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Criterion Channel
77
74
7.1
/10451/
73
/285/
71
/201/
3.8
/41816/
93
/14/
79
/283/

Tokyo Drifter (1966)
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
poster
77
68
7.4
/4736/
74
/139/
73
/116/
3.8
/12091/
90
/116/

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
67
7.3
/4194/
72
/84/
69
/85/
3.8
/9433/
86
/7/
90
/95/

Youth of the Beast (1963)
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
poster
70
67
6.9
/13314/
71
/279/
67
/228/
3.7
/17736/
71
/56/
80
/662/
58
/19/

Gozu (2003)
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
poster
FlixHouse
65
46
6.8
/2175/
67
/75/
67
/64/
3.5
/3042/
57
/21/

The Bullet Train (1975)
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
45
7.3
/1753/
66
/24/
64
/37/
3.8
/2769/
81
/22/

Story of a Prostitute (1965)
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
37
7.1
/1387/
66
/27/
65
/19/
3.6
/3393/
77
/19/

Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
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Criterion Channel
69
36
6.9
/1146/
63
/29/
69
/23/
3.7
/2818/
73
/16/

The Warped Ones (1960)
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
poster
64
32
6.8
/1069/
61
/17/
63
/29/
3.4
/3011/
61
/9/

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! (1963)
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
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Hoopla
43
28
4.4
/1871/
48
/47/
56
/48/
2.6
/1599/
14
/281/

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
23
6.8
/662/
62
/15/
64
/16/
3.5
/2389/
71
/1/

Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
23
6.7
/531/
66
/22/
65
/11/
3.5
/1472/

Black Sun (1964)
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
poster
68
18
7.2
/365/
65
/13/
66
/12/
3.6
/898/

Outlaw: Gangster VIP (1968)
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
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68
17
6.9
/347/
69
/13/
67
/23/
3.5
/474/

Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey (2000)
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Oddysey was sort of an epilogue of the Ultraman Tiga series. Just when we thought that the world is safe, it's under attack again! A TPC excursion (including GUTS' Captain Megumi Iruma) headed to an old ruins and unintentionally woke up three evil ancient giants whom Daigo, later on, has visions of. What's so haunting about his visions is that they're not only three but four evil giants, including Ultraman Tiga in a very dark physique and a very evil aura. After a series of visions, Daigo was able to meet the three evils who beat him up and left the Black Spark Lens to him. Later on, the ultimate battle begins in the ancient ruins. Daigo as Ultraman Tiga, who is supposed to be the warrior of light, must use his powers, however dark, in order to defeat the three evils.
poster
61
15
6.7
/361/
64
/13/
58
/15/
3.4
/923/
50
/1/

Retaliation (1968)
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
poster
Criterion Channel
65
15
6.7
/336/
56
/9/
69
/14/
3.4
/587/

I Hate But Love (1962)
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
14
6.6
/356/
62
/7/
56
/13/
3.5
/640/

Heat Wave (1991)
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
poster
62
12
7.1
/238/
46
/3/
61
/11/
3.6
/573/

Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
poster
61
9
6.0
/176/
50
/4/
70
/6/
3.2
/513/

Teenage Yakuza (1962)
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
poster
?
10
/1/

Shōjo (1961)
1961 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Kaze to Ki to Sora to (1964)
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.
poster
?
3.8
/6/
10
/1/

Fossil of Love (1970)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Yabure Kabure (1961)
Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to crawl out of the mire, and his lover who tries to save him at his own peril.
poster
?
10
/1/

Cheers to the Sky (1966)
Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely with the help of her colleagues and instructors.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Forced Marriage with Children (1987)
Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…
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?
20
/1/

極道はクリスチャン 修羅の抗争 (2001)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

The Black Sheep (1967)
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
poster
?
10
/1/

Aruhi watashi wa (1967)
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.
poster
?
10
/1/

Utau abarenbō (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

My Sweetheart (1967)
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
poster
?
10
/1/

Jigoku no yoru wa makka da ze (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Yoko o muita seishun (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
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?
6.4
/7/

Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969)
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
poster
?
10
/1/

Naku n janai ze (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Wharf Temperament (1961)
The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.
poster
?
10
/1/

Abare chōhan (1970)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding (1967)
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.
poster
?
10
/1/

Taiyō no yō ni akaruku (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
50
/1/

Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 5 (2008)
The fifth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
poster
?
6.9
/12/
10
/1/

Sukiyaki (1995)
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-warming comedy takes place in Yokohama, where the Mihara family owns a restaurant called “Boston Grill”. Experience the ups and downs of this family and learn how they deal with the everyday problems they are faced with during difficult times.
poster
?
10
/1/

Break Town Story (1985)
Japanese drama film.
poster
?
5.3
/13/

A Man's World (1971)
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
poster
?
10
/1/

Star of Destiny (1966)
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their mother in almost 20 years. The war had separated them. When Eiji learns that his sister is engaged, he is determined to reunite with his mother and relay the wonderful news. With a pocket full of hopes and just one clue that may lead him to his mother, Eiji sets off for Taiwan.
poster
?
7.2
/19/
20
/2/

Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
poster
?
10
/1/
35
/6/

The Guitarist from the Sea (1960)
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.
poster
?
60
/1/

East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights (1998)
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the first time in Fukagawa. Overcoming the age difference, they are strongly attracted to each other. However, in Fukano, in addition to the problem of downtown and uptown, there was a deep “river” that separated women and men. However, Kana, on the other hand, easily crossed that "river" due to her sexual love with Fukano. "I never thought I'd live west of the Sumida River," Kana said. However, behind this lies the conspiracy of Fukano's old lover, Junko. The two get married, but Kana's behavior is gradually haunted by a mystery, and the shadow of her detective and old man flickers. The core of the mystery involved a strange sex shop
poster
?
10
/1/

Hana no saigetsu (1962)
1962 Japanese movie
poster
?
10
/1/

Wind of Youth (1968)
A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.


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