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Ankoku gai jingi

1965

A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's organization and emerging powers. A huge gangster story depicting a three-way turf war on a large scale.

8.0

The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

1974

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 Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a respectable family. Comedy and melodrama ensue. A thrilling spectacle with an overly violent ending, and a remarkable, Japan's only post-prison rape comedy, Masa is determined to have sex with the female guard, despite the fact that there is a bar between them. Michi Azuma (topless swordswoman from Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril) plays a tomboy who wants to join her brothers.

7.5

Sonatine

1993

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, supposedly as mediators between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, his group is attacked in an ambush. The survivors flee and make a decision to lay low at the beach while they await further instructions.

0.0

The Flower and the Sword

1964

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.

0.0

Unification of Japan Gaiden: Yamazaki Ichimon 8 — Metro Police vs. Yamazaki Ichimon

2023

A burglary hits the Yuseikai Kazo branch. The cash had already been moved from the safe, but Teru (Yutaka Kyan) is left pale and shaken. He drives Sakuragi (Takuma Sugawara) and the others out and locks himself inside the office, worrying Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi). Teru, however, is desperate to recover something he cannot afford to lose. As Nakashima (Yoshimi Tachi) predicted, the thief returns. Teru lies in wait and tries to capture him, but the burglars—two agile brothers known locally as the parkour brothers—escape with ease. The elder brother Ichiro (Joey) fell in with a theft ring for a specific reason. Meanwhile, it emerges that the string of burglaries may be connected to Fujimura, a Marubo detective…

9.0

The Viper Brothers and the Young General

1975

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 need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.

7.0

The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

1972

Part 3 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.

0.0

Dochinpira 18: Target of Desire

1996

The 18th installment of the outrageous, lust-fueled saga of history's most shameless gigolo, Jin Kaito! This time, the master pick-up artist Jin is delivering ecstasy to the beautiful women of Shōnan. Everything seems perfect when he ends up in bed with the stunning Oshino until he finds out she's actually a transgender woman. Jin tries to flee, but Oshino won’t let him go. Meanwhile, her jealous ex-boyfriend Yamamoto thinks she’s been stolen from him and sends the Kamikaze-kai yakuza gang after Jin...

0.0

Dochinpira 17: Sizzling Lewd Skin

1996

The 17th installment of the Dochinpira series is the lust-filled life story of the greatest half-assed rogue in history, Jin Kaito! This time, Jin, a professional pick-up artist, arrives at a luxurious seaside resort in search of new prey. He planned to score one wealthy woman after another, but ends up having to offer his services even to the kind of women he’d usually ignore...

7.1

Brother

2000

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

8.0

Blue in Isezaki

1968

0.0

Dochinpira 14: A Hitman's Affair

1995

On another day as a professional seducer, Jin receives a bizarre request from a slick businessman: steal his girlfriend’s heart so she’ll break up with him. Sounds easy, until Jin meets Kanae, a cold, stunning beauty… who happens to be the daughter of a powerful yakuza boss. Things gotten worse when Yuri, a sultry hostess from the apartment next door, latches onto Jin with relentless desire. But the real danger surfaces when Jin discovers the businessman is actually a gangster in disguise plotting an assassination against Kanae’s father.

6.0

Motorpsycho!

1965

A vengeful veterinarian and a grieving widow join forces to track down violent bikers after they commit heinous acts against their loved ones.

6.7

The Outer Way

1998

The cop Himuro is picked as scapegoat by his superiors because of their own involvement in sokaiya gangster practices.

0.0

Greatest Boss of Japan

1970

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.

4.5

Overkill

1987

A Tokyo cop is sent to Los Angeles to help an LAPD detective break up a yakuza ring operating in the city.

7.7

Fireworks

1997

Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia and his business partner paralyzed from a brutal gangster attack, Nishi borrows from a yakuza loan shark and then robs a bank to clear his debt.

7.0

CONFLICT: Outbreak

2016

The Hyodo-gumi boss—part of Tendokai, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate—has been brutally murdered. Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa), the head of the Washio-gumi and Tendokai’s wakagashira (underboss), is convinced that Yoshinari Myojin (Sho Aikawa), a former Tendokai wakagashira-hosa now running Tokyo’s underworld of thugs and mafia, is behind the killing. Around the same time, Tendokai's 5th-generation chairman Katsushige (Hakuryu) orders Washio to secure a woman named Nagi Toyama (Akane Hotta). Washio sets out with his men, Okita (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Date (Hideo Nakano), but they’re ambushed by a group of heavily armed youths. Barely escaping, they manage to bring Nagi to their hideout—only to discover she’s a key player in a power struggle over the Tokyo Casino Project. And so begins the greatest conflict yet, entangling yakuza, mafia, street gangs, the police, and even the state itself—

8.0

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

2003

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

5.8

The Pinkie

2014

Since they were both five, Ryosuke has been stalked by Momoko - the ugliest girl in the village. Her love for Ryosuke is so boundless that she has her face surgically altered to suit his taste - but still he wants nothing to do with her. Ryosuke goes in for fleeting romance - for example, with the girlfriend of a gangster boss. But when he finds out about their affair, he has Ryosuke's little finger hacked off. Magically, the finger falls into Momoko's hands, and she uses it to clone Ryosuke, so she can finally have him (or almost him) for herself. And this is just the first five minutes of Lisa Takeba's short-but-powerful feature debut. Just like in her previous short films, the director - who cut her teeth in the advertising world and as the writer of a video game - throws a lot of genres and techniques into the mix: from science fiction to gangster films, from hospital eroticism to animation. Hectic and absurd, but with its heart in the right place. © IFFR

Genre	Crime
Production Ccountries	Japan

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