Biography: Show Aikawa is a Japanese actor. He's starred in a variety of films ranging from V-Cinema productions to mainstream ventures. In the course of his career, he's collaborated extensively with a number of directors such as Banmei Takahashi, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, and Takashi Miike.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 24, 1961
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1997-05-12
Overview: A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no one except for an eel he befriended while in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-12
Popularity:
2000-07-22
Overview: Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an online financial service.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-22
Popularity:
1999-11-27
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-27
Popularity:
2016-04-01
Overview: While the Kyowa Clan chairman recovers from a gunshot wound, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) is targeted as well. A captured hitman admits that Sakashita ordered the attack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-04-01
Popularity:
2016-06-03
Overview: After confirming that Fukumoto of the West Japan Mutsumi Association was behind the attempt on Kudo's life, Kawatani (Hitoshi Ozawa) declares all-out war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-03
Popularity:
2003-07-11
Overview: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-11
Popularity:
2001-02-03
Overview: In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-02-03
Popularity:
2000-08-07
Overview: A psychic housewife and her husband accidentally find a kidnapped girl. But instead of informing the police, they hatch a scheme to get famous by working with the police as a psychic consultant to "find" the girl. And then, things start to go terribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-07
Popularity:
2005-12-10
Overview: Two Japanese friends accidentally kill their boss and dump his remains in Black Fuji, a mountain/landfill hybrid. This leads to poor results when the chemicals of the landfill mix with the corpse (and many other corpses) to give rise to a zombie infestation in Tokyo.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-12-10
Popularity:
2003-01-18
Overview: When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-18
Popularity:
2009-03-20
Overview: "Drop" tells the story of a boy named Hiroshi Shinanogawa, who grew up in the 1980s. He became inspired by the Be-Bop High School manga and decided to become a delinquent. Hiroshi dropped out of a private middle school and transferred to a public school There he joins up with a delinquent gang.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-20
Popularity:
2000-12-02
Overview: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to team up and use their talents in killing for good... much to the upset of the crime syndicates.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-02
Popularity:
2007-03-03
Overview: Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-03-03
Popularity:
2017-01-06
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-06
Popularity:
2004-01-30
Overview: A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-30
Popularity:
2002-01-12
Overview: Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda is a hard boiled cop enforcing the mayor's agenda, and Ryō is a mellowed out drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeshi's son, it begins a series of events leading to an inevitable showdown.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-12
Popularity:
1997-06-28
Overview: A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-28
Popularity:
2016-09-02
Overview: Akimoto's incarceration and the retirement of the Marugami Alliance chairman re-ignite tensions in Kanto, while Fukumoto makes a new move in the west.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-09-02
Popularity:
2000-06-09
Overview: The truth of a sniper becomes clear in the turmoil of a drug robbery that shakes the underworld.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-06-09
Popularity:
1992-10-09
Overview: Two scammers who cross the world without being caught by Satsu and killed
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-10-09
Popularity:
1993-08-13
Overview: Jin, who has killed is worried about his younger brother Jiro and has returned to the world as a ghost!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-08-13
Popularity:
1994-09-09
Overview: Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of his parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-09
Popularity:
2021-10-30
Overview: Atsuko and Akira are a husband and wife duo with a daughter and a son. Atsuko is in charge of the retirement finances. She saves from money given to her by her husband and also earns money herself by working part-time. She stretches every yen by leading a frugal life. yet, expenses come up. These include their daughter's upcoming wedding and the funeral expenses of the husband's father. Then, and at exactly the worst time, the couple finds itself unemployed.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2021-10-30
Popularity:
1993-02-12
Overview: A man who has no choice but to act as an agent for anything and will play a role in the conflict between the gangsters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-02-12
Popularity:
1994-05-01
Overview: Detective Suwon was involved on the war on drugs in Yokohama because of his mischief.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-05-01
Popularity:
1995-08-04
Overview: Three mean and a woman connected by a strange encounter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-04
Popularity:
1998-02-13
Overview: The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-13
Popularity:
2000-03-10
Overview: The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-10
Popularity:
2000-07-14
Overview: A fierce outlaw shakes the gangster world!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
Popularity:
1994-12-09
Overview: A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunderstanding.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-09
Popularity:
1995-05-12
Overview: The follow up to the very popular first instalment.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-05-12
Popularity:
1996-11-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-11-08
Popularity:
2005-08-27
Overview: One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-08-27
Popularity:
2016-11-04
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-11-04
Popularity:
1997-09-12
Overview: This exciting work is full of dangerous behind the scenes stories from the sex industry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-12
Popularity:
1996-05-10
Overview: The thug is now back in Shaba as a legendary hitman!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-10
Popularity:
1998-06-12
