Ryuji Katagiri
Also Known As: 片桐龙次
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
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.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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The Legend of Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Overview: Genji Sokabe (Hakuryu) is a legendary hit-man who has just finished a 15-year prison stretch for killing the head of a rival gang. But Genji returns to a world where the old Yakuza codes of honour, vengeance and pride have been forgotten by a younger generation of criminals, and discovers that his old gang is now more concerned about money and finance. Taking up his guns once more, Genji sets out to teach the younger generation a lesson they will never forget.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Kingdom: The Man Who Became the Leader
Overview: The Shimazu Clan of South Osaka, a longstanding yakuza group, built its foundation in the port cargo handling industry and maintained its independence as a traditional gambling syndicate. Tetsuo Sakuragi (Yasukaze Motomiya) formed a brotherly bond with Kenichi Kanamori (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) while in prison and, upon release, began serving as an executive for the Shimazu Clan. However, after two police raids disrupted their gambling operations, Sakuragi interrogates a regular customer, Hirata, and uncovers that it was orchestrated by the Koga Family. Sakuragi and Kanamori confront Tatsumi (Takashi Shigematsu) at his office, who had been manipulating Hirata, but Kanamori is shot by a Koga Family member. The long-standing cold war between the Shimazu Clan and the Koga Family erupts into full-blown conflict...!!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Kingdom 3: The Man Who Became the Leader
Overview: As the Heisei era nears its end, the Shimazu Clan's second-generation boss, Yumizo Tokuma (Ryuji Katagiri), suffers a fatal stroke, triggering a power struggle. A succession battle erupts between Wakagashira Tetsuo Sakuragi (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Saiko-komon Kippei Hagiwara (Kazuyoshi Ozawa). Hagiwara's faction aligns with the Kanto-based Ichio Federation to block Sakuragi from becoming the third-generation boss. Targeted for assassination and detained by police, Sakuragi faces escalating conflict. The feud claims lives, including members of Hidetoshi Kaji's (Hitoshi Ozawa) Koga Family. Remembering Tokuma's wish to avoid internal bloodshed, Sakuragi withdraws from the race, vowing to step away. Yet, his decision may not bring an end to the turmoil...
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Road to the Don 14
Overview: The fourteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Road to the Don 15
Overview: The fifteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-19
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
Overview: Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-06-19
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Road to the Don 13
Overview: The thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-04-28
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Nagaremono Yokohama Gokudo War 2
Overview: A fierce outlaw shakes the gangster world!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Robbery
Overview: Friendship and violence
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Overview: The first of three V-Cinema sequels.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-14
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Killing Melody Lady Smith
Overview: A painfully splendid adventure has begun!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-12-28
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Overview: Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Like a Beast
Overview: The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious beast! A powerful hero that shines like a comet!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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The Shootist 2
Overview: Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-08-10
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Catch Up
Overview: An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life!
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-07-10
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The Karate 3
Overview: This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take over the Japanese karate organization and will do everything they can to prevent it.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Goryokaku
Overview: After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
Genres: Action History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse
Overview: The first 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
Overview: The final 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!
Overview: Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if he had a dos, started working at a hunting station and a town factory. There, I met Keiko, a clerk. Keiko lived with her son, who was born to a yakuza. Seiji's former group was crushed by the Ryujinkai, and Akamatsu, who had a grudge against Seiji, was at the top. Knowing the source of Seiji, Akamatsu begins revenge using bodyguards Kobiki and others. Seiji lived in peace, but the people around him were harmed and his heart returned to "Yaksha" ...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-06-11
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Phone Call to the Bar
Overview: In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-09-10
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Crime Hunter 3 Killing Bullet
Overview: Little Tokyo, USA In a lonely hotel room, Little Tokyo's Detective Joker was waiting for a woman. The rain grew stronger and filled the storm. And the woman came to the room where the Joker was staying. The woman's name is Serika. She was Joker's former lover. Serika came to ask for help. Appeal to the Joker with a scared "murdered" voice. There, a mysterious group appears in the hotel lobby. Nicole and her friends control the buying and selling of cocaine in the Little Tokyo area. The Joker desperately protects Serika, but Nicole and others take him away.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-02-13
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Beppin Town
Overview: An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-10-18
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Carlos
Overview: V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-25
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Tokyo Gokudo Conflict Outbreak
Overview: The long awaited visualisation of the original manga
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-10-11
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チンピラぶるーす ど・アホ！
Overview: A comedy in which Furaibo and a detective work together against a bomber.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-27
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Shura ga Yuku
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
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Shura ga Yuku 9
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
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Vengance Of A Man
Overview: An executive of the yakuza osako clan leaves the underworld to raise his only son, but a war between the "Kaiyama" clan brings him back.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-10
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Japan's Don
Overview: A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Oar
Overview: Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-01-15
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Lovers Lost
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-12
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
Overview: The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him. Junya falls in love with the equally speed-hungry Hiroko.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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Ginpei From Koina: Migratory Bird of Winter
Overview: Shimoda, Izu, the venerable Amimoto Onabe family is repeatedly harassed by the upstart Hotate family, who targeted their fishing grounds. Ginpei, the head of the Onabe family, is in love with Oichi, the only daughter of Gohei, the adviser. Ginpei is told that he plans to have her marry Unokichi. Finally, the Onabe family and the Hotate family get into a fight, and Ginpei kills Tajiro, the hotate family’s proxy. Ginpei leaves Oichi in Unokichi’s care and sets off on a treacherous journey. Five years later, while traveling, Ginpei learns that the boss of the Onabe family has died and that the Hotate family is in trouble… Ginpei then returns to Shimoda.
