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King of Sha-kin 4
6.0
Year:
1998
King of Sha-kin 3
6.0
Year:
1998
King of Sha-kin
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.7.0
Year:
1997
Mad Dog
A beast awakens within ordinary office worker Hirose when his wife is abducted by yakuza. Full of wild charm and full-scale martial arts action!0.0
Year:
1994
The Fighting King 2
An even more radical battle takes place!0.0
Year:
1994
The Fighting King
A drama filled battle that goes beyond acting unfolds!0.0
Year:
1994
Dark Society in the East
A story about the activities of Southeast Asian Mafia gangs in Shinjuku. Ryosuke Kano is an ex French Foreign Legion soldier and is now a cocaine smuggler and dealer. He is acquainted with Larry, a Japanese American, but he turned out to be an undercover cop from New York.6.5
Year:
1993
Nakibokuro
Junko Mizuta, who is returning from juvenile training school, is a former motorcycle gang. Even though he now works, he still goes to his father Junji's yakitori restaurant from time to time. One day, Junichi's uncle, who was returning home from school, came to see Junko and told him that Junji had passed away.0.0
Year:
1991
Lonely Hitman
There are men in this world who seem to have been born to be a villain. His upbringing, his sexuality, everything about him was suited to being in the criminal world. However, he also had a loving wife and children. This is the story of a man who throws himself into a deadly struggle on the front lines of a huge violent war, while at the same time seeking the happiness of his family as a good husband and father.0.0
Year:
1989
Love on a Daily Basis
The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.1.0
Year:
1988
Crazy Boys
Tamotsu Iwaki (Masaya Kato), also known as "The Dandruff Cancer," was admitted to a juvenile training school in the summer when he was 18 years old after being hit with dirt on his car. At first he is at odds with Ginji (Shinobu Sakagami) and others, but eventually a friendship develops between them. One day, Gan escapes, falls in love with a beautiful girl, Kanako, whom he met at his friends' apartment, and attacks her in an elevator, but is captured again. After being discharged from the hospital, Gan meets Kanako again, and although they are repulsed by each other, they become attracted to each other.0.0
Year:
1988
Those Swell Yakuza
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.6.0
Year:
1988
Double Rope Torture
Two sisters are captured by a bounty hunter for an S&M nightclub .3.5
Year:
1985
The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado
Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that large amounts of money are being diverted to somewhere else. Yoshibei, a former official secret-head accepts the job and recruits three skilled Karadogumi… Nanikiri, Hayashi, and Kumonryo. In Sado, where the four infiltrate, the magistrate Okubo Hitachi Mamoru who plans to overthrow the shogunate is trying to buy a large number of firearms from Russia.0.0
Year:
1983
The Blazing Valiant
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout most of Jo's life. Once the funeral was over, he missed the boat that was going to take him back home, and, because of an altered itinerary, he ends up stopping in a town for awhile -- striking up an acquaintance with a teenager and her grandfather when he captures their runaway horse. He would have been glad to leave after the proper amenities were completed, but the girl's journalist brother is murdered -- he was getting too close to wrapping a major news story. At that point, Jo and a friend cannot easily drop the matter as though nothing had occurred, and the two start to track down the source of the trouble -- a factory that makes poison gas for Third World buyers. Now their task is to dismantle the operation, prevent one train shipment from arriving at a transfer point, and find the journalist's killer.5.0
Year:
1981
Nun Story: Frustration in Black
A pious woman takes her vows but discovers that the nunnery is awash in sin and perversity.3.7
Year:
1980
The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.5.0
Year:
1979
Rope and Skin
Okoma (literally, Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.6.2
Year:
1979
The Okinawa War of Ten Years
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.6.0
Year:
1978
Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon
Duke Togo (codename: Golgo 13) is a ruthless assassin who's accepted a tricky assignment from an American drug syndicate. His mission is to "rub out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His main obstacle is the relentless Detective 'Smitty' Smith, determined to stop Togo no matter the cost. The result is an explosive adventure through the seamy, violent streets of Hong Kong.5.4
Year:
1977
Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.4.3
Year:
1977
The Smart Aleck Ten
Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.0.0
Year:
1977
Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
0.0
Year:
1976
The Yakuza Code Still Lives
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.7.0
Year:
1976
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.5.6
Year:
1976
The Racketeer Ishimatsu
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.0.0
Year:
1976
Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling! The female ninjas are sent undercover (sometimes under bed covers) to investigate the disappearance of a gold chest.6.0
Year:
1976
A Cheerful Yakuza
0.0
Year:
1976
The Killing Machine
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. Soh builds up his school on the island of Shikoku.5.3
Year:
1976
Scoundrel Boss
0.0
Year:
1975
The International Gang of Kobe
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.5.7
Year:
1975
Detonation: Violent Riders
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.8.0
Year:
1975
The Murder Corps
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.0.0
Year:
1975
Pimp Heaven
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.1.0
Year:
1975
Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.6.4
Year:
1974
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
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 when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.0.0
Year:
1974
Reformatory Buddies
Third film in the series.0.0
Year:
1974
The Great Adventures of Kikansha Yaemon D51
An old train engine endeavors to be useful despite the more modern transportation now available in the big city. The story was taken from a highly popular storybook series. Traditionally animated movie Toei based on a bestseller picture book by Agawa Hiroyuki, illustrated by Okabe Fuyuhiko and published in 1959 by Iwanami Shoten Publishing.5.0
Year:
1974
Woman Mobsters
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where she meets Yuki, and the two of them manage to escape. Their plan is meet up with the robber who avoided capture, get ahold of the cash, and get for away from the big city.0.0
Year:
1974
Young Oh ! Oh !
