Twilight of the Yakuza

Making of Yakuza Apocalypse

The Making of the movie "Yakuza Apocalypse".

Yakuza and Constitution

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza members reduced to less than 60,000. In the past

2016

Young Yakuza

Meet the Japanese Mafia's latest son: a 20 year old named Naoki, part of a surging, decade-long wave of juvenile delinquency in Japan. As Naoki reject

2007

Hell Bento: Uncovering the Japanese Underground

An exploration of underground Japanese counter-culture including the Yakuza, the nationalists, the gay and lesbian community, the bikers and the homel

1995

Goodbye Cruel World

Anzai, Mutoh, Hamada, Hagiwara, and Miru are in a car headed to a love hotel used by the Sugiyama Clan for money laundering. This one night only gang

2022

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

2002

The Making of "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion"

A behind-the-scenes look at the creative process behind Juzo Itami's "Minbo no Onna" a.k.a. "Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion".

1992

Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas

Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art dir

2002

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed, and

2009

City with Beasts

Fierce struggle between brothers and sisters in a lawless land where violence is the norm.

1958

Two Lives, Two Yakuza

An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambu

1964

Postman Blues

Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate

1997

Blues Harp

Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship

1998

Rainy Dog

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to

1997

Monday

A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what h

2000

Shinjuku Triad Society

Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.

1995

The Man in White

After his father figure - a yakuza boss, is murdered, Azusa Moribe goes on a killing spree to exact revenge.

2003

Silver

The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sa

1999

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

1969

Young Lord Yakuza

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

1961