The Front Line Showdown

Imprisoned on charges of desertion and insubordination, Omiya and Arita still refuse to give up their attempt to escape the army. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Heitai Yakuza" (兵隊やくざ) by…

The River of Fury

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the 1840s. The battle between Boss Sukegoro of Iioka and Boss Shigezo of…

Nuclear Gypsies

8.0

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother…

Gozu

7.1

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious…

Shizukanaru Don Part 1

7.5

The new president of the Shinsengumi organized crime group is Shizuya Kondo, an office worker! Shizuya, who reluctantly became the president, started a design company in order to realize a peaceful world without yakuza…

Mou Yuukai Nante Shinai

7.4

Tarui Shotaro, a part-time worker who once dreamed of being a hero, gets caught up in a bizarre plot when a yakuza boss’s daughter asks him to stage her fake kidnapping. With the help of his co-worker, he dives into…

Like a Dragon

6.8

In the sweltering heat of Tokyo summer, the night begins with a hapless bank robbery and the disappearance of ten million yen belonging to the Tojo gang. Meanwhile, yakuza Majima Goro, decked in a gold suit and with…

Wiseguy

Japanese who were thrown into poverty and disorder after Japan's defeat in the war lived on desire from the years of rapid economic growth to the crash of the bubble economy. In one corner, Ito has always gone against…

The Stars and I Decided...

Kenji, a fourth-degree kendo champion and university champion, is about to face off against the powerful Saburo in the upcoming All Japan Championships. Kenji's older brother Akira had invented a motorboat engine capable…

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Shinoda Masahiro

Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…

Kurosawa Hisako

Kurosawa Hisako was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist, but was drawn to screenwriting, where she found early success with Tokyo Noir (2004), Finger (2006) and Show Me A Beautiful Night (2007).…

Brian Tee

Jae-bum Takata, known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-American actor. Tee was born in Okinawa, to a Korean-American father and Japanese mother. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where…

Suzuki Seijun

Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically…

Kogawa Iori

Kogawa Iori is a Japanese actress and AV idol from Osaka. She is represented by AV production company T-Powers. She showed off her hair nude with traditional Chinese bookbinding in the magazine Friday released on 2 November 2012 and debuted from SOD Create from "Iori Kogawa AV Debut" released on 8 November…

Yamashiro Shingo

Yamashiro Shingo was a Japanese television and film actor. Yamashiro, who was originally from Kyoto, Japan, was born Watanabe Yasuji but used Yamashiro Shingo as his stage name. He made his film acting debut in 1957. Yamashiro starred in the television series Hakuba Doji, beginning in 1960. During the…

Tajima Yoshibumi

In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…

Nagisa Mayumi

Nagisa Mayumi is a Japanese actress and singer. She was born in Tokyo. After dropping out of high school, she made her debut in 1961 in the film Yuyake Ko yake no Akatonbo. She went sold out as Daiei Film's fresh star. Her stage name, "Nagisa Mayumi", was named by composer Yamada Kosaku. She appeared…