Shun Sugata

After the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923, a troupe of women's sumo wrestler arrive in the area near Tokyo. The group of female sumo wrestlers include Tomoyo and Tamae. Meanwhile, Tetsu and Daijiro are members of an anarchist group. They go to watch the female sumo wrestlers and become fascinated by them.

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine

The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine (2018)

A lawman (Shô Aikawa) works under cover to infiltrate the Yakuza

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears

The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears (1997)

Hidetoshi Nishijima

Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts. Described as a love poem to Japanese films of the past, as well as a protest at the present, Cut is an exploration of one man's obsessive relationship with cinema.—lletaif

Cut (2011)

Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Heist (1995)

A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again.

Just Remembering

Just Remembering (2021)

Kunihiko Morihara was left a widower eight years ago when his wife passed away. He attends his first mixer party under the guidance of his daughter. There he meets Fumika and starts conversation. Kunihiko is too shy to show his love since he's much older than Fumika. On learning that Fumika goes to England to study about English Tea, Kunihiko rushes to the airport but his effort is in vain. He takes out his dead wife's photo and consults her 'I love Fumika, what should I do?

Fireworks Ferris Wheels and Love

Fireworks Ferris Wheels and Love (1997)

Tadanobu Asano

Takeshi Kitano

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.—Jean-Marc Rocher

Taboo

Taboo (1999)

Akira Takarada

Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.

Kantoku · Banzai!

Kantoku · Banzai! (2007)

Kôji Yakusho

Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.—mirko

License to Live

License to Live (1998)

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Eyes of the Spider

Eyes of the Spider (1998)

Kenji Yamamoto's father died from using a stimulant drug. His life fell into desperation. Kenji then joined a crime syndicate. There, he meets the gang's boss Hiroshi Shibasaki. Hiroshi reaches out to Kenji and they developed a relationship like father and son. As time passes, Kenji has his own family.

Yakuza and the Family

Yakuza and the Family (2020)

Shuji and his older brother Shuichi live in a sad resort town that has a virtual wall in its middle. Looking to rise him above his surroundings Shuji meets and interacts with a priest with a past, a pretty hostess, a troubled girl, a thug and more. Looking for the girl who has moved with his family to Tokyo the boy meets trouble and is sinking quickly.—aghaemi

Shissô

Shissô (2005)

'Zen' Buddhist teacher Dogen Zenji is a very important religious person during the Kamakura period, 750 years ago. After his mother died, he decides to move to China and settle as a Buddhist teacher. One bright morning, enlightened, Zenji returns to Japan as a devoted evangelist of the 'new' Buddhism. However, this new form of Buddhism is not accepted in all communities.—Rene Guillot

Zen (2009)

Ko Shibasaki

In the year 3048, the wounded Lord Kagemitsu Daigo proposes a deal to rule the whole world to forty-eight demons in their sealed temple. In return, the demons ask forty-eight parts of the body of his unborn son. When the mutilated baby is born, his mother puts him in a basket in the river flow to save his life. The baby survives and becomes the demon slayer Hyakkimaru that slash demons to retrieve his body parts. During his journey, he meets the female thief Dororo, who was raised as a boy after the death of her parents by the evil Lord Daigo, in a small town and she befriends Hyakkimaru and joins him in his quest seeking revenge against the Daigo's clan.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dororo

Dororo (2007)

Sion Sono

Bryce Papenbrook

Set in a future-world vision of Tokyo where the police have been privatized and bitter self-mutilation is so casual that advertising is often specially geared to the "cutter" demographic, this is the story of samurai-sword-wielding Ruka and her mission to avenge her father's assassination. Ruka is a cop from a squad whose mission is to destroy homicidal mutant humans known as "engineers" possessing the ability to transform any injury to a weapon in and of itself.—Anonymous

Tokyo Gore Police

Tokyo Gore Police (2008)

Narumi, a tormented young woman, leaves prison to find her brother. This reunion will mark the breakup of the abusive and incestuous relationship that Narumi has had with her brother for many years.

Toilet and Women

Toilet and Women (2012)

Takashi Miike

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor (2002)

(Japanese with English subtitles) Part revenge story, part existential meditation, Heaven's Story is 100% modern epic, gracefully threading together multiple suburban tales of lost souls seeking retribution and redemption.

Heaven's Story

Heaven's Story (2010)

Koyuki

After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?—Jean-Marc Rocher

Pulse

Pulse (2001)

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.—Production

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