Yûko Kusunoki as

Hiroyuki Nagato as

Ichiro Kijima as

A newspaper reporter's search for his girlfriend's missing father lead him into heart of the criminal underworld of Yokohama's Chinatown.

Yumeji

1991

6.9

♡ 6

83%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Kimiko Yo as

Michiyo Yasuda as Owner of a hotel

Yoshio Harada as Wakiya

Kenji Sawada as Yumeji Takehisa

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Take Aim at the Police Van

1960

6.6

♡ 4

Seijun Suzuki Director

Kotoe Hatsui as Concierge of Gorô's apartment

Michitarô Mizushima as Daijirô Tamon

Mari Shiraki as Tsunako Andô

Misako Watanabe as Yûko Hamajima

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Everything Goes Wrong

1960

6.8

♡ 7

67%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Shinsuke Ashida as Keigo Nambara

Sayuri Yoshinaga as Noriko

Kotoe Hatsui as Ritsuko

Chikako Miyagi as Yukie

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

Our Blood Will Not Forgive

1964

6.3

♡ 2

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Chikako Hosokawa as Hatsu Asari

Hideki Takahashi as Shin'ji Asari

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Kagero-za

1981

6.9

♡ 7

based on novel or book

Seijun Suzuki Director

Mariko Kaga as Mio

Michiyo Yasuda as Shinako

Yoshio Harada as Wada

Hideko Okiyama as Woman in a bright colour kimono

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

Tokyo Drifter

1966

7.1

♡ 16

93%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Ken Mizoguchi as

Yûzô Kiura as Fujimura

Takeshi Yoshida as Keiichi

Michio Hino as Yoshii

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

Fighting Elegy

1966

6.9

♡ 2

74%

based on memoir or autobiography

Comedy

Drama

roman catholic

roman catholic church

sexual repression

young love

youth gang

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yûsuke Kawazu as Suppon 'Turtle'

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Capone Cries a Lot

6.2

Seijun Suzuki Director

Fujio Tokita as Bank Owner

Tôru Minegishi as Boss Yoshida

Yûko Tanaka as Kozome Takonoya

Kenji Sawada as Tetsugoro Osawa

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Youth of the Beast

1963

7.3

♡ 11

86%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Toshihiko Oda as

Mizuho Suzuki as Detective Hirokawa

Nobuo Kaneko as Sôichi Ozawa

Yûzô Kiura as Takeo Minegishi

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

7.3

♡ 5

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Hiroshi Tachikawa as

Yumiko Nogawa as Harumi

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Zigeunerweisen

1980

6.9

♡ 6

81%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akaji Maro as Blind Man

Yoshio Harada as Nakasago / Sono's husband

Michiyo Yasuda as Shuko / Aochi's wife

Toshiya Fujita as Toyojiro Aochi

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.

Branded to Kill

1967

7.2

♡ 20

100%

Seijun Suzuki Director

Akira Takahashi as

Ken Mizoguchi as

Takashi Nomura as

Jô Shishido as Gorô Hanada

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Lupin III: Legend of the Gold of Babylon

1985

6.1

♡ 15

Seijun Suzuki Director

Makio Inoue as Goemon Ishikawa XIII

Gorô Naya as Inspector Zenigata

Chikao Ohtsuka as Kowalski

Saeko Shimazu as Lasagna

Lupin squares off with two criminal families and Inspector Zenigata's new female patrol to track down a hoard of biblical-era treasure.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

1963