Jiro Okazaki Movies

Japanese gangster drama set in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo, following Haruka (Atsuko Sakuraba), a young geisha who is attacked by an...

1965 Toei Drama / Comedy

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Rise of the Underworld Lords— The mighty Murohachi Alliance, once unifying Japan’s yakuza under Kyoto, collapses, and a fierce struggle...

A crime film released in 1965

A 122 year old movie theater is going to be closed. The staff members, visitors and friends of the old cinema will see the last days of the building...

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...

The Hyodo-gumi boss—part of Tendokai, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate—has been brutally murdered. Kazuma Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa),...

Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug...

A public bath house is the scene of illegal female slave trading operations in 18th century Japan and government spy Shinzo is sent in to expose the...

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and...

A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to...

Makino Kuniyasu is consulted about the succession issue of the Joshu Okubo family. At that time, Makino is attacked by the Arabu Alliance Moriwaki...

Goro wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko, but finds that...

They'll swallow anything... except their pride! How do they do it? Why do they do it? You've seen them on TV: Japanese competitive eaters, eating...

3rd film in a 6-part series. Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) finds further proof of the internal spy within the WRC organisation's ranks, and moves in to...

A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group...

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the...