Ken Takakura

Wolves, Pigs and People

Wolves, Pigs and People (1964)

Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu

Abashiri bangaichi: Dai setsugen no taiketsu (1966)

Golgo 13 is assigned to murder a man named Boss Goa.

Golgo 13

Golgo 13 (1973)

Shin'ichi Chiba

Takashi Shimura

One of the Japanese Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb.—Anonymous

Bullet Train

Bullet Train (1975)

Brave Red Flower of the North

Brave Red Flower of the North (1970)

Kobe Kokusai Gang

Kobe Kokusai Gang (1975)

A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. He then seeks revenge against the people who employed him.

An Outlaw

An Outlaw (1964)

A group of disgraced samurai plan a decade long revenge against a corrupt lord.

47 Ronin

47 Ronin (1994)

A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

Manhunt

Manhunt (1976)

Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.

A Fugitive from the Past

A Fugitive from the Past (1965)

Oryu (Fuji Junko) is invited to stay with a local yakuza boss of a silk farming town. When a rival gang murders the boss Oryu takes it upon herself to protect his business and family.

The Valiant Red Peony

The Valiant Red Peony (1968)

A photo taken of Takakura and Shindo both sporting full-upper-body tattoos, something not the common in pre-1963 yakuza films.

Nippatsume wa jigoku-iki daze

Nippatsume wa jigoku-iki daze (1960)

In a village of fishermen in Japan, Takata misses his son Kenichi, to whom he has been estranged for many years. When his daughter-in-law Rie tells him that Kenichi is sick in the hospital, she suggests Takata to come to Tokyo to visit his son in the hospital where he would have the chance to retie the relationship. However, Kenichi refuses to receive his father in his room, and Rie gives a videotape to Takata to know about the work of his son. Once at home, Takata sees a documentary in the remote village Lijiang, in the province of Younnan, about the passion of Kenichi, the Chinese opera, where the lead singer Li Jiamin promises to sing an important folk opera on the next year. When Rie calls Takata to tell that her husband has a terminal liver cancer, Takata decides to travel to Lijiang to shoot Li Jiamin singing the opera to give to Kenichi.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965)

A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. At dawn, he helps to deliver a calf and, just as mysteriously and distantly, disappears down the road. In the spring, he returns to stay as a farmhand, gains the respect of the widow and the devotion of her young son, and begins to end their feelings of loneliness. When an intruder, in the person of a rich merchant, shows up and presses his attentions on the widow, the farmhand saves her from his attentions. But there is a mystery about where the stranger came from; and why, after winning the hearts of the widow and her son, he has to go away again.

A Distant Cry from Spring

A Distant Cry from Spring (1980)

Kimiko Yo

Tadanobu Asano

Takeshi Kitano

A prison officer hands in his resignation after his wife's death, to drive to the port where she wants her ashes scattered at sea.

Dearest

Dearest (2012)

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.—farnas

Wild Detective

Wild Detective (1976)

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taking in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence.

Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi

Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi (1969)

A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Things were never going to be simple and bygones were never going to be bygones of course, but to make matters more complicated the murdered boss had a young daughter upon his death. Will it be a case of vengeance?—aghaemi

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