Lady Snowblood

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals.

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to pri

Women's Police

Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep ord

The Cleanup

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continu

The Lawyer of Shimane

The story is set in the Shimane Prefecture, which supposedly has the fewest lawyers in all of Japan.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out i

Goodbye Mr. Tears

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.

The Blazing Continent

A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever mor

A Gangster's Morals

Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiy

Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

Mako and her girl friends enter a dispute with rival street gangsters The Eagles, a band of racist m

Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the esc

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

Wild young people kidnap a wealthy woman and she becomes attracted to one of them. When she tells th

Jeans Blues: No Future

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K

Whirlwind Of Love

A young woman in Hokkaido gets cold feet during her marriage ceremony and runs to Tokyo with her fri

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a

I Love The Sun

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the

A Young Man's Stronghold

A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she

Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song

Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip clu

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of th

Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit

A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing to

Morning Fog

Kyoko and her mother Yuki returned to their hometown of Fukui. Yuki runs a dressmaker's store in the

Kill or Be Killed

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha

Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Pr

Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and tw

Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki

Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a call

The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor

Keinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he is a

Gambling is My Destiny

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends,

Greatest Boss Of Japan

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule t

Zeno: Unlimited Love

Zeno: Kagirinaki Ai ni is a movie about life and work of Brother Zenon Żebrowski, a Polish missionar

Tsuma to onna no aida

Secret Zone of Tokyo

The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two

Mini-Skirt Lynchers

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group

Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm

Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one o

Gambling Den Desire

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is

Cold Current

Set against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle between the faction of the chairman of the board

Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi sl

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

Showdown in the Red Valley

Ken Watanabe, a young man from Tokyo, comes to the great plains of Rumo, Hokkaido to see his hometow

Adventure With Him

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with hi

The Code of Man

Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man

Your Life

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

I Shall Not Forget

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke'

Monument to the Girl's Corps

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the

Till We Meet Again

College life starts off great for Michiko. She and her friend join the Italian Culture Research Club

In Tears

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to

Yabanjin no Nekutai

Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar

Dorobō Sodachi Dorobōi

A suspense comedy about thieves starring Kazuo Funaki.

Oh-Oku: The Women Of The Inner Palace

The year is Seitoku 2 (1712), and Japan has a new ruler. But Ietsugu, the 7th Tokugawa shogun, is on

Gokudô Petenshi

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship be

Aruhi watashi wa

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag

若い川の流れ

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe

Inu to Asachan

A daughter from an island in the Seto Inland Sea takes a job as a nanny in Tokyo. She thrills the he

Night Butterflies

A 1971 crime film

Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and wit

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai

Lullaby of the Earth

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is su

Tree Without Leaves

Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his fi

Love or Duty: Samurai Rebellion

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home

Chivalrous Pride

The Homeless

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths a

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

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

The Blue Mountains '88

Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Retaliation

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrate

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Zenpen - Gonenme no Kyaku

Onihei's Detective Records

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding

Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a

犬神家の一族

Samurai Justice: A Duel at Takadanobara

Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of

Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard

A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the grand

Flickering Flames

In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Ta

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:

Youth A Go Go!

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young

Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell

The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a

No Greater Love

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the Sa

Song of Farewell

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he l

I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a w

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

There Was a War When I Was a Child

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

Yakuza of the Present

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi rest

The SAKURA Code

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.

Samurai Justice 2: Mother & Daughter

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when

Samurai Justice: Assistance in a Duel

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his

Bad Girls of Japan

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers? By tracing the conc

Step on the Gas!

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

Blood for Blood

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new build

Melody of Rebellion

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He r

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his cond

The Stormy Man

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

Blood Shed

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he a

The Rule for a Vagabond

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this his

The Wicked

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he

A Warm Misty Night

When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his belov

Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who

The Man of Victory

Burning Nature

Film from 1967.

The Voice of Sin

Eiji Akutsu is a newspaper reporter. He is working on unsolved case that took place 30 years ago. Th

Magistrate Toyama: Conspiracy of a Beautiful Woman! Rampage in Kanhashu

The meeting of the two greatest legends in Japan - Magistrate Toyama, the crime-fighting official wi

The Killer

A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new ci

Gambler's Dilemma

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her fa

Lost Virgin

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

Onna no Iji

2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However,

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday,

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 8

President Ito, a major apparel maker, was poisoned in the president's office. Kenzo (Baku Ohwada), w

Under the Open Sky

Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 y

The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto

The beginning of the Showa period. A town in the Kanto region. During the autumn festival, a car fro

My Neighbor's Masala

Sawaki Tatsuya is a fledgling photographer. He returns to his hometown Fukuoka to take care of his s

Nezunoban

In Japan, the passing of a loved one is marked by 'night watch': staying up all night with the decea

My Sweetheart

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I

Women of the Night - Woman of Seniority

A tragic love story about the heiress of the Kitakyushu Tagawa family who becomes a hostess in Osaka