Koi to Dangan

6.9

When drug dealers attack feisty college student Yuri at a party, she’s saved by Toshiomi Oya, the young boss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction to him, she convinces herself that she’s not in…

LoveDeath

7.0

The beautiful Sheela has betrayed her abusive Yakuza lover and has stolen a cache of money to start a new life. She enlists the aid of a young former Yakuza underling, Sai and together they make their daring escape.…

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…

Yakuza Ladies Neo

7.5

Kotone Kiba is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba, boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named Sakura Nishizawa, who is chased by Azami Kato. Azami is the wife of Shuhei Kato, boss of the Kato gang in…

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…

Ishii Takashi

A sometime manga artist, Ishii entered the film industry as a writer, scripting Roman Porno at Nikkatsu for such directors as Chūsei Sone, Noboru Tanaka, Shun Nakahara, and Shinji Sōmai. Many of his scripts were based on his own manga Angel Guts(Tenshi no harawata), which Nikkatsu adapted into a series,…

Wong Yu

Wong Yu was a Hong Kong actor. Shaw Brothers was the professional home of Wong Yu from his late teen years until age 30. In 1972, he was selected for the studio's acting training course and, upon graduation, was given a supporting role in "Facets of Love" (1973). His first lead was the precocious teenage…

Fukasaku Kinji

Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), yakuza films including the seminal Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), samurai period pieces such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), and his controversial…

Hatakeyama Baku

Hatakeyama Baku, real name Hatakeyama Akio, was the Japanese actor who played Oiwa Daita, the first Kirenger in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger. He is currently the only known deceased actor who has played a ranger in Super Sentai. Hatakeyama was born in Minamimaki, a village located in the Minamisaku district…

Yamashiro Shingo

Yamashiro Shingo was a Japanese television and film actor. Yamashiro, who was originally from Kyoto, Japan, was born Watanabe Yasuji but used Yamashiro Shingo as his stage name. He made his film acting debut in 1957. Yamashiro starred in the television series Hakuba Doji, beginning in 1960. During the…

Tajima Yoshibumi

In 1937, he participated in the founding of a small art theater. Dropped out of college in 1941. In 1946, he joined the Haiyuza Theater Company due to "the love of the actress Sumako" ( Shochiku, Kenji Mizoguchi ) In 1954, he left the Haiyuza Theater Company and entered Nikkatsu, where he resumed film…

Nakamura Shido II

Born in Tokyo, the son of Kabuki actor Nakamura Shido I, young Nakamura made his Kabuki debut at the age of eight. He took the name Shido the following year, following his father's retirement. Twenty-one years later, despite being a relative latecomer to the silver screen, the 30-year-old Kabuki actor…

Shimura Takashi

Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor. He was born in Ikuno, Hyogo, Japan. His debut as actor was the film Akanishi Kakita (Capricious Young Man, 1936) and cast in the Kenji Mizoguchi's film Osaka Elegy (1936). In company with Toshiro Mifune, Shimura is the actor most closely associated with Akira Kurosawa…

Kusumoto Kenji

Enomoto Kenji is a Japanese actor born on March 12, 1929 in Tanabe, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. His real name is Enomoto Kenzo.

Modern Lady Gambler

Yakuza revenge movie with wandering yakuza gambler Fujiko first out to kill the man she once loved and then slicing through the yakuza who betrayed her lover Tatsumi. (Source: IMDb)

Yasha

6.7

Retired yakuza gangster Shuji moves back from Osaka to a remote coastal village to start a new life as a fisherman with his family, his arrival from the city coinciding with that of the beautiful bar hostess Keiko.…

Fujiko F. Fujio SF Tanpen Drama Season 3

The stories being dramatized this time include "Kanshin," in which two lovers and a Yakuza boss rapidly switch bodies; "Ore to Ore to Ore," in which a man multiplies after an experience on a mountain; "Miracle Man,"…

Wandering Song

A young man who once sinned to wash his feet from a yakuza reunites with his former lover after being released and confronts an emerging yakuza who plans to take over the ranch. (Source: nikkatsu.com)