Akira Shioji
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7173 |
| Birthday | 1928-01-09 |
| Place of Birth | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | ジャパンアクションクラブ, |
1969
Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
0/0
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Mats...
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Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
1963
Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
10/1
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who i...
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Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
1969
Brothers Serving Time
8/1
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. T...
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Brothers Serving Time
1982
Fall Guy
6.385/26
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Konatsu, Ginshiro's pregnant mistress; Yasu becomes a...
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Fall Guy
1976
The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
5.7/3
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
1960
Morning Breeze in Edo
6.2/5
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.
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Morning Breeze in Edo
1972
Zorome no San Kyoudai
0/0
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their home...
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
1972
Sex, Gamble and Big Money
0/0
Having lost everything at a local yakuza gambling den, Genta comes to Osaka hoping to make a comeback. He falls in love with Chigusa, the woman who gi...
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Sex, Gamble and Big Money
1976
Oxen Split Torturing
5.8/33
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a youn...
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Oxen Split Torturing
1962
Knightly Advice
7/1
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Knightly Advice
1987
A Taxing Woman
6.738/42
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t...
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A Taxing Woman
1972
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
10/1
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...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1976
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
5.5/25
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...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
1982
Indecent Family: Mother & Daughter
3.667/3
A rich retired middle-aged man is seduced by young bar dancer and she moves into his mansion. He enjoys his newfound girlfriend when her sexy mother s...
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Indecent Family: Mother & Daughter
1967
Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
0/0
The second part of the Gamblers series.
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
1967
Gambler: Victory Without Death
6/1
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 s...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
1963
13 Assassins
7.5/42
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring atte...
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13 Assassins
1973
The Blossom and the Sword
7.667/3
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The e...
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The Blossom and the Sword
1967
Samurai Wolf II
7.1/21
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dea...
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Samurai Wolf II
1979
The Fighting Rascal
0/0
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The Fighting Rascal
1969
Kanto Street Peddlers
0/0
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into c...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
1971
Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
0/0
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiro...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
1965
Three Yakuza
7.8/4
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each pa...
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Three Yakuza
1982
Goyou Sen Enjou
0/0
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Goyou Sen Enjou
1961
The Spear of Heroism
6/1
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The o...
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The Spear of Heroism
1962
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
8.5/2
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
1959
Echo in the Mountains
6/1
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
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Echo in the Mountains
1964
Gamblers and Racketeers
10/1
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
1973
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
6.2/9
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 refo...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1967
Eighteen Years in Prison
8.25/4
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 cro...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
1970
Yukyo-retsuden
7.5/2
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now has to confront the brother and some dirty local...
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Yukyo-retsuden
1975
Story of a Nymphomaniac
5.167/6
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to u...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
1961
Restoration Fire
7/1
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall...
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Restoration Fire
1965
Blood of Revenge
6.667/6
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and...
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Blood of Revenge
1972
Hikage-Mono
9/1
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Hikage-Mono
1981
Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie
6.2/5
The Dogma Kingdom attacks the Matagi (mountain tribe) village of Yamabiko to steal the sacred Flying Dragon Fortress and wreak havoc all over Japan. S...
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Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie
1967
Watari and the Fantasticks
0/0
Based on Episodes 27 through 28, 33 through 35, Episode 37 and 39 of the 1967 Akakage TV Series "Upon learning of the evil general Yuri Danjo's rebell...
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Watari and the Fantasticks
1961
The South Sea Wolf
5.6/5
Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a band...
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The South Sea Wolf
1970
House of Gamblers
7/2
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family go...
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House of Gamblers
1974
The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
5.521/48
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 crosse...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
1962
The Mad Fox
7.438/16
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantica...
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The Mad Fox
1962
Mark of Blood
6/1
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
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Mark of Blood
1968
Wicked Priest
6.214/7
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief...
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Wicked Priest
1962
Abekobe dōchū
0/0
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Abekobe dōchū
1967
Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
5/2
Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.
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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
1968
Enlisted Yakuza
6/2
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the mi...
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Enlisted Yakuza
1983
Legend of the Eight Samurai
5.7/33
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Sh...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
1980
Shinnyû Shain: (Maruhi) OL Ôoku Monogatari
0/0
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Shinnyû Shain: (Maruhi) OL Ôoku Monogatari
1965
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
8/1
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
1965
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
7.5/2
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.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1991
Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
9.25/2
Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian countries, including Japan, compete to create the same...
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Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
1974
Third Generation Boss
8/1
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.
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Third Generation Boss
1964
Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
7.5/4
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in l...
