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overview : A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy …

overview : The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who …

overview : As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who …

overview : After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known …

overview : Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body …

overview : A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent …

overview : Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any …

overview : “Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, who …

overview : Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro …

overview : Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon.

overview : Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while …

overview : Detective Tsukimoto kills his partner following a botched robbery and falls deep into debt and despair. After losing everything at …

overview : When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to …

overview : A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in …

overview : Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of …

overview : Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide …

overview : A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.

overview : Kaori and Natsumi go to the same university. They met for the first time after learning they had the same …