Acting
Mitsuhiko Kurosu
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Acting
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43 titles
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No synopsis available yet.
Gunkoku sakaba
1958
6.3Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Blind Woman's Curse
1970
NRA coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.
I loved you, loved you, loved you so much
1966
NRMineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group has retaliated by killing its leader and seizing territory. Upon his release, he embarks on a revenge campaign.
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969
NR1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie
Biographies of Killers
1969
NRThis story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.
Tsuma koso waga inochi
1957
Film credits
1970s · 2 titles
6.3Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
Blind Woman's Curse
1970
6.0A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
1970
1960s · 22 titles
NRA coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.
I loved you, loved you, loved you so much
1966
NRMineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group has retaliated by killing its leader and seizing territory. Upon his release, he embarks on a revenge campaign.
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969
NR1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie
Biographies of Killers
1969
6.6In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
Gate of Flesh
1964
6.7Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Cruel Gun Story
1964
7.0Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
Fighting Elegy
1966
5.9Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
Retaliation
1968
6.7Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji
1963
6.8Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Outlaw: Heartless
1968
7.0Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
1968
NRA film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.
Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966
NR1962 Japanese movie
Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami
1962
6.5Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
The Man with a Shotgun
1961
10.01962 Japanese movie
Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
1962
NRA deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Love Eternal
1966
NR1967 Japanese movie
Rusty Pendant
1967
8.0Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!
Season of Tears
1969
5.8Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
The Call of Blood
1964
NR1962 Japanese movie
A Torrent of Life
1962
NRBastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.
Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Wings of Dawn
1960
1950s · 14 titles
No synopsis available yet.
Gunkoku sakaba
1958
NRThis story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.
Tsuma koso waga inochi
1957
7.1Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.
The Blue Sky Maiden
1957
Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice to expose the smuggling and the prostitution.
Dai san hijōsen
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mashiroki Fuji no mine
1954
NRA high school student who loves detective stories finds himself transporting a woman’s body in the middle of the night. A hilarious thriller about a group of six close friends who form a “Murder Club”.
Kōkōsei to satsujinhan
1956
7.6In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.
Fires on the Plain
1959
6.9Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.
Punishment Room
1956
9.0Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.
The Precipice
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chūzaisho nikki
1957
NRA silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished expression of a woman twisted by torment.
Toki no teizo: Sōshūban
1952
NRA youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart of a girl whose eyes are filled with pure love!
Training Ship of Yearning
1956
7.1Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Giants and Toys
1958
9.0A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.
The Lowest Man
1958
1940s · 5 titles
While a music festival was in an uproar over the theft of a prized instrument, a massive music event organized by a gang of orphaned punks was held with great fanfare in the basement of a burned-out building.
Nusumarekaketa ongakusai
1946
NRThe sincere, selfless love of a foolish mother for her daughter set against the backdrop of the circus.
Haha kōbai
1949
1946 Japanese movie.
Ojōsama o te o
1946
No synopsis available yet.
Port of Tears
1949
NRMysterious incidents occur one after another on the express train as it plows through the dark night on the railroad tracks! The first woman is robbed! The second woman is almost killed! The third woman attempts suicide!
Woman on the Night Train
1947
