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.
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami...
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...
In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tok...
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherto...
A group of mercenaries hired as contract killers are hunted down by the Mafia, the Yakuza, the Russi...
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...
In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is ...
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate aff...
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous ...
Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a J...
At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused a...
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shi...
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mount...
Shimazu Clan's third-generation boss, Tetsuo Sakuragi (Yasukaze Motomiya), and his sworn brother, Ke...
Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and s...