Genres: TV Movie History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-25
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Jingi 12: Bloody Territory (Sima)
Overview: A small family in a hot spring town. Okita, an executive of the Togawa group, visits Hitoshi and appears in the Shima of the sand group. However, he is stabbed to death by someone. Since Togawa-gumi is under the Kanto Ichienkai and Okita was once a member of Jin's office, Jin will deliver the bones of Okita alone to Togawa-gumi. Asuka Togawa, acting head of the Togawa group, misunderstands Jin as a member of the Narushima group who is in a local conflict and drives him away. Jin will be involved in the conflict over the interests of Togawa-gumi, Narushima-gumi, and the hot spring town.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-21
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Jingi 27: Revenge Bullet
Overview: The organization lacking the jin that excommunicated the Kanto Ichienkai was no longer stopped, and there was a smell of kina. Chairman Sakai returns Hitoshi and Yoshiro and tries to balance the organization, but it is difficult due to the opposition of the board of directors. The one who hated the return of Jin and his friends most was Yaguchi, an emerging force who had risen to the board of directors while they were not there. However, Yaguchi also had a big fire inside the group.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-16
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極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T.
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-03-18
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Overview: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-15
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Overview: While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Steel & Lead
Overview: A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-11-15
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Fossilized Wilderness
Overview: Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his apartment at midnight. When he regains consciousness, the corpse of a foreigner shot with his pistol lies in front of him. Nishina, with the help of his friend and newspaper reporter Mineshima, who believes in his innocence and vows to cooperate, pursues the incident and reveals a conspiracy related with 5,000 kilograms of gold that disappeared at the end of the WW2.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Moa sekushi kemono no yoni mo ichido
Overview: A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two find themselves targeted by the yakuza. It seems they will do anything to retrieve the panda. But why?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-07
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Hokuriku Proxy War
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-26
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Kim's War
Overview: After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Organized Violence Bloody Honor 2
Overview: The Second Organized Violence film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Overview: A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Code of Wolves
Overview: In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Family 2
Overview: In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike's Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-09-21
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Maji! 6: Raging Fire
Overview: Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan, the Kozugumi's substitute lender, and is told that there is a movement to revive the Shuyukai, which had been under excommunication. The new Shuyukai is headed by former Shuyukai executive Mikogami (Ryuji Katagiri), who is the new head of the group at the behest of Hirojikai chairman Taichi Hirosaki (Ren Osugi), who bears the same cursive badge of wind as Honkaku. Hirozaki has only one goal: to eliminate Motoki, who has quickly risen to the same position as himself. Immediately, Hirozaki orders Mikogami to begin raiding the territory of the child gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-26
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Hong Kong Underworld: Kenka-Gumi 2
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T. ２
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-04-25
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Those Swell Yakuza
Overview: Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-06-11
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Dead Angle
Overview: Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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Family
Overview: When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi's wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-03-10
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Matamata Abunai Deka
Overview: Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-07-02
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The Blind Cat
Overview: The first film about Kiriko - a blind woman with a sword.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-07-14
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Kiriko
Overview: 1994 sequel to Satoru Kobayashi's "The Blind Cat". Yakuza drug dealers lure the blind Kiriko into town to take revenge on her. However, Kiriko is a master swordswoman and has plans of her own.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Nuns That Bite
Overview: A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-04-08
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Nile
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
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Death Shadows
Overview: Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-09-20
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The General and His Empire of Joy
Overview: Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-11
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
Overview: Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. To even attempt that she first needs to get out of the Buddhist monastery she is working at...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-14
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Saraba Abunai Deka
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-01-30
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Overview: Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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AIBOU: The Movie
Overview: A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. During a painstaking investigation, the savage murder case of a young overseas volunteer five years earlier emerges in the background, and the pair prevents indiscriminate murder at the Tokyo Big City Marathon event by suppressing the perpetrator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-05-01
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Straight to Heaven
Overview: Koji and Tatsuya, both from the Nerima Juvenile Classification Home, make money by committing bank transfer fraud. However, their lives are put in danger when the boss of a larger organization takes out an insurance policy on them. The duo flee to Tatsuya's hometown of Nagasaki, but there, they also get caught up in trouble with the local yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-04-26
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A Homance
Overview: A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-10
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AIBOU: The Movie IV
Overview: A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group then targets a victory parade of a world sports game to commit indiscriminate terror.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-02-11
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AIBOU: The Movie III
Overview: A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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The Execution Game
Overview: The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-17
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The Most Dangerous Game
