Miki Norihei

Miki Norihei, born Tanuma Tadashi (田沼則子) in Hamacho, Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor, director, and comedian. He served as the 5th president of the Japan Comedy Association (日本喜劇人協会). Raised by a mother involved in entertainment and a father with a medical doctorate,…

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…

Takada Kokichi

Takada Kokichi is a Japanese actor and singer born in Sonoda Village, Kawabe District, Hyogo Prefecture. His real name is Kajiura Takeichi. He is a historical drama star representing Shochiku before the war, and is known as the first "Singing Movie Star". His second daughter is actress Takada Miwa,…

Tsuruta Koji

Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…

Hasegawa Hiroshi

Kusumoto Kenji

Enomoto Kenji is a Japanese actor born on March 12, 1929 in Tanabe, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. His real name is Enomoto Kenzo.

Minami Toshiaki

Minami Toshiaki was a Japanese comedy actor from Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. He was raised in Nagoya, Aichi.

Natsuo Yuna

Natsuo Yuna is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol.

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Araki Ichiro

Araki Ichiro is a Japanese actor, singer, music producer, novelist, magic critic, and card magic expert from Tokyo, Japan. His mother is actress Araki Michiko.

Z Island

6.4

Hiroya Munakata (Sho Aikawa) is the leader of the yakuza group Munakata-gumi. Munakata-gumi is a Japanese yakuza. After 10 years since the big fight, Hiroya Munakata's non blood-related younger brother Takashi (Shingo…

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,…

Junpei, Think Again

6.8

Twenty one year old Junpei is a low ranking Yakuza who is one day given the mission to kill a high ranking yakuza from a rival gang. Wanting to up his standing in his gang, he accepts. Junpei meets OL Kana and they…

Tokyo Drifter

7.0

Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo is a member of a recently deactivated Yakuza gang. His boss, to whom he holds absolute loyalty, Kurata, has given up the life of crime for himself and his syndicate. Otsuka, a rival gang…

Agitator

7.1

A young, rowdy yakuza winds up dead after taking too many liberties at a rival gang’s night club. This leads to an escalation of violence which results in the death of a boss. His underling and close friend Kenzaki…

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)

Blind Woman’s Curse

7.2

Akemi Tachibana, a female yakuza boss in the early 20th century, must defend her clan from a blind swordswoman Aiko Gouda, her creepy hunchbacked servant, and a gang of vicious murderers.

Out & Out

6.0

Masao was once a high-ranking member of the biggest yakuza group in Japan. He left the yakuza and now runs a private detective office with a young girl named Shiori. She is in the second grade of elementary school.…

Butoha

Barely scraping by making an honest living as a rural yakuza, Hachiya dreams of the City of Flowers. Unable to conceal their growing frustration at their everyday lives, he and his partner, Sagane, choose to pursue…

Outrage: Final Chapter

7.4

The formerly prominent though now decimated Sanno-kai yakuza crime organization is being absorbed into the Hanabishi-kai under their Grand Yakuza leader, who has virtually unified the entire underground of all of Japan…