
Birthday:
02-17-1955
(70 years)
Birthplace:
Yamanashi, Japan
Biography
Character actor Shun Sugata (菅田 俊 Sugata Shun) was born on February 17, 1955 in Yamanashi, Japan as Masamichi Shibuya. Often cast in violent, villainous roles he can be instantly recognized by his deep, gruff voice and imposing stature. His most notable roles include the intimidating mob enforcer Takayama in Takeshi Miike's Ichi the Killer and the corrupt police commissioner in Tokyo Gore Police.
He has also had minor roles outside Japanese cinema in Quention Tarantino's Kill Bill and The Last Samurai as well as playing the main villain opposing Scott Adkins in Ninja 2.
He has also had minor roles outside Japanese cinema in Quention Tarantino's Kill Bill and The Last Samurai as well as playing the main villain opposing Scott Adkins in Ninja 2.
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Tomorrow's Dining Table
Act like Tsuneo Fujisaki
event2021 star_border 7.1
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3 women are happy and busy raising their boys named Yu. Due to some little thing, their lives fall apart. Their anger and anxiety unconsciously head towards their sons Yu.
The Last Samurai
Act like Nakao
event2003 star_border 7.6
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Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Just Remembering
Act like Bar Customer
event2022 star_border 6.8
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A former couple remembers their most intimate days, only to part once again. A bittersweet love story inspired by a Jim Jarmusch masterpiece, set in times of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bunraku
Act like Uncle
event2010 star_border 5.9
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In a world with no guns, a mysterious drifter, a bartender and a young samurai plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.
Taboo
event1999 star_border 6.6
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Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interpersonal conflicts are brewing in the training room, all centering around a handsome young samurai named Sozaburo Kano. The school's stern master can choose to intervene, or to let Kano decide his own path.
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow
Act like Inspecteur Fuji
event2008 star_border 4.9
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The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.
Ichi the Killer
Act like Takayama
event2001 star_border 7
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As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Pulse
Act like Boss
event2001 star_border 6.6
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In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Be a Man!! Samurai School
Act like Onihige
event2008 star_border 4.7
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Momotaro and Hidemaro are 1st-years at Otokojuku, a private boys school where true men are made. Momotaro, proficient in academics and martial arts becomes good friends with Hidemaro an underachieving weakling. Omito Date, former student leader, plans his revenge against his former school. Now leader of an evil army from rival Kanto Gogakuren school he fully intends on taking over Otokojuku.
Unification Of Japan 18
event2016
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Akimoto's incarceration and the retirement of the Marugami Alliance chairman re-ignite tensions in Kanto, while Fukumoto makes a new move in the west.
Playback
event2012 star_border 7.7
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Haji is an actor on the cusp of turning 40, who has gotten stuck in life. At the invitation of an old friend, he visits his hometown for the first time in ages. On the way Haji has an accident, and wakes up to find himself transported back to high school with his adult body in tact.
雀狼伝 必殺!!亜空間殺法
event2000
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Mitsuru Ando is a professional mahjong player who makes his living by betting on mahjong. The film depicts how he developed his special technique, the "Subspace Killing Technique," while battling with a number of skilled mahjong players.
Ah, A Sharp Detective
event2001
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Kuroki is crazy about gambling and Shirakawa loves unrivalled women. The pair are investigating a bank robbery.
Ah, A Sharp Detective 2
event2001
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Fight fiercely with a duo of hitmen to protect the witnesses of the trial!
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN
event1993
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A man who has no choice but to act as an agent for anything and will play a role in the conflict between the gangsters.
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
event1994
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Detective Suwon was involved on the war on drugs in Yokohama because of his mischief.
Confessions of a Dog
Act like Hassei Takeda
event2006 star_border 5.7
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Takeda is an honest police officer, father and husband, but after he’s promoted to detective he quickly becomes embroiled in dirty back room dealings, blackmail, and corruption that goes right to the top of the force. Meanwhile, renegade investigator Kusama must decide whether he should shake the foundations of Japanese law enforcement with the information that has come into his possession about the police.
Nagaremono Yokohama Yakuza War
event2000
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The life and death of the men who are bound by violence.
Nagaremono Yokohama Gokudo War 2
event2000
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A fierce outlaw shakes the gangster world!
Tokyo Gore Police
Act like Tokyo Police Commissioner
event2008 star_border 6
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In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.
Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
event1999
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The first of three V-Cinema sequels.
Otoko Michi
event2000
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A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.
Otoko Michi 4
event2000
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Takizawa joins a professional thief and carries out an assault.
Be-Bop High School 3
event1996
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Toru and Hiroshi heard that if you bring the runaway girl back, you will get a lot of thanks, but again you get into trouble with a woman.
