Masataka Iwao Movies

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yūsuke Kazato

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

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

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

The second in Norio Nanjo’s “Secret” series. The former secret phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata) and Yume no Gosuke (Ashiya...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsushi Toyokawa

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

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Cast: Naoto Takenaka

Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy money, it's a difficult transition.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shōji Kaneko

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

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masumi Jun

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than...

Genre: Action

Cast: Miki Sugimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuriko Hishimi

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Christina Lindberg

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

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

The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship trio, the Nikis, but sustains an injury. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of revenge for his great friend.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Eiji Okuda

While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Yoko Shimada

Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiko Matsuda

Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ken Ogata

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

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

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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

Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

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 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

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

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

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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

A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jinpachi Nezu

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

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi. 8 years ago Brazilian mafioso Carlos had brought...

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Cast: Naoto Takenaka

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Pinko Izumi

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Part one.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideo Murata

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed...

Genre: History

Cast: Jirô Chiba

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 success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their title, including this semi-bonkers sports...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirô Chiba

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tadashi Yamashita

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

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous Kabuki actor brothers Kinnosuke Manya and Katsuo...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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

In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer remaining regions. Meanwhile, a peasant farmer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita