Ryō Nishida
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 20, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
Overview: In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their hometown, Nakano Village, after getting word of their father's critical condition. In a Nakano Village divided by a clash between local pig bristle brush manufacturers and the village chief's group over factory expansion, the latter resorts to harassing the brush manufacturers associated with the Wadakura family. Tadayoshi and the villagers attempt to take on the village office but encounter opposition from the Wadakura family's interference. Meanwhile, Jinzuke finds himself at odds with the Wadakura family over territorial disputes in Tsuruhashi. He faces off against them, striving to thwart their factory plans...
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-15
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Overview: Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Overview: An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
Overview: The second part of the Gamblers series.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Overview: Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-08
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Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
Overview: The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-07-22
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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Overview: Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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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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Brothers Serving Time
Overview: While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-03
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Eighteen Years in Prison
Overview: A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Rub Out the Past
Overview: A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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The Shogun's Vault II
Overview: A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the shogun's treasures, has been shaking the public authorities. The identity of the thief is Ichibei, a medicine seller whose father was once killed by the shogunate, and his daughter Oasa. Ichibei had been seeking revenge against the official to avenge the death of his father, Sasajima Hyobu, who was a member of the Kurokuchi clan, the official ninja. He was also plotting to seize the gold orca of the Nagoya Castle keep, aiming at the Owari clan that had slain his father. ......
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-03-19
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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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Return of the Outlaw
Overview: Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-28
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Gamblers
Overview: Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-28
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Third Generation Boss
Overview: Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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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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Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark
Overview: Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also finds his family has been slaughtered and so now it is up to him and his pals to kick the heck out of Kogar and return the planet to its rightful rulers. This film was assembled from episodes of the Japanese TV series, Message from Space: Galactic Warriors (which in itself was a spinoff from the feature Message from Space).
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Overview: Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-08-12
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Overview: Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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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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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Overview: In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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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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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Overview: Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-28
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The Fancy Man
Overview: A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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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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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Overview: With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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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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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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Gambling Den Heist
Overview: After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-06-21
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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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The Fall of Ako Castle
Overview: This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-10-28
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
Overview: An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-01-22
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Overview: Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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Convicted Woman
Overview: 1966 film directed by Kudo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-13
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The International Gang of Kobe
Overview: In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-10-14
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
Overview: A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks the life of a yakuza hitman.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-02-10
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Samurai Wolf
Overview: This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-19
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Gambling Code and Feuds
Overview: It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-08-27
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King of Sha-kin 2
Overview: A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Overview: Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-30
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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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The Pledge
Overview: When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-30
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
Overview: A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Code Between Brothers 5
Overview: Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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Samurai Geisha
Overview: Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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Tears of Banishment
Overview: Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-17
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The Cross of Vengeance
Overview: Film with Junko Miyazono.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-24
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Outlaw Cop
Overview: A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-04
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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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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Overview: The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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Judo vs. Karate
Overview: A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-30
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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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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
Overview: A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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The Bandits
Overview: Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-21
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The Viper Brothers
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Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-01
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The Rivals
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Big Time Gambling Boss
Overview: Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-14
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
Overview: When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-05-28
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The Gambler
Overview: A crime film released in 1965
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-10
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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tamagiku Dōrō
Overview: Dance teacher Omiyo survives a double suicide with her lover and is forced into life as the courtesan Tamagiku in Yoshiwara. Living in misery, she meets Gengo, her lover’s look-alike brother, and they fall in love. Jealous rival Naraya frames Gengo as a criminal, and he is struck by lightning and killed before Tamagiku’s eyes. After her own death, Tamagiku rises from hell to seek revenge on Naraya and his allies.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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