Birthday: 1937-10-07
Place of Birth: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Biography: Hideo Murota (7 October 1937 – 15 June 2002) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 200 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in Original Sin (1992). In 2002, he passed away from lung cancer at the age of 64.
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when the...
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Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order ...
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TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force i...
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Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
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Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her...
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Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as pla...
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The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, bu...
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Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...
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Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He...
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An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII....
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Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills...
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A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who...
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Dirty Hero Takuro Kanzaki appears in a life and death murder game!...
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A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunde...
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Sequel to 'Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf'...
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A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they ...
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The conflict that broke out due to the expansion of the power of the Ninryukai was further intensifi...
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A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K...
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With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a...
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A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to pro...
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In the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty Spiegel op...
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When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthqua...
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move th...
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Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas....
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After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she...
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A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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A former safe-breaker, a former yakuza , and another young "Toshiro" Ryo (Aikawa) are planning to at...
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Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when h...
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A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take rev...
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Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of th...
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When both a priceless jewel and the daughter of a rich heiress are stolen by a master criminal, Koga...
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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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Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend Sukema...
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When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he...
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Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by...
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If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the t...
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Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and qu...
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There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yuki...
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A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering po...
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Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash ...
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Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retire...
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A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch ...
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At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner...
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Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike h...
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A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, so...
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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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A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....
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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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At a certain high school in Karuizawa, students relied on ordinary local trains for their commute, b...
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After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction...
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When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events th...
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Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hay...
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Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an es...
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Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....
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Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...
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Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek...
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Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark....
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Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho...
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Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuz...
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Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by...
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A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst...
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Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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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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G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his pol...
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A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum wit...
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Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate to...
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Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendshi...
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Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that ...
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After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor....
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Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be ...
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Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with...
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Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki....
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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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Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a ...
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Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
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The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of Ind...
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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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A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful ya...
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When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective ...
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A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high...
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The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me...
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Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then ...
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Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima'...
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Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judo...
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Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business....
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Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur...
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Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friends...
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A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Penins...
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Tatsu's life seemed to be smooth sailing, as he was blessed by his friends, married Fujieda, and mad...
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An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun...
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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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Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the h...
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This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 &...
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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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Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun an...
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Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an adv...
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After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...
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After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Ka...
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Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
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Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after Wor...
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Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch...
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Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to...
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A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and aft...
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A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of vi...
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A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestra...
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Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...
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Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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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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Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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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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Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural po...
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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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Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove t...
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Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and R...
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As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press...
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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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Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by ...
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Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...
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After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond....
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Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent ac...
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Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone...
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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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Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school ...
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Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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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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Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in ...
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The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...
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The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f...
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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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Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept...
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Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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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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Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w...
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The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy abou...
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Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes ...
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The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass....
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“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, w...
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After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a...
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Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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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 the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father...
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A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of the...
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Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...
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A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that...
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A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading ...
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Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press con...
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Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army du...
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G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokoha...
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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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While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a stran...
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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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When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of ...
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Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a bur...
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Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
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A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin...
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There are rumors that “a mysterious woman who is very good at SEX will appear” in a small hot spring...
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Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan....
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Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last wor...
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Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family ...
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A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thrill...
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After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on ...
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A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running ...
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A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to becom...
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A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who lov...
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In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays...
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A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison...
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An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste...
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Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and ...
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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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The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister....
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Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised M...
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Actress Asada Kaori finally gets wet. A place where desire and betrayal intersect. And that's where ...
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The legendary sleeping lion is back in the modern era! Skyline GTR (BNR32) VS GTR (KPGC10) With Kei...
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The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz...
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A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that th...
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Two young people undertake a doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the di...
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The ultimate sex appeal wars have begun between the two shop girls working opposite each other in th...
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