Tag Archives: Jô Shishido

Mitsu (Sakai Miki) meets Yoshioka (Watabe Atsuro) on Christmas and spends the night with him. Read More »

After stopping a pickpocket on his job, Yukiko gets drawn into a high-stakes game of the Yakuza clans in her father’s home town. Read More »

Taki (Kobayashi), a wandering, singing cowboy, comes upon a village in Hokkaido Read More »

The 3rd film of the famous “Wataridori” (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. Read More »

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine Read More »

The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss who’s gotten greedy. Read More »

A uniformly excellent, no-no-nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage. Read More »

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. Read More »

Jimmy Wang Yu stars in his first major modern-day role, in the same year he revolutionized martial arts cinema in One-Armed Swordsman. Read More »

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa’s sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. Read More »