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Family (2001) Takashi Miike, Ken’ichi Endô, Kôjirô Hongô, Naoko Inoue
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Read More »
Delinquent Boss – Ocho, the She Wolf (1969) Yukio Noda, Tatsuo Umemiya, Shin’ichi Chiba, Shigeru Katsumi
Hiroshi and his biker buddies get out of jail and start a human trafficking ring but a local yakuza group puts a stop to their business. Read More »
Velvet Hustler (1967) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Ruriko Asaoka, Jô Shishido
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. Read More »
The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass (1961) Seijun Suzuki, Kôji Wada, Mayumi Shimizu, Nobuo Kaneko
A carnivalesque tale of a young student who hooks up with a down-at-heels traveling circus troupe. Read More »
Seventh Code (2013) Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Atsuko Maeda, Ryôhei Suzuki, Aissy
Akiko travels to Vladivostok Russia to meet Matsunaga who she first met in Tokyo and is unable to forget. Read More »
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu (1965) Daisuke Itô, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Kin’ya Kitaôji, Takahiro Tamura, Kei Yamamoto
From one of the most important forces in Japanese filmmaking, Ito Daisuke, comes the biography of the greatest Warlord in Japan’s history. Read More »
Hissatsu!: Sure Death! (1984) Masahisa Sadanaga, Makoto Fujita, Kunihiko Mitamura, Izumi Ayukawa
A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. Read More »
Daredevil in the Castle (1961) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yuriko Hoshi
Mohei is a wandering swordsman. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him Read More »
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002) Takashi Miike, Riki Takeuchi, Ryôsuke Miki, Ken’ichi Endô
After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered Read More »
Apart from Life (1970) Kei Kumai, Mizuho Suzuki, Hiroko Kino, Mugihito
Dr. Unan is asked to treat a young girl with A-bomb disease symptoms but her mother Read More »
964 Pinocchio (1991) Shozin Fukui, Haji Suzuki, Onn-chan, Kôji Ôtsubo
Pinocchio 964, lobotomised cyborg sex slave, is thrown out onto the street by his owners Read More »
Deathquake (1980) Kenjirô Ohmori, Hiroshi Katsuno, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Yumi Takigawa
Seizmologist Hoichi loses touch with his family when he predicts that there will be an earthquake in Tokyo Read More »
V Madonna War (1985) Genji Nakamura, Yukari Usami, Kozue Saito, Rikako Murakami
Hope Hill High, a Japanese school which struggles with a relentless biker gang from a rival school called the the Yagyu. Read More »
Spy Sorge (2003) Masahiro Shinoda, Iain Glen, Masahiro Motoki, Kippei Shîna
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outbreak of World War II Read More »