Tag Archives: Kinji Fukasaku

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent Read More »

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises Read More »

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area’s yakuza mob Read More »

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. Read More »

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market Read More »

Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye Read More »

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other. Read More »

A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang. Read More »

When Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Read More »

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. Read More »

Three old gangsters pull off one last heist to raise much-needed cash for their various debts. Read More »

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Read More »

A military-engineered virus, released during a plane crash, kills the entire human population. Read More »

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong Read More »

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family Read More »