Kenji Imai
Also Known As: 今井俊二, Кэндзи Имаи, Kenji Imai
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: March 31, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Police Precinct Part 12
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
Popularity:
South Pacific Waves Are High
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-09
Popularity:
Karate Bullfighter
Overview: Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-08-09
Popularity:
Police Precinct Part 14
Overview: An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detectives had a bad feeling which hit the mark, an unidentified drowned body is identified as Hirasaka. Some prime real estate he owned was also mysteriously sold. Suspecting that this is a planned murder and fearing the escape of the criminal, the Department begins to investigate secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-21
Popularity:
新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
Popularity:
新婚シリーズ 最初が肝心
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-07
Popularity:
Woman His Prey
Overview:
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-30
Popularity:
Quick-draw Okatsu
Overview: This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of her brother, and real child of the man who adopted her. Her brother unfortunately has a gambling habit, and it plunges the family into trouble when he loses a lot of money in a crooked dice game. After releasing he is unable to pay the debt he owes; the blame is shouldered by the father, who is killed, leading Okatsu on a path of revenge.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-10
Popularity:
Like Fire is My Life
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-09
Popularity:
The Stragglers
Overview: The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-05
Popularity:
Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman
Overview: Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the Tama River. The ugly behavior of adults hidden in the name of social welfare is exposed by the investigation. 16th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-01
Popularity:
前科・仮釈放
Overview:
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-14
Popularity:
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind
Overview: The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-14
Popularity:
Sympathy for the Underdog
Overview: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-12
Popularity:
Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
Overview: The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-05
Popularity:
Women Doing Time
Overview: Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-05
Popularity:
Raping!
Overview: A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-11-18
Popularity:
Mid-August Commotion
Overview: A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-22
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Overview: Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their separate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-05-24
Popularity:
Zankokuna tsuki
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-05-27
Popularity:
Police Precinct: The Woman Without A Face
Overview: A tragic drama - a dismembered torso of a woman rises up on the banks of the Arakawa River. The body is only the torso. Her legs were discovered on the opposite bank. The only clue, a man was trying to throw something in from a car with a license plate number three days ago at Shin-Arakawa Ohashi Bridge...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-18
Popularity:
Police Precinct Part 21
Overview: A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to Sayama's daughter-in-law, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-14
Popularity:
Police Precinct: Backing Investigation
Overview: A man confessed to killing a woman in a labyrinth 2 years ago. The detectives must now conduct a "backing investigation" to determine whether his confession is true, because the law states that a confession alone is not enough to make the case. The 20nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-10
Popularity:
Love School
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-28
Popularity:
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Overview: A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
Popularity:
If You're Man Enough
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-29
Popularity:
Utau myōjō seishun ga ippai
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-08
Popularity:
Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
Overview: Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-18
Popularity:
Police Precinct: Confession
Overview: The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23nd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-23
Popularity:
Eight Men to Kill
Overview: The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-16
Popularity:
Duel in the Storm
Overview: It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His boss, however, became ill and the boat is taken due to unpaid debts to the local thugs. His new life has not begun well and he is determined to rebuild the shattered business. The Yakuza, however, have added the ferry business to the rest of their portfolio of local concerns.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-01
Popularity:
The Resurrection of the Beast
Overview: Crime film released in 1969
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-06
Popularity:
Dash to the Sun
Overview: A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
Genres: Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-08
Popularity:
Police Precinct: Missing Person
Overview: Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered an order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-12-05
Popularity:
Black Panther Bitch M
Overview: An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name M. Hayami is a yakuza boss and a divorced father who is not allowed to come near his young daughter Mutsumi from his ex-wife Kazuko. In the big port city of Yokohama, M targets Hayami, who has angered the president of his group.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-08-14
Popularity:
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Overview: Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-13
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Overview: Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-31
Popularity:
The Homeless
Overview: Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-09
Popularity:
Continental Drifter
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-19
Popularity:
Challenge Beneath the Waves
Overview: 1960 Toei action film.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
Popularity:
Assassin's Road
Overview: Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal lord and travel to Edo. It was said that Tsurunosuke, the man supposed to be the next federal lord, got a heavy disease, and the order aimed to make sure if it is true or not. On his way to Edo, Toma gave a hand to Kiku (Mayumi Okamura) who had a stomachache. However, she seemed to be in big trouble, and there were many warriors on the roads… This is the remade drama of “Wakasamamono” written by a popular novelist Tatsuji Satte. Go Kato as Dr. Waka brandishes a sword to come up against the plot of Karo, related to the inheritance of Takane Han.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-05-28
Popularity:
Element of Surprise
Overview: 1963 Toei war / action film.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-09-21
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Shogun's Vault
Overview: Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners, too. Co-starring some of the biggest name in movies at the time, including Kataoka Chiezo and Tanba Tetsuro this film is loaded with surprises. From the opening moments when prisoners carry out their own form of justice, killing a crooked ex-constable, it is clear that this is the work of a visionary filmmaker.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-08-13
Popularity:
Outlaw: Kill!