Be-Bop High School 2-2
event1998
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It's a quarrelling masterpiece against Tachibana commerce led by Kikunaga!
Otoko Michi 6 The End
event2001
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Only one person challenges the final battle against the corrupt state power.
License to Live
Act like Shinichiro Yoshii
event1999 star_border 6
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Yutaka was fourteen years old when he was run over by a car and fell into a coma. Now, ten years later, he wakes up and realizes that his family is not intact anymore: father, mother and sister live at different places. Yutaka decides to re-open the pony farm that his family once ran.
Organ
Act like Nakanishi
event1996 star_border 5.6
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Two police detectives Numata and Tosaka infiltrate a group of underground black market human organ dealers. Things go haywire during a raid on the group's surgical headquarters. Numata barely escapes, while a wounded Tosaka gets left behind. Through a series of surreal and gory events, the identities of the organ dealers are revealed as Numata plans his revenge.
Marebito
Act like MIB
event2004 star_border 5.9
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A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Tomie: Replay
Act like Kenzô Morita
event2000 star_border 5.2
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Infected with Tomie's blood, a surgeon disappears, leaving his daughter, Yumi, to try to discover Tomie's identity and to solve the mystery of her father's disappearance.
Gun Crazy: Episode 1: A Woman from Nowhere
Act like Takara Shuhei
event2002 star_border 4.6
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A mysterious stranger comes into a lawless town run by a kingpin and starts shooting up the place.
Heisei Zankeiden: Blood Blade Dos Barks!
event1998
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A lone wolf yakuza vs detective. It was supposed to be an undercover investigation into the Yakuza organization… A drama of friendship and betrayal between men living in different worlds.
Heisei Zankeiden: Blood Fight
event1999
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Heisei Zankeiden is finally complete! Seven years ago, the man who fought to take over the organization is back. He seeks out the truth of the conflict from prison and heads for revenge.
Heisei Gokudoden Ashura slashes!
event1997
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Tachibana of Mutsumi Yato Kogyo, whose leader was assassinated. He is glared at the work of the hostile organization Konan Service, but his big brother Kurosaki is well rounded up with his traces as bait. Masa and Jun, who are the thugs, ignore the unsuccessful executives and aim for the Konan service leader who was the chairman of the Mutsumikai, but failed! Jun is captured and killed. Kurosaki tries to secure Yato Kogyo in exchange for Jun's life.
Kamen Rider 1 through RX: Big Gathering
Act like Ryo Murasame / Kamen Rider ZX (archival)
event1988
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A TV special, centered on introduction of Kamen Rider Black RX.
Shura ga Yuku 8
event1998
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The 8th gangster action that depicts the familiar Hongo-gumi facing the Tokyo Waterfront City Development Project, which is a wide-area gangster in the Kansai region.
Jitsuroku Yozakura Ginji 2
event2001
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Straight to video sequel
ヌーのコインロッカーは使用禁止
event2023
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Nasu Kano, known as Nu, has a developmental disability. As soon as she was born, her mother abandoned her in a coin locker. One day, Nu meets Kazuma Kurosako, who has just been released from prison and was attempting to make money by selling substances near Nu's coin locker. Kurosako gradually become interested in Nu and began posting Nu's paintings on social media on a whim. When Kurosako is contacted by a famous overseas artist interested in buying a painting of Nu's, he initially wants to sell it for a high price for his own profit. As he spends more time with pure-hearted Nu, Kurosako gains a more selfless conscious. All of a sudden, Nu collapses from leukemia.
Dororo
Act like Hibukuro
event2007 star_border 7
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Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents.
Nebagiba New World
event2021
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A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people.
Otoko Michi 2
event2000
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The second instalment depicting the fateful confrontation of Takizawa.
Otoko Michi 3
event2000
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A lone wolf hits the sneaky plot of a lone organization that is aiming to expand it's power over traces of Ninryukai!
Geats Extra: Kamen Rider Tycoon meets Kamen Rider Shinobi
Act like Ryo Murasame
event2023 star_border 7.5
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Keiwa and Sara are transported to the World of Shinobi where they assist Rentaro and his allies in fighting the powerful Amakusa Shiro Tokisada.
Beyond Outrage
Act like Okamoto
event2012 star_border 7
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As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.
Running on Empty
event2010 star_border 3.5
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The beautiful Azami is tired of her penniless and lazy boyfriend, Hideji. Determined to break up with him, she must first get back all the money she has given him over the years. She hatches a plot in which she fakes her own kidnapping to get Hideji to pay a ransom. Things get hilariously complicated when all parties involved act to their own agendas.
Don Woman 3
event2002
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It's 'Don Woman 3'... Are you ready to see?
Don Woman 2
event2001
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It's 'Don Woman 2'... you already knew!
Don Woman
event2001
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Yakuza Girl Boss film.