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
1974
Code of Wolves
7.5/2
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Code of Wolves
1960
The Adventures of Jirokichi: A thousand coins
0/0
The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, the rebellious Jirokichi and three men, united by a...
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The Adventures of Jirokichi: A thousand coins
1962
The Duel at the Satta Pass
0/0
A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young samurai chasing them, participate in a chaotic bloo...
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The Duel at the Satta Pass
1969
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
6.571/7
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threat...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
1960
Sunny and Cloudy Days
0/0
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Sunny and Cloudy Days
1977
A Scream from Nowhere
6.667/3
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy in...
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A Scream from Nowhere
1977
Nuns That Bite
6/10
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulan...
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Nuns That Bite
1978
Puppets Under Starry Skies
5.438/8
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a seedy sexual history and who even now is pregnant...
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Puppets Under Starry Skies
1977
The General and His Empire of Joy
4.7/5
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 late...
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The General and His Empire of Joy
1968
Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
6.667/3
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
1981
Flames of Blood
8/2
The story follows the chance meeting between Senkichi, a wandering gambler on the run, and Orin, a blind musician who offers him kindness and shelter...
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Flames of Blood
1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.071/28
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1975
Graveyard of Honor
6.709/55
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Graveyard of Honor
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.7/19
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 attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1969
Killer's Mission
6.75/12
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a co...
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Killer's Mission
1963
Sasuke and His Comedians
6.6/5
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavengin...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.331/71
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 love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1964
Warrior of the Wind
7.056/9
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find the...
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Warrior of the Wind
1966
The Magic Serpent
6.4/7
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and the evil wizard Orochi-Maru. The lords young son Ikaz...
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The Magic Serpent
1973
Miyamoto Musashi
7.273/11
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then b...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.009/55
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1961
Miyamoto Musashi
7.3/12
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicio...
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Miyamoto Musashi
1970
Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
6.441/17
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
1971
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
7.75/6
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
1969
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
7.333/9
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red pe...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
1976
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
7/12
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constan...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
7.3/18
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 nex...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1972
Eight Men to Kill
6.7/3
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine thr...
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Eight Men to Kill
1967
Black Ninja
9/1
Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.
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Black Ninja
1977
Decapitation of an Evil Woman
6.2/4
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Po...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
5.75/4
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971
Patience Has An End
5.857/7
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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Patience Has An End
1977
The Extravagant Cops
0/0
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The Extravagant Cops
1971
Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
6/1
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
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Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
1974
Woman Mobsters
0/0
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female...
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Woman Mobsters
1972
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
7/1
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is t...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
1971
Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
7.333/3
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and come...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
1969
Gambler's Legacy
6.667/3
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of...
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Gambler's Legacy
1973
The Hard Core Criminal
7.5/2
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the pri...
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The Hard Core Criminal
1969
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
7.5/2
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.6/5
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1966
Samurai Wolf
7.1/36
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman agains...
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Samurai Wolf
1990
Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
6.7/6
Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
1963
Duel of Blood and Sand
7.75/4
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 into...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
1974
The Karate Man and the Spy
6/1
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a f...
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The Karate Man and the Spy
1966
Seven Gamblers
6.5/2
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
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Seven Gamblers
1963
Five Ronins
0/0
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.
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Five Ronins
1978
The Okinawa War of Ten Years
6.2/5
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainla...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
1972
Lullaby for a Tough Guy
10/1
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.
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Lullaby for a Tough Guy
1972
Informal Dress
0/0
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Informal Dress
1970
The Silk Hat Boss 2
6.5/2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
1964
The Ninja Hunt
7.5/2
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tane...
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The Ninja Hunt
1973
Japan's Top Gangster
7/1
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang....
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Japan's Top Gangster
1976
Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
5.889/9
Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling! The female ninjas are sent undercover (sometimes...
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Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
1972
Modern Lady Gambler
7/2
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. W...
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Modern Lady Gambler
1972
The Pledge
5.833/6
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Pledge
1967
Eleven Samurai
7.5/29
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, t...
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Eleven Samurai
1967
Code Between Brothers 5
7.2/5
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 from A...
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Code Between Brothers 5
1967
Heiji, the Detective
5.375/4
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seig...
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Heiji, the Detective
1972
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
6/3
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Mon...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
1960
Castle of Flames
7.2/5
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds...
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Castle of Flames
1969
Samurai Geisha
7.5/2
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era....
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Samurai Geisha
1976
The Racketeer Ishimatsu
9/1
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.
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The Racketeer Ishimatsu
1966
Golden Ninja
0/0
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When th...
