Minoru Ōki

Minoru Ōki

Birthday: 1923-12-16

Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan

Biography: No biography available.

Movies

Henchmen
Henchmen

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz...

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Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation

Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to d...

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Red Peony Gambler
Red Peony Gambler

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die...

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Mother's Ambition
Mother's Ambition

The Kumakichi Ishida family lived happily in a small house in Shibuya while their mansion in Azabu w...

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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways
Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completin...

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Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

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The Night of Martial Law
The Night of Martial Law

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Scoundrel
Scoundrel

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, l...

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Rogue
Rogue

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining ...

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...

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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...

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Castle of Owls
Castle of Owls

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi ...

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Stakeout
Stakeout

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect wi...

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Shogun Assassin
Shogun Assassin

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but ...

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Ninja Hunt
Ninja Hunt

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, ...

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The Kamikaze Guy
The Kamikaze Guy

An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII....

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The Actress and the Three Rascals
The Actress and the Three Rascals

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

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前科・仮釈放
前科・仮釈放

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Main Street in the Underworld
Main Street in the Underworld

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Osaka Tough
Osaka Tough

The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who...

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Kanto Street Peddlers
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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Bridge
Bridge

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story....

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Tale of Scarlet Love
Tale of Scarlet Love

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics...

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Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II

The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at ...

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I Will Buy You
I Will Buy You

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko...

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Kingdom of Samurai
Kingdom of Samurai

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Black Lizard
Black Lizard

The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief ...

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White Blaze
White Blaze

A masterpiece depicting the true feelings, grief and joy of a woman. An adaptation of the novel of t...

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Life of Hishakaku 3
Life of Hishakaku 3

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy....

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Not Forgotten
Not Forgotten

Three WWII veterans, reunited by family circumstances, quickly find their life savings threatened by...

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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutiona...

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The Desperate
The Desperate

A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths....

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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...

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Yakuza Law
Yakuza Law

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods....

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Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu
Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassina...

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Passion Fire
Passion Fire

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approac...

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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor...

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Hana no shôgai
Hana no shôgai

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was ...

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お役者変化
お役者変化

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed ...

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荒木又右衛門
荒木又右衛門

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they in...

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A Matter of Valour
A Matter of Valour

Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a...

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Sotobori Murder Case
Sotobori Murder Case

A taxi driver hits a woman on the streets. He takes care of her while she gets better. While realizi...

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Eight Men to Kill
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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Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu
Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953 Japanese movie...

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Return of the Outlaw
Return of the Outlaw

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama...

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The Yakuza Awaits
The Yakuza Awaits

Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama...

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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Gokudo of Kamagasaki

Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...

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大当り男一代
大当り男一代

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father,...

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Ai no Noutan
Ai no Noutan

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Confronting Fear
Confronting Fear

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent...

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Mune yori mune ni
Mune yori mune ni

Japanese drama...

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Kaze no uchi so to
Kaze no uchi so to

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Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass
Youth’s Romance Seat: Sitting on the grass

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The ...

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The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima....

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Flying in the Air
Flying in the Air

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....

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Story of Japanese Bad Men
Story of Japanese Bad Men

Toei yakuza film....

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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life...

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Continental Drifter
Continental Drifter

Japanese crime film....

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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A young man hands in his notice at work and breaks up with his girlfriend in order to pursue his tru...

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Secret Agent 101
Secret Agent 101

Japan-Hong Kong co-production....

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Human Torpedoes
Human Torpedoes

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...

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The Last Kamikaze
The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...

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Outlaw Cop
Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi...

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With Wife, Children, and Friends
With Wife, Children, and Friends

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes ...

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Tsukigata Hanpeita
Tsukigata Hanpeita

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...

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Shingo's Ten Duels
Shingo's Ten Duels

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...

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Internal Sleuth
Internal Sleuth

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...

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Rise and Fall of Chivalry
Rise and Fall of Chivalry

A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member....

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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List

When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical...

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Internees of Kampili
Internees of Kampili

In the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects facing...

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Watari, the Ninja Boy
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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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series...

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Warrior of the Wind
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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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the c...

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Trials of an Okinawa Village
Trials of an Okinawa Village

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinaw...

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Bloodiest Flower
Bloodiest Flower

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator an...

