Shirō Yanase Movies

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when pursued by the angry gang. They eventually meet again...

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

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

1962 Japanese movie

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film...

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

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

A young yakuza just released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, a police inspector determined to clean up the corruption in his own hometown,...

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the...

Japanese crime film

1962 Japanese movie

A 1960 crime film

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught in a conflict between two...