Overview: The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-07
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Overview: Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-15
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Overview: After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-12-04
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The Last Shot in the Bar
Overview: In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-12-01
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Doberman Cop
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-07-02
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-01-13
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KIZU
Overview: Direct to video crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-04-10
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-04-28
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-25
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Overview: The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-24
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Overview: The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
Overview: A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-07-23
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Overview: A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-27
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Overview: Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-05-26
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Another XX: Matori Woman
Overview: 4th Entry in a Four-Part-Series, following the success of the original XX-series with 7 parts: In this one Yoko is an undercover cop infiltrating the chinese mafia
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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０計画を阻止せよ－総理大臣誘拐！！－
Overview: Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Return of the Street Fighter
Overview: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage
Overview: After his parter Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get revenge. Since Bruce's last coup was stealing 5 million dollars in donations from a church, he is joined in his quest by nun Lily.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Company Buggers
Overview: Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Gemini Woman
Overview: A man catches the eye of an elegant lady at a bar. She relents to his advances. In the morning he throws her out of his apartment. He will soon regret his mistake when she slowly plots revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Overview: The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-10-17
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Another XX: Red Murderer
Overview: An unprecedented bizarre murderer appears. The first victim is a young woman. Both breasts were cut off. Kyoko Mizuki, a female medical examiner, begins to feel a strange presence around her after attending the autopsy. The second and third murders occurred as if to mock the investigators. The murderer's M.O. was extremely abnormal and ruthless, mutilating the woman's body. Kyoko tries to deduce that the murderer is a psychopath. Emi, a rookie detective, is the first to get close to the killer, but she is trapped in the opposite direction.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-06-14
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Overview: While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-10-10
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Overview: A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-03-25
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Overview: Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-01-31
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She Cat
Overview: Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-23
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Overview: Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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The Street Fighter
Overview: Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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The Karate 2
Overview: This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and must faces dozens of worldwide pretenders, such as the Guillotine Brothers of New Guinea, Killer Samson, Dracula Jack (Bolo) who all want a shot at him at all cost and also to steal the famous Orikirimaru Sword.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Young Lady Detectives: Heart Beat!
Overview: Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-08-29
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Overview: The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-03-01
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The Tattooed Hitman
Overview: The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Night Train
Overview: A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-01-17
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Doberman Deka
Overview: V-Cinema version of Doberman-Deka Kano faces a group of foreign thieves who killed all the guests and hostesses at a club in Ginza. There was a drug smell behind the thieves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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The King of Minami 22
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-02-14
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愛に渇く-thirst for love-
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Shoot the Boss: Hunt the Enemy
Overview: Young Shima member Wataru Jōjima (Hitoshi Ozawa) witnesses the loss of his boss, Takeo Shima (Jerry Fujio), right before his eyes. Left adrift, Jōjima visits Akebono Academy, a care facility frequently visited by Shima. There, he encounters Sanae Ikushima (Eri Takahashi), a young girl Shima had been looking after—.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-06-25
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Furyo shonen no yume
Overview: In the cold region of Hokkaido, there is a Beiyou Yushi High School that specializes in recruiting high school students from all over the country who are unable to continue their studies due to bad behavior,
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-15
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A Cheerful Yakuza
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-14
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Emperor of Upheaval
Overview: The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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北アルプス山岳救助隊・紫門一鬼８ 白馬八方尾根 雪どけの叫び
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-29
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AIBOU: CSI Files
Overview: Investigator Yonezawa is searching images from the Tokyo Big City Marathon, targeted for a terrorist bomb attack. Within the images he sees his former wife Kazuko, and the following day he learns that dead body that looks like her has been discovered.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-03-28
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CONFLICT GAIDEN: Oda Seiji
Overview: To celebrate his 30th acting anniversary, Kōji Matoba stars as Seiji Oda, the fiercest member of Tendokai, who joins the organization under Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa). In 2011, Tendokai dominates Kanto, while the rising Santōkai threatens them. Meanwhile, in Yokohama, Seiji Oda forms a rogue group, Oda Dōshi-kai, and violently protects his turf, clashing with Jinseikai. As Tendokai's Vice-Head Ryuji Kondo retires, Keiji Oda (Seiji's brother) is tasked with calming the tensions between the two groups, leading to a reunion between the Oda brothers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Overview: After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly hunts down the gangsters responsible.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-06-14
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Yakuza Graveyard
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-10-30
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