Kobayashi Akira

Kobayashi attended Meiji University but left before graduating. He became an actor at Nikkatsu and made his film debut in 1956. He solidified his popularity with such films as Nangoku Tosa o Ato ni Shite (A Farewell to Southern Tosa) and starred in the "Wataridori" ("Rambler") and "Senpūji" ("Whirlwind…

Red Peony Gambler 8: Execution of Duty

7.0

Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes…

Murayama Shinji

Director.

Nitani Hideaki

Nitani Hideaki was a Japanese actor born in Maizuru, Kyoto, Japan. He graduated from Kyoto Prefectural Higashi Maizuru High School (京都府立東舞鶴高等学校) and attended Doshisha University (同志社大学) but dropped out of the Department of English Literature. After leaving university,…

Izumi Masako

Masako Izumi was a Japanese actress born in Tokyo, Japan. She died on July 9, 2025, at the age of 77 due to cancer.

Yamada Koichi

Yamada Koichi was a Japanese actor. Date of his death is unknown.

Kojika Ban

Kojika Ban, born Kojika Atsushi (小鹿敦) in Asakusa, Kappabashi, Tokyo, Japan, was a Japanese actor. Initially interested in painting, he became passionate about theater after joining his high school drama club at Omiya High School (大宮高等学校). He later pursued a degree in Theater Studies…

Takeuchi Riki

Riki Takeuchi was born in Saiki, Ōita Prefecture and is known for his roles in v-cinema yakuza movies. Takeuchi has starred in many yakuza films and action films, such as Dead or Alive trilogy by Takashi Miike. Takeuchi also starred in Battle Royale II: Requiem, where he played Riki Takeuchi. (Source:…

Bakuto Kirikomi Tai

Bakuto hyakunin

4.5

Set in Kyushu in the early Showa period, the son of a boss who was killed after being territorialized by a greedy boss takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis. (Source: Wikipedia)

Amadera Bakuto

The Gambling Samurai

~~ Adapted from the work "Jusatsu" (銃殺) by Kubo Sakae (久保栄).

Gamblers and Racketeers

A Gambler's Life

7.5

A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler - the gambler's wife and daughter are sick; unknown to the debt collector he kills the gambler. He learns more about his wife and family and forms a bond;…

Ruthless Gambler

2.0

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing…

Sympathy for the Underdog

7.4

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Red Peony Gambler 1

6.9

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko…

Oniroku Dan

Oniroku Dan was born in Hikone, Shiga, Japan. He was a writer and actor, known for “Hijirimen bakuto” (1972), “Kurenai shimai: Zenpen” (2002) and “Flower and Snake” (1974). He died on May 6, 2011.

Tsuruta Koji

Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…

Kobayashi Wataru