Kishida Shin

Kishida Shin was a Japanese actor, best known for his memorable supporting roles in films and television series. Kishida Shin was born at Kawakita General Hospital in Asagaya, Suginami, Tokyo. His uncle was playwright Kunio Kishida, and actress Kyoko Kishida and children's author Eriko Kishida were…

Nakamura Shido II

Born in Tokyo, the son of Kabuki actor Nakamura Shido I, young Nakamura made his Kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shido the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor…

Masumura Yasuzo

Masumura was born in Kōfu, Yamanashi. He would become known as a maverick director whose main legacy was films portraying and promoting individualism, which was the opposite of the norm in Japanese society. He entered the law department of Tokyo University, but his studies were interrupted when he…

Kobayashi Shigeo

Shigeo Kobayashi is a Japanese actor. Born and raised in Tokyo, Kobayashi worked on over 80 films, theatrical productions and TV drama series. In 2008, he played the leading role in a short film "Todai (the Light House)" a part of Otokotachi no Uta. His most recent work includes the role of a Japanese…

Ishii Takashi

A sometime manga artist, Ishii entered the film industry as a writer, scripting Roman Porno at Nikkatsu for such directors as Chūsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Shun Nakahara, and Shinji Sōmai. Many of his scripts were based on his own manga Angel Guts(Tenshi no harawata), which Nikkatsu adapted into a series,…

Gosha Hideo

Gosha Hideo was a Japanese film director born in Arasaka, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from high school and served in the Imperial Navy during the Second World War. After earning a business degree at Meiji University, he joined Nippon Television as a reporter in 1953. In 1957, he moved on to…

Itami Juzo

Juzo Itami, born Yoshihiro Ikeuchi, was a Japanese actor, screenwriter and film director. He directed eleven films, all of which he wrote himself. The son of Mansaku Itami, prewar director of satiric jidai-geki, Jūzō worked initially as an actor, appearing regularly in Japan and occasionally in English-language…

Kago Ai

Kago Ai born in Yamatotokada, Nara, Japan is a Japanese singer, actress, author and former Guinness World Record holder. At age 12, Kago won the 4th National Audition of Morning Musume held by Up-Front Works Agency in 2000, which led to her admission into the extremely popular idol group as a 4th generation…

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…

Kaji Meiko

Kaji Meiko is a Japanese actress and singer born in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. She has appeared in about 100 films, with her most famous roles being outlaw characters in early 1970s films, such as the rebels of the "Stray Cat Rock" series, the assassin Lady Snowblood, or the murderous Sasori from the "Female…

Aru Koi no Monogatari

The love story of a yakuza member and a young girl in the lights of a city harbor.

Kanto Wanderer

8.0

Three schoolgirls are infatuated with a yakuza, Katsuta, of the Izu Clan. They meet another yakuza, `Diamond` Fuyu, of the rival Yoshida clan. As he gets a tattoo, two of the girls become squeamish and run off but…

Our Blood Will Not Forgive

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza for the death of their father. (Source: IMDB)

Prison Gambler

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Lone Journey

A woman and her son escape the Yakuza with her son disguising himself a girl. ~~Adapted from Hasegawa Shin's (長谷川伸) work

Gambler's Farewell

The story of men devoted to the Yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading Yakuza power. (Source: IMDb)

The Shape of Night

7.4

A woman is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriend. (Source: IMDB)

Majisuka Gakuen Season 5

7.1

It is a “large scale” story involving the Yakuza, Mafia, and the police.

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.

The Way of the Househusband

8.2

Immortal Tatsu, the feared yakuza who once took down a rival gang with a lead pipe, mysteriously disappears and reappears with a new life. Swapping his weapon for an apron, he’s now a stay-at-home husband. Navigating…