Rinichi Yamamoto Movies

Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.

Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

1963 Toei war / action film.

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

A touching action film about a young yakuza who becomes infected with evil because he has the ability to easily decipher the mechanism of a safe....

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in...

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

A crime film released in 1965

Chiezo Kataoka grew up as a Magician's apprentice in America and no prison can hold him!

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

Japanese crime film.

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an...

1960 Toei war movie.

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai are honored guests at an isolated village where 300 million yen mysteriously went missing and a deadly...

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.