When the boss of the veteran Kasabe union is attacked his loyal second-in-command Otaki (Akira Kobayashi) strikes back but soon discovers that their enemy is a formidable alliance of Yakuza gangs with an ambitious construction boss turned would be politician named Nakajima whose clout means he has the chief of police in his pocket. As violence between the two sides … Read the rest
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Internal Sleuth (Kenji Misumi, Japan, 1973)
Veteran cop Okumura (Tomisaburo Wakayama) finds himself on the trail of Sugiyama, who’s stolen a cache of guns from a US airbase and is on the run after shooting dead two police officers. But things get messy when the killer guns down a rival gang member whose boss Okumura is friends with, while the increasingly ruthless Seijin-kai gang, whom Sugiyama … Read the rest
Yakuza Graveyard (Kinji Fukasaku, Japan, 1976)
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
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
Accidental Kidnapper (Hideo Sakaki, Japan, 2010)
One day Hideyoshi Date (Katsunori Takahashi), a debt-ridden, suicidal 30-something discovers a runaway kid named Densuke Aikawa (Roi Hayashi) in the back of his car. Densuke turns out to be fleeing an overbearing father but when Hideyoshi realises the kid’s parents are loaded he hatches an impromptu kidnap scheme and demands a huge ransom for the boy’s return. Unknown to … Read the rest
