Shirō Yanase Movies

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,...

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...

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

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

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

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

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

1967 Nikkatsu film.

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

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...

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and...

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...

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

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

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...

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...