Franchise
Gyangu Collection
11 films in release order.
6.3A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Flower, Storm and Gangster
1961
7.0Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
All Rascals
1962
7.3The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
Gang vs. Gang
1962
7.5Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
Gang vs. G-Men
1962
10.0Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.
Eleven Gangsters
1963
10.0A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers
1963
8.0A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
League of Gangsters
1963
5.7A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1964
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Gang's Upward Strategy
1965
9.0The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
King of the Gang
1967