Osamu Yamanouchi

ひばりの佐渡情話

Kunio Watanabe

Hibari Misora, Toshiaki Amada

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts when her family borrows money from the gangsters, setting off a series of incidents which lead to tragedy.

A Fugitive from the Past

Tomu Uchida

Rentaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari

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, provoking a policeman's interest.

仁義の墓場

Kinji Fukasaku

Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.

女囚さそり　第４１雑居房

Shunya Ito

Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe

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 disobedient prisoners.

懲役十八年　仮出獄

Yasuo Furuhata

Noboru Andô, Tomisaburō Wakayama

Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

浪曲子守唄

Ryuichi Takamori

Shin'ichi Chiba, Хироюки Санада

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

Jun'ya Satô

Koji Tsuruta, Fumio Watanabe

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

やくざ刑事

Yukio Noda

Shin'ichi Chiba, Ryōji Hayama

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

暗黒街最大の決斗

Umetsugu Inoue

Koji Tsuruta, Minoru Oki

太平洋のＧメン

Teruo Ishii

Chiezō Kataoka, Shinjirô Ehara

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

Kaitei daisensô

Hajime Sato

Shin'ichi Chiba, Peggy Neal

While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men capture the pair and keep them prisoner in their underwater city.

スピード狂時代　命を賭けて

Shoichi Shimazu

Jun Tatara, Michiyo Kogure