It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and performer Kataoka Koshin is reaching its climax when the Tawaraya family interferes... This is an entertaining action film bursting with righteousness and humanity, centred on men who try to live righteously against a corrupt boss who preys on the performers.
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the s...
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
The stage of this work is Saitama, a suburb of Tokyo in the early Heisei period. Immediately after t...
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza...
Genji Sokabe (Hakuryu) is a legendary hit-man who has just finished a 15-year prison stretch for kil...
In a continuation of "Utopia: Midnight Story, White Flower Bud" Haruka Ichijou follows through in he...
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens...
Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's...
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinaw...
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shi...