Keiichi Kitagawa

The Ando Gang Documentary Film (1973)

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi. ...

Yokosuka Navy Prison (1973)

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison. ...

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 ...

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police (1973)

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a ...

A Flower in a Neon Jungle (1973)

Quarreling with Yakuza (1973)

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. ...

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. ...

Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences (1972)

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre. ...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler (1972)

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looki ...

The Pledge (1972)

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins. ...

Woman His Prey (1972)

Shōwa Gokudōshi (1972)

Rogue Of The Night (1972)

Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she's a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city ...

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder (1972)

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence. ...

The Armed Organization (1971)

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsuruta as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Waka ...

Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over. ...

Code Between Brothers: All New (1970)

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 p ...

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town (1969)

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji's friend. ...

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers (1969)

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence. ...

Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of ...

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo (1969)

Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tr ...

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968)

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936's Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki's story for Uch ...

The Cheating Underworld (1968)

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen. ...

Secret Information (1968)

A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him. ...

Gambler's World 2 (1967)

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks. ...

Gambler's World (1967)

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 ...

Flower Cards Chivalry (1967)

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is staying with a gangster boss when he comes across the woman and her partner again. The boss lusts for both her ...

The Golden Bat (1966)

A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately induct ...

Glorious Fights (1966)

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. ...

The Pretty Jade (1966)

Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series ...

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave (1966)

TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP J ...

Continental Drifter (1966)

Japanese crime film. ...

Gang's Upward Strategy (1965)

Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965)

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 bu ...

Zoku ôsho (1963)

Adaptation of novel. ...

Cosmetic Sales Competition (1963)

A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive. ...

The Yellow Climate (1961)

Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto. ...

Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō (1961)

Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot by Nishikawa Shoei (I Am the Magician of Hell). ...

Darling Escape (1961)

Devotion to Railway (1960)

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named "Sakura" from Tokyo to Nagasaki... ...

Deep River Melody (1960)

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant. ...

Tale of Young Drifter 2 (1960)

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ...

Tale of Young Drifter (1960)

Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners. ...

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2 (1960)

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother's restaurant business. ...

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha (1959)

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two familie ...

Hahakogusa (1959)

Based on the Nobu Koito story ...

The Tokyo Dame (1959)

A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister. ...

Sister with Sister (1958)

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker. ...

First Love of Okon (1958)

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap. ...

Romance Freestyle (1958)

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship. ...