Young Wife Detective Wild Honey
event2005
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A story of a wife who searches for a deceased person instead of a husband who works the detective business.
Kingdom: The Man Who Became the Leader
event2019
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The Shimazu Clan of South Osaka, a longstanding yakuza group, built its foundation in the port cargo handling industry and maintained its independence as a traditional gambling syndicate. Tetsuo Sakuragi (Yasukaze Motomiya) formed a brotherly bond with Kenichi Kanamori (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) while in prison and, upon release, began serving as an executive for the Shimazu Clan. However, after two police raids disrupted their gambling operations, Sakuragi interrogates a regular customer, Hirata, and uncovers that it was orchestrated by the Koga Family. Sakuragi and Kanamori confront Tatsumi (Takashi Shigematsu) at his office, who had been manipulating Hirata, but Kanamori is shot by a Koga Family member. The long-standing cold war between the Shimazu Clan and the Koga Family erupts into full-blown conflict...!!
Ayamariya Business
event1997
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1997 V-Cinema film.
The Way to Fight 3
event1997
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The third film in 'The Way to Fight' series.
Don's Road 12
event2014
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The twelfth 'Don's Road' film.
Don's Road 13
event2014
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The thirteenth 'Don's Road' film.
Don's Road 14
event2015
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The fourteenth 'Don's' Road' film.
Don's Road Final
event2015
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The final 'Don's Road' film.
Strong Man
event2016
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The first 'Strong Man' film.
Strong Man Chapter 2
event2016
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The Second 'Strong Man' film.
Gokudō tenka fubu
event2017
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A yakuza society that has turned into a world of warring states, a story of inferiority unfolded by men who aim to unify the world with force. Conquer this turbulent world and win the unification of Japan...!!
Strong Man Chapter 3
event2017
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The Third and final 'Strong Man' film.
Chivalry's Lament
event2018
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1st film of the 任侠哀歌 series. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki), the son of Saijo Fund executive Kurosaki Hiroshi (Akai Hidekazu), gets caught up in a dispute between the Sagawa and Kawashima groups, both of which are affiliated with the yakuza organization Kiryu-kai, and is captured by the Sagawa gang along with his friends Ando Tatsuya (Kitadai Takashi) and Hanamaki Daisuke (Isaka Tatsuya). Just as they are about to be killed, Ken's father Hiroshi saves the three. After being persuaded by Hiroshi, the three swear to reform, but Tatsuya is tricked by Mikitani of the Kawashima gang and is nearly killed. Ken accidentally shoots Mikitani while trying to stop him, and is arrested and sentenced to 5 years for attempted murder. While in custody, his father appears to commits suicide and Ken becomes consumed with guilt and doubts about the veracity of his father's murder. Five years later, Ken is released, and begins to look for answers ...
Chivalry's Lament 2
event2018
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2nd film in the '任侠哀歌' trilogy. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki) burns with a desire for revenge after his father was killed by the Kiryu-kai. With Ken's declaration, Mikitani's scheme became public and the Kiryu Clan disown him. In order to split the Kiryu Clan and set his revenge in motion, Ken first assassinates Kawashima (Fujiwara Yoshiaki). Mikitani mistakenly believed that Kawashima's assassination was the work of Sagawa (Motomiya Yasukaze), and hid from the Kiryu Clan with aims to capture Sagawa. However, Sagawa saw through Ken's scheme and instead uses Mikitani in an attempt to kill him. Just as Ken was planning his next move, a man arrives at his hideout: Ando Tatsuya (Kitadai Takashi), Kurosaki's best friend, and the one whose crimes Ken went down for five years ago ...
Chivalry's Lament 3
event2018
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Final film in the '任侠哀歌' trilogy. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki) has now lost both parents to the machinations of the Kiryu Clan and his fire for vengeance hits its peak. However, the chairman of the Kiryu Clan, Kijima (Watanabe Hiroyuki), is revealed to have been both a close friend of Ken's father Hiroshi ... and Ken's own biological father. Kijima challenges Ken to a one-on-one duel and allow his son an honourable vengeance, but the Kiryu Clan's captain, Sagawa (Motomiya Yasukaze) interferes to protect Chairman Kijima and shoots Ken in the leg, ending the fight in a draw. Unable to move and but needing to further his plan to dismantle the Kiryu Clan, Ken beseeches his friend Daisuke (Isaka Tatsuya) to visit a certain person: Ishibashi (Sugata Shun), a detective who had been circling around the wild Sagawa. Realising their goals are aligned, Ishibashi shares a vital secret that may finally end Sagawa's rampant violence ...
Men of the Underworld
event2015
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1st in a 6-film series. The W.R.C. is the largest yakuza-run conglomerate in Japan, and a war for succession begins when the current Chairman suffers a fatal traffic "accident". Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), the secretary to the current Vice-Chair Konno (Noguchi Masahiro), is the only survivor and is haunted by flashbacks. His brother-in-arms, Board Director Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi), a fellow Zainichi Korean, is in competition with the ruthless Director Tamura (Sugata Shun) for the top spot. The feud is goaded by the secret placement of spies within the WRC by the Tokyo Police's "Unit Zero", spearheaded by the sly Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou), and cracks begin to form in the organization and between brothers ...
Men of the Underworld: Chapter 2
event2015
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2nd film in a 6-part series. Shock and suspicions circulate in the aftermath of the death of the WRC Chairman, and the competition between Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) and Tamura (Sugata Shun) begins in earnest. An internal spy was discovered and executed, but rumours of another one circulates the WRC and plagues the guilty conscience of Tadano (Namioka Kazuki). However, the interference of the Chinese Mafia is discovered, and Umehara has suspicions about Tamura's involvement with them ...
Men of the Underworld: Chapter 3
event2016
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3rd film in a 6-part series. Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) finds further proof of the internal spy within the WRC organisation's ranks, and moves in to expose the traitor, concerned more with the protection of the organization and his brotherhood than the Chairman's seat itself. Meanwhile, Tamura (Sugata Shun), partners with the Chinese mafia to further plague - if not eliminate - Umehara's faction. Meanwhile, Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), beginning to buckle under pressure, visits the hideout of Yuko (Sasaki Kokone) who is revealed to be part of the mysterious Unit Zero and becomes face-to-face with Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) ...
Men of the Underworld: Chapter 4
event2016
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The 4th entry in a 6-part series. Searching for more information about the spy within the WRC and needing networks and leverage to do so, Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) takes off to South Korea with his loyal second, Han (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) in tow. Meanwhile, Director Tamura (Sugata Shun), contacts Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) with info on Umehara's movements to bring his downfall. And Tadano (Namioka Kazuki) still pursues the truth about the "accident" he survived, and the burgeoning memory of a familiar pair of silhouettes ...
Men of the Underworld: Chapter 5
event2016
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The 5th film in a 6-part series. After his beloved Ji-hyun (Otsuka Rina) is murdered, Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) hides his grief while searching for the spy, armed now with information from the North Koreans. Tadano (Namioka Kazuki), who is indeed one of the WRC embedded spies, is informed by Inspector Sano (Shinsui Sanshou) that his record in the police database has been erased. Meanwhile, Umehara is arrested by Sano at the scene of a transaction with the Hong Kong mafia, and the goods in question are the trigger point where all factions begin to collide and the truth emerges from the wreckage...
Men of the Underworld: Final Chapter
event2016
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The finale of a 6-part series. Finally, the time has come for the election of the chairman at the WRC executive meeting. Chairman Umehara (Ozawa Hitoshi) was thought to be the sure candidate, but Vice Chairman Konno (Noguchi Masahiro) puts his name forward as a candidate for the position in a surprise move. Chairman Tamura (Sugata Shun) is arrested, but is released by Inspector Sano (Fukimizu Sansho) and sets out to assassinate Umehara. Meanwhile Tadano (Namioka Kazuki) has uncovered the entire truth about his assignment into the WRC, the "accident", and must ask himself: What is loyalty, when your "allies" use you and your "enemies" protect you? A bloody finale ensues!
My Sky [Detective Edition] Punishment of Darkness
event1998
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A bureaucrat in the Ministry of Health and Welfare is murdered. The wealthy detective Ippei Yasuda's line of investigation reveals Takeshi Tsumeyu, a psychiatrist who heals the worries of big names in the political and business world and works behind the scenes as a fixer in the shadows of politics and economics. Ippei buys up the raw materials for Moonsault to fight Tsumeu, who manipulates people at will with the devil's drug, Moonsault, but...
My Sky (Detective Edition)
event1998
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Ippei Yasuda, the scion of the Yasuda Zaibatsu who has continued his wandering journey, becomes a detective and corrects evil! Recognized for outstanding grades at the police academy, Ippei is assigned to the Kyobashi police station as a new detective.
YOKOHAMA BLACK 5
event2018
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The fifth 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
YOKOHAMA BLACK 6
event2018
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The sixth 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
Gokutsuma Ninkyodo Yasha Dance
event2001
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2001 original video.
Gokutsuma Ninkyodo Yasha Scream
event2002
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2002 Original Video.
Unification of Japan 27
event2018 star_border 5
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Tension continues at the Kyowakai headquarters. Kawatani, Himuro, and Tamura are unable to hide their anger and confusion at the events that occur one after another, such as Shibuya's death and a series of absentees from meetings. Meanwhile, in Kobe, a new anti-chivalry group is starting to move. However, Baba, who plays the role of chairman and does not know about Shibuya's death, postpones the official raising of the company.
