Nishimura Shogoro

Born in Japan in 1930, Shogoro Nishimura joined Nikkatsu Studios in 1954, and was first promoted to director in 1963 with the well-received Keirinshô ningyô jôki. He spent the rest of that decade directing Nikkatsu programmers of varying quality. With the 1970s came the studio's shift to making exclusively…

Sakata Tadashi

Sakata Tadashi is a Japanese actor and comedian.

Kondo Hiroshi

Iijima Daisuke

Fukae Shoki

Fukae Shoki, born Fukae Akiyoshi (深江和久) in Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor affiliated with Ishihara Promotion (石原プロモーション) and Group 71 (グループ71). During World War II, he served as a special naval youth recruit aboard the aircraft carrier Shinano. After working in…

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…

Sato Kei

Sato Kei was a Japanese character actor and narrator. He is known for his work with Japanese New Wave director Oshima Nagisa, and for several films with Shindo Kaneto, such as Onibaba and Kuroneko. He won the best actor award from Kinema Junpo for the films The Ceremony and Nihon no Akuryōo He also…

Ueda Koichi

Ueda Koichi is a Japanese actor and voice actor.

Umemiya Tatsuo

Umemiya Tatsuo was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is the model and talent, Umemiya Anna. The son of a doctor, Umemiya, gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television…

Matsushige Yutaka

Matsushige Yutaka, born in Fukuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Dear Doctor. (Source: Wikipedia)

The Guitarist from the Sea

4.0

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling. (Source: Letterboxd)

The Sleeping Beast Within

6.7

A middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers during an extended trip. Yakuza operations and religious cults come into play, while the man's daughter and her journalist boyfriend race to find the…

Living by Karate

Wada Koji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss. (Source: Letterboxd)

Kenka Fuji

Genta, a fishmonger, is a devoted fan of the yakuza since birth. His wife, Osuzu, tired of his obsession, attempts to leave him, but Genta sees it as an opportunity to pursue yakuza training. Along the Tokaido road,…

Chameleon

Based on a true story of a Filipino transgender woman who becomes involved with the Japanese Yakuza. (Source: Variety.com)

Kyu-Chan's Upside-Down Jackpot Battle

10.0

Hisashi Namiki (Kyu Sakamoto) who admires the singer and Miyoshi Tange (Jerry Fujio) who admires the yakuza go to Tokyo. Because of this, Yakuza was involved in a territorial battle, and against his will, Kisa became…

My Home Hero

7.4

Tosu Tetsuo never expected his daughter, Reika, to be a victim of domestic violence. Suspecting that her yakuza boyfriend, Matori Nobuto, is the perpetrator, Tetsuo decides to investigate him and his associates. But…

Don Quixote

7.8

In this unusual story, Matsuda plays a child welfare official Shirota working at a child consultation center, while Takahashi Katsumi plays a charitable yakuza boss Sabashima. These two lead completely different lives,…

Wild Heroes

7.5

Segawa Kiichi, a former delinquent, happens to encounter a lonely 10-year-old girl who looks like she is going to be killed by the Yakuza. He saves her by reflex and later realizes that she lost her memory. She doesn't…

Kokuho

8.4

Set after the war in Japan, when the country experienced rapid economic growth, Kikuo is born into a yakuza family. His strange fate leads him to be eventually taken in by a kabuki theater actor. He experiences turbulent…