Tag Archives: Kinji Fukasaku

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »

As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market Read More »

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »

This dramatic retelling of the Pearl Harbor attack details everything in the days that led up to that tragic moment in American history. Read More »

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »

Acting boss Hirotani of the Ohara gang uses his friendship with corrupt cop Kuno to usurp a staged land deal Read More »

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power. Read More »

Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »

Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss Read More »

When Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Read More »

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong Read More »

Three old gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. Read More »

Conflicts between Hirono’s family and Yamamori’s family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police’s efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs. Read More »