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
Act like Goro
event2013 star_border 6.7
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Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
Ghost Shout
event2004 star_border 6.5
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Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?
HEAT -Incandescence- PART II
Act like Fujimaki
event2004
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A young man suddenly rises to the top of the underworld in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Other crime bosses now conspire to take him down.
The Unbroken
Act like Tatsuro Shikata
event2009 star_border 6.7
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Onchi was exiled to posts around Asia and Africa due to his work as head of a labor union for National Air Line. He is ordered to return to head office after ten years, and continues to struggle. When a National Air Line plane is involved in the worst air disaster in Japanese history, he is assigned to console and provide restitution to the families of the victims.
Fearless
event2023
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This is Fearless
Wangan Midnight: The Movie
event2009 star_border 6.3
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After losing a street race to Tatsuya Shima's legendary "Blackbird" Porsche 911 Turbo, high school student Akio Asakura purchases a heavily-modified first-generation Datsun S30 Fairlady Z from a junkyard. The car has a dark history of accidents, leading some to believe it's cursed; hence its nickname "Devil Z." Akio also discovers that the Z's first owner shared his first and last name, and was killed in the car during a race with the Blackbird. Meanwhile, fashion model Reina Akikawa joins the rivalry between Akio and Tatsuya with her modified Nissan Skyline GT-R R32.
Jingi 6: Full Overkill War
event1995
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Kanto Ichienkai, the largest Yakuza organization in the Kanto region. The conflict with the Iwami-gumi was won by the activities of Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Takeuchi), acting head of the sand-gumi, and Yoshiro Yazaki (Sakakibara), the chairman of the sand group, and the Ichienkai seemed to have regained peace. However, the lump of the Iwami-gumi war becomes a spectacular revenge drama and attacks the Ichienkai. It started with a proposal by Sakai, the new chairman of the Ichienkai, to return to the Ichienkai, which was split with the Iwami group. The Takayama group, whose leader was killed by the angry party, was furious at this proposal, and left the Ichienkai to collide with the angry party! On the other hand, Hitoshi and Yoshiro will embark on measures against the Takayama group.
Jingi 20: Betrayal Reward
event1999
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Saeki, a man who was once a big brother of Hitoshi, has returned to the sand group after 10 years in prison. Saeki was an extremely war hawk, and he was a man known all over the country, let alone Kanto. Shortly after his release, he launched the Saegumi Saekikai, absorbed his prison friends, and began to throw ripples in the sima. When a Shimano amateur screams at the old-fashioned forcible way of doing business, Hitoshi speaks directly to Saeki. However, Saeki, the big brother of the world, has no ears to hear, and on the contrary, he integrates the disturbing elements of the Kanto Ichienkai and expands his power ?!
Kiriko, A Woman Who Loved the Gangsters
event1993
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A drama depicting the heroine who loved another yakuza man while being the wife of the group leader, in the battle of the internal conflict of the yakuza organization.
I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE
event1996 star_border 2
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Set in a metropolis in the 21st century, this unique erotic drama depicts youth colored by sex, drugs, and violence with a touch of science fiction.
Sisterhood
event2008 star_border 7
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Teenage stepsisters Yui and Ai form a close bond as a result of the neglect and abuse from their respective parents. Fearing separation from each other when their parents plan to divorce, they run away together to Tokyo and, in order to survive steal a briefcase which they later discover belongs to the yakuza. This puts them in great danger. Tanida, a kind-hearted yakuza member, comes to their rescue and becomes the protective and loving parent figure they never had. But for how long will he be able to save them from harm?
Tsukineko Ni Mitsu No Tama
event2004
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Oosumi, a dummy artist, makes the figure of Mari who is the wife of a gangster called Kurokin. Oosumi decides to run away with Mari, but Mari disappears. One night, Kaako, a musician's wife, meets a ghost cat and she is possessed by Mari's spirit.
Alive
Act like Matsuda
event2003 star_border 5.8
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Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presented with an option: face another execution attempt or subject himself to their bizarre and dangerous experiments.
MURAMASA Chapter 6: Golden Dragon
event2006
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The sixth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Chapter 7: Orochi
event2006
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The seventh installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Chapter 8: Tsukiyomi
event2006
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The eighth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Chapter 9: Hoshiyomi
event2006
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The ninth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Chapter 10: Kutsuyomi
event2006
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The tenth installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Chapter 11: Kamui
event2006
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The eleventh installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
MURAMASA Final Chapter: Advent
event2007
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The final installment in the series of fantasy swordplay action movies starring Riki Takeuchi.
Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Wars feat. Super Sentai
Act like Ryo Murasame / Kamen Rider ZX / Ambassador Darkness (voice)
event2014 star_border 6.7
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The Underground Empire Badan makes its move, intending to invert the world. Kouta and Mai are pulled through one of these inversions where the discover a boy named Shu, who also holds the power to invert the world. As the Riders fight to protect Shu, Fifteen appears again, seeking Shu. As Kouta flees, past Riders gather and fight one another, split between the Showa and Heisei era Riders. But, the truth of Badan is not as it seems…
Birth of the 10th! Kamen Riders All Together!!: Kamen Rider ZX
Act like Ryo Murasame / Kamen Rider ZX
event1984 star_border 5.3
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Ryo Murasame is an aircraft pilot, one day he was taking his sister out on a ride along the Amazon when they were shot down by an UFO. They survived, captured by the Badan Empire with his sister killed while Ryo became the Combat Roid known as ZX. His memory is erased by the Badan Empire and worked as their agent of evil. This does not last long as an accident occurs which causes Ryo to regain his memory and escapes Badan. A year later, Ryo begins his attack on Badan as they finish the preparations on their doomsday weapon: the Space Break System. However, a coordinated attack by the Kamen Riders disables the Badancium 84 supplies needed for Space System to work When Ryo arrives, he thinks Kamen Rider V3, Riderman and Kamen Rider Super-1 are enemies until they get him to listen as only one truck full of Badancium 84 makes it to the Badan's base run by Ambassador Darkness.
Kawaki no machi
event1997
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A hard-boiled story about a young man who wakes up to the ferocity within himself, swaying between violence and love as he walks a devastating path.
Zero Woman R
event2007 star_border 7.1
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A mysterious female spy is recruited to infiltrate the Japanese underworld and gather evidence for a clandestine secretive branch of the Tokyo Police Department.
The Revenge: A Scar That Never Disappears
Act like Toshi Yoshioka
event1997 star_border 5.8
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Second half of the violent tale of revenge from actor Sho Aikawa and director Kiyoshi Kurosawa! It's been five years since he left the force, lost his wife, and waged all out revenge, and now our hero is idling his time with a failing yakuza group. When he discovers the secret of one of his superiors, he takes up the gun of vengeance and realizes that his life has only been to serve that purpose.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Act like Boss Benta
event2003 star_border 8
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An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Act like Boss Benta
event2004 star_border 7.9
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The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.
Strangers in the City
Act like Yukio Ohmori
event2010
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Former high school teacher Kazuo Hatano (Toru Nakamura) reunites 12 years later with Masako Tezuka (Manami Konishi). Masako Tezuka was his former high school student whom he married after her graduation. Their marriage became a scandal & the couple divorced ...
Nobody
event1994 star_border 6
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Three elite salarymen find themselves in a bar fight with a group of threatening but mysterious men. When the mystery men come looking for revenge, the salarymen find themselves embroiled in a deadly game...
Dead Run
Act like Shuji's Father
event2005 star_border 5.2
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Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes increasingly isolated at school and drifts into criminal activity.
Black Crow 0
event2021
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Prequel in the "Black Crow" series about an agency that resolves underworld troubles, set in Shinjuku's red-light Kabukicho district. The story focuses on the protagonist's hidden past. Rookie police officer Kanzaki gets posted to an area that has descended into anarchy. He gets a hand from fellow police officer Hyodo and they strive to do their jobs. Then, a criminal group's hideout gets burglarized and the incident escalates into murder.
Black Crow 3
Act like Kanai
event2021
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Mashiba Riku , who has a past of betraying his friends and going on the run, he comes to Black Crow leader Kanzaki Kuroto and his right-hand man Masato Yuya. Riku says he is setting up a problem resolution agency called White Knight.
Kanikôsen
event2009 star_border 6.2
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On board at the boat Kanikosen, where fish and crabs preserves, forced workers to work under miserable conditions, with minimum wages. Some can not cope with conditions and even death from malnutrition, and is also the supervisor of the more vicious variety. Shinjo, one of the employees, trying to convince the others that they will get good luck and fortune in his next life, and persuades them because they commit suicide to get there faster. It ends, however, in a single major failure. Rather than flee Shinjo being picked up by a Russian ship. Once there, he is overwhelmed by the social conditions that are completely different from those he has just left and decided therefore to return to Kanikosen to save their employees.
Zen
event2009 star_border 7
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In the early 1200s, Dogen brought Chinese Zen philosophy to Japan, and established the Japanese Zen school of Buddhism. He taught that a person was capable of realizing Buddhahood within himself, by way of Zazen. Zazen is extended hours of sitting and meditating to achieve a state of “Mu” (nothingness, or empty existence).
Invisible War
Act like Mayor of Maisaka
event2007 star_border 6
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Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring town in a Dystopian society.
