Hideo Murota
Hideo Murota (7 October 1937 – 15 June 2002) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 100 films. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Yokohama Film Festival for his role in Original Sin (1992). In 2002, he passed away from lung cancer at the age of 64.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 28.162 |
| Birthday | 1937-10-07 |
| Place of Birth | Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan |
| Also Known As | 室田日出男 , Hideo Murota, |
1980
Kagemusha
7.8/628
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at...
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Kagemusha
1995
Gonin
6.654/52
Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by co...
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Gonin
1977
Karate for Life
6.6/13
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a...
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Karate for Life
1990
Heaven and Earth
6.1/14
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across t...
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Heaven and Earth
1987
A Taxing Woman
6.8/32
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a t...
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A Taxing Woman
1966
The Kamikaze Guy
5/1
An elaborate criminal tango based around treasure hidden during WWII.
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The Kamikaze Guy
1980
The Beast to Die
5/15
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the aut...
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The Beast to Die
1974
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
6.386/44
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to pri...
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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
2003
Women in the Mirror
7.7/6
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
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Women in the Mirror
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
6.1/52
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin...
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Hiruko the Goblin
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.4/23
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own...
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Yakuza Graveyard
1974
Jeans Blues: No Future
7.7/6
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
1974
Violent Streets
6.5/13
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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Violent Streets
1988
Seven Days War
6/2
A community is in turmoil when junior high schoolers barricade themselves in an empty factory to protest the draconian rules of parents and teachers....
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Seven Days War
2000
Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
5.3/17
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personalit...
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Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
1974
Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
6.348/23
Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into t...
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Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
1972
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
7/147
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
1971
Sympathy for the Underdog
7.2/34
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
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Sympathy for the Underdog
1972
Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
8.1/7
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- ma...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
1974
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
5.3/12
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang...
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The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1969
Japan Organized Crime Boss
7.9/4
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is ta...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
2001
An Adolescent
6.1/21
Incredibly indolent cop Tomokawa spends his time making fun of his mentally challenged friend Sukemasa, riding his bike all over the city and sleeping...
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An Adolescent
1970
If You Were Young: Rage
6/8
If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom....
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If You Were Young: Rage
1969
Black Rose Mansion
4.5/7
A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires transvestite singer "Black Rose"...
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Black Rose Mansion
1968
Blackmail Is My Life
6.4/9
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. D...
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Blackmail Is My Life
1975
Deep Throat in Tokyo
3.9/5
Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate empir...
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Deep Throat in Tokyo
1973
Farewell to Rock'n Roll
7/2
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akaba...
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Farewell to Rock'n Roll
1981
Station
6.083/12
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Station
1965
A Fugitive from the Past
7.467/45
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, prov...
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A Fugitive from the Past
1982
Kidnapping Blues
0/0
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not...
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Kidnapping Blues
1982
The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
6/2
Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past.
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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September
1975
Story of a Nymphomaniac
4.3/3
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to u...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
1975
Green Lovers
1/1
Pinku from 1975.
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Green Lovers
1985
Let Him Rest in Peace
8/2
A man returns to his seaside roots to confront a yakuza boss. Along the way, he charms young men, softens a hard woman and busts a few heads.
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Let Him Rest in Peace
1976
The Machine Gun Dragon
6.3/3
Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and...
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The Machine Gun Dragon
1976
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
4.5/2
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother,...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1972
Street Mobster
6.9/39
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
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Street Mobster
1992
Original Sin
4.7/7
Based on a novel by Bo Nishimura, the film is about an extramarital affair between the wife of an estate agent and a 22 year old man.
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Original Sin
1998
Black Angel
6.5/22
Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss specializing in drugs and murder. He gained...
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Black Angel
1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.3/20
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1993
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
0/0
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1973
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
6.2/6
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than refo...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
2001
Yakuza Zombie
0/0
Yakuza Zombie opens with an introduction to a mysterious Yakuza graveyard deep in the forest, and a story of the baddest Yakuza of them all, Naruo Ryu...
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Yakuza Zombie
1979
Goodbye, Flickmania
0/0
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
1968
Snake Woman's Curse
6.3/6
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died...
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Snake Woman's Curse
1978
Rape and Death of a Housewife
6.6/5
Three young boys drunkenly rape a woman named Emiko, the wife of a man they've developed a friendship with. She dies of heart failure during the attac...
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Rape and Death of a Housewife
1975
Gambling Den Heist
6.7/3
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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Gambling Den Heist
1993
A Night in Nude
6/17
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be from Fukuoka wants to be shown around Tokyo and se...
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A Night in Nude
1995
Endless Waltz
5.8/6
Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota).
