Akira Shioji

AKA: ジャパンアクションクラブ
1.9838

1928-01-09

Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {185}

1969-02-21 0

Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage

The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Matsukichi came to Yokosuka relying on his old friend ...
Genre :Action

Matsuya's guests

1963-06-30 0

Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, History

1969-05-03 8

Brothers Serving Time

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t re ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Yamada

1982-10-09 6.2

Fall Guy

Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a stuntman to make ends meet. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1976-06-19 5.7

The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II. ...
Genre :Crime

1960-11-29 5.2

Morning Breeze in Edo

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo. ...
Genre :

1972-01-15 0

Zorome no San Kyoudai

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their hometown, Nakano Village, after getting word of their ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1972-07-05 0

Sex, Gamble and Big Money

Genre :Comedy

1976-09-04 5.774

Oxen Split Torturing

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are capt ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

1962-01-31 7

Knightly Advice

Genre :

Mr. Fudo

1987-02-07 6.7

A Taxing Woman

Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

1972-08-25 0

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sug ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Kiichiro Kaihara

1976-05-29 5.5

Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug d ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1982-05-14 2

Indecent Family: Mother & Daughter

A rich retired middle-aged man is seduced by young bar dancer and she moves into his mansion. He enjoys his newfound girlfriend when her sexy mother shows up. The mother and daughter both proceed to s ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1967-05-03 0

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo

The second part of the Gamblers series. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1967-07-08 6

Gambler: Victory Without Death

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Yahachi Horii

1963-12-07 7.423

13 Assassins

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed u ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Action

1973-11-17 7

The Blossom and the Sword

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accompli ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1967-05-13 7.1

Samurai Wolf II

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautif ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1979-02-24 0

The Fighting Rascal

Genre :Comedy

Isamu Aratake

1969-11-08 0

Kanto Street Peddlers

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bos ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Daimon Daigoro

1971-02-13 0

Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiroshi Nawa, who at one point employs rebellious youn ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1965-05-22 7.8

Three Yakuza

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

1982-09-10 0

Goyou Sen Enjou

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

1961-06-17 6

The Spear of Heroism

Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The order has been sent from up on high that if Gennosu ...
Genre :

1962-01-03 8.5

Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Music

1959-09-20 6

Echo in the Mountains

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family ...
Genre :

1964-12-24 0

Gamblers and Racketeers

Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Detective A

1973-05-24 6.167

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escapin ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1967-02-24 8.7

Eighteen Years in Prison

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1970-07-04 5

Yukyo-retsuden

A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now has to confront the brother and some dirty local yakuza. ...
Genre :Drama

1975-10-14 4.2

Story of a Nymphomaniac

Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social posi ...
Genre :Drama

1961-10-14 7

Restoration Fire

Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. Excellent performances ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

1965-09-18 6.6

Blood of Revenge

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beaut ...
Genre :Action

1972-11-22 0

Hikage-Mono

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita ...
Genre :

Emperor Terror Macro

1981-03-13 5.8

Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie

The Dogma Kingdom attacks the Matagi (mountain tribe) village of Yamabiko to steal the sacred Flying Dragon Fortress and wreak havoc all over Japan. Six children from the fallen village take refuge in ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

1967-01-01 0

Watari and the Fantasticks

Based on Episodes 27 through 28, 33 through 35, Episode 37 and 39 of the 1967 Akakage TV Series "Upon learning of the evil general Yuri Danjo's rebellion, Oda Nobunaga rushes to Kyoto with a small for ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction

1961-07-09 5.2

The South Sea Wolf

Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a band of pirates who are also hunting the hidden stash. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1970-03-29 7

House of Gamblers

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the ...
Genre :Crime

Gô Ôwada

1974-11-22 5.5

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bandit

1962-05-01 7.4

The Mad Fox

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, bu ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Romance

1962-10-12 6

Mark of Blood

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil. ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

