In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Isao Sasaki, Junzaburō Ban, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kayoko Honoo, Kei Satō, Masahiko Tsugawa, Rokkō Toura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yūsuke Kawazu

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex ...

Genre: Action,Crime,History

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Hōsei Komatsu, Jun Tatara, Kayo Mikimoto, Mayumi Ogawa, Mikio Narita, Naoko Kubo, Ryūtarō Gomi, Yoshio Kaneuchi

Murase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. When they meet, they are surprised how ...

Genre: Crime

Actors:Akemi Nara, Eiko Horii, Fumio Watanabe, Hideo Kanze, Kei Satō, Michiko Takahashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Tatsumi Hijikata, Tatsuo Takahashi, Yôsuke Enomoto

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Harumi Sone, Hiroki Matsukata, Jūkei Fujioka, Kōjiro Shirakawa, Masataka Iwao, Masataka Naruse, Minken Karasawa, Shinichirō Mikami, Tatsuo Umemiya

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Eiko Yanami, Fumio Watanabe, Gōzō Sōma, Hiroko Isayama, Hōsei Komatsu, Kayoko Shiraishi, Kuniko Ishii, Meiko Kaji, Yuki Aresa, Yukie Kagawa

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

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Asao Sano, Eijirō Tōno, Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima, Isuzu Yamada, Keiko Awaji, Natsuko Kahara, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tomo'o Nagai

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Thriller

Actors:Akira Shioji, Chiyoko Kazama, Etsuko Shihomi, Fumio Watanabe, Goichi Yamada, Masafumi Suzuki, Masashi Ishibashi, Rinichi Yamamoto, Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search ...

Genre: Action,Adventure

Actors:Asao Koike, Etsuko Shihomi, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Isao Natsuyagi, Katsumasa Uchida, Makoto Satō, Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tamba, Yuki Ninagawa

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Thriller

Actors:Akemi Negishi, Fumio Watanabe, Hideo Murota, Isao Natsuyagi, Keiko Kuni, Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yōko Mihara, Yumiko Katayama

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub’s ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Akihiro Tomikawa, Asao Uchida, Fumio Watanabe, Kōji Sekiyama, Reiko Kasahara, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Taketoshi Naitō, Tomisaburō Wakayama, Tomoko Mayama, Yoshi Katō

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Koyama, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe, LoLo Cannon, Takeshi Kinoshota, Tetsuo Abe

In Tokyo’s Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect.

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Akaji Maro, Fumio Watanabe, Juro Kara, Kei Satō, Moichi Tanabe, Reisen Ri, Rie Yokoyama, Rokkō Toura, Tadanori Yokoo, Taka Okubo

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Akiko Koyama, Do-yun Yu, Fumio Watanabe, Hōsei Komatsu, Kei Satō, Masao Matsuda, Nagisa Ōshima, Rokkō Toura, Toshirō Ishidō

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action ...

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Cha Dei-dang, Fumio Watanabe, Hōsei Komatsu, Kazuhiko Kato, Kei Satō, Mako Midori, Norihiko Hashida, Osamu Kitayama, Taiji Tonoyama

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Harumi Sone, Hideo Murota, Kōji Hio, Kōji Sekiyama, Koji Tsuruta, Masayo Banri, Rinichi Yamamoto, Seizaburō Kawazu, Tetsuro Tamba

A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.

Genre: Drama,Horror

Actors:Asao Koike, Fumio Watanabe, Kichijirō Ueda, Masumi Tachibana, Miki Obana, Reiko Mikasa, Shin'ichirô Hayashi, Tamaki Sawa, Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa

A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence.

Genre: Comedy,Crime,Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Hiroko Shimizu, Katsuo Nakamura, Kei Satō, Mariko Kaga, Masako Yagi, Rokkō Toura, Shoichi Ozawa, Toshiko Higuchi, Yumiko Nogawa

In Osaka’s slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Isao Sasaki, Junzaburō Ban, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kayoko Honoo, Kei Satō, Masahiko Tsugawa, Rokkō Toura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yūsuke Kawazu

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Genre: Drama,Romance

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Jun Hamamura, Kei Satō, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinji Tanaka, Toshiko Kobayashi, Yoshiko Kuga, Yosuke Hayashi, Yuki Tominaga, Yūsuke Kawazu

Uninvited guests crash a former student radical’s wedding and accuse him, his bride and other guests of ignoring their political commitments.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akiko Koyama, Fumio Watanabe, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Ichirô Hayami, Kei Satō, Masahiko Tsugawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Takao Yoshizawa

Yoshida’s first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Fumio Watanabe, Hiromi Sakaki, Hizuru Takachiho, Junichiro Yamashita, Kakuko Chino, Masahiko Tsugawa, Masao Mishima, Shōji Yasui, Yosuke Hayashi, Yūsuke Kawazu