Ryō Nishida Movies

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

The second part of the Gamblers series.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yûko Kanô

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

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

Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love.

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Cast: Takuzō Kawatani

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Terumi Azuma

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

1966 film directed by Kudo.

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Cast: Mayumi Ogawa

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

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Cast: Show Aikawa

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Genre: Action

Cast: Junko Miyazono

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

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Cast: Hideo Murata

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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Cast: Hiromi Go