Shirō Yanase Movies

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group...

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...

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...

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...

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

A 1971 crime film

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

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.

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in...

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

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

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.