Shirō Yanase Movies

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat...

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group...

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

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

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

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

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...