Tough cop Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) finds his investigations into a Yakuza group complicated by corrupt superiors and his own attraction toward gangster’s wife Keiko (Meiko Kaji). But after he befriends Iwata (Tatsuo Umemiya) – the man lined up to take control of Keiko’s gang – Iwata is murdered while Kuroiwa finds himself suspended, the result of the Chief of Police … Read the rest
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1976)
Kyoto bank-robber Takashi (Tsunehiko Watase) loses his partner in a heist gone wrong and decides to leave the country for Brazil. But his plan is sidetracked by Michi (Miki Sugimoto) the delinquent woman who loves him and won’t leave him alone, as well as his dead partner’s vengeful brother who wants all the cash they stole for himself. Events are … Read the rest
Modern Yakuza: Outlaw Killer aka Street Mobster (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1972)
A street thug named Okita (Bunta Sugawara) emerges from prison after a five year stretch and hooks up with his former gang. Finding his old turf divided between two rival crime syndicates headed by Takigawa (Takeo Chii) and Yato (Noboru Ando) he begins muscling in on the former’s territory. But Okita can’t stay out of trouble and his love/hate relationship … Read the rest
Virus/Resurrection Day (full 156m version) (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1980)
A renegade scientist passes onto the Russians a doomsday virus developed by the US military. But the virus escapes and proves unstoppable. Hospitals overflow with dying patients and mass panic erupts. Overwhelmed, the authorities begin burning mounds of corpses in the streets while the US President (Glenn Ford) and a wily senator (Robert Vaughn) try to identify the source of … Read the rest
Fall Guy (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1982)
To spare himself public embarrassment an insecure and ageing movie star named Ginshiro (Morio Kazama) forces his pregnant mistress Konatsu (Keiko Matsuzaka) to marry his lackey Yasu (Mitsuru Hirata). To Ginshiro’s envy the pair fall deeply in love and Yasu – now desperate for money to support Konatsu – volunteers to perform a fall down an oversized staircase on the … Read the rest
