Shirō Yanase Movies

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught in a conflict between two...

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

1962 Japanese movie

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Orphans who transport stolen goods rebel against the yakuza organization that stole their youth through extortion and violence.

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

A 1960 crime film

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

A young yakuza just released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, a police inspector determined to clean up the corruption in his own hometown,...

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands...

1962 Japanese movie

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...