Genji Kawai Movies

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kenji Imai

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

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Cast: Joji Takagi

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Cast: Yukie Kagawa

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the...

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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

A crime film released in 1965

Genre: Action

Cast: Joji Takagi

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to...

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Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumi Taguchi

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shin'ya Ohwada

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Yumemi, the president of Shirayuri Tours, visits Kagoshima in an attempt to save the contract with Satsuma Inn. After learning about the abrupt...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mako Midori

Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

To solve the mystery of her deceased husband, his wife departs to Shinshu.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kayo Matsuo

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

In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

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

This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Junko Miyazono

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masato Hoshi

A Violent School Revolution

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Cast: Masato Hoshi

Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hitomi Kuroki

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 young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

Genre: War

Cast: Ken Takakura

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment...

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Karasuma

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yumi Takigawa

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ken Takakura

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Eitarō Shindō

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

Genre: Action

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

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eitarō Shindō

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma