Shin Takakuwa

The Pleasures of a Motel

Pinku from 1973.

The Pleasures of a Motel

Pinku from 1973.

The Horrible Obsessions

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.

The Horrible Obsessions

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.

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

Sex Up And Down

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.

Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger

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

Thugs of Shinjuku

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss

Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.

Japan's Violent Gangs: Degenerate Boss

Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his former brother attempts a hostile take over.

Japan Organized Crime Boss

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 the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.

Secret Information

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.

New Year Trip

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Yanagase Blues

Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

An Outlaw

Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.