Overview: Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-14
Popularity:
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Overview: Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-01
Popularity:
With Songs in My Heart
Overview: Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-10
Popularity:
Four Hours of Terror
Overview: Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-30
Popularity:
Jet Air Base 101
Overview: The first batch of flight control officer candidates, full of yearning for the sky, are assembled at the 101st Air Regiment base. Nakata, Sato, and the other cadets undergo intensive training under Captain Kotani, a famous pilot, but gradually begin to resent his strict leadership. A youthful story that vividly portrays the young pilots of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force who place their hopes in the sky. Japan's first full-length film about jet aviation, it was shot on location at the Hamamatsu Air Self-Defense Force Base over an extended period of time, with dozens of jets being mobilized for the filming.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
Popularity:
An Outlaw
Overview: Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-05
Popularity:
Sister with Sister
Overview: Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-09
Popularity:
Tale of a Company Boss 3
Overview: A story about the nature of office workers today.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-01
Popularity:
Army Intelligence
Overview: Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-02-09
Popularity:
A Fishwife's Tale
Overview: Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-31
Popularity:
Glorious Fights
Overview: A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
Popularity:
Human Target
Overview: At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-09-15
Popularity:
Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
Overview: Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-22
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri
Overview: Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-12-28
Popularity:
Tales of President Mito
Overview: Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-04
Popularity:
Eyes of Mother and Daughter
Overview: Japanese drama film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-04
Popularity:
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Overview: Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-10
Popularity:
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Overview: [Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-06-12
Popularity:
The Killing Game
Overview: The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-12-02
Popularity:
Lady Ramboh
Overview: Lady Ramboh finds her sister and her best friend on vacation, and the three of them spend the days having lots of fun. But the fun trip is ruined, when the girls are kidnapped and raped by the remaining traffickers. Lady Ramboh seeks revenge. She has a room full of grenade launchers to prove it.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
Target
Overview: Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-04-19
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
The Last Samurai
Overview: The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-09-20
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Organized Violence II
Overview:
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-29
Popularity:
Graveyard of Honor
Overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Yakuza of the Present
Overview: In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-27
Popularity:
Terror in the Streets
Overview: Yuri Ebara is inexplicably laid off, abandoned by her closest friend, and is suddenly asked to move out of her apartment. As she nears rock bottom, she begins to suspect someone is out to drive her insane, or worse.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-07-04
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Overview: The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-25
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Overview: Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-13
Popularity:
The Machine Gun Dragon
Overview: Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-02-28
Popularity:
Peanuts
Overview: Two mysterious tough guys infuriate a local gang after helping an elderly grocery store owner with his debts by robbing a yakuza organised gambling den.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-05-17
Popularity:
An Impudent Man
Overview: Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent to Europe for his rather too liberal lifestyle…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
Popularity:
Winter's Flower
Overview: Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-06-17
Popularity:
The Escape
Overview: Film about the 2-26 Incident.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-14
Popularity:
The Prickly-Mouthed Geisha Goes to Sado
Overview: Japanese comedy film.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-05
Popularity:
Farewell, My Beloved
Overview: During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-02-21
Popularity:
The Chivalrous Life
Overview: Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against other yakuza gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-30
Popularity:
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
Overview: The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-30
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
Overview:
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
Popularity:
The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
Overview: An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.
