Isayama Hiroko

Isayama Hiroko, a Japanese actress and writer born in Fukuoka, Japan, graduated from Fukuoka Jogakuin High School before pursuing a career in acting. Moving to Tokyo in 1971, she trained at the Actor's Studio attached training institute and made her film debut in 1972 with "Play of White Fingers" (白い指の戯れ).…

Taichi Kiwako

Taichi Kiwako, also known by her stage name Shimura Taeko, was a Japanese actress born in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan. She was separated from her biological mother shortly after birth and adopted by her foster parents, a fact she discovered during high school. Kiwako attended Ushigome Nakano Elementary School,…

Nanaumi Nana

Nanaumi Nana is a Japanese actress, talent, singer, former gravure idol, and former adult film actress from Nagano, Japan. She was previously affiliated with Prime Agency/Rokahi Management and became a freelancer on June 1, 2023. Nana made her gravure debut in May 2007, appearing in the magazine Bejean…

Kimura Daisaku

Daisaku Kimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a cinematographer (over 50 credits) and a director, known mainly for: "Samurai's Promise" (2018), "Memory" (2017), "The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity" (2009). He worked as the Assistant Cameraman on many of Kurosawa Akira’s movies from "The…

Sakurai Takeharu

Sakurai Takeharu is a Japanese screenwriter and producer, born in Tokyo, Japan. Occasionally works under his pseudonym "Takeshi Iida" (飯田武), mostly when referring to original creations and drafts.

Hamada Torahiko

Hamada Torahiko was a Japanese actor born in Nahari Town, Aki District, Kobe Prefecture. He graduated from Waseda University [Faculty of Letters. Hamada belonged to the Haiyuza Theater Company. After working as a research student at the mobile theater company Mizuho Theater Company, he joined the theater…

Chujo Shizuo

Chujo Shizuo was a Japanese actor. He died on October 5, 1994, due to liver cancer.

Osman Yusef

Osman Yusuf was a Turkish actor from the Ottoman Empire who lived and worked in Japan. He moved to Japan before World War II and obtained permanent residency. Yusuf was notable for his fluency in Japanese, which allowed him to act in films and television programs. He played a significant role in the…

Arthur Kuroda

Arthur Kuroda was born on February 1, 1961 in San Francisco, California, USA. Arthur Kuroda was the oldest actor to portray a Kamen Rider (he was 38 years old at the time of filming) until Hiroyuki Watanabe was cast as Gaoh/Kamen Rider Gaoh in Kamen Rider Den-O the Movie: I'm Born! At age 51, followed…

Shimozawa Kan

Shimozawa Kan was a Japanese novelist from Atsuta-mura, Atsuta-gun, Hokkaido. He won the 10th Kikuchi Kan Prize in 1962. At the recommendation of his grandfather, he went on to Hakodate Government Commercial School but dropped out because the school was burned by the Great Fire of Hakodate in 1907,…

Kyuchan Draws His Sword

A laid-back man tries to become a member of the yakuza.

Like A Shooting Star

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes…

Red Peony Gambler 2: Gambler's Obligation

6.8

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town's businesses, murders him, Oryu…

Another Lonely Hitman

8.3

Yakuza gunman, Tachibana is released from prison after serving a 10-year sentence to find that his former gang is not nearly as respected as it once was. To make things worse, his wife has settled down with another…

King of Sha-kin 2

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Guitarist from the Sea

4.0

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling. (Source: Letterboxd)

Jesus Is My Boss

3.0

Two men are pushed to the edge in a bloody Yakuza war. Two factions, the Sansekai and the Isamikai decide to join sides. But their mutual rival, the Nakamori faction decides to give an unexpected visit to the celebration…

Sympathy for the Underdog

7.4

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

GONIN

7.4

A team of five men plot to steal money from the Yakuza, but their plan quickly unravels and they end up on the run from hitmen themselves.