Hōsei Komatsu

Getting Wild with Our Monkey (2001)

A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues. ...

Shura ga Yuku 6 (1997)

Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination. ...

Village of Dreams (1996)

Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly landlord, a rough new boy at the school, and three mysterious sp ...

Oishinbo (1996)

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by the newspaper's owner, along with the young Yuko Kurita, to provide recipes for the "ultimate menu". ...

Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza (1996)

Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza. ...

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars (1995)

After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia. ...

Mahjong Hishoden: Ryu the Caller (1995)

There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller. ...

Lupin the Third: Farewell to Nostradamus (1995)

A simple diamond heist leads Lupin into the machinations of a bizarre cult based around the prophecies of Nostradamus. They kidnap Julia, the daughter of Douglas, a wealthy American who is seeking the presidency, along with Lupin's diamond. At stake is the ...

Bokyo (1993)

In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives. ...

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold (1993)

A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the ma ...

Emergency Special! I saw a Paranormal Phenomenon!! (1992)

Horror TV-Special broadcast at the 21th August, 1992. ...

Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials. ...

Female Neo-Ninjas (1991)

Three cute, sexy ninjas, around the age of 20, have been in training, building their powers for some vague future threat. Their destined mission becomes apparent when a handsome ninja from 400 years past drops from the sky into the hot tub of on of the gir ...

Tange Sazen (1990)

One of Japan's favorite sword stars, Fujita Makoto, returns as the legendary Tange Sazen, the one-eyed, one-armed samurai who is a champion for the common people. Unflappable, except with the ladies, he fights evil in Shogun Yoshimune's Edo. The kokezaru n ...

Aurora Borealis (1990)

The story of a man and a wolf-dog in East Siberia during the early 1900s. ...

Company Executives (1989)

A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away. ...

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso (1989)

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee. ...

The Blue Mountains '88 (1988)

A Taxing Woman's Return (1988)

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult lead by a corrupt sociopath. ...

"Guys Who Never Learn" Part 2 (1987)

Sequel to "Guys Who Never Learn". ...

Shinran: Path to Purity (1987)

In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school (Shingon) offered extensive training in complex and very demanding practices which might eventually bring about spiritual purification and realization. Var ...

No More Comics! (1986)

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story. ...

Break Town Story (1985)

Japanese drama film. ...

Eve-chan no hime (1984)

A new high school teacher is secretly given a mysterious floppy disk. It leads her into danger at a local porno theater. ...

Farewell to the Ark (1984)

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers. ...

Serial Killer: Coldblooded (1984)

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta. ...

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3 (1983)

After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its completion. Among the 20 victims is Okou, the lover of Yokichi, a member of the theatrical entertainment d ...

Choji Snack Bar (1983)

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown. ...

Kidnapping Blues (1982)

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During the ...

The Highest Honour (1982)

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results. ...

Madam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds (1982)

In the exotic location of Los Angeles, California a business woman enjoys all the men in her life whether it's her older husband, a younger relative or a former fiancé. ...

The Drifting Life of Himeshiro (1982)

After saving a woman, a gambler with a dark past and a ronin agree to help her father, a yakuza boss. However, their intersecting histories spark conflict. ...

Rapewoman: Dirty Sunday (1981)

A single woman starts receiving obscene phone calls at home. Feeling fearful she stays at the apartment of her best friend but somehow the pervert starts calling her there too. Feeling hopeless she gives in and agrees to meet at a restaurant. But when the ...

Yuki (1981)

Up in Heaven, Yuki's grandparents decide that, having turned thirteen years old, she must go down to Earth to a village that is torn by bandits and intervene to save its people. However if she does not succeed within one year she will become as insubstanti ...

The Monster of Frankenstein (1981)

In an ill-fated attempt to harness the forces of nature, Dr. Frankenstein creates a monster. This gentle giant roams the countryside in search of a peaceful life, but is finally overcome with loneliness and despair as his fearsome visage strikes terror in ...

Tanshin funin jōji no himitsu (1981)

An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace. ...

Never in the Morning! (1980)

A free spirited woman signs a contract with her boss to be his mistress but finds she needs more satisfaction than he can give. ...

Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru (1980)

Nikkatsu Roman Porno ...