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-06-12
Popularity:
2002-08-03
Overview: Shangri-La follows the lives of a group of homeless people in Japan who run into a man who nearly commits suicide and decide to help him out of his financial troubles. Using their various ingenious resources they embark on a complex scheme to blackmail a crooked businessman, whose bankruptcy claim has put people out of work. It’s a fun romp as these seemingly homeless people manage to outsmart the very people who cast them from society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-08-03
Popularity:
1998-04-11
Overview: Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he encounters a man that introduces himself as an old friend. The man offers Nijima a new job, and subsequently introduces Nijima to his band of hired killers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-11
Popularity:
1988-02-10
Overview: Feature movie starring the members of Japanese band Issei Fūbi Sepia
Genres: Music Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-02-10
Popularity:
1995-06-09
Overview: A V-Cinema effort from the mid-90s starring Show Aikawa and Misa Aika. Misa Aika plays Miyuki, a high school girl who is a computer nerd. She is contacted by someone on the net who calls themselves an "angel". Meanwhile, an AV cameraman, Yoichi, has fallen in love with Miyuki at first sight, and devoted himself to filming her secretly. However, as he films her, Yoichi begins to notice other strangers who have an interest in Miyuki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-09
Popularity:
2010-05-01
Overview: A post-apocalyptic humankind in 2025 finds a hero in the form of Zebraman. But the Zebra Queen steals his powers, making him lose his ability to survive Zebra Time. But he wants his powers back.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-05-01
Popularity:
1997-12-20
Overview: In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains disappear. Based on these factual events, this movie takes off with a science fiction story involving a space rocket which places a satellite in orbit containing a secret cargo. The satellite crashes on a remote island and footprints are found in the sand leading away from the crash site. A story of how an ancient primitive cave-dwelling family contends with the scientists who want to study them.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-20
Popularity:
1999-05-22
Overview: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-22
Popularity:
2012-01-14
Overview: A period of rapid economic growth. The Sanno-kai, a giant organization in the Kansai region, has expanded into Yokohama. Under these circumstances, Takamasa Ishida, who succeeded to the fifth generation Yokosuka family, is working hard to stop the movement of Sanno-kai.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-14
Popularity:
2012-03-23
Overview: The fourth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-23
Popularity:
2011-01-14
Overview: The first 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-14
Popularity:
2012-11-07
Overview: The fifth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-11-07
Popularity:
2012-01-01
Overview: The second 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-01
Popularity:
2013-01-01
Overview: The sixth 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-01-01
Popularity:
2013-02-21
Overview: The seventh 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-02-21
Popularity:
2006-05-03
Overview: Katayama is on the way home to his wife and little daughter when he comes across a gang of punks beating up an innocent man. Katamaya decides to help the stranger and surprisingly wins the fight. This turns out to be a bad decision.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-03
Popularity:
2012-02-02
Overview: The third 'Don's Road' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-02
Popularity:
1998-02-19
Overview: The second 'Kizu' film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-19
Popularity:
1998-01-14
Overview: The first 'Kizu' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-14
Popularity:
1991-01-11
Overview: A former safe-breaker, a former yakuza , and another young "Toshiro" Ryo (Aikawa) are planning to attack a casino run by a large organization. The three get a lot of money , but Ryo betrays his companions because he wants a runaway fund with the mistress of the group leader .
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-11
Popularity:
1999-01-01
Overview: A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry set in Shinjuku, the largest entertainment district in Asia, such as robbery, kidnapping, theft, and the murder of a blue dragon sword. Show Aikawa enthusiastically plays a lone wolf gangster. Co-starring Hitoshi Ozawa and others.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-01
Popularity:
2000-01-01
Overview: It depicts the fierce battle between the Shanghai Mafia, who is trying to expand its power with sneaky hands, and Kuroiwa, the young head of the former Ryuo group.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-01
Popularity:
2001-01-01
Overview: Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when he was a child . Now , as Fumihiko Kanzaki , a man with two faces , a bank clerk and a fraudster , he goes on a revenge path for Shura alone against a huge organization !
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Popularity:
2010-04-03
Overview: Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and the police hot on his tail he is forced to take the boy and go on the run, somehow during the journey kidnapper and kidnappee begin to develop a friendship with one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-03
Popularity:
1997-01-10
Overview: The fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the Kansai yakuza who are planning to advance to the Kanto region by taking advantage of the off-track betting dispute.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-01-10
Popularity:
1996-05-25
Overview: The third hit series of a gangster movie that depicts a fateful confrontation between a man stigmatized for killing a gangster and confronting an enemy who has fitted himself. The stage will be moved to Kyushu, and the escalated battle between yakuza will unfold.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-25
Popularity:
1996-02-10
Overview: A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-10
Popularity:
1995-06-24
Overview: Terrible ! Bloody conflict , outbreak !! The overwhelmingly popular graphic novel serialized in Manga Goraku is finally made into a moviel Draw the hard life of men running through the times , including Show Alkawa !!! First film of the live action series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-06-24
Popularity:
1997-09-19
Overview: Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-09-19
Popularity:
1997-05-16
