Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Rope and Skin

1979

Okoma (Red Cherry) was a woman gambler until she retired from the yakuza world. Two years later, she returns home, and finds that the big boss has been assassinated and his daughter is having trouble keeping things in line against the rival gang headed by the men who killed her father. Okoma decides to avenge her former boss and help his daughter, a former friend of hers. She recruits her own gang, starting with an expert knife-fighter, her former lover. After a fight, the new Gang Leader captures and tortures Okoma sadistically.

Down with The Big Boss

1979

In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

Death of the Lion Kings

1993

Tells the story of an up-and-coming Yakuza, who makes a name for himself alongside his two friends just before 1992, when the enforcement of the new gang law came in place.

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair

1971

Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

1974

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.

Silver

1999

The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike's action-packed thriller. Aided by secret service colleague Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), Jun goes undercover as Silver, a formidable fighter in the professional women's wrestling circuit. But Jun's success in the ring doesn't distract her from her primary mission: exacting revenge on the Paradise gang.

Youth of the Beast

1963

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

Ulterior Motives

1993

A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

1964

The Drug King

2018

Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.

Hitman Lawyer

2023

Lawyer Shindo Kai is an undefeated ace, also working as a hitman who punishes criminals exploiting legal loopholes. While secretly serving justice, he hides his true identity as the illegitimate son of Gondo Heihachiro, a yakuza boss. When Gondo's group is attacked by the rising Mayhem gang, Kai, having recently lost a case due to sabotaged evidence, investigates the betrayal. His pursuit of the truth leads to a bloody reckoning.

The Viper Brothers Rage Again

1971

Part 2 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 Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.

The Viper Brothers

1971

After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets of Kobe to make a name for themselves amongst the local yakuza organization.

Gokudo Apocalypse

2017