Birthday: 1933-08-16
Place of Birth: Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Biography: Bunta Sugawara was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 Japanese feature films, most prevalently in Yakuza films. On December 1, 2014, it was announced that Sugawara had died from liver cancer in a Tokyo hospital on November 28, 2014 at the age of 81. (Wikipedia)
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a...
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Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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A big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!...
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Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara....
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It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the b...
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Isamu, a sixth-grade boy, lost his mother in a car accident at a young age. Ever since, he's been un...
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Terrible ! Bloody conflict , outbreak !! The overwhelmingly popular graphic novel serialized in Mang...
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A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on...
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A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite ...
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Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara....
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The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug...
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The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl...
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Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft...
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Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an...
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Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with dir...
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The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and hi...
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A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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The year is 1945, months prior to Japan's ultimate defeat in WW2, and military lieutenant Sugawa is ...
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In order to save the daughter of Kuroiwa clan lord who was made ill by the curse of someone, Hattori...
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As the power of the Tokugawa Shogunate becomes firm, Hattori Hanzo struggles against Sarutobi Sasuke...
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Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes t...
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In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself g...
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Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground....
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Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their res...
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Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutiona...
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The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....
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Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the ...
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Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pill...
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The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
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Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attack...
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During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi te...
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After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure...
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After serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison. Tos...
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The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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Kenzo was behind bars for killing a gangster. Upon his release, he goes to live with his son, whose ...
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An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to h...
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A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, us...
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As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a vil...
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After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city....
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In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carrie...
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A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....
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The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro an...
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With the object of discovering the male accomplice of Hideko, a bad girl, Michiko, a police-woman, d...
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In the northern province, two waitresses Mieko and Hanako from Tokyo, are missing somewhere near the...
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Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai...
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The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is s...
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In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to ...
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Live-action adaptation of Ko Kojima's manga "Sennin buraku"....
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Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the e...
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With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magis...
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Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young si...
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During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The s...
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Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate aff...
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When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the p...
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After his daughter is kidnapped and his wife murdered by drug dealers, a man finds that the gang is ...
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Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c...
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Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between th...
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In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by U...
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Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wi...
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From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With ...
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Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet mu...
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Yawara Inokuma is a girl who aspires to an ordinary life but due to her innate talent is forced to p...
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When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s rele...
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Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own....
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The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom...
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The fifth movie of the “Truck Yaro” series, which is comical road movies of two long-distance trucke...
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The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar...
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The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat...
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Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving ...
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A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinaw...
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Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense...
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The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around...
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The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Convict son revenges innocent father's death....
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Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the...
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After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar mas...
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Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem...
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This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place...
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While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Af...
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A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estrange...
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This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1...
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A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h...
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An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
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In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss....
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Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from schoo...
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The treasures of the Aoyamas were buried at the bottom of the sea when a large earthquake occurred y...
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Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler...
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The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i...
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Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to...
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Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying h...
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Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook'...
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Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....
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The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the c...
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Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfri...
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A young yakuza soldier is torn between staying in his current life or leaving his family when his bo...
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Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the...
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Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their bos...
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Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talent...
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A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on th...
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Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by ...
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After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son ...
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After a bloody battle, Sarutobi Sasuke, his lord, and his students, retreat to a hideout in the midd...
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In order to murder Tokugawa Ieyasu to overthrow his reign, Sarutobi Sasuke put a group of young men ...
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A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a box...
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Naoto, the son of a wealthy family, suffers from Werner syndrome, a premature aging condition; Dai i...
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An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con...
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When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...
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Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Cra...
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After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth...
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Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only ...
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Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainer...
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After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza fam...
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Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shi...
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When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza fami...
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A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of t...
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The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an al...
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The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c...
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Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
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In the spring of 1945, Murakami, an apprentice officer, was ordered by the General Staff Headquarter...
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A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku"....
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Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a membe...
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A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a re...
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Rumiko, the female boss from Kanto. The film is a fierce counterattack by a Yakuza woman against all...
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Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He u...
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An animated motion picture about a real-life Buddhist monk and renowned poet, Ryoukan who lived in 1...
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The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l...
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