Tag Archives: Jô Shishido

Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. Read More »

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 »