Overview: The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination, centered on the confrontation between the two gangsters who became their nemesis. This work is set in a certain area of Hiroshima, which is shaken by the construction problem of an industrial waste treatment plant.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-16
Popularity:
1998-03-07
Overview: The 7th gangster action of men who continue to fight bloody battles in Tosa, Shikoku.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-03-07
Popularity:
1998-07-29
Overview: The 8th gangster action that depicts the familiar Hongo-gumi facing the Tokyo Waterfront City Development Project, which is a wide-area gangster in the Kansai region.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-29
Popularity:
2000-02-18
Overview: The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-18
Popularity:
2001-04-13
Overview: The birth of outlaw violence, depicts the passionate and fierce way of life of men that chose the path of Shura.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-13
Popularity:
2001-10-14
Overview: Straight to video sequel
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-14
Popularity:
2012-01-12
Overview: The first 'The Yakuza Named Evil' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-01-12
Popularity:
2012-12-19
Overview: The final 'The Yakuza Named Evil' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-12-19
Popularity:
2012-02-24
Overview: The Yakuza Named Evil sequel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-02-24
Popularity:
1998-02-21
Overview: Miyashita, a former low-level yakuza member, has tracked down and kidnapped his daughter's murderer with help of his friend Nijima. But others are soon implicated in the death, leading the pair further down a violent path of revenge.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-02-21
Popularity:
2015-01-23
Overview: Teppei Mihogawa (Susumu Terajima), is a man who plays a "lavabo" with a guitar in the night city. a girl who was attracted by Teppei's song fell in love at first sight with Teppei
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-23
Popularity:
1994-12-17
Overview: A look a the lives of two sex workers in Tokyo: Rei, who works as an S&M dominatrix, and Ayumi, in the more straightforward profession of call girl. In addition to their working life, the film also looks at their private lives. Rei is acting in an amateur theatre company along with the receptionist from Ayumi's escort service, while Ayumi is living with her student-boyfriend as he struggles to finally get accepted to college.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-12-17
Popularity:
1999-03-12
Overview: After the events of the first part, the fight seemed to stop for a while. However, the enmity between the Udagawa-gumi and the Seishinkai continued to smolder. Maki and Hayase are targeted by an killer, and Hayase's younger brother Ishioka kills the leader of the Udagawa-gumi due to a threat from Miyauchi, the leader of the Seishinkai. And the conflict flares up with renewed vigor.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-12
Popularity:
2009-08-08
Overview: 2009 original video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-08-08
Popularity:
2010-03-19
Overview: Sequel to 'Graveyard of Brothers'.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-03-19
Popularity:
2011-04-23
Overview: The first 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-23
Popularity:
2011-11-12
Overview: The final 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-12
Popularity:
2011-11-15
Overview: The second 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-15
Popularity:
2016-01-01
Overview: 2016 original video.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-01
Popularity:
2016-02-25
Overview: The second 'Platinum Family Crest' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-02-25
Popularity:
2016-07-21
Overview: The third 'Platinum Family Crest' film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-07-21
Popularity:
1997-11-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-08
Popularity:
2010-01-15
Overview: 2010 original video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-01-15
Popularity:
1995-10-27
Overview: A private detective called "Kiss Shiro", One day, he is shocked to see a rape video brought by his younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-10-27
Popularity:
2013-11-09
Overview: As an orphan, Naoto Date was scouted by mysterious organization Tiger's Cave. The group trains young men to become villainous wrestlers and collects half of their earnings. Naoto Date goes through a harsh training regime and eventually graduates from Tiger's Cave. He hopes other orphans will not have to go through the difficult life he has. Naoto Date then makes his debut as the villain Tiger Mask. With his earnings, he also begins to donate his earnings to an orphanage where he grew up. When Naoto Date hears of the orphanage's desperate financial situation, he donates all of his earnings, including the portion that is supposed to go to Tiger Cave. Tiger Cave now considers Naoto Date a traitor and they send assassins to get ride of Tiger Mask.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-11-09
Popularity:
1997-04-19
Overview: After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-04-19
Popularity:
2012-03-25
Overview: Takamasa Ishida returned to Yokosuka after the war. Ishida, who met the boss Gihachiro Oshizuka and expanded his power as a substitute, decided to further play a central role in the Inamura-kai community.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-03-25
Popularity:
1992-11-20
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-11-20
Popularity:
1987-04-15
Overview: Aya, who works in a bank, and Sanae, a stylist, jointly rented an apartment and started living together. One day, when the photographer Bunpei also rents a room, three people's common lives start. Aya gradually falls in love with Bunpei.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-04-15
Popularity:
2001-01-01
Overview: Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town, and a mysterious man who calls himself Takishima appears in front of Shinshiro who becomes the leader of the group.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-01
Popularity:
2001-04-21
Overview: He is neither a yakuza nor a katagi, but he has a wide network of contacts in both "Shinjuku Gu Regiment" Minamikata. He had no interest in money or honor and spent all his time with his younger brothers, Ashiya and Tachibana, in the daily consultation and handling of disputes. This time, he is the acting director of Hakuseikai and the coordinator of the bid-rigging related to the redevelopment of Roppongi requested by Hanakuma, Hanakuma's former younger brother. .... The director Takahashi Gen, who is the center of attention in the industry, has made a film based on the bestselling author Miyazaki Manabu with a gorgeous cast, and it is a big story of violence!
