Akira Shioji
Birthday: 1928-01-09
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was r...
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Cases of Umon: The Woman with an Umbrella
Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murde...
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Brothers Serving Time
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Af...
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Fall Guy
Ginshiro, threatened by poor repute and upcoming star Tachibana, forces his friend Yasu to marry Kon...
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after Wor...
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Morning Breeze in Edo
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in E...
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi...
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Oxen Split Torturing
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are per...
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A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate....
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Indecent Family: Mother & Daughter
A rich retired middle-aged man is seduced by young bar dancer and she moves into his mansion. He enj...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his B...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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The Blossom and the Sword
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros...
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Samurai Wolf II
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their execut...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and s...
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The Spear of Heroism
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already i...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a g...
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Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...
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Yukyo-retsuden
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike h...
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Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale...
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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie
The Dogma Kingdom attacks the Matagi (mountain tribe) village of Yamabiko to steal the sacred Flying...
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Watari and the Fantasticks
Based on Episodes 27 through 28, 33 through 35, Episode 37 and 39 of the 1967 Akakage TV Series "Upo...
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The South Sea Wolf
Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out ...
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House of Gamblers
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price...
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The Mad Fox
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on h...
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Enlisted Yakuza
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the s...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face...
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate be...
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Asian Beat: I Love Nippon
Commentary: The first work in the "Asian Beat" series, in which young directors from six Asian count...
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Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and t...
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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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The Adventures of Jirokichi: A thousand coins
The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...
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The Duel at the Satta Pass
A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young s...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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A Scream from Nowhere
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterio...
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Nuns That Bite
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds ...
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Puppets Under Starry Skies
A young Japanese man finds himself in the company of a strange, effeminate gay man and a girl with a...
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The General and His Empire of Joy
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gam...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Killer's Mission
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Warrior of the Wind
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...
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The Magic Serpent
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Miyamoto Musashi
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man...
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y...
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Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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Black Ninja
Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period....
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. Duri...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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Patience Has An End
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr...
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Woman Mobsters
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, ...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, t...
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Gambler's Legacy
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mit...
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The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his bir...
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Samurai Wolf
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a...
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Neo Chinpira: Zoom Goes the Bullet
Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging th...
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Duel of Blood and Sand
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the ...
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The Karate Man and the Spy
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. T...
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Seven Gamblers
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with ...
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Five Ronins
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oich...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered....
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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The Ninja Hunt
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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Japan's Top Gangster
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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Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling!...
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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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The Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s...
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Code Between Brothers 5
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi s...
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Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their bos...
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Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his ...
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Samurai Geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro...
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The Racketeer Ishimatsu
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes...
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Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the de...
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido...
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Blue Rain Osaka
A woman who runs a bar with her older sister has her life disrupted when she has a chance meeting wi...
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An Ocean to Cross
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and br...
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controll...
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Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe
Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of cou...
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Team of Ruffians
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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The Story of a Geisha
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan....
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. A...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Animal Courage
We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territo...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso
A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection com...
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Dream Street
A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka....
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
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Good Rascals
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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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes thr...
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his supe...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an al...
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Great Prophecy: The Revival of the Giant God
The spirit of Princess Lena, the last emperor of the planet Lectorius who vanished 700 years ago, ar...
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The Street Fighter
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper...
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Bride of White Castle
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young mast...
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Sakura Official
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Road Warriors
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless w...
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The Bandits
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mount...
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Gambler Biography
Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era....
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan
Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He de...
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Tengu Priest
Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death....
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Watari, the Ninja Boy
Adapted from Sanpei Shirato's classic manga, a legend unfolds as Watari, a young boy skilled in ninj...
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The Protector
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her fath...
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Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir...
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to mo...
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Gate of Flesh
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th...
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Tenamonya Sandogasa
The Tokaido highway is crowded with people heading for Shimizu Port with the dream of defeating Jiro...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda....
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Truck Rascals in Fever Heat
The fourth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. A comical road movie of two long-distance truckers, “Mom...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl...
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Gate of Flesh
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th...
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