Shōki Fukae
Also Known As: Akiyoshi Fukae, 深江章吾
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: January 14, 1928
Deathday: November 01, 2015
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Stormy Man
Overview: A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-03
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傑作推理劇場 不安な階段
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-04-15
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Overview: Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
Overview: End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto provinces) were to raise funds for the construction of the Chuji Kunisada monument. Responsible for the fundraiser was Jokichi from the Asami family, but Matsugoro from the Kuromatsu family, who wanted to become the greatest boss of the Kanhasshu yakuza, is trying to take over the textile market that Jokichi controls and intercept the fundraiser.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-10
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Assassination Orders
Overview: The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress. Kanbei wants to develop his swordsmanship only for himself, he finds that he has been implicated in a crime and must fight for justice in the ultimate battle to redeem his innocence. The swordplay in this film is reminiscent of the Lone Wolf and Cub series with its brutal and extended action sequences and awesome finale. A powerful motion picture about honor, love and cold steel!
Genres: Action History TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-02-02
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The Cleanup
Overview: A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-31
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Overview: Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-09
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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
Overview: Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-22
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Family Crest: Die Like a Man
Overview: The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in the two part Daimon series.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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Return to Kanto Prison
Overview: Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who wants to get the territory of their opponents and the possession of a railway loading dock… The third part of the series of films "Kanto" starring Hideki Takahashi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-09
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Kidō sōsahan muhō chitai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-25
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Roar of the City
Overview: This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate relationship between the men involved in the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-25
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Nuki uchi fūraibō
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-18
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Cell No. 8
Overview: A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-15
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Joe of Aces: Give and Take
Overview: Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-11
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
Overview: An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses his unprecedented skills of fast shooting and karate secrets!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-11
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Heisei Zankeiden: Blood Blade Dos Barks!
Overview: A lone wolf yakuza vs detective. It was supposed to be an undercover investigation into the Yakuza organization… A drama of friendship and betrayal between men living in different worlds.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Rebellion Reward
Overview: The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Overview: Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-28
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A Torrent of Life
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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Greatest Boss Of Japan
Overview: A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Ryuji's Journey: The Crest of Man
Overview: The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Wild Cop
Overview: Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-09
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Secret Zone of Tokyo
Overview: The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with sex and violence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-06
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Wharf Temperament
Overview: The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-14
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Gun Demon Without Form
Overview: A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Umi no jōji ni kakero
Overview: 1960 action film.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-17
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Sun and stars
Overview: It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
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Exiled to Hell
Overview: It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining action film bursting with righteousness and humanity, centred on men who try to live righteously against a corrupt boss who preys on the performers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
Overview: Strife between competing lumber mills.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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Gambling Den Desire
Overview: In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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Hitori tabi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
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The Wild Reporter
Overview: Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tokyo, Toshio hopes to produce a program that will expose the drug trade in Tokyo. One day, Toshio stops into a noodle shop where he is mistaken for a drug dealer and passed a bagful of drugs. The real dealer arrives in time to follow Toshio home. That night Toshio is attacked by the dealer, who turns out to be Kenji, one of the children Toshio had saved. Kenji can't bring himself to kill Toshio, so he runs away and goes into hiding from the mafia. While continuing to investigate the drug trade, Toshio searches for Kenji to get Kenji's testimony for his program.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-27
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The Aftermath of War
Overview: After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the name of Kentaro before she died and this was something that people in this small section of downtown Tokyo remembered. Life went on, however, and local boss Hiramatsu Daizo decided to build a market, aided by his daughter Aya. They met opposition until one day a young man named Kentaro appears who it is rumored he was the vengeful lover of the murdered girl. He lives with Sabu and Yukari, the children the girl looked after before she died, and helps with the market, coming to the rescue with a bulldozer when Daizo is threatened by a rival group. When Daizo is finally killed, Kentaro carries on the work. Finally the market is completed, the rival group makes a last stand but is machine-gunned down by Kentaro who, after saying that he was not the one whose name the dying girl called out, leaves town for good.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-18
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Moeru minamijūjisei
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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100 Gamblers
Overview: Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
Overview: A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-22
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Yabanjin no Nekutai
Overview: Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into an orgy of male-female sexual misconduct, and when he dropped off Roze, whom he had met there, he saw her sister, Kaoru, forgetting her impurity. One day, he went to an orgy where he met Roze, and he could not forget the purity of her older sister, Kaoru. A few days later, Gen went to the party again and was mistaken for the boss's brother.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-01
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Men's Lifetime Dream-A Peep into A Women's Bathhouse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-03
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A Man Explodes
Overview: Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Three Rogues
Overview: Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again at Tanaka's mother's rural farmhouse. By then, one-eyed Kobayashi has wrangled his way into the scenario, intending to get a split of the proceeds (since he had helped them get away). Although there is some dissension amongst the three, they eventually close ranks to fend off their stubborn, relentless pursuers. Unhappily, Tanaka’s mother (Chieko Naniwa) is killed in the process. There are also love interests (Yoshiko Machida and Kayo Matsuo) and some humor along the way. An admirably different approach to the formulaic ninkyo yakuza programmer, filmed largely in sweltering summer countryside locations.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-19
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The Harbor of No Return
Overview: A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Yuganda tsuki
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Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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Tales of Ginza
Overview: In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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The Black Gambler: Murderous Dice
Overview: As a foreign gambling ring tries to take over the Japanese underworld, Himuro the ace gambler must face their leader - and his dangerous gadgets…
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-08
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Pursuit
Overview: Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Crimson pistol belt
Overview: Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.