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Endless Waltz
1978
Shag
7/1
Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
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Shag
1966
The Threat
6.8/5
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family....
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The Threat
1979
Dead Angle
7/1
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Dead Angle
1968
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
6/2
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schoo...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1984
Kukai
9/0
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined infl...
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Kukai
1970
The Last Kamikaze
6/1
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji T...
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The Last Kamikaze
1992
A Legend of Turmoil
7.5/2
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family....
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A Legend of Turmoil
1987
Abunai Deka
9/3
When a doctor is found dead and the company's exclusive data on a cancer drug is missing, detective Takayama and Oshita are called to the Nakamitsu ph...
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Abunai Deka
1981
Play it, Boogie-Woogie
6/1
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic...
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie
1985
The Second Is a Christian
5/1
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhi...
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The Second Is a Christian
1968
Army Intelligence
0/0
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
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Army Intelligence
1982
On the Road
10/1
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to R...
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On the Road
1975
A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
6.125/16
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1971
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
0/0
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
1999
Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
0/0
Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
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Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
1977
Doberman Cop
6.652/23
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into...
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Doberman Cop
1988
Dogra Magra
6.912/34
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious d...
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Dogra Magra
1988
Love on a Daily Basis
1/1
The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
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Love on a Daily Basis
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.189/45
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.333/60
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
0/0
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solutio...
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Father of the Kamikaze
1971
Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
0/0
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku”...
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Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
1976
The Yakuza Code Still Lives
7/1
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
1976
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
7/6
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
1968
Prison Boss
7/2
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
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Prison Boss
1965
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
7.1/10
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keepin...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
1976
Karate Warriors
7/5
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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Karate Warriors
1976
The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
5.7/3
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
1975
13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats
6/9
Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to e...
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13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats
1967
Organized Violence II
6/1
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Organized Violence II
1972
The Lucky Status Symbol
0/0
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buyin...
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The Lucky Status Symbol
1977
Curse of the Dog God
6/9
A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by t...
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Curse of the Dog God
1975
Graveyard of Honor
6.7/44
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Graveyard of Honor
1997
King of Sha-kin
0/0
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked busin...
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King of Sha-kin
1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.217/23
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1972
Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
6.7/3
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
1967
Parole
0/0
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
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Parole
1972
Gang Warfare
0/0
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Gang Warfare
1973
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
5.7/3
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1972
Yakuza Skirmishes
0/0
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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Yakuza Skirmishes
1973
Quarreling with Yakuza
0/0
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.333/12
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974
Reformatory Buddies
0/0
Third film in the series.
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Reformatory Buddies
1975
Wolf Guy
6/34
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of...
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Wolf Guy
1988
Those Swell Yakuza
6/1
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
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Those Swell Yakuza
1970
Rise and Fall of Chivalry
6.5/2
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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Rise and Fall of Chivalry
1965
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
6/1
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
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Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
1964
Wolves, Pigs & Men
8.3/6
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...
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Wolves, Pigs & Men
1987
The Lady in a Black Dress
5.333/3
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a s...
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The Lady in a Black Dress
1972
Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
6.4/8
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and hi...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
6.9/12
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The nex...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
6.9/38
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new di...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1978
Shogun's Samurai
7.014/35
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the sho...
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Shogun's Samurai
1981
Samurai Reincarnation
5.917/30
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Sata...
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Samurai Reincarnation
1983
Theater Of Life
0/0
Adaptation of Shiro Ozaki's novel.
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Theater Of Life
1987
Sure Death 4
6.6/8
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in t...
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Sure Death 4
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
5/3
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1973
Karate Killer
5.4/5
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins work...
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Karate Killer
1971
Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
0/0
Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.
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Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
1991
Jingi
3/1
Based on the comic by Ayumi Tachihara
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Jingi
1975
Shimane Prison Riot
5/1
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail h...
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Shimane Prison Riot
1977
The Smart Aleck Ten
0/0
Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.
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The Smart Aleck Ten
1974
Code of Wolves
7/1
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Code of Wolves
1976
The Classroom of Terror
6/1
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by...
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The Classroom of Terror
1969
The Private Police
7/1
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans...
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The Private Police
1971
The Armed Organization
8/1
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He...
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The Armed Organization
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
0/0
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1968
The Bad Boss
0/0
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
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The Bad Boss
1976
Festival Champ
5.3/3
Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his colleagu...
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Festival Champ
1966
Rampaging Dragon of the North
6/2
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local ga...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
1968
The Cheating Underworld
0.5/1
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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The Cheating Underworld
1975
Great Jailbreak
7/1
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and direct...
