Shirō Yanase Movies

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

A 1971 crime film

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

1962 Japanese movie

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

1962 Japanese movie