Under the Same Moon
Act like Joji Sugyama
event2005 star_border 4
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When Tetsuya (Yosuke Kubozuka) was 10-years-old he met Emi (Meisa Kuroki), who suffered from a heart disease. In hopes to cure Emi's condition, Tetsuya decided to become a doctor. Following through on his dreams, Tetsuya is now a doctor and is about to marry Emi. One day though, Tetsuya hears about Don (Edison Chen). Tetsuya remembers the times he spent with Emi and Don as a child and also feels insecure about Don.
300 Million
event2010 star_border 7
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Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took place by Sumida River. Katagiri is annoyed by Takiguchi's pushiness, but is surprised to hear that the victim was a suspect in the 300 million yen robbery.
Graveyard of Honor
Act like Toshi Nishizaki
event2002 star_border 6.3
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A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Aishiteyo
event2005
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Miyuki is a single mother with a 10-year old boy Keiji. She is eager to make him a child model. Eventually, Keiji begins to get jobs rather constantly. But Keiji himself doesn't like the job much. He only does it because it pleases his mother, who hates empty pages in the schedule book. One day they attend a big audition. While Keiji wins first stages of the audition, he begins to feel distance from the mother. It makes things worse for him when she has a new boyfriend..
Damned Files 8
event2004
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This is the eighth volume of a series of one-episode horror dramas based on rumored haunted spots, real-life stories, and accidents that have occurred in various parts of the Tokai region.
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Act like Hisamatsu
event2007 star_border 6.3
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Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.
Heaven's Story
Act like Suzuki
event2010 star_border 5.8
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A young girl named Sato watches on television as a man named Tomoki states brazenly at a press conference that he hopes convicted murderer Mitsuo is eventually placed back into society so that he can kill him with his bare hands.
Johnen: Love of Sada
Act like Otoku
event2008 star_border 6.5
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When photographer Ishida first sees Sada, the wife of a new acquaintance, his photo shoot with Sada turns quickly into a steamy affair of mind-blowing proportions
Eyes of the Spider
Act like Hinuma
event1998 star_border 6.6
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Nijima, a white-collar worker, finds the man responsible for his young daughter's murder. He tortures and interrogates the man, who maintains his innocence, before killing and burying him. He returns to his ordinary life feeling listless and hollow, until he encounters a man that introduces himself as an old friend. The man offers Nijima a new job, and subsequently introduces Nijima to his band of hired killers.
Chameleon
event2008 star_border 5.7
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Keiko who leads a lonely life as a fortune teller on the streets meets Goro, a leader of the con-artists. One day, Goro witnesses a group of men kidnapping a middle-aged man in the parking garage. Goro records the man on his cell phone without knowing he could be in big trouble.
Dark Love: Rape
event2008 star_border 2
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A young woman moves into an apartment that is rigged with hidden cameras.A voyeur watches her every move and begins a strange relationship with her.
Wild Criminal
Act like Tadokoro
event1999 star_border 5.5
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Tomoyo was the lover of Udo, a leading member of the Japanese mafia. When Udo disappears with a bundle of dirty money, she is a suspected accomplice. tomoyo is a woman who has always depended on men, and she often sleeps with them in order to survive. Yuki spent all her time around dangerous men, until her luck finally ran out. Beaten, raped and left in the trunk of a car, she ends up overhearing Udo as he assassinates his fellow mafia agents. Yuki is a woman who has always confronted men, and she often spills blood in order to survive. Thrown together by chance, Tomoyo and Yuki must work together, or die at the hands of the syndicate. They're always ready to love, always read to kill, and never ready to trust.
Awaremi Mumashika
event2010
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Atsuo Kashiwagi, an enthusiastic member of the village council, decides to invent a mysterious beast to make his village famous. Against all objections of his relatives, he goes through with his plan and starts organizing the first "viewings". The plan initially works out well and brings in a lot of money, many people dropping by hoping to catch a glimpse of the Yeti-like beast. But then the commotion gets out of hand leaving the whole village is in chaos.
Blowback: Love & Death
Act like Ratts
event1991 star_border 5.5
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A betrayed gangster seeks to avenge his dead partner, with the help of a beautiful restaurant owner and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! The Heist
event1995 star_border 8
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Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
The Parades
Act like Nakata
event2024 star_border 7.6
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A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.
Prisoner No. 07: Reina
event2006 star_border 5
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Hanako Nanjo stars in this sexy, violent film from director Kosuke Suzuki (Stop the Bitch Campaign). She commits a crime to help her sister in prison, only to discover that that politicians and prominent business men are using the prison for their own desires! Now she's desperately looking for a way out, can she do it?
Tochka
event2009
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A woman and a man meet on an abandoned tochka along the seashore in Hokkaido, Japan.
