Shun Oguri

Teruyuki Kagawa

Jô Shishido

Yûsuke Santamaria

One year after the suicide of C-list model Kisaragi Miki, five of her fans come together for a commemorative meeting; fan club leader Iemoto, Oda Yuji, "Snake", Yasuo, and "Strawberry Girl". After meeting each other for the first time, they reminisce about their idol, wondering how someone so bright and happy could have possibly taken her own life. As they discuss her death, the facts, and evidence, they slowly come to the realization that her death didn't occur they way they thought it did. The more they talk, the more the case takes shape in their minds, and the closer they come to the truth.—Ginny

Kisaragi

Kisaragi (2007)

Wataru Takagi

Keisuke Yukioka

Chitose Kobayashi

The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss who's gotten greedy. The rival gang lord who hires Kamimura and his driver Shun pays them and sets them up in a hotel for a night while arranging safe passage on a ship. The son of the dead man comes to his rival and offers a partnership and cash in exchange for Kamimura's death. The boss considers his choice: morals or money? A maid at the hotel tries to aid the escape of Kamimura and Shun. As the two gangs close in, Kamimura chooses honor. Will his stoicism be his shroud?—

A Colt Is My Passport

A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

Kunie Tanaka

Tomisaburô Wakayama

Hiroki Matsukata

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.—Anonymous

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1974)

Tatsuya Fuji

Kayo Matsuo

Shinji Yamada

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.—Fred Cabral

Kurenai no nagareboshi

Kurenai no nagareboshi (1967)

Yûko Tanaka

Kanako Higuchi

Ken Ogata

(Japanese with English subtitles) Widowed woodblock artist Hokusai meets Onao and falls madly in love with her, but she disappears suddenly. One day, his daughter brings home a young girl who looks exactly like Onao. Using the girl as his muse, he reconnects to his youth when he painted his masterpiece, the gigantic octopus and the beauty seduced.—Anonymous

Edo Porn

Edo Porn (1981)

Kyôko Kishida

Keiju Kobayashi

Atsuro Watabe

Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.

To Love

To Love (1997)

Akira Kobayashi

Toshio Takahara

Sanpei Mine

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?—

Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife (1958)

Jun Hamamura

Taiji Tonoyama

Sanae Nakahara

The middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled "Woman". Shokichi surprised to find that painting is actually his first love.

Temptation

Temptation (1957)

Eiji Gô

Misako Watanabe

Nobuo Kaneko

Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how this all ties in with the murder of a policeman shown at the beginning of the film.—Fred Cabral

Youth of the Beast

Youth of the Beast (1963)

Atsushi Yamatoya

Akira Hisamatsu

Hiroshi Midorikawa

The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treacherous wife and finally with the number-one-ranked hit-man, known only as a phantom to those who fear his unseen presence.—J. Spurlin

Branded to Kill

Branded to Kill (1967)

Hiroko Fuji

Yumiko Nogawa

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Final Episode

Final Episode (1974)

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963)

Kenji Kawai

Tôru Abe

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

The Boy Who Came Back

The Boy Who Came Back (1958)

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