A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi...

A good-natured, but a useless man who loves horse racing and spends all of his family's precious mon...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Wa...

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the polic...

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...

Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of a...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...