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Golden Ninja
1975
The Decisive Power of Aikido
7.8/5
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 ai...
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
1983
Blue Rain Osaka
4/8
A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting with an old lover.
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Blue Rain Osaka
1980
An Ocean to Cross
9/1
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...
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An Ocean to Cross
1974
Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
6.5/4
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When...
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
1981
Uniform Experience Trio: I Am Ripe
4.667/3
Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The seco...
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Uniform Experience Trio: I Am Ripe
1969
Team of Ruffians
0/0
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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Team of Ruffians
1964
Giant Rumble
6/1
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home t...
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Giant Rumble
1975
Company Buggers
7/2
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Company Buggers
1977
The Story of a Geisha
7/1
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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The Story of a Geisha
1963
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
8.667/3
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart,...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates
5.1/8
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high sc...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Classmates
1973
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
5.412/17
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by siniste...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
1973
The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
7/2
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
1989
Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
9/1
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
1989
Dream Street
9/1
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.
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Dream Street
1968
Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
7/2
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A ra...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
1972
The Brawling Angel
0/0
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
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The Brawling Angel
1969
The Cross of Vengeance
8/1
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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The Cross of Vengeance
1965
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
4.833/3
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own, none...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
1961
Whistling Drifter
0/0
Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
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Whistling Drifter
1962
Good Rascals
6/2
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.
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Good Rascals
1970
The Drifting Gambler
9/1
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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The Drifting Gambler
1960
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
6/2
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescu...
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
1964
Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
6.833/6
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true ide...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
1972
Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
7.9/5
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 gui...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
1992
Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant God
0/0
The spirit of Princess Lena, the last emperor of the planet Lectorius who vanished 700 years ago, arrived on Earth as a sphere of light, seeking to in...
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Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant God
1971
Dagger
7/1
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Dagger
1974
The Street Fighter
6.811/114
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress...
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The Street Fighter
1961
Bride of White Castle
8/2
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.
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Bride of White Castle
1962
Sakura Official
7/2
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his...
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Sakura Official
1976
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
6/6
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 brother,...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
9/1
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6.25/4
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...
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The Tattooed Hitman
1963
Blind Wolf
0/0
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Blind Wolf
1962
A Warrior Generation
0/0
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A Warrior Generation
1974
The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
8/1
Part 7 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...
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
1960
Road Warriors
6/1
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Aya...
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Road Warriors
1968
The Bandits
8/1
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
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The Bandits
1968
Gambler Biography
6/2
Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
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Gambler Biography
1966
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
9/1
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
6.75/4
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsu...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1979
Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya
0/0
Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He descends into alcoholism and starts an affair with O...
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Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Ghost of Yotsuya
1965
The Tattooed Lord
7.5/2
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The Tattooed Lord
1962
Tengu Priest
7/1
Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.
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Tengu Priest
1966
Watari, the Ninja Boy
6.55/10
Adapted from Sanpei Shirato's classic manga, a legend unfolds as Watari, a young boy skilled in ninjutsu, takes on the corruption inside the Iga clan...
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Watari, the Ninja Boy
1966
The Protector
8.5/2
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to co...
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The Protector
1971
The Man
7/1
Japanese movie.
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The Man
1965
The Gambler
0/0
A crime film released in 1965
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The Gambler
1983
Amagi Pass
6.5/18
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterio...
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Amagi Pass
1960
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
0/0
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can...
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
1988
Gate of Flesh
6.225/40
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Par...
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Gate of Flesh
1963
Tenamonya Sandogasa
0/0
The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jirocho of Shimizu and becoming the strongest in Japan...
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Tenamonya Sandogasa
1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
0/0
The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.
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20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1976
Karate Warriors
7/8
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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Karate Warriors
1961
Obugyō-sama to musume-tachi
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Obugyō-sama to musume-tachi
1976
Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
10/1
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Momojiro” and “Kinzo,” who travel around Japan in hig...
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
1960
照る日くもる日 后篇
0/0
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照る日くもる日 后篇
1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
0/0
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
1961
怪人まだら頭巾
0/0
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怪人まだら頭巾
1961
Ninjutsu Ōsaka-jō
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Ninjutsu Ōsaka-jō
1970
Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
0/0
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defen...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
1988
Gate of Flesh
6.225/40
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Par...
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Gate of Flesh
1974
The Yakuza
7.14/210
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer...
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The Yakuza
1988
Cheek to Cheek at Night ~ A Woman Embracing the Past
0/0
TV film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and written by Takashi Ishii. Produced in 1986 but not aired until 1988.
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