Faraway Tomorrow (1979)

A young man walks through the streets holding a sign that reads, "The trial for the Tobata Incident 19 years ago was a frame-up!" He has taken up the fight alone on behalf of his innocent father, who is serving time for murder. ...

Eros Nights in Tokyo (1979)

A horny college student is spotted peeping and is chased into a dark tunnel. He mysteriously emerges into a topsy turvy erotic dreamland. ...

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment. ...

The Shogun Assassins (1979)

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ...

Troubleman Laughs and Kills (1979)

Kensho Yamashita's directorial debut. ...

Nomugi Pass (1979)

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and ...

The Strangling (1979)

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and uncompromising father) are opposed to women (victims of men) as embodiment of salvation. ...

Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1979)

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, a ...

Pink Tush Girl: Love Attack (1979)

Rena and Yuko, the two sexually-adventurous high school girl friends from Pink Tush Girl (1978) get part-time jobs at a hostess bar in order to earn money for an abortion for Yuko. At the end of the school year the two must part as Yuko prepares to depart ...

Almost Transparent Blue (1979)

In the mid-1970s, a small group of friends are living in a Japanese town near an American air force base, their lives revolve around sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. The near-plotless story weaves a vividly raw, image-intensive journey through the daily monot ...

The Days of No Return (1978)

The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father. ...

Rape and Death of a Housewife (1978)

Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attack. Her chicken farmer husband, incapable of dealing with her death tends to her corpse as though it were s ...

Japanese Godfather: Ambition (1977)

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association. ...

The Far Road (1977)

Set in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive film tells the story of the wife of a railroad worker in the northern part of Japan. The ferocious local class restrictions work to keep her husband in his place, ...

Ore no sora (1977)

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does. ...

Japanese Humanity and Justice (1977)

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. ...

Short and Fat (1977)

A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben". ...

Dan-no-ura Night (1977)

Taken out of the pages of history itself, this is the story of the sizzling love between Kenreimon-in of the Taira Clan and Yoshitsuné of the Minamoto Clan. When the Taira Clan had met ignominious defeat at the hands of Yoshitsuné, Kenreimon-in had jumpe ...

The Life of Chikuzan (1977)

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with ...

The Japanese Belly Button (1977)

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss. ...

The Gate of Youth Part 2 (1977)

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu. ...

Japan's Don (1977)

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters. ...

A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight. ...

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex (1976)

Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence. ...

The Corporation (1976)

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter ...

The Sea of Genkai (1976)

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across the Genkai Sea. ...

Competition: Married Couples Secret Technique (1976)

Inspired by a street interview about married sex life a TV food show host accidentally finds a way to help his little problem in bed. ...

Dragon Princess (1976)

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend. ...

Operation Plazma in Osaka (1976)

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover. ...

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip (1975)

Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who work at a pachinko parlour. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed ...

Hostess Confidential: Three Juicy Sisters (1975)

This comedic piece centers on a trio of sisters—Rei Okamoto, Nahomi Oka, and Tamaki Katsura—whose personalities are nothing if not intense. Working as hostesses, they put their bodies on the line to make money, ultimately rising to the top by capitaliz ...

G-String Geisha (1975)

A young geisha/prostitute working in Tokyo's entertainment district earns a measure of reknown through her powerful vaginal muscles. This newfound fame, however, also earns her the enmity of a rival geisha house. The two houses choose to settle the dispute ...

Lady Kamakura: Cherry Boy Club (1975)

Roman Porno from 1975. ...

Truck Rascals: No One Can Stop Me (1975)

The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting ...

Green Lovers (1975)

Two innocent high school girls, Aki Shindo, nicknamed Ako, and Mineko Mayama, nicknamed Neko, run away from home and, along with Kaori Yashiro, whom they meet while hitchhiking, arrive at a certain beach. There, at a yacht harbor, they find Daisuke Sakuma, ...

Shimane Prison Riot (1975)

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest ass ...

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps (1975)

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. ...

Cops vs. Thugs (1975)

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kun ...

The Killing Machine (1975)

Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and knocks some good sense into friends and enemies alike. Rapists and gangsters get the worst of it, as Mr. ...

Without Complaint (1975)

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto. ...

The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974)

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy. ...

The Last Swordsman (1974)

Personal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. ...

Violent Fraternity (1974)

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs. ...

