Tōru Abe Movies

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by yakuza. His life is spared by Boss...

A love melodrama.

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses...

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...

Following the unexpected death of her father, stage actress Emi Ikushima has to navigate the pitfalls of her rising fame and her increasingly...

1951 Japanese movie

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The...

The "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayahsi) smashes a counterfeiting ring. Second in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

A unique and controversial film directed by Umeji Inoue, based on the original story by Shintaro Ishihara, which depicts the image of a group of...

Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwellers from a piece of land the gangsters wish to...

Pinku from 1971.