Ohki Minoru

Ohki Minoru, born in Osaka, was a Japanese actor. After serving as a lighting assistant at the Nikkatsu Tamagawa Photo Studio for 10 years, he became an actor at the recommendation of actress Kogure Michiyo. He made his movie debut in 1951 and since then he starred in many Shochiku works as a hard-line…

Mikami Kan

Mikami Kan is a Japanese folk singer, poet, and actor born in Kodomari Village in Aomori Prefecture (now Nakadomari Town) on March 20, 1950. He comes from a family of fisherman. During his time at Aomori's Goshogawara High School, he served as the student council president. At that time, he also formed…

Shinagawa Ryuji

Shinagawa Ryuji is a Japanese actor, lyricist, and narrator from Nakazumori, Takamura, Minamitsuru, Yamanashi, Japan. When he was in the third year of Tsuru Junior High School, his brother died in a traffic accident, prompting him to run away from home and head to Tokyo. Afterward, with the support…

Shioji Akira

Shioji Akira was a Japanese actor from Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. In 1975, he won the Special Achievement Award in the Actor category at the 1st Kumamoto Film Festival. He died at the age of 66, at a hospital in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture due to liver failure. (Source: MyDramaList)

Kaneko Nobuo

Kaneko Nobuo was a Japanese actor, culinary researcher, host, and talent born in Shitaya, Tokyo, Japan. He grew up in a family of dentists and struggled with tuberculosis from a young age, facing a prognosis that he might not live past 20. Despite his health challenges, he graduated from Kyoka Gakuen…

Mutsumi Goro

Mutsumi Goro was a Japanese actor and voice actor. His birth name was Nakanishi Seiji. On June 5, 2021, he passed away at a hospital in Chichibu City due to aspiration pneumonia. He was 86 years old at the time of his passing. (Source: Wikipedia)

Yonemura Shoji

Yonemura Shoji is a Japanese writer who has done work for various anime and tokusatsu television shows and films. He is originally from Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan. Mainly, Yonemura works on screenplays for anime. After having graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, he worked as a freelance…

Ishimatsu Guts

Yuji Suzuki, known as Guts Ishimatsu or Ishimatsu Susuki, is a former boxing world champion from Kanumashi, Japan. After retiring from boxing, he has gained popularity as an actor and comedian. He often appears as a foolish boke character on television, but this is an act he puts on for media purposes.…

Okusu Michiyo

Okusu Michiyo is a Japanese actress, originally from Tianjin, China. She attended Mukogawa Women's University Junior and Senior High School before enrolling in the Department of Japanese Literature at Mukogawa Gakuin University Junior College. In 1964, while still in college, she was scouted by Nikkatsu…

Imai Masayuki

Imai Masayuki was a Japanese playwright and actor born in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. He was a member of the Ground Self-Defense Force before starting his acting career in the second half of the 1980s. The founder of the stage company Elle Company, he was the author and the main actor of the play…

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…

Fire Line

Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. (Source: IMDb)

Bloodstained Clan Honor

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes…

Cops vs. Thugs

6.9

In Kurashima City, there are two yakuza families; the Kawade, who use political connections to further their activities, and the Ohara, who have an alliance with the local police. When Ohara acting boss Hirotani usurps…

Boiling Point

6.9

Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. After their coach is severely injured by the gangsters, the two boys set off to Okinawa to purchase a gun in order to get revenge.…

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…

Shinjuku Incident

7.2

Steelhead is an illegal Chinese immigrant in Japan who comes to Tokyo to find his childhood sweetheart Xiu Xiu. He teams up with a group of Chinese workers who help him get a roof, some manual labour and sharing a…

Outrage Beyond

7.3

In a ruthless battle for power, several yakuza clans vie for the favor of their head family in the Japanese underworld. The rival bosses seek to rise through the ranks by scheming and making allegiances sworn over…

Sonatine

7.6

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with some henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu clan, and the Anan clan.…

Baby Assassins

7.6

Chisato and Mahiro are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins and their organization has insisted that they properly integrate into "normal" society. When…