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-04-21
Popularity:
2002-04-13
Overview: Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
Genres: Crime Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-04-13
Popularity:
1999-04-01
Overview: The former legendary assassin, now living as a bartender after washing his hands of a violent past, unleashes the hidden violence within. Known as the "Fox with Gentle Shoulders" based on his name, Kijou worked as a bartender at a bar run by his childhood friend Reiko. One day, his former comrade Tokumitsu appears, asking him to hold onto something, but Kijou refuses. Tokumitsu has escaped with two hundred million yen from the organization.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-04-01
Popularity:
2003-06-14
Overview: The story of Asaki (Eiji Okuda) and his younger brother Shinji (Sho Aikawa). The elder brother has established himself as an author of sports manga. The younger brother engages in vigorous bare-knuckle brawls with local yakuza and well-known brawlers. The distance between them grows little by little, and the younger brother struggles in the shadow of his elder brother's light. Strong enemies and incidents appear one after another.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-06-14
Popularity:
1999-07-24
Overview: Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants to get clean, Oyodo Shinkin Bank has tasked Naito to raise funds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-07-24
Popularity:
1998-07-04
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-04
Popularity:
2002-03-22
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-03-22
Popularity:
2001-01-26
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-26
Popularity:
1999-02-20
Overview: Mizunuma is struggling to pay back his debts as always, and flies to Okinawa in an attempt to illegally sell a diamond that he confiscated from the yakuza to a jewelry broker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-20
Popularity:
1998-07-04
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-04
Popularity:
1999-09-04
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-04
Popularity:
2000-07-28
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-28
Popularity:
2000-01-22
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-01-22
Popularity:
2000-12-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-01
Popularity:
2008-05-30
Overview: Takashi Miike directs a stage version of Zatoichi, the tale of the blind swordsman.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-30
Popularity:
2008-09-13
Overview: Yukari always wanted to become a flight attendant and has just been hired by Japan Airlines. However, due to an unexpected mistake, she has also been recruited to the company's basketball team (the JAL "Rabbits") despite being a lousy at basketball. Forced to divide her time between job training and playing basketball, Yukari makes an increasing amount of mistakes in both areas. Frustrated, she nearly gives up on her dream career, but somehow finds the strength to keep trying both in the skies and on the court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-13
Popularity:
2014-03-07
Overview: Ooejo Agricultural High School is located in Hokkaido. Most students are from families involved in agriculture and their dreams are to continue working in agriculture. Meanwhile, Yuugo (Kento Nakajima), who graduated from a prestigious middle school, applied to the Ooejo Agricultural High School just because the school has a dormitory. Yuugo, who grew up in the city, finds himself in an unfamiliar environment at Ooejo Agricultural High School, surrounded by nature and animals. Yuugo is also the only one who doesn't know what type of career he wants to pursue. Yuugo becomes impatient. He goes through struggles everyday, but he also gets to know the other students and rural life in general. He begins to grow as a person.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-07
Popularity:
1997-05-31
Overview: Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-05-31
Popularity:
2019-06-28
Overview: Patalliro du Malyner VIII is the crown prince of Malynera, a kingdom that produces diamonds. Despite being ugly and mischievous, he is loyal and fair. Many enemies of the throne, including Malynera's Prime Minister, plan to get rid of him and take control of the rich nation. Patalliro, however, has the protection of Jack Barbarosa Bancoran, his haughty and extremely handsome bodyguard, who will protect him even from the latter's own lover, the beautiful bishonen hitman Maraich Juschenfe and other assassins.
Genres: Music Adventure Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-06-28
Popularity:
1995-04-22
Overview: Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-22
Popularity:
1999-01-23
Overview: Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-23
Popularity:
2000-11-25
Overview: Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-25
Popularity:
2009-01-10
Overview: In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-10
Popularity:
2013-07-13
Overview: After the young Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) force a local yakuza family to disband, they leave Yokohama and head to Kobe where they meet members of the Kyowa Clan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-07-13
Popularity:
2008-10-28
Overview: Koichi (Kenichi Endo), who destroyed the corrupt Tatsuta group with his brother Toma (Sho Aikawa), disappears from the front stage to protect his younger brother Takayuki (Yuta Sone) who got involved in the incident. did. Meanwhile, the Kansai Kijinkai began to exercise political power and plan to advance into the Kanto region.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-10-28
Popularity:
2005-10-01
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-01
Popularity:
2004-08-15
Overview: A documentary on the making of “Zebraman” directed by Takashi Miike.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-15
Popularity:
2013-10-04
Overview: Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who joined Kyowakai, steadily rose through the ranks with his calm and clear mind. Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) was also released from prison and Ryuseikai was thought to gain even more power. At that time, there is an internal split in Kyowakai as a whole, caused by an unusual executive appointment, and Himuro and others get caught in the vortex. After the conflict, the leader of the Ueda group, Ueda (Okazaki Jiro) and other gang members withdrew from Kyowakai, create a new organization called Shintokai in Kyoto, and attack Kyowakai executives.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-10-04
Popularity:
2013-12-06
Overview: With the Kyowa and Shinto Clans in open conflict, Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) looks for a chance to kill the head of the Shinto Clan as others attempt to forge a truce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-12-06
Popularity:
2014-04-07
Overview: As Himuro is released from prison, word spreads that he has been asked to switch from Mikami's to Kawatani's Family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-07
Popularity:
2014-10-03
Overview: As both Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) set their sights on Osaka, the Kyowa Clan takes advantage of an attack on an officer to declare war and invade the city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-10-03
Popularity:
2014-12-05
Overview: The Osaka War ended in a complete victory for Kyowakai and he finally conquered Osaka. The leader of the Yamazaki group, Kawatani (Hitoshi Ozawa), who was accompanied by Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), was recognized for his achievements and appointed head of the Kyowakai family. With the Yamazaki-gumi steadily gaining strength, Himuro set about reforming the Yamazaki-gumi organization and established a regular business to make it even bigger. Meanwhile, a skirmish between the young men of Tamura and the Yanagase Federation breaks out again in a conflict that spreads throughout Gifu following the Osaka War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-12-05
Popularity:
2014-03-07
Overview: While the Kyowa Clan aims to unify Japan's yakuza after winning the war with the Shinto Clan, both Tamura and Himuro see unexpected faces in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-07
Popularity:
2014-06-09
Overview: Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) takes responsibility for Omiya's death. Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) succeeds the Omiya Family and targets Osaka, setting up a showdown between the former friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-06-09
Popularity:
2015-02-06
Overview: Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who was appointed as the second Yamazaki-gumi wakagashira, expanded his influence in Gifu and Shiga, and even became known in political and business circles. However, he will bear a grudge against the Hiroshima mobster Genseikai. In the midst of this, Himuro and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) are ordered by Kudo (Hakuryu), the leader of the Kyowakai, to intervene in the succession issue of the Shigemitsu family, the largest organization in Nagoya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-06
Popularity:
2015-04-03
Overview: Under the command of the second generation leader of the Kawatani group, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), the largest organization in Nagoya, the problem of the Shigemitsu family's heir is resolved, but the Hiroshima yakuza Genbukai and other groups of 12 organizations, the western Japan. be established. Shikoku, who became the vanguard, was invaded by Akashi, Hyogo, who is a Shinogi, by the Patriotic Giyuto, and Omoto, the head of Kyowa Kaisha, was killed. Burning with revenge, Himuro and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) launch a violent counterattack.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-03
Popularity:
2010-07-17
Overview: A young man moves from the countryside to Tokyo, while experiencing hardships and happiness, in his pursuit to become a comics artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-07-17
Popularity:
1998-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-01
Popularity:
2015-05-16
Overview: Hiroya Munakata is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi is released from prison, but Takashi’s daughter, Hyuga says she does not want to meet her father and runs away from home. Hiroya, Takashi and Hiroya’s subordinate Shinya go to Zeni Island where Hyuga is headed to. Something they never expected is waiting for them.
