Adrenaline Drive

7.3

A young milktoast car rental company driver named Suzuki Satoru and a mousy nurse named Sato Shizuko are both in dire need of a confidence boost. Through a string of unbelievable events they meet and then fall into…

Ninkyo Gakuen

6.9

A high school is badly run and in bad shape. In order to restore the school, the Akimotogumi yakuza, including their leader Shigesato Akimoto and their second in command, Seiji Himura, appear at the high school. The…

Dangan Runner

7.0

A bumbled shoplifting attempt forces Yasuda to nix his planned bank robbery and run for his life. His pursuer? A strung-out convenience store clerk and part-time rock musician Aizawa. Along the way they earn the ire…

Black Angel Vol. 2

7.1

Mayo, the Black Angel in this film, has orders from cross-dressing Mama (Shingo Tsurumi from "Freeze Me") to kill a powerful Yakuza syndicate leader, but doesn't get the job done because one of his bodyguards is the…

One Percenter

7.1

After his devastatingly fast, samurai-style combat approach sets filmmakers against him, a legendary action star films his own movie—on turf claimed by feuding yakuza gangs, including Japan’s deadliest martial…

Tenshi ga Kieta Machi

7.2

Takano Tatsurou is the kind of no-good person, who never takes anything seriously. He works with the local yakuza and has a street job, where he takes punches for money. He did this ever since his father abandoned…

Gen X Cops

7.2

Jet fuel is stolen by weapons smugglers. The fuel is reacquired by the Hong Kong police but then once again stolen by a yakuza boss named Akatora who is trying to sell it with the help of Hong Kong thug Daniel. Three…

The Street Fighter

6.9

Takuma is a tough mercenary and a martial arts master. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Takuma to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to…

Gachiban: Max

7.2

Kuronaga Hayato, feared as one the strongest fighters in the district, voluntarily dropped out of his last year of high school and found himself in the Holy Land of Yakuza in Shibuya. Where he meets Yoshio senpai,…

Accidental Kidnapper

7.2

Yuukai Rhapsody follows a man who is stuck in a rut, no personal life and no cash lead him to the drastic decision of kidnapping a rich boy, unbeknownst to him the boy's father is a yakuza boss! With the yakuza and…

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre. Kurosawa's directing style has been compared to that…

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…

Kagurazaka Megumi

Kagurazaka Megumi is a Japanese actress and former gravure idol from Okayama prefecture. She belongs to the moon rock. She is the president of the film production company Zion Productions. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award at the Osaka Cinema Festival 2012 and the 33rd Yokohama Film Festival.…

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,…

Koike Rina

Koike Rina is a Japanese actress and idol affiliated with Very Berry Production. Koike started a junior idol career with the DVD Big Brother at age 10, when she was in 4th grade. Koike Rina played Sailor Luna in the 2004 live-action version of Sailor Moon, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. She also played…

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,…

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!”…

Kyoka

Shibata Kyoka is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She belongs to Stardust Promotion Production Department 3. In 2007, she made her debut in "Detective Conan Drama Special: Resurrection of Shinichi Kudo! Confrontation with the Black Organization.". In 2009, she won the Ribbon Girl Semi-Grand Prix of the…

Karasawa Toshiaki

Karasawa Toshiaki (real name Karasawa Kiyoshi) is a Japanese theatre and film actor. He made his theatrical debut in the playBoy's Revue Stay Gold in 1987. He specialises in theatrical action sequences such as swordplay and fighting. He dubbed over the roles of Tom Hanks in the "Toy Story" series, and…

Hamada Takahiro

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