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Tag Archives: Kinji Fukasaku
Last Days of the Boss (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Isao Bitô, Takeo Chii
Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss Read More »
Crest of Betrayal (1994) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôichi Satô, Saki Takaoka, Keiko Oginome
When Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Read More »
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Nobuo Kaneko
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »
Head of the Boss (1975) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi
Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong Read More »
Triple Cross (1992) Kinji Fukasaku, Ken’ichi Hagiwara, Kazuya Kimura, Keiko Oginome
Three old gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
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 »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight In Hiroshima (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Shin’ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up Read More »
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Crime, Drama
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses. Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki, Action, Crime, Drama
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 »
The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase, Action, Drama
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate. Read More »
Hokuriku dairi sensô / Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Yumiko Nogawa, Mikio Narita, Action, Crime, Drama
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history Read More »
Battle Royale / Batoru rowaiaru (2000) Kinji Fukasaku, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
With school children all over the country growing increasingly delinquent, the Japanese government takes decisive action and introduces the Battle Royale Act. Read More »
The Green Slime (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Robert Horton, Luciana Paluzzi, Richard Jaeckel, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. Read More »
Graveyard of Honor / Jingi no hakaba (1975) Kinji Fukasaku, Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumi Takigawa, Action, Crime
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter.
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