Genres: Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-16
Popularity:
2024-02-09
Overview: Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan, gazing at Nakajima Island in its center where her daughter's body was found long ago. She hasn't been able to visit for almost 50 years. Tokyo: A middle-aged man lives on an island where criminals were once exiled in the past, earning a sparse living as a cattle herder. He is descended from such exiled criminals. He raised his only daughter by himself after losing his wife in an accident. One day, the daughter comes home from the mainland, seemingly pregnant but unwilling to explain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-02-09
Popularity:
1999-11-26
Overview: The Second Organized Violence film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-26
Popularity:
1999-03-10
Overview: The first Organized Violence film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-10
Popularity:
2001-06-13
Overview: Original video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-13
Popularity:
1998-07-22
Overview: Original Video 1998.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-22
Popularity:
2015-09-07
Overview: A power vacuum left after the death of the Gijin Clan boss triggers new fighting in Shikoku, and Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) heads there to stoke the flames.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-07
Popularity:
2015-09-19
Overview: Kyowakai in the West and Marukami Rengo in the East are two major organizations vying to create a new order in Japanese yakuza society. However, in Tohoku, a conflict broke out between organizations that were conspiring to invade Tohoku by taking advantage of the problem of the heir to the Shobukawa family, a long-established Shinno group in Aomori.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-19
Popularity:
2015-09-30
Overview: While the war in the Tohoku region intensifies after an attempt to assassinate the Shinyu Clan's Hirakawa, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) pursues the man pulling the strings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-09-30
Popularity:
2015-10-04
Overview: A skirmish in Fukui sparks a conflict between the local yakuza group Sakashita and the Kyowakai.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-10-04
Popularity:
2011-10-22
Overview: Jin, the son of a local yakuza boss, Tetsu, the son of a fisherman, and Masa, the son of a crematorium worker. When Jin's father loses his life, Jin sets out to avenge his father's death by becoming a yakuza himself...
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
Popularity:
2014-03-06
Overview: While imprisoned in South Korea, Kuroki (Hitoshi Ozawa), leader of a yakuza clan, is offered one deal. In exchange for an early release from prison, he is asked to kill a man. The target's name is Tatsuhiko Kaji (Hakuryu), a man who grew up in Japan and is now a senior member of the Korean mafia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-06
Popularity:
2009-02-14
Overview: A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-02-14
Popularity:
2006-02-25
Overview: A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-02-25
Popularity:
2004-02-25
Overview:
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-25
Popularity:
2023-08-25
Overview: Forty years after leaving Japan for a boxing career in the U.S. that never panned out, Jin returns to restart his life with his old boxing buddies. When hotheaded young boxer Shogo asks for Jin’s help to get him back into the ring after an unfair loss, the two men decide to seize their final chance at glory. A boxing film so authentic that it inspired co-star Yokohama Ryusei to qualify as a pro boxer, Zeze Takahisa’s boxing drama is one of the veteran director’s most crowd-pleasing films thanks to the touching father-son bond at its core.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2023-08-25
Popularity:
2009-01-01
Overview: End of duology
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-01
Popularity:
2008-03-08
Overview: There are three kinds of swindler. One, called the "WHITE SWINDLER", finds a mark and steals money. The "RED SWINDLER" preys on the other sex and steals a mark's body and soul. Then there is the "BLACK SWINDLER". Ignoring ordinary marks, targeting only the white and red swindlers, and preying on their flesh grown fat and corrupt with the money they have stolen, he is the worst of them all. There is a boy who once became a victim of a swindler and lost his family. Later, he turns into the most hideous "black swindler" to deceive only other swindlers. His name is Kurosaki. This time, he is requested by Reiko, whose daughter is sick, to hunt down a swindler named Ishigaki, who has defrauded her of money. But, behind Ishigaki, there is actually a bigger swindle which has even destabilized the Japanese economy…
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-03-08
Popularity:
2011-11-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-11-25
Popularity:
2001-06-08
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-08
Popularity:
2001-01-21
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-21
Popularity:
2004-10-25
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-10-25
Popularity:
2013-05-25
Overview: A man on a mission to investigate a "self-defense force members only" gambling den in Yokosuka begins to uncover the past of its owner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-05-25
Popularity:
2013-04-25
Overview: Gambler Munetoshi (Hitomi Matsuda) and pickpocket Ichinojo (Kazuyoshi Ozawa) hit it off and start making a fortune together. When Ichinojo's girlfriend Nami is kidnapped, they have to put their lives on the line.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2013-04-25
Popularity:
1999-11-13
Overview: A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the discovery of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As a gang tracks him down for locating the tomb, he falls in love with the girlfriend of the gang's boss who looks like his wife.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
Popularity:
1996-07-15
Overview: The story of young ramen chef, who takes ownership of Gantetsu Ramen after the disappearance of his father, determined to train hard to get back at those who led his father going missing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-07-15
Popularity:
2003-07-11
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-07-11
Popularity:
2008-01-01
Overview: After hearing that his estranged father is in Kumamoto, Washichiro heads to Kyushu. Along the way, he picks up a runaway girl and his friend Kinta, who is also on a pre-marital trip to Kumamoto. Despite getting caught up in various disturbances, Washichiro manages to gather information about his father in Kumamoto. Set against the backdrop of Kumamoto and Aso, Washichiro makes a final, intense run! This final installment of the series features a glamorous cast, including the heroine Miu Nakamura, regular member Shingo Yanagisawa, as well as Tatsuo Umemiya, Kiyoko Suizenji, Jun Nagasawa, Okada Masuda, and others, who help make the conclusion spectacular!
