Noboru Andô

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible. (imdb)

Isamu is a punk born on the margins of post-war society. By virtue of his own courage and propensity for violence he becomes the leader of a street gang and attracts the attention of the more established yakuza crimelords. (IMDB Comments)

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over. (imdb)

Wolves is set in Japan in the 1920s. The disintegration of the ancient samurai traditions is paralleled with the rise of the Yakuza, Japan's equivalent of the Mafia. Three gangsters try to keep themselves from getting killed, not only by their higher-ups but by those who perceive them as a threat against the old ways.

An retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans. (imdb)

When a man (Nakatani) is brought into the hospital fatally wounded after being hit by a car, Amamiya initially refuses to operate, seeing the case as hopeless. But after he sees the victim, whose given name is Sai, and recognises him as a private who fought under him under the Japanese name of Shibata in Okinawa during the war, he has a change of heart. (midnighteye.com)

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. (letterboxd.com)

The film was a Toei production starring Scarface himself, Andô Noboru. Andô Noboru no waga tôbô to sex no kiroku is basically Andô on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultraviolence.

It is a remake of the French film The Last Adventure (1967) about two men released from prison and one man's girlfriend (Meiko Kaji) search for gold using a diving suit. (wikipedia)

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor. (imdb)

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman. (imdb)

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Sato’s strongest film, a masterpiece. A post-war saga of returning soldiers & their bestial do-anything-to-survive savagery in building a dog-eat-dog capitalist society, it has some of the most searingly potent juxtapositions I’ve ever seen. A devastating, emotionally exhausting experience somewhat similar to the insanity on display in many of James Ellroy’s latest novels. - Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film by Chris D.

A Yakuza smuggler gets involved with a Korean prostitute.

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

1st film in a series of 8.

Part 2 in a long-running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short-tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.