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Great Jailbreak
1971
The Gambler's Counterattack
0/0
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect hi...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
1967
Organized Violence
0/0
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
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Organized Violence
1970
Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
7.2/4
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opport...
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
1976
A Savage Beast Goes Mad
6.333/6
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fi...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.5/2
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1985
The Seburi Story
6.3/6
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially...
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The Seburi Story
1953
Merciless Blade Part 2
0/0
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
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Merciless Blade Part 2
1997
King of Sha-kin 2
0/0
A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
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King of Sha-kin 2
1973
Professional Killers
7/2
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
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Professional Killers
1986
South to the Horizon
7/1
Tetsu gets into an argument with some Okinawa yakuza and is murdered by them. His brother Ryo comes to Okinawa shortly thereafter and teams up with Te...
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South to the Horizon
1997
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
5.7/3
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, who recently is released from prison after serving...
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Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
1992
Passion
6.5/2
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.
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Passion
1976
Operation Plazma in Osaka
6.5/2
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
1972
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
7.2/87
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobed...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
1970
Postwar Secrets
10/1
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and pol...
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Postwar Secrets
1976
Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
0/0
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Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
1989
It's Easier Than Kissing
2/1
After the death of her mother a young woman wants to meet her real father
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It's Easier Than Kissing
1998
Amagi Pass
1/1
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of them is the geisha Ozuka Hana. After a murder takes p...
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Amagi Pass
1981
Island of the Evil Spirits
6/4
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets beautiful twin sisters and tragic events unfold.
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Island of the Evil Spirits
1984
The Island Closest to Heaven
6/7
A Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven" that her late father had told her about.
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The Island Closest to Heaven
1975
The Man Gang
0/0
Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.
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The Man Gang
1966
Nerves for Victory
6/1
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
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Nerves for Victory
1973
The Bodyguard
4.5/18
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the n...
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The Bodyguard
1974
Military Comfort Woman
0/0
Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.
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Military Comfort Woman
1962
G-Men in the Pacific
6/2
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
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G-Men in the Pacific
1989
Fuyu Monogatari
0/0
Based on the comic by Hidenori Hara.
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Fuyu Monogatari
1966
Terror Beneath the Sea
5.2/14
While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the...
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Terror Beneath the Sea
1973
Yokosuka Navy Prison
7/1
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
1970
Code Between Brothers: All New
6/1
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. S...
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Code Between Brothers: All New
1977
Proof of the Man
7.3/13
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a Ne...
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Proof of the Man
1965
Tale of Japanese Burglars
6.8/6
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some commun...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
1983
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
7.325/439
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel Joh...
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
1975
The Murder Corps
0/0
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan...
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The Murder Corps
1995
I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying
3.8/2
There are rumors that “a mysterious woman who is very good at SEX will appear” in a small hot spring town. A magazine reporter from Tokyo finally find...
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I Want it, I Want it, I’m Dying
1975
Company Buggers
7/1
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Company Buggers
1977
The Story of a Geisha
0/0
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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The Story of a Geisha
1991
Danger Point: The Road to Hell
0/0
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on...
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Danger Point: The Road to Hell
1970
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
0/0
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: High Stakes at Abashiri
1986
Cabaret
4.7/3
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist start...
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Cabaret
1978
Talk of the Town Tora-san
9/1
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed when...
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
1982
Lake of Illusions
1/1
A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white do...
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Lake of Illusions
1967
The Rickshaw Man’s Son
0/0
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a dau...
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
1988
Bu-ra-i no onna
2/1
A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the...
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Bu-ra-i no onna
1989
Sensei
0/0
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Sensei
1970
The Drifting Gambler
0/0
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.
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The Drifting Gambler
1970
A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
0/0
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
1969
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
0/0
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1997
End of Our Own Real
2/1
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End of Our Own Real
1975
Scoundrel Boss
0/0
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Scoundrel Boss
1963
Duel of the Underworld
0/0
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Duel of the Underworld
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
0/0
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6/3
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
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The Tattooed Hitman
1993
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
0/0
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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1974
Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
6.8/3
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
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Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
1961
The Eighth Enemy
0/0
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The Eighth Enemy
1984
Curtain Call
6/1
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her rea...
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Curtain Call
1995
The King of Minami: City of Desire
0/0
#13 in the series, after the Special Movie.
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The King of Minami: City of Desire
1967
Dissolution Rites
6/1
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Ko...
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Dissolution Rites
1966
Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
6/1
TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization T...
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
1964
Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang
0/0
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Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang
2001
A Tender Place
5.6/4
Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband's clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama's villa in Hokkaido, she pl...
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A Tender Place
1976
A Kawachi Rascal's Song
0/0
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talen...
