Acting

Tetsuya Kigawa

Acting credits

Violent Fraternity poster
8.0

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Violent Fraternity

1974

All Rascals poster
7.0

Ishihama 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

Thugs of Shinjuku poster
9.0

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

Thugs of Shinjuku

1970

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

1961

The Bodyguard poster
5.1

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

The Bodyguard

1973

Violent Streets poster
6.7

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Violent Streets

1974

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder poster
6.8

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

1972

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers poster
6.8

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

1972

Prison Boss poster
7.7

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Prison Boss

1968

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police poster
5.6

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate poster
6.4

An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

1970

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers poster
10.0

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

1969

Devotion to Railway poster
7.0

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

Devotion to Railway

1960

Game of Chance poster
6.5

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...

Game of Chance

1966

The Private Police poster
7.5

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.

The Private Police

1969

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

1967

The Ando Gang Documentary Film poster
6.5

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

1973

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town poster
6.5

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

1969

Hell's Kitchen poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Hell's Kitchen

1962

A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw poster
6.7

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.

A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw

1969

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind poster
NR

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

1961

Organized Violence II poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Organized Violence II

1967

Parole poster
9.0

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Parole

1967

Woman His Prey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman His Prey

1972