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Blood of Revenge
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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Hoodlum Match
Hoodlum Match

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances....

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The Chivalrous Life
The Chivalrous Life

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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The Great Killing
The Great Killing

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a vill...

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Female Ninja Magic
Female Ninja Magic

In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blo...

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Code Between Brothers 2
Code Between Brothers 2

The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend ...

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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
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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The Fort of Death
The Fort of Death

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
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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The Domain
The Domain

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamas...

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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man
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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Third Generation Boss
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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New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
New Prison Walls of Abashiri 2

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf ba...

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Yakuza on Foot
Yakuza on Foot

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...

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Gambler's Legacy
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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Eyes of Children
Eyes of Children

A man is found dead of an apparent suicide but there is speculation that he was murdered. An investi...

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Brothers of Capones
Brothers of Capones

Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad...

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The Face
The Face

A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth ...

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Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle

In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an e...

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The Path of the King
The Path of the King

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have...

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Horrors of Malformed Men
Horrors of Malformed Men

After escaping from an insane asylum, a medical student assumes the identity of a mysterious dead ma...

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The Hard Core Criminal
The Hard Core Criminal

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...

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House of Gamblers
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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Once and For All
Once and For All

Film concerning warring yakuza families....

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The Red Silk Gambler
The Red Silk Gambler

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pill...

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Team of Ruffians
Team of Ruffians

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....

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The Karate Man and the Spy
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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The Marked Man
The Marked Man

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism....

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Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko

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The Adorable Trio
The Adorable Trio

Japanese romantic comedy film....

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Tokyo Omnibus
Tokyo Omnibus

The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru...

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A Wad of Notes
A Wad of Notes

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

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North Sea Chivalry
North Sea Chivalry

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this ta...

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Legends of Honor
Legends of Honor

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii...

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Seven Gamblers
Seven Gamblers

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with ...

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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
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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Ninja's Mark
Ninja's Mark

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she...

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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler ...

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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan...

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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
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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The Boss
The Boss

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous w...

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Closing Time
Closing Time

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Tale of Ninja Duty
Tale of Ninja Duty

Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to...

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Red Pants
Red Pants

A woman diver in great peril is rescued by Shinji, a fisherman. But his deed is belittled by Takiko,...

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Carlos
Carlos

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza....

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A Yakuza Goes Home
A Yakuza Goes Home

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...

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Gamblers and Racketeers
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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Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head
Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head

Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunat...

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The Big Ambition
The Big Ambition

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Tears of Banishment
Tears of Banishment

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name....

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The Brawling Angel
The Brawling Angel

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi....

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Love du Jour
Love du Jour

The proprietress of a long-established sushi restaurant in Asakusa is a war widow who has raised thr...

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Prison Gambler
Prison Gambler

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained...

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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of t...

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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang....

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Dagger
Dagger

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The Tattooed Lord
The Tattooed Lord

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Japan's Most Chivalrous
Japan's Most Chivalrous

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Bikkuri Sanjuushi
Bikkuri Sanjuushi

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Duel of the Underworld
Duel of the Underworld

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Histories of the Chivalrous
Histories of the Chivalrous

A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after ...

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Yakuza Vassal
Yakuza Vassal

A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces....

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The Shogun's Vault III
The Shogun's Vault III

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...

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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...

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Gambler Biography
Gambler Biography

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era....

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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown...

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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters...

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Musume wa kaku kōgi suru
Musume wa kaku kōgi suru

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s...

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Fossilized Wilderness
Fossilized Wilderness

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Divisio...

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The Gambler
The Gambler

A crime film released in 1965...

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売春地下組織
売春地下組織

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Okinawa Interlude
Okinawa Interlude

1959 Japanese movie...

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The Gion Tempest
The Gion Tempest

The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the soci...

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Evil Spirit Princess Sakurako
Evil Spirit Princess Sakurako

A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, be...

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Kindan no suna
Kindan no suna

Film directed by Manao Horiuchi....

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Dadakko Shachou
Dadakko Shachou

Adapted from a novel by Kaoru Funayama...

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Rakuten fujin
Rakuten fujin

In a corner of Tokyo, an old apartment housed the couple Sakaguchi Koyasu, a construction engineer, ...

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