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Bullet Train AKA Shinkansen daibakuha (1975) Jun’ya Satô, Ken Takakura, Shin’ichi Chiba, Kei Yamamoto
One of the Japanese Shinkansen “Bullet Trains” is threatened with a bomb Read More »
Wandering Ginza Butterfly AKA Ginchô wataridori (1972) Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase
Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. Read More »
Head of the Boss AKA Shin jingi naki tatakai: Kumicho no kubi (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 »
An Actor’s Revenge AKA Yukinojô henge (1963) Kon Ichikawa, Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ayako Wakao
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across Read More »
Floating Clouds AKA Ukigumo (1955) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada
A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women Read More »
Unlucky Monkey AKA Anrakkî monkî (1998) SABU, Shin’ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroshi Shimizu, Akira Yamamoto
Yamazaki has spent a lot of time plotting a robbery of a local bank Read More »
They Say Nothing Stays the Same AKA Aru sendo no hanashi (2019) Joe Odagiri, Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijirô Murakami
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô (1973) Kinji Fukasaku, Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family Read More »
The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode AKA Jingi naki tatakai: Kanketsu-hen (1974) Kinji Fukasaku, Hiroko Fuji, Seizô Fukumoto, Gorô Ibuki
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization Read More »
The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September AKA Kugatsu no joudan kurabu bando (1982) Shunichi Nagasaki, Masato Furuoya, Sachiko Itô, Masao Matsuda
After the death of his friend Tetsuji, Ryo (Takashi Naito) and his biker gang drift apart. Read More »
The Japanese Belly Button AKA Nihonjin no heso (1977) Eizô Sugawa, Mako Midori, Akihiro Miwa, Hajime Hana
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss. Read More »
Gamblers and Racketeers AKA Bakuto tai tekiya (1964) Shigehiro Ozawa, Kôji Tsuruta, Hiroki Matsukata, Sumiko Fuji
It’s brother against brother and father against son in this all-star yakuza epic. Read More »
Preparation for the Festival AKA Matsuri no junbi (1975) Kazuo Kuroki, Jun Etô, Haruko Mabuchi, Hajime Hana
A young Japanese man comes to the realization that he must leave Read More »
Evil Spirits of Japan AKA Nippon no akuryo (1970) Kazuo Kuroki, Yôsuke Enomoto, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eiko Horii
Murase is a bodyguard in a yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student activist. Read More »