0.0
Year:
1973
The Incident at Takanodai
0.0
Year:
1973
Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his henchmen.0.0
Year:
1973
The School Deviate Waru
0.0
Year:
1973
Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
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 looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.8.0
Year:
1972
Delinquent Boss: Devour to the Bone
This is the Sixteenth 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…0.0
Year:
1972
Shōwa Gokudōshi
0.0
Year:
1972
Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
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…6.0
Year:
1972
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
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 to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.6.6
Year:
1972
Delinquent Street
0.0
Year:
1972
Wolves of the City: First to Fight
Pinku from 1971.0.0
Year:
1971
Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
This is the Twelfth 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…0.0
Year:
1971
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
This is the thirteenth film in the series.0.0
Year:
1971
Kigeki Toruko-buro Osho-sen
A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite trying his hand at various jobs, success eludes him, and he unexpectedly ends up in Osaka's Shinimamiya district. With empty pockets, he stumbles upon an invitation to the 'Gokuraku Toruko' establishment, becoming a patron. Led by the enchanting Ibohachi, he becomes entangled with the charismatic hostesses, including the captivating Tama. This leads him to infiltrate Tama's apartment complex, Sakura-so. Within its walls reside a colorful cast of characters, from hostesses Chie, Akemi, Yukari, and Kayoko to the quirky parasites like Masao, Tetsuo, Arima, and more. Seeking a fresh start, He embarks on a journey as a 'parasite,' but things take unexpected turns...0.0
Year:
1971
Wolves on Motorcycles
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.0.0
Year:
1971
Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger
Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation.0.0
Year:
1971
The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.0.0
Year:
1971
The Swindlers
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".0.0
Year:
1970
Hooligans on Buggies
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.0.0
Year:
1970
Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô
0.0
Year:
1970
Fugitive Scoundrel
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty daughter to have a crush on. Enter protective Bunta Sugawara and Gokudo’s gotta settle for a cheaper Toei nude actress.0.0
Year:
1970
Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.0.0
Year:
1970
The Japan Derby Race
A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.0.0
Year:
1970
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.0.0
Year:
1970
A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!0.0
Year:
1970
Wolves of the City: Checkmate
This is the sixth 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…0.0
Year:
1970
Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.0.0
Year:
1969
Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
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 capture all power in their hands.0.0
Year:
1969
Team of Ruffians
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.0.0
Year:
1969
Wolf Escort
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.0.0
Year:
1969
Daring Girls
Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.8.0
Year:
1969
The Bad Boss 3
A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.0.0
Year:
1969
Yakuza on Foot
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.5.0
Year:
1969
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Hidejuro 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 tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...7.5
Year:
1969
Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…7.0
Year:
1969
The Yakuza Awaits
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama0.0
Year:
1969
Enlisted Yakuza
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the military and fight in China.5.0
Year:
1968
Return of the Outlaw
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama0.0
Year:
1968
The Bad Boss
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.0.0
Year:
1968
The Marked Man
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.0.0
Year:
1968
Scoundrel
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.6.0
Year:
1968
North Sea Chivalry
Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the northern regions.0.0
Year:
1967
The Chivalrous Life
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.7.0
Year:
1967
Dissolution Rites
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 the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.6.0
Year:
1967
Wild Spirit
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.0.0
Year:
1967
Nerves for Victory
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.6.0
Year:
1966
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge...6.0
Year:
1966
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
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.7.0
Year:
1966
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.7.1
Year:
1965
Invitation to the Enchanted Town
Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku".0.0
Year:
1961
Ghost of the Pearl Divers
7.2
Year:
1960
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he know that he's walking straight into a trap set up by his boss, Asanuma and his murderous right hand man. The next day Kizaki finds himself framed for the murder of the company president, and the robbing of the company safe. Natsuki innocently waves goodbye to her loved ones as the boat sails only find herself caught in Asanuma's evil scheming and the object of his lust. In a desperate attempt to escape, she falls to the watery depths. When we next see her she has washed ashore like a siren in the nude on a deserted island inhabited by five castaways who fight each other for her. She learns there's a rich wealth of clams underwater and eventually comes into a large fortune in pearls. Once rescued, she returns to Japan with revenge on her mind.6.0
Year:
1956