Genres: Action Western Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-12
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Bōkyō no umi
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-21
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Seishun no Sabaki
Overview: University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-14
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Hageshī kawa
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-06
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Thanks for the tears
Overview: A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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Song of a Traveller
Overview: A crime film released in 1962
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-20
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
Overview: In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendship, suddenly hated each other and face many obstacles. Adapted from Shugoro Yamamoto novel.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Wakai futari
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-21
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Namari o buchikome
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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The Duel in the forbidden territory
Overview: The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship trio, the Nikis, but sustains an injury. In the mountains of Tohoku, he is aided by a young boy named Shosuke. Heihachiro finds refuge in the home of the boy's parents, Magoichi and Shino, only to discover that Magoichi was a skilled ninja from Koga. The peaceful days with the family are short-lived as Ichima, bent on revenge, along with his brothers Kurodo and Ryuma, pursue Heihachiro. Heihachiro and Magoichi head towards the duel's location, but the village headman, Seibei, blinded by the allure of gold dust in the mountains, abducts Shino...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-09-09
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I Will Challenge
Overview: Akira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of his late father and become a champion when, during training, he becomes embroiled in a murder case. His school friend is involved in the case, and Akira also becomes the target of villains...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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Violent Fraternity
Overview: Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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Fearless Comrades
Overview: The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. The guitar he plays at the bar in the evening was given to him by his late best friend. At the bar, Kosuke meets Kumagoro. Kosuke saves Kumagoro from bandits. Kumagoro is a funny man, he came to this city to reunite with the woman he swore to marry. Kosuke decides to settle in this city and help him find his beloved, but the future of this city is not cloudless either, because the cruel Yakuza is in power in the city, and soon Kosuke will have to fight with him...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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Immortal Guy
Overview: Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuke's relief does not last long, he learns from Kumagoro that Toseikai are acting ruthlessly here too.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Ruthless Gambler
Overview: Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his lover is tortured by the enemy, but rescued by the imprisoned young man's nemesis.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-06-28
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Retaliation
Overview: Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-05
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Profit from Killing
Overview: The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student from gangsters from the Hanamura gang. But this was only the beginning of a bloody struggle...
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Saga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
Overview: During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-08
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Haunted Samurai
Overview: When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.
Genres: Drama Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
Overview: Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-04-28
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Passport to Darkness
Overview: A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer in this dark and beautiful noir from master Seijun Suzuki.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-19
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I Have the Sun in My Back
Overview: Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to uncover the truth to clear his name.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-07
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A World For Two
Overview: On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Kawase off, the man talks a female passenger, Reiko, into acting as if she was his long-time friend. When the man - who is, in fact, Hojo - secretly leaves the ship, Reiko, who has fallen for him, joins up with Kawase to go looking for him. Meanwhile, Hojo, who has returned to Japan to find the true murderer before the 15-year statute of limiitations on murder expires, tracks down the man whom he believes ordered the murder he was accused of.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Bad Girl Mako
Overview: Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-25
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Satan's Town
Overview: A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-11
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Yabure Kabure
Overview: Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to save him at his own peril.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-15
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The Boy Who Came Back
Overview: Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-29
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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Overview: A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-03
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
Overview: The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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Chase That Man
Overview: The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-23
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Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
Overview: Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy of the '70's, Masashi Ishibashi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
Overview: A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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Massacre Gun
Overview: Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-06
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A Colt Is My Passport
Overview: A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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Yakuza Skirmishes
Overview: In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Overview: Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Overview: This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Reformatory Buddies
Overview: Third film in the series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Overview: On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
Overview: A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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Shadow Hunters
Overview: Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-10
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Killer Sword
Overview: 1884. The samurai days have come to an end. Capitalism and democracy flourished across Japan. But in Chichibu, an area just north of Tokyo, samurai spirits still lived. Out of the many schools that taught Japanese swordsmanship, the school of Ono and Kogen were most dominant. Every year, they each selected a master swordsman to fight a dedicatory match held at the Chichibu Shrine. Gengo (Hideki Takahashi) represented the school of Ono. His opponent Danhichiro of the Kogen school was feared by many as the "Devil".