Genres: Drama Comedy Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-21
Popularity:
The Happy Family
Overview: Japanese family drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
Popularity:
The Gambler's Counterattack
Overview: Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-10-14
Popularity:
A Yakuza Has His Way
Overview: The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family crest, Seikichi Shimamura sets out with his henchmen on a journey to acquire the crest of a local bankrupt family. The local Iwahashi clan and the fishermen fought over the construction of the industrial complex, but when Seikichi learned that the Seiyu-kai was behind the Iwahashi clan, he sided with the fishermen...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-03
Popularity:
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Overview: A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-20
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
Overview: A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-01
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Overview: Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-27
Popularity:
Sometimes... Like a Prostitute
Overview: A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-09-23
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
Overview: Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock operator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-13
Popularity:
Murder in the Deep
Overview: Contemporary drama of action-oriented photographer who scuba-dives. He witnesses an accident that appears to be a homicide.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
Popularity:
Game of Chance
Overview: Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
Popularity:
Kanto Drifter
Overview: Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-02-06
Popularity:
The Racketeer Ishimatsu
Overview: Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-10
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Code Between Brothers: All New
Overview: When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
Popularity:
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Overview: Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
Popularity:
Taking the Castle
Overview: The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name of Kagekatsu Uesugi. Inspired by Uesugi's courage to revolt, a young samurai warrior, Touzou Kuruma decides to join the fight. Their target: the Tamonyama Castle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-03-06
Popularity:
The Murder Corps
Overview: A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-05-24
Popularity:
The Fall of Teenager
Overview: High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members and rape.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-02-24
Popularity:
The Key
Overview: Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of passion during lovemaking. All this changes after they meet the young Mr. Kimura
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-18
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
Overview: Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-14
Popularity:
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
Popularity:
The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Overview: Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-09-01
Popularity:
Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
Overview: Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-11-11
Popularity:
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Overview: A policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the girl's professor, who may have been having an affair with her, and the professor's wife, who frequents lesbian bars. Gruesome axe murders and mutilations ensue, leading Yokoyama to a shocking discovery.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-26
Popularity:
Pay Off Your Debt!
Overview: Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-01
Popularity:
Police Precinct Part 2
Overview:
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-08
Popularity:
Speed Crazy
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-20
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Delinquent Street
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-22
Popularity:
The Pretty Jade
Overview: Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
Popularity:
The Murderer Must Die
Overview: A year ago, Tetsuo Yazaki was unemployed and wanted money, attacked a police box in Kobe, robbed a policeman of his pistol, attacked Hamamatsu OS Theater and Nagoya Shinwa Bank, and succeeded in robbing a large amount of money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-27
Popularity:
Hunting Opium-Eaters
Overview: The Chase after Opium Dealers
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-04
Popularity:
Fangs of a Female
Overview: Japanese crime film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-12
Popularity:
Botchan yarō seizoroi
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
Popularity:
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: 1972-04-26
Popularity:
A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
Popularity:
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
Overview: A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-08-04
Popularity:
Rogue Of The Night
Overview:
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-15
Popularity:
三代目 魚河岸の石松
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-05-07
Popularity:
続べらんめぇ芸者
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-01
Popularity:
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
Overview: A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-01
Popularity:
Monsoon Son
Overview: 1958 Toei movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-11
Popularity:
Monsoon Son Pt.2
Overview: 1958 Toei movie
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-18
Popularity:
Midair Circus
Overview: 1958 Toei movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-12
Popularity: