Tatsuo Umemiya

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)

A cop intervenes in warfare between Yakuza gangs. (bfi.org.uk)

A Group of space men from the planet Krankor who resemble chickens are led by their leader, Phantom to invade Earth. But a strange superhero named Prince of Space (actually a bootblack in disguise) arrives to defeat the spacemen. Although the weapons of the aliens cannot harm the Prince of Space, the Phantom continues to fight, and many plot twists (including capturing a group of elderly scientists) ensue. Watch out for the Giant! (imdb)

A long-standing gang war on the streets of Hiroshima escalates despite police pressure in this, the fourth film in Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza Papers series. It's 1964, and with the Tokyo Olympics turning the eyes of the world to Japan, lawmen have set out to keep the Yakuza -- Japan's organized crime system -- out of sight. (All Movie Guide)

Police officers and gangsters work hand in hand in this bloody urban drama, which splits the difference between a good guy and a thug. Just as the Ohara gang -- a crafty group of criminals that's unofficially sanctioned by local police -- prepares to pull off a profitable scam, their leader emerges from prison with plans to go legit. To make matters worse, a new police lieutenant has plans of his own to shake things up in the department. (Netflix)

After a US Air Force plane accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on North Korea, the communist country with the assistance of China and the Soviet Union prepare for war with the USA, while in Tokyo, Japan, a newspaper reporter covers the mobilization of the American troops at a nearby airbase while his nurse girlfriend prepares with civil defense in the impending nuclear holocaust. (imdb)

A nobleman writes a letter to the Shogun detailing a tobacco smuggling operation in Edo, but the smugglers kill him before he sends it. His daughter obtains the letter and swears revenge on those responsible.

Hiroshi and his biker buddies get out of jail and start a human trafficking ring. A local yakuza group puts a stop to their business. Desperate for money, Hiroshi gets mixed up with a plot to blackmail the yakuza group with the help of Ocho, a traveling gambler. When the yakuza kills some of his friends, Hiroshi and his gang, knowing they have no chance of surviving, strike back... (wipfilms.net)

In one of the best films of this type, famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner. Things are never as they seem, and it will keep you guessing until the very end. A rare treasure of a mystery, like none before or since!

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someone seeks to fill the seat of power. One of the best movies of this type, it brings raw emotion to the screen as it builds toward its bloody climax! (japanesesamuraidvd.com)

When two Girl Bosses fight each other over territory, their enmity is difficult to solve - they are equals in looks, strength, determination, and power of their respective girl gangs. So, the way is open to a mischievous Yakuza Boss who invites them for a peaceful way to decide their feud: a sexual challenge for him to decide who is the better Girl Boss. Trapped, both are subject to the man's lust and sadistic assaults. (imdb)

Kuroki, a journalist for a trade paper, is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in the illegal arms trading (Takayama, played with nihilistic menace by Tetsuro Tanba) was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan. (imdb)

(...) A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. (...) (letterboxd.com)

A survival thriller where people battle the elements and each other while trying survive (The Movie Database)

Kosaka Hiroshi is the leader of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku and a small time swindler. He lives for money but has never been able to hit the jackpot. His luck seems to change when he hits it off with the daughter of a Yakuza. When he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he soon realizes he might have chewed more than he could bite. (imdb)

This is the third film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (weirdwildrealm)

This is the fourth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

This is the fifth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

This is the seventh film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

This is the Eighth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (imdb)

This is the Ninth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

History's Strongest God Contest VS The worst god companion in history, the throne wearing a century confrontation! The unprecedented bad group "Capone group" finally took off from Japan, but the fishing village which is male heaven, female only reached. I gathered the daughters of the island and appeared in front of the Capone team who earned a profit in the prostitution club ...! Is it? Hachamacha's action, sex appeal, the 10th bad-sounding series fascinated by bursting with laughter! It is! (imdb)

This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (imdb)

This is the Thirteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (The Movie Database)

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (imdb)

This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & "pinku" soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality... (imdb)

A gritty, nourish gangster saga - especially for 1963 - more in the jitsuroku (true account) vain before there were many yakuza films. (The Movie Database)

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role. (imdb)

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War. (The Movie Database)

Mizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet. (imdb)

Based on a true story about a jailbird who was sentenced for 41 years and escaped seven times. In 1947, Ueda robs a drug dealer and his woman for morphine and kills them. He gets imprisoned in Hiroshima, but escapes next year. From then on he gets caught and imprisoned over and over. (thehawaiiherald.com)

Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return. (themoviedb)

The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both. (imdb)

Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation the Kokin, he is involved with a gang war and is arrested. (imdb)

Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’s medical treatment. Five years later, he is allowed to enter Edo with a fresh start. He make ends meet by selling toys. One day, he meets Otoki, a woman who is a lookalike of his late wife and who is being pursued by a mysterious man.

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.

Ise, a Yakuza mid-level drug dealer, is captured during a police sting operation. The Yakuza criminal breaks down under interrogation and agrees to become a police informant. (imdb)

With thugs under gang leader Shingo attempting to make a name for themselves, Toru and crew must brace for an all-out war between their two schools.

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.

Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process.

The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.

A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge.

First part of a long series of films (V-Cinema) in which we follow the rise of a Yakuza clan.

Umemiya is a young yakuza who has to find a new way to support himself after his gang disbands. He sets up various scams where he blackmails adulterous husbands with the help of his girlfriend who serves as bait. When one wealthy businessman refuses to pay, Umemiya proceeds to seduce his wife… This was the 3rd film in the Youth of the Night series. (Takuma_964)

A stockbroker turned yakuza has been ordered to ask the boss of another yakuza outfit to be the substitute emcee of a succession ceremony - the passing of the baton from the older to the younger yakuza generation.