With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Akira Kobayashi, Asao Koike, Isao Natsuyagi, Noboru Andō, Ryōji Hayama

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Oginome, Masahiro Motoki, Rino Katase, Tatsuya Nakadai

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Kana, Koujiro Shimizu, Riki Takeuchi, Rino Katase, Shima Iwashita

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Jinpachi Nezu, Mariko Fuji, Rino Katase, Sayoko Ninomiya, Yūko Natori

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 ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Atsuko Asano, Kazuyo Asari, Ken Ogata, Mariko Fuji, Nagare Hagiwara

Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, ...

Genre: Drama,Romance,War

Actors:Akiko Kana, Atsuko Asano, Ken Ogata, Kimiko Ikegami, Mitsuko Baisho

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Jinpachi Nezu, Kazuyo Matsui, Miyuki Kanō, Rino Katase, Yūko Natori

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Eijirō Tōno, Gō Katō, Kunie Tanaka, Mikijiro Hira, Shima Iwashita

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Mitsuko Baisho, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūjirō Ishihara, Yukio Mishima

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking ...

Genre: Action

Actors:Mari Natsuki, Mariko Ishihara, Masanori Sera, Takuzō Kawatani, Tsunehiko Watase

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Matsumoto Hakuō II, Shima Iwashita, Takashi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Kana, Masako Natsume, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.

Genre: Drama

Actors:Hiroyuki Nagato, Kanako Higuchi, Miwako Fujitani, Renji Ishibashi, Shinichi Tsutsumi

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Crime,Drama

Actors:Ayumi Ishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Keiko Kishi, Makoto Fujita, Tatsuya Nakadai

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early — only to find that his ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Komaki Kurihara, Kyōko Enami, Noboru Andō, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshio Kurosawa

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Tetsuro Tamba, Yoshiko Kayama