It Was a Faint Dream (1974)

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emp ...

City of Corruption (1974)

A movie in which drug G-men play an important role in a big city where prostitution and drug organizations intervene. The Ministry of Health and Welfare's Narcotics Control Headquarters, which emphasizes the reality of the dark prostitution route in the ci ...

My Blood is the Blood of Others (1974)

Budô dokyumento: Kengô no saiten (1974)

The documentary covers notable Japanese martial arts from Okinawa Karate to Ninjutsu, Kendo, Shorinji Kenpo, sword fighting techniques, and even firearms. Various martial arts masters, from Shorinji Kenpo founder Doshin So to Japan Karate Association's Mas ...

The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers (1974)

A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse ...

Military Comfort Woman (1974)

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2. ...

The Beast Shall Die (1974)

Kunihiko Date, a young criminal genius, puts a perfect crime plan into action to take revenge on the men who once drove his father to ruin. ...

Oh Wonderful Utamaro! (1974)

Pinku from 1974. ...

Red Paper Lantern (1974)

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings. ...

Lady Snowblood (1973)

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an ...

Sex Education Mistresses (1973)

An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands. ...

The Virgin Masquerade (1973)

Three female college students become involved with a land developer. When a rich client and his sons tries to take advantage of him the women hatch a plan for revenge. ...

Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayam ...

Farewell to Rock'n Roll (1973)

There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Ar ...

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. ...

A Flower in a Neon Jungle (1973)

Gokudo of Kamagasaki (1973)

Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen. ...

A Diary of a Woman Doctor (1973)

1973 Toei movie. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

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, S ...

Time Within Memory (1973)

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru recalls the old days spent on the island with his young, beautiful mother. ...

The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail (1973)

Part 5 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. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his ...

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners. ...

The Horrible Obsessions (1972)

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs. ...

Temptation of Eros (1972)

Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse. ...

Dear Summer Sister (1972)

14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father's young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met. Their guide, a beer-guzzling ex-soldier, takes them to the locale's tourist attractions, quickly delving ...

Rogue Of The Night (1972)

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory (1972)

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction. ...

Lullaby for a Tough Guy (1972)

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor's guards. ...

Companion to Hell (1972)

The second work in the "Japanese Evil Man Den" series, which depicts the devilishness hidden in the depths of the human heart. The script is done by Takayuki Yamada. The director is Shinji Murayama of "Japanese Bad Man Den". Shigeru Akatsuka of "Modern Por ...

Troops of Darkness (1971)

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind. ...

Story of Japanese Bad Men (1971)

Toei yakuza film. ...

The Big Chase (1971)

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You (1971)

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by ...

The Ceremony (1971)

Oshima's magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades. ...

Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger (1971)

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation. ...

King of the Widow-Killers (1971)

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service ...

Adults Games (1971)

The girl students of rival junior high schools stage duels and show a curious interest in sexual pastimes. ...

Women Smell of Night (1970)

A 1970 crime film. ...

Dangerous Games (1970)

Drama is afoot at Shirobara Middle School when the bold Henmi Ryoko transfers into Class A, 9th Grade. She immediately picks a fight with, Masuda, the head of the preparation committee. The girls' battle for control of the gang soon grows out of control as ...

Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970)

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's ...

The Experience (1970)

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love. ...

Fear of Sex (1970)

The Revelation of a Geisha (1970)

After the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on her own and ends up working as a geisha at a hot spring resort. After rising in popularity, a climactic sex battle is held to decide who gets to lay claim to her ...

Postwar Secrets (1970)

Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases. ...

City of Beasts (1970)

University student Arima Yasuhiro becomes acquainted with Ishihama, the president of a pharmaceutical company with a dark past, slowly but surely getting more embroiled in his dirty dealings. ...

Shameless School (1970)

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip. ...

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life (1970)

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels. ...

Naked Ambition (1970)

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "K ...

A Young Man's Stronghold (1970)

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama. ...

Bloodstained Clan of Honor (1970)

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate ...

Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers (1970)

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was th ...

Brave Red Flower of the North (1970)

An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has trave ...

Woman (1969)

Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight (1969)

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to captur ...

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of an ...

The Private Police (1969)

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fight ...

New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2 (1969)

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. ...

