Yuzo Kiura

Blood for Blood (1971)

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of "K City". With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. ...

Onna no Iji (1971)

2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man w ...

Night Butterflies (1971)

A 1971 crime film ...

Abare chōhan (1970)

Red Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders (1969)

Japanese crime film ...

Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell (1969)

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete recovery of his boss. However, three rival bosses, trying to steal the Aoi's territory, made take-over plans in the shadows. The second in the two part Daimon ...

The Elder Sister (1969)

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight. ...

Family Crest: Die Like a Man (1969)

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the revenge of the youngest one when his siblings were killed by a rival vicious yakuza boss. The first in th ...

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, ...

Dice and Swords (1968)

The year is 1926. It has been three years since the Great Kanto earthquake hit Tokyo. Everything is being rebuilt from the ground up. Odera crime syndicate saw this as an opportunity to expand its territory. The Odera boss arranges marriage between his dau ...

Return to Kanto Prison (1967)

Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza families have been feuding in this city for a long time. On the side of the Okai clan, Masakichi enters into a confrontation with the evil Kawade family, who ...

Tokyo Night (1967)

A girl runs away form her house in Kyoto to find fortune in the Japanese capital. ...

Hawk of the Harbour (1967)

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza. ...

The Singing Gunman (1967)

Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the bullion transport. ...

The Reckless One (1967)

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of t ...

Fearless Comrades (1966)

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. ...

Three Wild Cats (1966)

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies. ...

Kill or Be Killed (1966)

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin. ...

Your Life (1966)

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance. ...

Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man (1966)

In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organiz ...

Love and Desire in the Night Mist (1966)

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre. ...

Tokyo Drifter (1966)

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for- ...

A World For Two (1966)

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Kawase off, the man talks a female passenger, Reiko, into ...

The Dragon of Macao (1965)

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred milli ...

Loss of Innocence (1965)

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become a prostitute. Other stories are interwoven, and the jour ...

Thanks for the Tears (1965)

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons. ...

Gambling is My Destiny (1965)

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, he hides his identity and saves his girlfriend's sister from certain death. Filmed on location on the scenic Manazuru Peninsula, the action is set amidst ru ...

Chivalrous Life (1965)

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visited the local police station daily, worried about the saf ...

Story of a Prostitute (1965)

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story ...

Black Strait (1964)

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again. ...

The Flower and the Sword (1964)

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary. ...

Ningen ni kakeruna (1964)

A Wandering Gambler (1964)

Koji Himuro, a brilliant gambler, was killed by his brother and lover for discovering cheating gambling. As a result, he vows never to roll the dice, but gets involved in the incident everywhere he goes. The first in the "Black Gambler Series". The feature ...

The Long Death (1964)

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large amount of money. In parallel with the investigation conducted by the Japanese police, journalists are also tryi ...

Cruel Gun Story (1964)

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; the ...

Kakedashi keiji (1964)

The Hill is Full of Flowers (1963)

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Nor ...

The Symbol of a Man (1963)

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict. ...

Youth of the Beast (1963)

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. ...

Notorious Bastard (1963)

When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme. ...

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963)

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't. ...

Utau abarenbō (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Traces of Lead (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Satsujin-sha o oe (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Guys Who Put Money on Me (1962)

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens. ...

Ai to shi no katami (1962)

Hageshī kawa (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Rambler Returns Home (1962)

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series. ...

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love (1962)

Sun and Stars (1962)

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion. ...

Teenage Yakuza (1962)

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city. ...

Quick Draw Sanshiro (1962)

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters! ...

Facing to the Clouds (1962)

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema jo ...

The Frozen Plains (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Yami ni kieta shisha (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Love in Ginza (1962)

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a t ...

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Aniki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab (1961)

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring. ...

Pursuit (1961)

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film. ...

The Plateau Man (1961)

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu. ...

Rambling in the Sea (1961)

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist". ...

Ashita ni Mukatte Tsuppashire (1961)

The Rambler under the Southern Cross (1961)

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan's back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip. ...

The Rambler Rides Again (1960)

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers. ...

Lone Wolf (1960)

Smashing the 0-Line (1960)

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he'll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he's sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister? ...

The Guitarist from the Sea (1960)

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling. ...

The Guitarist and the Rancher (1960)

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort. ...

Who is in the Background? (1959)

Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi plays an active role in the death of a divine ghost in a skillful disguise. Takuya Nikaido a ...

The Rambling Guitarist (1959)

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him. ...

The Wild Reporter (1959)

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then commit suicide, though Toshio was able to save the lives of their two children. Just transferred from Shimizu to Tok ...

Break Down that Wall (1959)

A man is wrongfully accused of murder. ...

Crazy Jailbreak (1959)

A prisoner escapes from prison to find the real criminal. ...