Fukumoto Seizo

Seizo Fukumoto is a Japanese actor. Born February 3, 1943, he entered acting at age 15 in Kyoto, the capital of Japanese cinema. A specialist in film and television jidaigeki set in the Edo period, he most often plays a ronin, but in his hundreds of appearances he has taken nearly every role. His forte…

Fukumoto Nobuyuki

Nobuyuki Fukumoto is a Japanese manga artist well known for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analyses of characters, and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English-speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related…

Yagi Masao

He was a Japanese pianist who became devoted to American jazz very early in the wave of Japanese jazz enthusiasm. He became a member of the Cozy Quartet in 1956 after Toshiko Akiyoshi's departure, playing alongside Sadao Watanabe. He was well-known as a composer and arranger and wrote copiously for…

Noguchi Takashi

Noguchi Takashi was a Japanese actor from Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture. After graduating from Toho Performing Arts School, he became Tsuruta Koji's attendant. After joining Toei, he appeared in many yakuza films starting in 1963. (Source: MyDramaList)

Aoshima Yukio

A Japanese politician who served as Governor of Tokyo from 1995 to 1999. He is also well-known as a TV actor, novelist, film director, screenwriter and songwriter. Yukio was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, in 1932. His father was an entrepreneur who had been running a bento catering business. He began writing…

Hino Shohei

Hino Shohei is a Japanese actor and singer born in Meguro-ku, Tokyo. He belongs to Seeds Management. He belongs to "Gekidan Komadori" from the age of 12. He debuted in 1962 on Fuji TV's "Shonen Tanteidan." In 1974, he made his movie appearance in "Ore no Chi was Tanin no Chi." Since 2011, he has been…

Aoyama Hikaru

Aoyama Hikaru is a Japanese gravure idol, model and actress, know for Futari Ecchi (2019) and Yakuza Kiwami 2.

Matsumura Yuki

Matsumura Yuki is a Japanese actor who has appeared in nine feature films, as well as a number of television series and theater productions. He is also a singer and has released eight albums and eight singles. He is represented with All-Stars Company. Matsumura was born in Bunkyo, Tokyo. While attending…

Endo Tatsuo

Endo Tatsuo was a Japanese actor born in Shimogyo, Kyoto, Japan. The eldest son in a family involved in manufacturing and selling confectionery machinery, Endo graduated from Kyoto City Commerce School and supported the family business while attending night classes at Karasuma Technical High School…

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…

Great Hunter GJ

An assassin called GJ is paid to kill a Yakuza crimelord. However, unknown to GJ, the criminal uses a double when he travels, and GJ mistakenly kills him. He now finds the entire Japanese and Russian underworlds want…

Dynamite Dondon

1.0

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyushu Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it…

Haruo

10.0

“Haruo” tells the story of a Yakuza member (Jacky Woo) hoping to get a new lease on life in Manila but whose past eventually catches up with him. (Source: ABS-CBN)

Double Drive: Ookami no Okite

6.7

Aberu kills the yakuza Shikijo. Shikijo was cruel to Aberu’s colleagues. Aberu is closer to them than his own family. He visits Daiji, who was close to him when he was in the juvenile hall. Daiji now leads the gang…

Love Song

To promote singer Fujisaki Hana, her manager Take tricks a yakuza gang into supplying stimulant drugs. When his scheme is uncovered, Take is brutally murdered by gangster Kusumi. In his final message, Hana discovers…

Birth of a Fighter

4.0

A young boss proves his right to rule his yakuza gang and dares to challenge an abusive family that afflicts innocent people.

Tokyo Rampage

7.0

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning,…

Zatoichi the Fugitive

7.3

A yakuza gang targets the blind masseur Zatoichi after he defeats their group in a wrestling match. Meanwhile, a long lost love of Zatoichi returns to his life.

Kamikaze Girls

7.7

Momoko yearns to be part of the Rococo aristocracy. A shame then, as she was born two centuries too late. Ardent loner, Momoko was born into the Yakuza heartland. She feels, however, more at home in Versaille than…