When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »
Tag Archives: Kinji Fukasaku
The Proud Challenge AKA Hokori takaki chosen (1962) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tetsurô Tanba, Hitomi Nakahara
As the film begins, Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. Read More »
Bloodstained Clan Honor AKA Chi-zome no daimon (1970) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Kôji Tsuruta
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market Read More »
Violent Panic: The Big Crash AKA Bôsô panikku: Daigekitotsu (1976) Kinji Fukasaku, Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. Read More »
Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards
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 »
Blackmail Is My Life AKA Kyôkatsu koso waga jinsei (1968) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroki Matsukata, Tomomi Satô, Shinjirô Ehara
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »
Cops vs. Thugs (1975) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Endô, Seizô Fukumoto
Acting boss Hirotani of the Ohara gang uses his friendship with corrupt cop Kuno to usurp a staged land deal Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki
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 »
A Chaos of Flowers (1988) Kinji Fukasaku, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Keiko Matsuzaka, Ken Ogata
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Read More »
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 »