Hiroshi Kondō Movies

This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an...

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the...

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked...

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza in search of accident sites. He buys cars that...

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

A youth film starring Kōji Wada and Mayumi Shimizu

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

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....

A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective...

1961 Japanese movie

Out of the blue, a bourgeois family on the Sea of Japan finds an unconscious woman on the beach and decides to let her board.

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...