Kōji Sekiyama Movies

The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong...

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Miyazono

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Enomoto

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Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Joji Takagi

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nobuko Miyamoto

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Bin Amatsu

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

1959 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A low ranking yakuza who spends more time enjoying life than doing the yakuza work falls in love with a pretty student girl, whose brother later gets...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Fuji

Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: I. George

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Genre: Family

Cast: Ineko Arima

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yutaka Nakajima

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Convict son revenges innocent father's death.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Pinku from 1971.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Second part of the Zenka mono series.

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Cast: Kyōsuke Machida

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.

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Cast: Ken Takakura

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Miki Sugimoto

In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Genre: War

Cast: Yutaka Nakajima

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ryōko Itakura returns as the tough-as-nails government taxing agent. This time she must figure out a way to expose a fanatical religious cult...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private eye named Mitamura while both are investigating...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Takakura

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A geisha helps a runaway who looks just like her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Takashi Kanda

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūji Hori

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Cast: Jun Tatara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

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Cast: Hisako Tsukuba

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō