Shirō Yanase Movies

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor...

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy...

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film...

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of...

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

1962 Japanese movie

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...