1968-08-14 5.9

Wicked Priest

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai inter ...
Genre :Drama

1962-05-09 0

Abekobe dōchū

Genre :

1967-11-23 5

Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf. ...
Genre :

1968-09-18 5

Enlisted Yakuza

It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the military and fight in China. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Genjin

1983-12-10 5.6

Legend of the Eight Samurai

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the ...
Genre :Fantasy, Adventure, Drama, Action

Tagawa

1980-03-29 0

Shinnyû Shain: (Maruhi) OL Ôoku Monogatari

Genre :

1965-08-25 0

The Kingdom of Jirocho 4

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang. ...
Genre :Drama

1965-08-12 6

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1991-08-31 9.5

Asian Beat: I Love Nippon

Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian countries, including Japan, compete to create the same protagonist (Masatoshi Nagase). The main character ...
Genre :

1974-08-10 0

Third Generation Boss

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan. ...
Genre :Crime

1964-04-04 7

Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man

Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in love with her. Yasaburo, the oyabun of the Nishikaw ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

1974-10-05 7

Code of Wolves

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1960-07-20 0

The Adventures of Jirokichi: A thousand coins

The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, the rebellious Jirokichi and three men, united by a sense of justice and love, confront an evil mercha ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1962-12-16 0

The Duel at the Satta Pass

A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young samurai chasing them, participate in a chaotic bloody battle for 4,000 gold coins that were stolen fr ...
Genre :

1969-04-10 6.2

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1960-04-26 0

Sunny and Cloudy Days

Genre :

1977-06-18 6

A Scream from Nowhere

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double lif ...
Genre :Thriller

1977-04-08 6

Nuns That Bite

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters en ...
Genre :Horror

1978-01-21 5.1

Puppets Under Starry Skies

A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant again. They share a predisposition for drug use a ...
Genre :Drama

1977-02-11 3.625

The General and His Empire of Joy

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds ...
Genre :Drama

1968-11-30 6.5

Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1981-05-09 7

Flames of Blood

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a gambler/bakuto). After he kills someone and gets ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Shiota

1975-04-26 5.964

Cops vs. Thugs

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on t ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1975-02-15 6.6

Graveyard of Honor

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Gambler

1974-12-28 5.4

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1969-08-13 6.6

Killer's Mission

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as ...
Genre :Action

1963-12-11 5.8

Sasuke and His Comedians

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action, Comedy

Priest

1973-04-28 7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitio ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1964-01-15 6.7

Warrior of the Wind

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find themselves at the center of an intrigue surrounding t ...
Genre :History, Drama

1966-03-05 6.2

The Magic Serpent

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magi ...
Genre :Fantasy, Action

Togiya Kosuke

1973-07-13 7.1

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, ...
Genre :Drama, Action

Hikojiro Aoki

1973-09-25 7

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

A Ghost

1961-05-27 7.3

Miyamoto Musashi

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and ...
Genre :History, Action, Drama

Toku

1970-03-05 6.3

Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1971-06-01 7.3

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villa ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1969-02-01 7

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and hono ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1976-04-24 6.9

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed i ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1975-11-01 7.176

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Cha ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1972-12-16 6.7

Eight Men to Kill

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despit ...
Genre :Action

1967-09-08 0

Black Ninja

Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period. ...
Genre :

Yoshizo

1977-01-22 6.2

Decapitation of an Evil Woman

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murd ...
Genre :Action

1971-08-13 5

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-06-25 5.7

Patience Has An End

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sushi shop proprietor

1977-12-24 0

The Extravagant Cops

Genre :Comedy

1971-10-01 6

Evil Boss vs. Henchmen

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety. ...
Genre :Crime

1974-03-01 0

Woman Mobsters

Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where sh ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1972-01-22 7

A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime group ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-01-23 6

Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take ove ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1969-12-27 6.5

Gambler's Legacy

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the de ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1973-05-12 7.5

