Tokyo Mafia: Wrath of the Yakuza

6.6

Yabuki’s old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza (Source: letterboxd)

The Dancing Yakuza Is Me !?

10.0

A movie adaptation of the popular performance of the theater company "Theater Baroque," The second Yakuza leader, dies suddenly, and new chief becomes Miyuki, a female college student, who is his daughter. However,…

Boss Fights to the Death at Dawn

After a long stint working in Alaska, Jiro returns to his hometown. He soon learns that his father, the town's mayor, was murdered and, in his absence, the yakuza gangs have seized control of the town. Jiro quickly…

Han Gure vs Yakuza

Han-gure is a new culture of criminal, not your typical Yakuza. They are ex-cons, delinquents, university grads drawn to crime, all sorts who eschew the ties and formalities of traditional organised crime and sound…

One More Night to Live

The story follows Yuta, an undocumented Filipino immigrant eking out an existence on the fringes of Japanese society. When his mother dies, he seeks to settle accounts with his estranged family and recover unpaid wages…

Between the White and Black Keys

6.8

The year is 1988, and the Showa period is coming to an end. At a yakuza-run cabaret bar in Ginza, Hiroshi, an aspiring jazz pianist, is asked by a mysterious man to play “The Godfather: Theme of Love.” The problem…

A Girl & Her Guard Dog

7.1

Being the granddaughter of a yakuza leader was only troublesome. Senagaki Isaku had difficulty navigating her life due to others fearing her for her background. Determined to have a normal high school life filled with…

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

7.2

Ryuzo and his 7 former henchmen are all retired yakuza, but they now live as regular old men. One day, Ryuzo becomes the victim of a phishing fraud. He calls his 7 men together to reform their society. (Source: AsianWiki)

Rise and Fall of Chivalry

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member. (Source: Letterboxd)

Furuta Arata

Furata has a broad range that goes from playing serious salarymen to bushi in period drama roles and women. He works with the theatrical troupe called Otona Keikaku and often with the troupe Gekidan Shinkansen. Furuta also stars in the 2007 horror film Apartment 1303. (Source: Wikipedia)

Ikeda Dai

Ikeda Dai is a Japanese actor and talent from Kanagawa prefecture. He belongs to Anore. He studied abroad in Ireland and had the experience of earning a living by DJing while studying. Ikeda debuted in the entertainment world in 2011 with the stage play "Crazy Honey". He has activities such as regular…

Ike Reiko

Ike's career was launched with the fourth entry in Toei's Hot Springs Geisha series, Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha (1971). A media frenzy erupted following the release of this film when Ike claimed to have lied about her age to gain a part in the movie. Claiming to have in fact been sixteen years of age…

Watanabe Chumei

Watanabe Chumei is a Japanese film and television score composer and orchestrator, who has also worked on tokusatsu shows and mecha anime. His son, Watanabe Toshiyuki, is a musician and composer, who also has scored films and anime series. For his work on anime, Watanabe Chumei received an Award of…

Lau Kar Wing

Lau Kar Wing is a martial artist, Hong Kong martial arts film director and actor, action choreographer and martial arts instructor. Born in Jiangmen of Guangdong Province, he came to Hong Kong in 1949. He is the fourth child of Lau Cham, a martial arts master who studied under Lam Sai Wing, pupil of…

Uchida Tomu

Uchida Tomu’s filmography spans two great filmmaking periods separated by a 15-year hiatus due to the war, although his output of primarily genre films and lack of an immediately obvious signature style has meant that he has been overshadowed by contemporaries such as Ozu Yasujirô, Naruse Mikio,…

Hara Izumi

Her mother died at the age of 10, and went to Tokyo at the age of 17 because she did notget along with her stepmother. Although initially she was taking advantage of her talent and joined Okamoto Kokage disciples of calligraphy. In order to earn the tuition, she joined the Tokyo Yanaka belong model…

Ito Koichi

Ito Koichi is a Japanese actor born in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture. He graduated from Kinjo Commercial School in 1925. In 1932, he joined Shochiku Kamata Photo Studio. He later moved to the Shochiku Ofuna studio and appeared as a supporting role in numerous works. After the end of the war, he transferred…

Oshima Nagisa

Nagisa Oshima was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His films include In the Realm of the Senses (1976), a sexually explicit film set in 1930's Japan, and Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), about Japanese WW2 prisoners of war. Nagisa Oshima's career extends from the initiation of the "Nuberu…

Fukuda Yasuhiko

Fukuda Yasuhiko is a Japanese composer born in Tokyo, Japan. He began playing piano at the age of 4. He graduated from Takeheya Senior High School in 1976 and began attending the Department of Literature at Waseda University in 1978. Graduating from Waseda in 1980, Fukuda went on to make his professional…