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Popularity:
2001-06-23
Overview: A wacky tale of two guys, one Korean and one Japanese who, mistaken for a couple of murderers, take to their heels, thus starting off a adrenaline-pumping (and often zany) adventure with a distorted sense of time.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-23
Popularity:
1991-04-12
Overview: In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to feel homesick, and returns home to find that almost everything has changed. Noriko is now a bar mama with a lavish lifestyle, Yumeko is nowhere to be found, and his boss (Toru Minegishi) seems to have sinister plans involving Junko and his uncle (Jo Shishido).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-12
Popularity:
1990-05-11
Overview: Junko (Sho Aikawa) is a low-level yakuza in the service of Yoshikawa (Toru Minegishi), despite the misgivings of his uncle (Jo Shishido). He lives off of the money earned by his girlfriend and is more interested in trying to look cool than anything else. He meets Yumeko (Chikako Aoyama), an innocent but dangerous narcoleptic runaway, after she steals his car, and she soon moves in with him. Following the assassination of a high-ranking member by the Kazama Family, Junko is called on to be the lookout while the family gets revenge. However, the other men quickly "zoom", or escape from their duty, leaving the task to Junko. Will he take out Kazama, or will he zoom?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-05-11
Popularity:
1996-03-01
Overview: Having lost everything to horse racing, Yûji accidentally gets 10 million yen. But this sum belongs to a Yakuza.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-03-01
Popularity:
1996-09-21
Overview: Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-21
Popularity:
1994-10-01
Overview: Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released from jail, where he had spent eight years, and finds out that his boss wants to get rid of him. Tanaka is not an archetypal yakuza; he travels by public transport. But he does have two mistresses: Ayumi, who runs a nightclub, and Yoshie, a brothel-keeper. When Tanaka's boss ends up in hospital, second man Kurauchi exerts increasing pressure on Tanaka. Tanaka deliberately has himself wounded by a fighter to dodge several of Kurauchi's demands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-01
Popularity:
1997-03-01
Overview: Sho Aikawa plays a police detective whose dark personal history makes it impossible for him to stay within the limits of the legal system. But he is not just a detective; he is also a husband who has to explain to his wife how he got blood on his sleeve. And the criminals he pursues turn out to be as imperfect and oddly human as he is-and just as determined to protect their own families.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-03-01
Popularity:
2016-05-28
Overview: Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-28
Popularity:
1996-09-07
Overview: A duo get mixed up with a girl who finds a trunk load full of heroin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-07
Popularity:
2009-01-31
Overview: Goro is a sommelier who transforms into the titular Kamen Rider G to fight the former anti-terrorism unit Shade, who captured and brainwashed him into a soldier, before the unit went underground due to the use of kidnapped people as supersoldiers. During a raid at TV Asahi led by Daidō Oda, who demands the release of their imprisoned leader, Seizan Tokugawa, Goro encounters his girlfriend Eri Hinata. She jogs his memory and he attacks his former comrades while getting Eri out of harm's way. This makes Oda reveal his true form as the Phylloxera Worm while his subordinates transform into the Acarina Worm, the Subst Worm, the Brachypelma Worm Viridis, and the Cochlea Worm to attempt to destroy the traitor. After an extended fight across the city and countryside, G manages to defeat Phylloxera Worm thanks to the encouragement of Decade and the other primary Heisei Riders appearing before him. Running off, Goro vows to save the world from Shade before returning to Eri.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-01-31
Popularity:
1996-02-16
Overview: Yûji and Kosaku are hired to track down an old man. But when he suddenly dies, his granddaughter surfaces with a map to his buried fortune, which the yakuza and a dirty cop are determined to find.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-02-16
Popularity:
1990-06-02
Overview: A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-06-02
Popularity:
1990-10-13
Overview:
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-13
Popularity:
2014-11-01
Overview: Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-01
Popularity:
2005-07-09
Overview: Spectre is a 2005 Tokusatsu short film created by Konami. Spectre stars Shinji Kasahara in the lead role as Tetsuya Teresaki, codename Spectre. The movie chronicles D.O.E Agent Tetsuya who, after dealing with a mission involving tracking a fugitive alien, is sent on a new mission to deal with alien invaders trying to steal an alien artifact from a local archaeological research site.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-09
Popularity:
1997-10-11
Overview: In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-11
Popularity:
2006-09-25
Overview: Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the group in-fightings, he learns what it really takes to be Yakuza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-09-25
Popularity:
1997-12-27
Overview: Sequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan. There, he falls in love for a single mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-27
Popularity:
1998-04-10
Overview: Direct to video crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-10
Popularity:
1995-08-12
Overview: Hapless gangsters are hired by the yakuza to tail his daughter. Once the identity of the boy she's dating has been unveiled, the boss offers a reward for his capture.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-12
Popularity:
1998-12-19
Overview: Based on the comic by Hiroshi Motomiya
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-19
Popularity:
2008-11-22
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-11-22
Popularity:
2005-02-19
Overview: Based on the comic by Mamora Goda.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-02-19
Popularity:
2010-04-03
Overview: Based on the comic book series by Daichi Aozora.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-04-03
Popularity:
2014-11-06
Overview:
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-06
Popularity:
2002-10-25
