Kim Young Bin

KIM Young-bin’s works are largely hard-boiled action movies with male characters. His debut film, (1992) starred [YU In-chon], who later became [Minister of Culture, Sports & Tourism]. The film is based on a true story of a Korean Japanese who wages a crime spree of killing and kidnapping after years…

Ikehiro Kazuo

One of Daiei’s most flamboyant directors of chanbara, Ikehiro served as assistant to such luminaries as Kōzaburō Yoshimura, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kon Ichikawa, and Kaneto Shindō before making his debut with TheRoseDaimyo (Baradaimyō, 1960). His third film, the Shin Hasegawa adaptation TokijiroofKu­tsukake…

Uno Koji

He was born on April 21 , 1924 in Fukuoka Prefecture Omuta born in Fukuoka Prefectural Miike Junior High School (now Fukuoka Prefectural Miike high school), 1944 (Showa 19) he graduated from the Japan film school. In the same year, he was dispatched to the acting section of Toho Photo Studio. After…

Kojima Satoshi

Satoshi Kojima is a Japanese professional wrestler, currently signed to New Japan Pro Wrestling. Kojima, along with fellow NJPW wrestlers Hiroshi Tanahashi, Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Kazuchika Okada, Tetsuya Naito and Toru Yano, appears as a member of the gang Justis in the 2016 video game Yakuza 6: The Song…

Kogawa Iori

Kogawa Iori is a Japanese actress and AV idol from Osaka. She is represented by AV production company T-Powers. She showed off her hair nude with traditional Chinese bookbinding in the magazine Friday released on 2 November 2012 and debuted from SOD Create from "Iori Kogawa AV Debut" released on 8 November…

Okada Kazuchika

Kazuchika Okada is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). A four-time IWGP Heavyweight Champion, Okada's fourth reign at 720 days is the longest in the championship’s history and it also holds the record for most successful title defenses at 12. Along…

Ichinose Hidekazu

Mainly a Japanese Anime voice actor renowned for his roles in animes such as Bokura ga Ita (TV) as Kagawa (ep 11) DD Fist of the North Star (TV 2013) as Jūza (ep 5) Kamisama Kiss (TV) as Aotake Katekyo Hitman Reborn! (TV) as Hayato Gokudera Poyopoyo (TV) as Hide Satō He has done many Tv dramas, playing…

Suzuki Seijun

Seijun Suzuki was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically…

Beat Takeshi

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese comedian, television personality, director, actor, author, and screenwriter. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, abroad he is known almost entirely for his filmwork. With the exception of his works as a film director, he is known almost…

Brian Tee

Jae-bum Takata, known professionally as Brian Tee, is a Japanese-American actor. Tee was born in Okinawa, to a Korean-American father and Japanese mother. At the age of two, he moved to Hacienda Heights, California, and was raised in Southern California. He attended Glen A. Wilson High School where…

Satsutaba to Onsen

On a high school trip to a hot spring resort, a group of high school girls discover a bag full of wads of cash that a yakuza mistress has absconded with. The total amount is $200K! A hitman appears to recover the money,…

Nihon Toitsu: Tokyo Hen

This is a crime suspense entertainment drama about a fierce battle between the Kyowakai, Japan's largest gang of yakuza, the anonymous, mobile crime group (Tokuryu), which has become a social problem as a group of…

Tamura Yuto: Isolated

Someone has kidnapped Renji Himuro, the second-in-command of the Kyowakai, the largest yakuza group in Japan. Thinking that the kidnappers must be Chinese mafia, Yuto Tamura ventures into the enemy’s hideout alone…

Yagami Eiko: Ueno Chuosho Soshiki Hanzai Taisakuka

Yagami Eiko is a detective in the Organized Crime Countermeasures Division (Marubo) of the Ueno Central Police Station. She does not shy away from violence when necessary and even forms alliances with yakuza and Chinese…

Party 7

6.3

The characters: two men, Mister Yellow and Captain Banana, carefully watch a room in their hotel from a secret room specially designed for this purpose. In the room, a yakuza who fled with a silver briefcase, her ex-girlfriend,…

Good Friends

6.4

K, Tatsuya, Joon Oh and Yuuji are best friends. They work for Sung Ho's gang in a Korean neighbourhood in Japan. A power struggle over their territory erupts between their gang and the yakuza. K, Tatsuya, Joon Oh and…

A World without Mercy

>> Story 1: "Kiss me at dead of night" A story about a man and a woman who cause an irreversible situation at a family restaurant in the middle of the night. >> Story 2: "Imitation Yakuza" A tale of an unknown actor…

Hitman Lawyer

Lawyer Shindo Kai is an undefeated ace, also working as a hitman who punishes criminals exploiting legal loopholes. While secretly serving justice, he hides his true identity as the illegitimate son of Gondo Heihachiro,…

Shuffle

6.4

Hiroshi Kobayashi is on the run, both away from the police who want him for the murder of his girlfriend Naomi, and towards the yakuza Kimura, from whom he wants to exact revenge for getting her hooked on drugs. (Source:…