The Hard Core Criminal

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the prisoners and the warden to escalate. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1969-10-16 7

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1974-12-07 6.667

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

1966-11-19 7.2

Samurai Wolf

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send agains ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Shoeshiner

1990-05-11 6.7

Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet

Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the task down, he will face the consequences for betra ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1963-12-01 7

Duel of Blood and Sand

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him into a small town besieged by a violent group of brig ...
Genre :Action

1974-07-04 6

The Karate Man and the Spy

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master. ...
Genre :

1966-07-09 6

Seven Gamblers

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys. ...
Genre :

1963-03-03 0

Five Ronins

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal. ...
Genre :

1978-06-03 6

The Okinawa War of Ten Years

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tri ...
Genre :Crime

1972-04-01 0

Lullaby for a Tough Guy

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards. ...
Genre :Drama

1972-10-12 0

Informal Dress

Genre :

1970-11-21 6

The Silk Hat Boss 2

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1964-09-05 7.5

The Ninja Hunt

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord. ...
Genre :Action

1973-08-11 0

Japan's Top Gangster

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang. This epic film is the first part of greatest true- ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1976-02-14 5.375

Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy

Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling! The female ninjas are sent undercover (sometimes under bed covers) to investigate the disappearance ...
Genre :Action

1972-05-26 7

Modern Lady Gambler

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she l ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1972-07-30 5

The Pledge

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-12-16 7.6

Eleven Samurai

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sente ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Juzo Onimaru

1967-08-12 6.5

Code Between Brothers 5

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Famil ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-10-10 3.8

Heiji, the Detective

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro. ...
Genre :Mystery

Shoujuu

1972-09-14 7

Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1960-10-30 7.2

Castle of Flames

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds to be mysterious circumstances, and his mother's ...
Genre :Drama

Banba thug

1969-07-31 6

Samurai Geisha

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story a ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1976-04-10 0

The Racketeer Ishimatsu

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero. ...
Genre :Comedy

1966-12-13 0

Golden Ninja

Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodst ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

1975-11-22 7.8

The Decisive Power of Aikido

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed aikido and where he has learned martial arts. ...
Genre :History, Action

Doctor

1983-07-08 4

Blue Rain Osaka

A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover. ...
Genre :Drama

Captain

1980-01-26 0

An Ocean to Cross

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the ...
Genre :History

1974-02-02 6.5

Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a ...
Genre :Action

Gozo Ebisawa

1981-04-03 2

Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe

Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The second one nets a boyfriend. The third one is a little ...
Genre :Comedy

1969-09-19 0

Team of Ruffians

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission. ...
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1964-09-05 6

Giant Rumble

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, ...
Genre :

1975-08-09 7

Company Buggers

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ...
Genre :Crime

1977-08-27 0

The Story of a Geisha

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan. ...
Genre :

1963-04-21 9

Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as t ...
Genre :Drama

1973-12-01 5.1

Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage

We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high school administration where institutionalized sexual ...
Genre :Crime

Satake

1973-01-13 5.3

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by sinister underworld thugs. After breaking free, the girls ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

1973-09-01 6

The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1989-01-28 0

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joji

1989-08-05 0

Dream Street

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka. ...
Genre :Comedy

1968-01-27 7

Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1972-06-21 0

The Brawling Angel

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1969-05-24 0

The Cross of Vengeance

Film with Junko Miyazono. ...
Genre :Action

1965-01-30 3.2

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own, none are connected other than starring the famous Ken ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Gold panner

1961-09-23 0

Whistling Drifter

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido. ...
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Merchant A

1962-01-14 6

Good Rascals

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives. ...
Genre :Comedy

1970-04-18 0

The Drifting Gambler

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series. ...
Genre :Crime

1960-05-29 6

Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them. ...
Genre :Drama

1964-12-12 6.8

Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1972-01-11 7.4

Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Elder Botan of the Moz Clan

1992-04-28 0

Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant God

The spirit of Princess Lena, the last emperor of the planet Lectorius who vanished 700 years ago, arrived on Earth as a sphere of light, seeking to inhabit the body of Tsushima Reina. Reina finds hers ...
Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Action