Overview: In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-25
Popularity:
1999-08-07
Overview: Japanese action film directed by Hiroshi Ando.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-08-07
Popularity:
2006-08-25
Overview: Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-25
Popularity:
1997-10-11
Overview: A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-11
Popularity:
2000-11-10
Overview: A cocaine deal is about to go down between yakuza and Hong Kong triad gangsters and a small time porn peddler is used as a mole by a dirty cop.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-10
Popularity:
1991-08-24
Overview: Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, most common for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is one way more global one. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-08-24
Popularity:
1998-07-11
Overview: Psycho-mystery in which two men confront each other over the murder of a woman in Shibuya.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-11
Popularity:
2016-05-29
Overview: When Tendokai's headquarters are attacked, underboss Washio Kazuma orders his trusted lieutenant to investigate a possible mole inside the family.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-05-29
Popularity:
2002-01-12
Overview: The behind the scenes special features making of Dead Or Alive Final.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-12
Popularity:
2000-02-12
Overview: The behind the scenes special features making of Dead Or Alive 2.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-02-12
Popularity:
1999-05-08
Overview: The story of a young man and woman who set out to revenge the death of her mother. The lovers enter a mysterious world where space and time are twisted, where love is more dangerous than death.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-08
Popularity:
1991-10-11
Overview: Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on a trail of death and destruction.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-10-11
Popularity:
1996-05-11
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-11
Popularity:
2012-07-14
Overview: Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to retain her perfect image, Lilico descends into a world of nightmares and makes those around her miserable.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-07-14
Popularity:
2003-03-22
Overview: Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-22
Popularity:
2004-02-07
Overview: Five young musicians, each harboring painful memories, are assembled to entertain American soldiers at an Enlisted Men's Club. Tensions emerge between the tenor saxophonist, a disillusioned ex-soldier, and a bitter GI whose brother was killed in the war. And when the band plays the prohibited "Danny Boy" during a birthday bash for a sergeant whose son Danny had died a year ago, everyone must confront a past they'd rather forget.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
Popularity:
2008-02-16
Overview: Sakura is a 20-year-old college student who has sex for money to fund her shopping addiction. After her customers leave her apartment, she spends her time spying on Leo, a young, beautiful, and (dyed) blond-haired boy, who works at a male escort service across the street. One day, Leo pays her a visit, and so starts an unlikely friendship. But Leo has a troubled past. He is the son of a prostitute who worked for his current pimp and died before she could repay money that she owed. He himself entered the business when he graduated from junior high school. Though Leo refuses to make love to Sakura (he has a policy of not having sex outside of work), the two fall in love and become inseparable until Leo gets into a fight with Sakura's boyfriend and gets him into a car accident. Leo turns himself in, and Sakura moves to Okinawa to wait for him at their dream destination.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-02-16
Popularity:
1989-03-11
Overview: A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-11
Popularity:
1995-08-12
Overview: Based on the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-12
Popularity:
1988-10-08
Overview: The love and friendships of high school students
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-10-08
Popularity:
1999-01-08
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-01-08
Popularity:
2007-08-25
Overview: Follows the life of Natsuki Iijima, a windsurfer from Japan, as he battles and ultimately loses his life to liver cancer. The first and only windsurfer to compete for 8 consecutive years in the World Cup Competition, Natsuki's diagnosis overwhelms him with fear and panic. Despite this set back, with the love and devotion of his wife Hiroko and four children, he decides to live life the best he can, to the fullest, without having his life prolonged with further treatment
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-08-25
Popularity:
1994-10-29
Overview: A yakuza movie that depicts a heroine who inherited her husband's will and took the name of the group leader, standing up to put an end to the conflict
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-10-29
Popularity:
2002-11-30
Overview: The Dragon Tiger brothers who live as yakuza in the Han Chinese district of Japan. The arm of his brother, Noboru, is engraved with a dragon rising to the sky, and the arm of his brother, Takeshi, is engraved with a tattoo symbolizing himself. After the war, they draw the blood of Sangokujin Wang Haidong, who was killed in a mutiny in abandoned Japan, but has been gratefully serving the leader of the Takeda group who murdered his father. One day the group leader tells them to take over the group. Honda, a young leader who is not convinced by this, partnered with the head of black society, Wang Rei, and began taking over the Han Chinese district and the Takeda group. As a result, brothers Ryu-Tora and Wang Retsu will play a deadly battle without meeting the real brothers who draw Wang Haidong's blood.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-30
Popularity:
1991-01-12
Overview: Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Katsu, who met Osamu who belongs to the conflicting Dainippon Kyokushinkai, feels the real gangster scent of Osamu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-12
Popularity:
1992-05-15
Overview: The life of a young man who aspires to be in the judicial power begins to decline when he gets involved with street kids
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-05-15
Popularity:
1998-12-09
Overview: A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it is reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-12-09