Lefty Fencer (1969)

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with ...

The Domain: Flower and Dragon (1969)

Double Suicide (1969)

Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even fo ...

The Cross of Vengeance (1969)

Film with Junko Miyazono. ...

The Woman Gambler's Tenth Game (1969)

13th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series ...

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (1969)

The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept ...

Yakuza on Foot (1969)

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers' losses. ...

Kanto Onna Gokudo (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)

In Tokyo's Shinjuku district, the lives of a young man prone to theft, a young woman he meets at a bookstore, and a kabuki actor intersect. ...

The Woman Gambler's Supplication (1968)

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. ...

Blue in Isezaki (1968)

Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder (1968)

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the earl ...

Profound Desires of the Gods (1968)

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill. ...

Even If Life Withers (1968)

Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968)

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betraye ...

The Daring Nun (1968)

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she often goes out to see the world, being of the opinion that nuns should not lead cloistered lives but should see something of modern life. She makes the acquain ...

Wicked Priest (1968)

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffian ...

Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official. ...

Downtown Blues (1968)

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted. ...

The Man Without a Map (1968)

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching. ...

The Bandits (1968)

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits. ...

The Marked Man (1968)

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism. ...

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story. ...

Scoundrel (1968)

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When imprisoned, he is repeatedly transferred from one prison to another, because no one can handle him. ...

Death by Hanging (1968)

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next. ...

Ninja's Mark (1968)

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even disc ...

The Hoodlum Priest (1967)

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twist ...

Journey (1967)

Parole (1967)

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold. ...

Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack (1967)

Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway. ...

Gambler: Victory Without Death (1967)

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 ...

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo (1967)

The second part of the Gamblers series. ...

Dissolution Rites (1967)

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced t ...

Organized Violence (1967)

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans. ...

Eighteen Years in Prison (1967)

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. ...

Band of Ninja (1967)

The son of an assassinated feudal lord, in the Muromachi period, attempts to avenge his father's death and meets Kagemaru, a renegade ninja helping peasants and farmers rebel against Oda Nobunaga's regime, all depicted through an experimental form of filmi ...

Three Gamblers (1967)

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro's family. ...

Judo vs. Karate (1966)

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth. ...

Code Between Brothers 2 (1966)

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo. ...

Violence at Noon (1966)

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist. ...

Seven Gamblers (1966)

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys. ...

Captive's Island (1966)

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman. ...

Silence Has No Wings (1966)

After a young boy captures a rare butterfly in Nagasaki, a caterpillar begins a relay-trip toward the northern tip of Hokkaido, serving as a silent witness to a series of vignettes featuring people struggling with the psychological and social scars of post ...

Sword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage (1966)

After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Toshin-gumi was already headed by the boss in the second generation of Shotaro, but Shotaro fell into a trap, he is manipulated by his sworn enemy Kanzaki-gumi ...

Diary of Yunbogi (1965)

Constructed as an experimental montage of still photographs, "Diary of Yunbogi" reflects on poverty and historical responsibility through the imagined diary of a six-year-old Korean boy living in a South Korean slum. Drawing on photographs taken during Ōs ...

The Flower and the Dragon (1965)

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle. ...

Tattooed Life (1965)

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother. ...

Beast Alley (1965)

Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entangled in the dark web of an influential, elderly power broker, becoming his mistress and a pawn in his polit ...

Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

After committing murder, businessman Atsushi is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret. ...

Song of Dawn (1965)

Musical actress Noriko feels frustrated by the futility of her affair with a married man. Then she is offered a role in a new production that appears to mirror her own private life... An excellent work that stylishly depicts its gradually evolving heroine. ...

Hoodlum Soldier (1965)

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train. ...

Punishment of a Lawless Villian (1964)

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. ...

The Forgotten Imperial Army (1963)

This documentary examines the plight of Korean veterans who were conscripted into the Japanese imperial army during World War II and later left destitute in postwar Japan. Many, disabled by their service, are denied compensation because of their Korean nat ...

The Catch (1961)

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'. ...

Chikuhō no kodomotachi (1960)

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines. ...

The Sun's Burial (1960)

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood. ...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Mich ...

I Want to Be a Shellfish (1958)

Television production of I Want to Be a Shellfish. On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder. According to the ...