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 tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza an...

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...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

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

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea ...

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