Shirō Yanase Movies

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

1962 Japanese movie

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of...

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Japanese crime film