Watanabe Hiroyuki

Watanabe Hiroyuki was a Japanese actor born in Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture. He was married to the actress Hara Hideko. He graduated from the Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Takushoku University. He learned German by working part-time at Lufthansa in college. Watanabe began…

Sato Koichi

Sato Koichi is a Japanese actor born in Tokyo, Japan. He's the son of actor Mikuni Rentaro. He married Ayako Hirota in 1993 and their child is Kanichiro Sato. Sato won the 1st Tokyo Drama Awards as Best Actor three times: for "Kaze no Hate", "Tengoku to Jigoku" and "Honto to Uso to Tequila". He's currently…

Tamura Masakazu

Tamura Masakazu, born in Setagaya and died in Minato, was a Japanese actor. He was the third actor from the acting trio "The Three Tamura Brothers", alongside his brothers Takahiro and Ryo. His half-brother is actor Mizukami Yasuhiro. In 1961, he signed an exclusive contract and debuted in his first…

Shibukawa Kiyohiko

Kiyohiko Shibukawa is a Japanese fashion model-actor. He debuted as a model under the name Kee but changed his name to "Kiyohiko Shibukawa" in 2006. He has appeared in more than 60 films since 1998.

Sonny Chiba

Chiba Shinichi, also known as Sonny Chiba, was a Japanese actor, singer, film producer, film director, and martial artist. Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience. Born Maeda Sadaho in Fukuoka,…

Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi is a Japanese composer and musical director, known for his eminent film scores for world famous directors. Hisaishi was born as Fujisawa Mamoru, on December 6, 1950 in Nakano, Japan. At the age of five, he started taking violin lessons, at which he made rapid progress. At the age of nineteen,…

Kusakari Masao

Kusakari Masao is a Japanese actor and model. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture (on the Southern island of Kyushu) to a Japanese mother and an American father who died in the Korean War. Considered stunningly good-looking, his debut into the public eye began when he became a model for the Shiseido Cosmetics…

Tanaka Tetsushi

Tanaka Tetsushi is a Japanese actor from Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture. After graduating from Kaisei High School in 1984, he immediately moved to Tokyo and went on to a vocational school for acoustics, but he quit after a year. He then went to the Department of Theater at Nihon University College of Art…

Fujii Michihito

Fujii Michihito started his career in film at Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo, where he studied for a degree in cinematography. In 2010, he established the video production company Babel Label, and in 2014 went on to direct his first feature film, based on a novel by Kotaro Isaka: “Oh! Father!”…

Totsugi Shigeyuki

Totsugi Shigeyuki is a Japanese actor born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. In January of 2008, he stopped using his real surname and changed it to Totsugi. He married actress Ichikawa Yui (市川由衣) on September 8, 2015. Their first son was born in September of 2016. Their second son was born in September…

Arakure

1.0

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro’s disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob…

Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler

6.8

In this sequel to Wandering Ginza Butterfly, Nami returns to hunt down Hoshiden, the man that killer her gambler father when she was a child. She once again takes a job at a Ginza hostess club, this time so that she…

Dead End: Rasetsu no Kokuin

The Hikawa Group is a yakuza organization that controls Yokohama. Sakurai Akito, who works as one of its members, is a man driven by revenge, having witnessed his parents being murdered before his eyes as a child.…

Joseon Fist

8.8

A movie about Genji, a Yakuza and his gang who try to break up an anti-Japanese group and Joseon's number one fighter, Kang Il during the Japanese colonial era. (Source: HanCinema)

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…

The Devil's Path

7.1

Death-row inmate Sudo sends a letter to magazine reporter Fujii. In his letter, he states that a man named Kimura, also known as "teacher," committed numerous murders for insurance money. While checking out the story,…

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…

Outlaw: Gangster VIP

7.7

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However,…

Let's Go Karaoke!

8.2

Narita Kyoji is a high ranking yakuza member. On a rainy day, he wanders on the street. He hears a singing sound and he walks towards the sound. There, he meets junior high school student Oka Satomi and he invites…