Shirō Yanase Movies

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

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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

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.

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...

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...

A 1971 crime film

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...