Shirō Yanase Movies

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A 1971 crime film

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

Gangsters smuggle diamonds through customs by embedding them in The Spiders' tambourine, then go on a cross-country chase of the rock-and-roll band...

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...