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-04
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Karate Killer
Overview: Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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The Smart Aleck Ten
Overview: Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-02-26
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Kakedashi keiji
Overview:
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-25
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The Rambler in the Sunset
Overview: The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Wind of Volcano
Overview: An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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The Plateau Man
Overview: Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
Genres: Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-13
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A Killer Without a Grave
Overview: Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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Velvet Hustler
Overview: A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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Sword and Flower
Overview: Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly widower (Mori).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-14
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
Overview: After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuza guys who used to be best friends since their childhood, and brother fights brother. It results in the biggest yakuza war in Okinawa.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-03
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Quick Draw Joe
Overview: One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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My Sweetheart
Overview: It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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Melody of Rebellion
Overview: The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-22
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Overview: After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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Love in the Air
Overview: Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and, sick at heart, left the circus for a life at sea. On land again Shoji goes to a cabaret where he is soon involved in a brawl. Kasamatsu, the owner of the cabaret, impressed by Shoji's strength, offers him a job as his bodyguard. The next morning Shoji visits Shingo's grave and meets Miyako, Shingo's former sweetheart, who is still a trapeze performer and now the star of the Kuroko Circus which Shoji realizes Kasamatsu intends to control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Sign of the Jack
Overview: Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner Kurahara. They attempt to help the Towada-Gumi gang against its rival group the Kamioka-Gumi which is seeking the chance to conquer the Towada-Gumi in collusion with Noda, a big shot in the town operating a real estate firm.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Monk's Paradise
Overview: A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-07-31
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Gambling Kitten
Overview: Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Step on the Gas!
Overview: Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-24
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The Rambler Goes North
Overview: In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-03
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The Rambler under the Southern Cross
Overview: In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
Overview: The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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The Black Scar
Overview: A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-10
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The Burmese Harp
Overview: In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-21
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Love Eternal
Overview: A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-07-09
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Overview: Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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A Young Female Instructor
Overview: A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-15
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Fight of the Gamblers
Overview: Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Blood for Blood
Overview: The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-10
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The Sleeping Beast Within
Overview: When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive consequences.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-09
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The Warped Ones
Overview: A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-03
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A Warm Misty Night
Overview: When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-11
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Burning Nature
Overview: Film from 1967.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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The Gambling Monk
Overview: One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Underworld Beauty
Overview: The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Burning Clouds
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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I Am Waiting
Overview: A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-10-22
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Abashiri Prison
Overview: Also Known As: Abashiri Native Ground
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-02
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Zatoichi at Large
Overview: Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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Okite
Overview: Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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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 Killer
Overview: A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Farewell to the Code
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-11
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Lone Rebel
Overview: Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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Mighty Rules
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-14
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Eighteen Years, to the Sea
Overview: Kei and Atsuo were both enrolled in summer school. Kei was an honor student, and Atsuo was the polar opposite - but opposites attract. After school, the two head to the beach, where they find another student from their school competing against a local gang member, to see who is able to hold his breath longer under water. Overwhelmed by the excitement, Kei and Atsuo decide to try themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-18
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Lost Virgin
Overview: Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-02
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-29
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Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-12
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A Wandering Gambler
Overview: Koji Himuro, a brilliant gambler, was killed by his brother and lover for discovering cheating gambling. As a result, he vows never to roll the dice, but gets involved in the incident everywhere he goes. The first in the "Black Gambler Series". The feature of this series is that the existing gag was mainly created by accumulating lines and small actions, but in this series, gag is done by exaggerated gimmicks. Film critic Hideo Nishiwaki points out that it may be the influence of the 007 movie series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-05
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The Call of the Foghorn
Overview: A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to investigate the matter himself, and finds there may be more to the story...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-09
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Why Are We Young?
Overview: After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gradually accept him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab
Overview: A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Cards Will Tell
Overview: A 1960 crime film
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-16
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夜霧のブルース
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-30
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The Return of the Filthy Seven
Overview: A 1967 crime film
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-10-21
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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
Overview: This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-16
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Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Overview: Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama. Saved by Dr. Kazumichi, Samon is asked by Toyama to identify an informant among the members of the lightning gang, a group of cruel thieves wreaking havoc throughout Edo. Samon then becomes an assistant to the firefighter squad led by Naito Hayato-masamune. One night, while rushing to the oil merchant Tambaya, who is attacked by the robbers, Samon and his group discovered a trembling young girl Oso who is the only survivor of the massacre and has lost her voice due to terror.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-15
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Keiji monogatari buchō keiji o oe!
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
Overview: A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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The Day of Youth
Overview: At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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