1971-04-28 0

Dagger

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Liang Dung-Yat

1974-02-02 6.797

The Street Fighter

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

1961-05-17 6

Bride of White Castle

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

1962-02-28 6

Sakura Official

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to fac ...
Genre :History, War

1976-02-28 5.4

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1975-03-01 0

The Viper Brothers and the Young General

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing thei ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1974-04-27 6

The Tattooed Hitman

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1963-09-29 0

Blind Wolf

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1962-02-14 0

A Warrior Generation

Genre :

1974-03-01 0

The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Kat ...
Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1960-05-17 6

Road Warriors

A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Ayame 's Gantaro, with the turbulent and exciting Wak ...
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Chan Myôkyû

1968-05-21 0

The Bandits

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Obake No Ichi

1968-12-28 5

Gambler Biography

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era. ...
Genre :Crime

1966-02-03 0

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown ...
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1972-03-04 6

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet tough geisha, becomes the b ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1979-07-04 0

Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya

Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He descends into alcoholism and starts an affair with O-hana, a maid carrying another man’s child. Togeth ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie, Drama

1965-02-25 8

The Tattooed Lord

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1962-11-02 0

Tengu Priest

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death. ...
Genre :

1966-07-21 6.3

Watari, the Ninja Boy

Adapted from Sanpei Shirato's classic manga, a legend unfolds as Watari, a young boy skilled in ninjutsu, takes on the corruption inside the Iga clan and avenges many unjustly killed ninja by the acts ...
Genre :Music, Adventure, Fantasy, Family

1966-04-13 7

The Protector

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the busines ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1971-12-03 0

The Man

Japanese movie. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1965-07-10 0

The Gambler

A crime film released in 1965 ...
Genre :Crime

1983-02-19 6.313

Amagi Pass

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held ...
Genre :Crime, Fantasy, Thriller

1960-01-09 0

Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return

Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to tak ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Aoki

1988-04-09 6

Gate of Flesh

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, ...
Genre :Drama

1963-06-09 0

Tenamonya Sandogasa

The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in Japan. Tokijiro is a fallen yakuza who is trying to mak ...
Genre :Comedy, Adventure

1961-07-09 0

20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Fisherman

1976-04-10 7

Karate Warriors

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1961-01-27 0

Obugyō-sama to musume-tachi

1961 Japanese movie ...
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1976-12-25 0

Truck Rascals in Fever Heat

The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. Momojiro goes to Shikoku thi ...
Genre :Comedy, Action, Romance

1960-04-26 0

照る日くもる日 后篇

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1962-01-03 0

Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

1961-04-26 0

怪人まだら頭巾

Genre :

1961-02-08 0

Ninjutsu Ōsaka-jō

1961 Japanese movie ...
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Yoshisuke Ōmura

1970-05-01 0

Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel

The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is ta ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1988-04-09 6

Gate of Flesh

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, ...
Genre :Drama

1974-12-21 7.1

The Yakuza

When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Hōan Tatara

1983-02-19 7

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Genre :Drama, Mystery

1981-04-07 0

Pro Hunter

Genre :Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime

1989-07-12 7.75

Onihei Hankachō

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes. ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Emperor Terror Macro

1980-10-17 10

Kamen Rider Super-1

Kazuya Oki volunteers to undergo cybernetic surgery in the International Space Development Program in the United States to become an astronaut who can survive in outer space without the need for a bul ...
Genre :

1969-10-05 0

Shirozukin Sanjo

An exciting historical drama depicting the activities of Dohaku Yatsushiro, who dares to confront the evil that makes the common people cry while helping the people of Ichii as a doctor, and as a myst ...
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