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
1991
48 Hours of Prisoner Op Tracking
0/0
Dirty Hero Takuro Kanzaki appears in a life and death murder game!
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48 Hours of Prisoner Op Tracking
1990
Beretta M92F Bombshell
0/0
Koichi Iwaki plays a cool hitman!
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Beretta M92F Bombshell
1990
Killing Melody Lady Smith
0/0
A painfully splendid adventure has begun!
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Killing Melody Lady Smith
1994
Chinpira Jingi: Gokuraku Tonbo
0/0
A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunderstanding.
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Chinpira Jingi: Gokuraku Tonbo
1996
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf
0/0
A yakuza movie directed by Eiichi Kudo
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf
1998
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
0/0
Sequel to 'Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf'
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 2
2000
Otoko Michi 2
0/0
The second instalment depicting the fateful confrontation of Takizawa.
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Otoko Michi 2
2001
Otoko Michi 5
0/0
The conflict that broke out due to the expansion of the power of the Ninryukai was further intensified of both political and police powers.
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Otoko Michi 5
1967
Captain Ultra: The Movie
0/0
In the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty Spiegel oppose the Vandel aliens. Re-edited from episodes 2...
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Captain Ultra: The Movie
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.2/521
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora!...
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Tora! Tora! Tora!
1965
Gang's Upward Strategy
0/0
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Gang's Upward Strategy
1971
Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
0/0
Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.
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Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
1991
Scratched License
0/0
A former safe-breaker, a former yakuza , and another young "Toshiro" Ryo (Aikawa) are planning to attack a casino run by a large organization. The thr...
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Scratched License
2001
Shura's Barbarian King
0/0
Fumihiko Saizonoji , a man who lost everything in the plot of a bank and a general contractor when he was a child . Now , as Fumihiko Kanzaki , a man...
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Shura's Barbarian King
1996
Shura ga Yuku 2
0/0
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being invol...
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Shura ga Yuku 2
1985
The Sound of the Waves
0/0
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....
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The Sound of the Waves
1979
The Fighting Rascal
0/0
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The Fighting Rascal
1965
A Charming Devil
0/0
Movie adaptation of the TV series.
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A Charming Devil
1976
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
7/1
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1964
The Desperate
7/2
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai (Oki Minoru) pursues Chiyo (H...
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The Desperate
1969
A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
0/0
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
1990
What's Up Connection
6/3
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing v...
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What's Up Connection
1974
The Executioner
6.545/22
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...
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The Executioner
1960
The Second Bullet is Marked
6/1
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
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The Second Bullet is Marked
1992
Nanmin Road
0/0
The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.
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Nanmin Road
1982
Fossilized Wilderness
0/0
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Fossilized Wilderness
1982
Lullaby of Death
5/2
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for revenge....
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Lullaby of Death
1986
Clockwork- Goodbye Winter
0/0
Ayumi Ishida won the Blue Ribbon for the Best Actress.
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Clockwork- Goodbye Winter
1990
Ready to Shoot
0/1
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his...
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Ready to Shoot
1965
The Hoodlum Brothers
0/0
A crime film released in 1965
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The Hoodlum Brothers
1966
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
7/1
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the riva...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
1963
浅草の侠客
0/0
Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.
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浅草の侠客
1992
The Setting Sun
4.7/3
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
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The Setting Sun
1975
Karate Bullfighter
6.5/13
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After t...
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Karate Bullfighter
1967
The Chivalrous Life
7/1
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against othe...
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The Chivalrous Life
1975
Karate Bear Fighter
6.8/12
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oy...
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Karate Bear Fighter
1968
Gambler's Farewell
6/1
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.
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Gambler's Farewell
1996
Emperor of Kita Dark Court Legend
0/0
The third 'King of Kita' film.
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Emperor of Kita Dark Court Legend
1979
Hunter in the Dark
6.5/16
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to...
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Hunter in the Dark
1962
Zankokuna tsuki
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Zankokuna tsuki
1982
The Law of Hell
0/0
At a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The owner Ikuzo manages the restaurant with his daughter. I...
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The Law of Hell
1984
Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
0/0
High school movie
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Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
1989
Confinement Naburu
2/1
Pinku distributed by Xces / Nikkatsu.
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Confinement Naburu
1962
Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
1962
Nerai uchi buraikan
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Nerai uchi buraikan
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
0/0
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974
Third Generation Boss
0/0
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
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Third Generation Boss
1974
Violent Fraternity
0/0
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
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Violent Fraternity
1960
G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
0/0
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all...
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G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
1964
Life of Hishakaku 3
0/0
Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
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Life of Hishakaku 3
1963
Judo Life
0/0
Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of judo...
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