Terror of Yakuza

Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system. (Source: IMDb)

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…

Takahashi Etsushi

Takahashi Etsushi was a Japanese actor.

Nishimura Kou

Nishimura Kou was a Japanese actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as Kurosawa Akira's "The Bad Sleep Well" and "Yojimbo", Okamoto Kihachi's "Sword of Doom", Nomura Yoshitaro's "Zero Focus", and Ichikawa Kon's "The Burmese Harp". (Source: Wikipedia)

The Okinawa War of Ten Years

After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take over and the locals tries to compete.

Osugi Ren

Osugi Ren (born Osugi Takashi) was a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVDcommentary, to the mpd.psycho (TV Miniseries)…

Iijima Daisuke

South to the Horizon

8.0

After a promising young boxer is brutally murdered by a gang of Okinawa yakuza, the boxer's older brother, Ryo, travels to Okinawa for revenge. Two unlikely companions join him on his quest for vengeance: Max, a disabled…

Hi-Zai

Set on Depot Island in Mihama, Chatan, Okinawa. A yakuza is ordered by his boss to kidnap Yuta, a person who reads people's fortunes using a mysterious power. A woman is then mistaken for Yuta by the yakuza and kidnapped.…

Trials of an Okinawa Village

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza…

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.

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…

TAP Perfect Education

6.0

Set in Okinawa, Japan. A middle-aged yakuza falls in love with the daughter of his boss's mistress. The middle-aged yakuza kidnaps her and locks her up.

Hero's Island

When Okinawa was still under the United States, there was a group of young people under the name "Senka Agiya" who specialized in distributing spoils taken from American military posts to local people. At the center…

Nogawa Yumiko

Nogawa Yumiko is a Japanese actress born in Kyoto, Japan. She has starred in several movies, notably "Gate of Flesh" (1964), a Japanese erotic film, part of a trilogy of films she made with director Seijun Suzuki. Including "Story of a Prostitute" (1965) and "Carmen from Kawachi" (1966). These films…

Sonatine

7.6

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with some henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa supposedly to mediate a dispute between their allies, the Nakamatsu clan, and the Anan clan.…

Junk

7.0

In an abandoned factory on the Japanese island of Okinawa, the U.S. army secretly developed a serum called "DNX" that is able to bring the dead back to life. Something went wrong and all scientists were killed. Now…

Oki Shoji

Ooki Shoji was a Japanese screen and voice actor.

Nakatani Ichiro

Nakatani Ichiro was a Japanese actor.

Sugawara Bunta

Sugawara Bunta was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 200 Japanese feature films. He was born in Sendai, but his parents divorced when he was four, and he moved to Tokyo to live with his father and stepmother. As part of a wartime policy to evacuate children from major cities, he was moved back…