Popularity:
2006-08-19
Overview: Sequel of Yakuza Don
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-19
Popularity:
2006-10-07
Overview: Final of the trilogy of yakuza don
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-07
Popularity:
2014-02-08
Overview: The manger of cabaret club "Hanibani" named Shū, a worker at the club named Koji, and one of the patrons named Ken succeed in robbing a bank. They agree to divide the stolen money equally into three, but they become consumed by greed and try to get more than their share. In addition, a renowned figure is after their money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-02-08
Popularity:
2006-03-25
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-03-25
Popularity:
2011-10-22
Overview: Nozomu Kizaki, a man who hates violence and has survived in the underworld by using “sermons” as a weapon. He is also known as “Gandhi Kizaki” (Sho Aikawa). He has given up on the yakuza business, and in order to support those who are struggling to repay their debts, he teaches baseball to children while running the Hope Shokai, a money-lending business. One day, while on a collection mission, Kizaki discovers that one of the debtors is Gota Yagisawa (Takeshi Ayano), a prodigy pitcher who once made his name at the Koshien National Championships. Gota, who had never held a regular job and was mired in debt, is moved by Kizaki's “sermon” and decides to rebuild his life under his guidance. However, the shadow of the Kuroda clan, a yakuza organization, looms behind the pair...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-10-22
Popularity:
2001-09-08
Overview: Original video
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-08
Popularity:
2004-03-20
Overview: Seijuro and Teppei, who have lost everything in life, are approached by Jinrai, a former fixer of Japan’s underworld. Out of loyalty to Seijuro’s late father, who was once his right-hand man, Jinrai hands them 20 million yen. With this money, Seijuro and Teppei make the biggest gamble of their lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-03-20
Popularity:
2014-07-25
Overview: The Kanto Kurogane Federation stands at the pinnacle of Japan's yakuza society. Sakaki Sai (Sho Aikawa), the young boss, secures his position with the help of his covert private force, known as the “Chain,” led by Sato (Hideo Nakano), Yamato (Yasukaze Motomiya), and Hakase (Shiro). One day, the federation's second-generation boss is shot dead, and Sakaki is arrested as the prime suspect. In his absence, acting young boss Takewaki (Ryu Kanou) is entrusted with leading the group, eagerly bribing executives in a bid to secure the vacant third-generation boss position. Sensing something suspicious about both the assassination and Takewaki’s ambitions, Sakaki unleashes the "Chain" to uncover the truth in his stead…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-07-25
Popularity:
2014-08-25
Overview: The Kanto Doshikai, known for its prominent yakuza members, discovers a prohibited drug deal taking place within its territory. Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), the third-generation leader of the Kurotetsu Union, sets his sights on the Hayakaba-gumi, which operates at Daikoku Pier, and sends Left (Hideo Nakano) and his team, "Chains," to investigate the drug route. Disguised as a money counterfeiter, Left infiltrates the gang but becomes entangled in an internal conflict. As Left goes missing after being shot, the "Chains" are thrown into disarray. What decision will Sakaki ultimately make...?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-08-25
Popularity:
2014-11-25
Overview: Fearing the influence of Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), the Metropolitan Police Department launches a crackdown operation against the Kurotetsu Alliance and detains him. Meanwhile, a series of assaults targeting Japanese women begin to surge in the city, alongside the quiet emergence of a criminal group of illegal immigrants known as “Ashinashi,” who engage in drug trafficking. While the police send in forces led by Sada (Hideo Nakano) to suppress the situation, communication with the “chains” is cut off, leading to chaos. Amidst this turmoil, an attack on the Akaboshi-gumi affiliated with the Kanto Doshikai occurs!!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-11-25
Popularity:
2015-02-06
Overview: After the anti-yakuza laws drove the yakuza out, state power took their place, draining every last drop of profit. The Kanagawa Prefectural Police secretly control the drug market. Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), the third leader of the Kanto Kurogane Union, which promotes the decline of the nation and the eradication of drugs, sends his right-hand man "Kusari" (Hideo Nakano) to infiltrate the narcotics division under the department head, Rizaki (Hitoshi Ozawa), who oversees the drug market. A bloody purge by Sakaki begins against the police, who enrich themselves through yakuza and mafia-like tyranny!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-02-06
Popularity:
2015-05-25
Overview: The 5 billion yen drug operation ended in failure due to a trap set by the Tomoe family. As Riasaki (Hitoshi Ozawa) and Hidarite (Hideo Nakano) investigate the truth behind the situation, they finally encounter a man named Igarashi, who has just returned from China. While Riasaki weakens under the pressure from within the police and threats from the Chinese mafia, the blood purge from Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), the third chairman of the Kanto Black Iron Alliance, is carried out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-05-25
Popularity:
2015-08-25
Overview: Receiving a request from a marriage broker operating in a run-down area, Left (Hideo Nakano) and Yamato (Yasukaze Motomiya) find themselves helping with a fake marriage. Many of this broker's cases involve the Goroza family, who are involved in human trafficking and insurance fraud, manipulating household registries. Amidst this, Yamato's fake bride, Shirayuki, is brutally murdered after having her organs harvested. Angered by this heinous act, Left and Yamato, without any directive from the third-generation leader of the Kurotetsu Alliance, Sakaki (Sho Aikawa), take on a rival gang. Thus begins a bloody purge driven solely by their unbacked "chains."
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-25
Popularity:
2024-11-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2024-11-01
Popularity:
2003-10-11
Overview: First film in the 'Decotora no Eagle' series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-11
Popularity: