Hiroshi Date Movies

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick...

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Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he...

Genre: Action

Cast: Reiko Ike

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

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: Crime

Cast: Takako Shinozuka

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Genre: Drama

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

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

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

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

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

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

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

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

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

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

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Junko Miyazono

Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shigeru Kanai

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mimi Fukada

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

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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