Shirō Yanase Movies

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and...

1962 Japanese movie

Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the...

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Japanese crime film

A 1960 crime film

1961 Japanese movie

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

1962 Japanese movie

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

1962 Japanese movie

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

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,...