Hiroshi Shimizu

Yûsaku Matsuda

Kei Satô

Moeko Ezawa

The Killing Game

The Killing Game (1978)

Shintarô Katsu

Kô Nishimura

Toshio Kurosawa

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare (1973)

Meiko Kaji

Nenji Kobayashi

Nagisa Ôshima

When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming rough in order to get results. Matters take a different turn, however, as the policeman juxtaposes the nature of his targets with his own colleagues, examines their actions more closely and becomes acquainted with a woman on the fringe of the criminal underworld.—aghaemi

Yakuza Graveyard

Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

Takashi Shimura

Eiji Okada

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.—Jim Beaver

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)

Shigeru Amachi

Jun Hamamura

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.—Fred Cabral

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

Shin'ichi Chiba

Jun Fubuki

Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day with no reservations about the violent and dastardly actions he must undertake in order to achieve his goal. (Source: back of the DVD cover)—Robert Carey

Yomigaeru kinrô

Yomigaeru kinrô (1979)

Taiji Tonoyama

Tetsuo Ashida

Yoshiyuki Fukuda

Over the course of a night, a sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal man, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster are taken prisoner of a gang awaiting a shootout between a rival gang at dawn.

Double Suicide: Japanese Summer

Double Suicide: Japanese Summer (1967)

Fumio Watanabe

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action develops into a crime story.—Anonymous

Three Resurrected Drunkards

Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)

Hideo Kanze

Hakuchû no tôrima is the portrayal of a violent rapist as seen through the recollections of his wife and one of his victims. As the film starts, Eisuke encounters Shino, who works as a maid in a house. She is a former coworker from a failed collective farm, whose life he once saved - only to rape her. Soon, Eisuke's criminal pattern of rapes and murders emerges as he goes on assaulting women. Shino witnesses of one of them, as Eisuke tries to violate her employer. When cooperating with the police on making a description of the rapist, Shino withholds her crucial knowledge of his identity. She prefers writing letters to Eisuke's dutiful wife, Matsuko, a schoolteacher, in order to expose his true nature and perhaps induce her into turning Eisuke over to the police.—X

Violence at Noon

Violence at Noon (1966)

Katsuo Nakamura

Mariko Kaga

Yumiko Nogawa

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

The Pleasures of the Flesh

The Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)

Masahiko Tsugawa

Takao Yoshizawa

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Night and Fog in Japan

Night and Fog in Japan (1960)

Shima Iwashita

Riki Takeuchi

Masataka Naruse

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 younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they're on.—Someonelse

Yakuza Ladies

Yakuza Ladies (1986)

Tatsuya Nakadai

Shigeru Kôyama

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one who is forced to work in a brothel.—Anonymous

Inn of Evil

Inn of Evil (1971)

Yoshio Harada

In a melancholic seaside town, the bodies of two lovers who committed double suicide are found on the shore. A local reporter and the dead woman's pimp begin to investigate and find out that something very suspicious is going on.

Lost Love

Lost Love (1978)

Toshirô Mifune

Kyôko Kishida

Eitarô Ozawa

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

Nippon no Don: Yabohen

Nippon no Don: Yabohen (1977)

Rentarô Mikuni

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for vengeance are disturbed when he encounters a strange and beautiful young woman.

Punishment Island

Punishment Island (1966)

Sumiko Hidaka

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Amai yoru no hate

Amai yoru no hate (1961)

Kakuko Chino

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.

Good-for-Nothing

Good-for-Nothing (1960)

Ayako Wakao

Gen Kimura

Kazuo Mortuchi

Shinsuke and Otsuya, his boss' daughter runs away to get married, but they are betrayed by the inn owner, Kenji. Otsuya is sold to Tokubei's brothel. Seikichi, a mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on her back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the danger of becoming the very evil they seek to escape. With each new bloody incident, the spider's face seems to redden with ever-growing hunger.—Letter B.

Irezumi

Irezumi (1966)

Nobuko Otowa

The film begins with Masuo Sakurada receiving a telegram from his cousin Terumichi. He is traveling with his cousin Ritsuko to check out his cabin and see if the telegram is true. Masuo has a flashback to the ceremony on the first anniversary of his father's death, after he and his mother are repatriated to Japan from Huludao. Because his younger brother died before they returned from the former Manchukuo, Masuo is expected to live for two sons.Throughout each of the ceremonies, the tangled family web is revealed, with numerous instances of incest that make the relationships between each of the family members somewhat unclear. The continued incest is not only expected amongst the family. Masuo himself is interested in Setsuko, and later Ritsuko, and finds himself in competition with Terumichi for them.Masuo finds himself sacrificing much of his freedom for the family. He has a talent for baseball, but gives it up when his mother dies and he is not present. He burns all of his baseball possessions except his glove. His sacrifice reaches its climax when he goes through a marriage ceremony to an absentee bride at his grandfather's insistence. He finally releases his frustration and hatred for his grandfather afterward. His grandfather dies years later, and at his memorial service Masuo is asked by his uncles to marry as quickly as possible to have another heir to the family lineage.Masuo and Ritsuko finally arrive at Terumichi's cabin in the film's final segment, to discover that the telegram informing them of Terumichi's death is true. Ritsuko feels an obligation to commit suicide next to Terumichi, because he had been her lover. Masuo leaves the scene, and outside has a flashback to a childhood memory of playing baseball with his cousins and Setsuko, who have all died.

The Ceremony

The Ceremony (1971)

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