Hiroshi Nawa

新二等兵物語　めでたく凱旋の巻

Kinya Sakai

Junzaburō Ban, Achako Hanabishi

Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fukuda.

テキヤの石松

Shigehiro Ozawa

Hiroki Matsukata, Bunjaku Han

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.

Chitei no uta

Haruyasu Noguchi

Yûjirô Ishihara, Hiroshi Nawa

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).

不良街

Yukio Noda

Hiroki Matsukata, Hayato Tani

柳生旅日記　天地夢想剣

Ryō Hagiwara

Jūshirō Konoe, Miki Mori

Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.

修羅桜

Tatsuo Ôsone

Kōkichi Takada, Teiji Takahashi

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

月夜の渡り鳥

Hirokazu Ichimura

Yukio Hashi, Chieko Baisho

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

秘帳　女浮世草紙

Motomu Ida

Ryōji Hayama, Hiroshi Nawa

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.

博奕打ち 総長賭博

Kōsaku Yamashita

Koji Tsuruta, Sumiko Fuji

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer and suggests they choose Matsuda, who is in prison. Other clan members oppose and Ishido is elected. When Matsuda is freed, he doesn't accept this decision.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Kenji Misumi

Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa

In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇

Kinji Fukasaku

Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba

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 with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

仁義なき戦い

Kinji Fukasaku

Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Kinji Fukasaku

Bunta Sugawara, Takeshi Katō

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

Gambler's Legacy

Shigehiro Ozawa

Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburō Wakayama

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.

座頭市兇状旅

Tokuzō Tanaka

Shintarō Katsu, Miwa Takada

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

安藤組外伝　人斬り舎弟

Sadao Nakajima

Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.