Queen Bee

4.0

This undoubtedly became a series after the fact, since Kobo returns in a similar role in the next installment. These were probably the closest Shintoho came to 'real' yakuza films that were more in the mid-1960s Toei/Nikkatsu…

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,…

Joint

After serving 2 years in prison, Ishigami Takeshi spent two years working on a construction site and building up his funds before he returned to Tokyo with the help of Yasu, his best friend. He is determined to try…

Naniwa Financial Road

5.0

Yuuji Aoki was a manga artist famous for Naniwa Kinyudo (The way of Osaka financing) which won numerous awards. The film seems to adapt the manga. The story is about a boy who moves from Osaka to Kanto with dreams…

The Geisha

7.3

1933. 20 years before, Katsuzo was in love with a geisha who gave him a daughter. They tried to run away together but they were caught and the woman was killed under his eyes. Now he is a zegen aka a pimp who sells…

After School

6.8

Someone he's never seen before gives Kitazawa, a seedy private investigator, a photograph of Kimura, a man who looks like an office clerk, meeting secretly with a woman. He hires the detective to find him. Kitazawa…

Kakuto

6.1

Ryo is celebrating his upcoming 21st birthday with university pal Makoto, who's just been dumped by his girlfriend, and childhood friend Naoshi, who works in his father's auto body shop. Bored of drinking, they decide…

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

5.0

As the war escalates, Omiya and Arita join the reinforcement troops stationed in Northern Manchuria. While waiting for Soviet attack, the duo still manage to rankle their superiors. (Source: MyDramaList) ~~ Adapted…

The Yakuza Boss's Beloved

7.2

Makoto, 29, is a sales clerk at the advertising agency Adraisa, and dreams of a happy family. She is a hard worker and admired by her colleagues, but in her private life, she is devoted to her selfish and self-centered…

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…

Takakura Miyuki

Miyuki Takakura was born in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She is an actress, known for Mekura Okami (1963), Meiji Keppurouku: Taka to Oukami (1968) and Yakuza Bangaichi: Massatsu (1969).

Miyaguchi Seiji

Seiji Miyaguchi was a Japanese actor who appeared in such films as Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (as Kyuzo, the master swordsman), Ikiru as a yakuza boss from "restaurant row," and Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. At the age of 71, he succumbed to lung cancer.

Kurosawa Hisako

Kurosawa Hisako was born and raised in Fukushima, Japan, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Japanese literature. She began her career as a broadcast journalist, but was drawn to screenwriting, where she found early success with Tokyo Noir (2004), Finger (2006) and Show Me A Beautiful Night (2007).…

Matsukata Hiroki

Meguro Koju, better known by the stage name Matsukata Hiroki, was a Japanese actor. He was the son of jidaigeki actor Konoe Jushiro and actress Mizukawa Yaeko and has a younger brother Meguro Yuki who is also an actor. As a young man, he aspired to be a singer, but turned to acting, making his debut…

Ikebe Ryo

Ikebe Ryo was born on February 11, 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Kyuketsu-ga (1956), Desertion at Dawn (1950) and Madame White Snake (1956). He died on October 8, 2010 in Tokyo. He graduated from Rikkyo University and originally wanted to be a screenwriter, but ended up debuting as…

Shinoda Masahiro

Shinoda attended Waseda University, where he studied theater and also participated in the Hakone Ekiden long distance race. He joined the Shōchiku Studio in 1953 as an assistant director, where he worked on films by such directors as Yasujirō Ozu. He debuted as a director in 1960 with One-Way Ticket…

Furuhata Yasuo

Yasuo Furuhata is a Japanese film director, who won the 2000 Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year for 'Poppoya'. A proficient commercial director, Furuhata made his debut with the youth film Bad Girl Yoko (Hikō shōjo Yōko, 1966), about a girl who, along with her boyfriend, escapes Japan by…

Inagaki Goro

Inagaki Goro is a Japanese musician and actor from Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. Inagaki is a member of the Japanese pop group SMAP. His career began while he was in junior high school, when his sister submitted his picture to a talent company; he was subsequently chosen to join SMAP, which has a considerable…

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…