It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...
Priests from a temple solving problems caused by yakuza, taiwanese mafia and hitmen with their fists...
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, w...
Zoushu Hirate was the acting master of Chibashusaku Dojo in the Hokushinitto style. His wife was dea...
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his o...
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into de...
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, i...
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make...
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that ...
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...
Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriendin...
Three male gangsters are forced by their boss into becoming a trio of female pop singers.
Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to a...
Detective Tsukimoto kills his partner following a botched robbery and falls deep into debt and despa...