Soma Gozo

Soma Gozo was a Japanese actor from Kitakita, Akita, Japan.

Ishii Kenichi

Ishii Kenichi is a Japanese actor and director from Numata, Gunma, Japan, affiliated with Office Boardville (オフィスボードビル). He graduated from Gunma Prefectural Numata High School (群馬県立沼田高等学校) and initially worked for a chemical company. In 1965, he became an assistant…

Ohnishi Takeshi

Ohnishi Takeshi is a Japanese actor.

Noguchi Takashi

Noguchi Takashi was a Japanese actor from Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture. After graduating from Toho Performing Arts School, he became Tsuruta Koji's attendant. After joining Toei, he appeared in many yakuza films starting in 1963. (Source: MyDramaList)

Ando Noboru

Ando Noboru is a Japanese actor and former yakuza. He is known for utilizing his experiences as a criminal in his many roles in yakuza films. One clear sign of his past occupation is the large knife scar on his left cheek, the result of a brawl with a Korean gangster as a young man

Katagiri Ryuji

Katagiri Ryuji is a Japanese actor from Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. He belongs to Toei Management (former Toei Actor Center). After working at Osaka Gas , he joined Toei company in 1969 as a 13th gen member of Toei New Face., and in 1971, he made his full-scale debut in the movie " Queen Bee Strikes…

Wakayama Tomisaburo

Wakayama Tomisaburo was a Japanese actor born in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. His father was Tohiji Katsu (or Katsutoji Kineya), a noted kabuki performer and nagauta singer, and the family as a whole were kabuki performers. He and his younger brother, Shintaro Katsu, followed their father in the theater.…

Yayan Ruhian

Yayan is an Indonesian actor. By the age of 13, hoping to "show his masculinity", he began studying the traditional martial art, Pencak Silat. Yayan trained with what later became Pencak Silat Tenaga Dasar, eventually becoming a trainer and referee – although he later learned that this disqualified…

Fukumoto Nobuyuki

Nobuyuki Fukumoto is a Japanese manga artist well known for his unique and original gambling ideas, deep psychological analyses of characters, and distinct artstyle. Yakuza and gambling are recurring themes in his manga. In English-speaking countries, he is known best as the author of Akagi, a mahjong-related…

Makoto Naoya

Makoto Naoya debuted as an actor in 1971. His first appearance was as a guest performer in the film Gendai Yakuza: Sakura Chi Sankyoudai at the age of 23. In 1971 and 1972, Makoto appeared in the film series Furyou Banchou. Over the next few years, Makoto performed in a variety of small roles. He also…

Lucky Stars Go Places

6.8

Kidstuff has been asked by the police to investigate a case of international ammunition trade between two gangs. One of the gangs is the Japanese Yakuza in possession of stolen diamonds, and the other is a group of…

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…

Goodbye Cruel World

6.9

5 people, whose identities are unknown to each other, gather for a one time robbery job. They head to a motel, where a yakuza gang use to launder money. The group succeed in their heist and prepare to go back to their…

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…

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…

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

7.1

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…

Fudoh: The New Generation

6.8

High-schooler Riki Fudoh is a very accomplished gangster at a remarkably young age and has a loyal group of under-aged assassins working under him. He plans on taking out all rival yakuza in his own way, but his true…

Kids Return: Saikai no Toki

6.7

The sequel is set 10 years later. Shinji is working part-time after having retired from boxing and Masaru is making his return to yakuza life after being released from prison. After a chance reunion, Shinji takes a…

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…