Ikusa
event2005
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Adult video store clerk, Issa, feels like a total loser after losing his job and being dumped by his girlfriend. He is blessed by a stroke of luck when his invention, a curry package squeezing tool, suddenly gains immense popularity. Not only does his invention attract buyers and money, it even attracts unwanted attention from the Yakuza.
Abe Sada: The Last Seven Days
Act like Officer Urakawa
event2011 star_border 4.5
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In May 1936, the “Abe specific incident.” shook the entire country of Japan. It is said that Abe had a live-in maid (Yuma Asami), the owner of the restaurant’s employer Ishida (Nobuyuki Matsuda) was killed, that the cut is more localized. With respect to neither confirm nor deny the crime, frustrated by the testimony of the specific criminal Urakawa Abe (Shun Sugata). And the relentless questioning of Urakawa, we are told the circumstances leading to death and cut from the bodies of penis. Result of fierce passion between men and women debauched erratic, and saw two people … and the constant questioning after the incident, and the constant “last seven days” to depict that Katsuaki the in the here and now Abe no specific story that you have to watch it!
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 1
event2006
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The hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 2
event2006
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The hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
「Chō」Kowai Hanashi TV Kanzen-ban Episode 3
event2006
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The hit series “Super Scary Stories,” which has been made into a film many times in Takeshobo's original horror collection, is now available as a TV drama. The series has recorded unprecedented viewer ratings for a late-night horror drama due to its overly realistic setting.
Onmyō Girl: One
event2005
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The first volume of the action horror drama starring popular idol Minako Komukai.
Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 1: The Rage
event1999
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"A wave of recession hits the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Street in a certain town. One by one, the shops succumb to Angel A's pressure. Finally, the second generation of shopkeepers in the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Arcade, all of whom are strong ex-biker gang members, stand up! In order to protect the local shopping arcade, their ‘community development’ campaign has begun."
Domination
event2008
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Straight to video Yakuza film.
Domination Final Chapter
event2008
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'Domination' sequel.
Abunai Deka
Act like Hyodoh
event1987 star_border 8.8
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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 pharmaceutical laboratory. However, a bungled attempt to catch the murderer leave Takayama and Oshita reassigned to the lackluster task of patrolling public bathrooms to keep them out of trouble.
Water Moon
event1989
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As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of enlightenment resonating with the blind Kanoko.
Gonin Saga
Act like Yuzuru Matsuura
event2015 star_border 5.1
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Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago. He meets Hayato, Daisuke and Asami.
The King of Minami: Lady Loan Shark
event1994
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#7 in the King of Minami series, following "Tactical Debt."
Heat After Dark
event1996 star_border 6.4
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Heat After Dark is director Ryuhei Kitamura's first theatrical release. This 50 minute film is predominantly a character study within an intense action drama. Those familiar with Kitamura's later works, perhaps especially Versus will realize this is the beginning of his characetristic modus operandi. Here, the well defined characters consist of the innocent (the cop), the relatively good (Atsuro Watabe), the relatively bad (Shinichi Suzuki), and the absolutely bad (Shigeru Izumiya ), and a few other Yakuza hoodlums thrown in for entertainment.
Unification of Japan 29
event2018
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Himuro and Tamura of the Kyowakai finally take revenge by taking down the perpetrator of Shibuya's murder. While he was pouring out his thoughts in front of a grave in Shibuya, Baba, who was supposed to have defected to the Kyojinkai, appeared. On the other hand, the Marukami-kai in the Kanto region will no longer be under pressure from politicians, and a conflict with the Kyowa-kai in the Hokuriku region will become inevitable.
Unification of Japan 31
event2018
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Kyowa-kai Himuro and Marukami-kai Tsurumi are in a tense state of conflict. The conflict between the two groups intensified due to internal disputes between the Yokohama and Fujishiro groups. Meanwhile, Himuro's brother Akimoto, a member of the Marukami-kai leadership, dies of illness. With the deterrence of East-West conflict gone, tensions between the Kyowa-kai and the Marukami-kai reach a climax.
Unification of Japan 33
event2019
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Due to the Marukami-kai's summit operation, the Kyowa-kai, which had its president Kawatani and other executives arrested, was in an unprecedented state of turmoil. Meanwhile, in the Marukami-kai, Kikumura, the successor to the deceased Tsurumi, and Tatsumi, the leader of the Mita family known for being a mad dog, are released from prison, and preparations are underway to force the Kyowa-kai into a corner.
The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Economic Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza
Act like Patriarch T.
event2007
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Sometimes, yakuza must face shrewd civilians even more cunning than themselves, armed only with ethics. What are the 'negotiation tactics' you can learn from yakuza beyond fights and threats!? The unparalleled negotiation skills of the yakuza, refined to perfection, are now revealed!!
Unification of Japan 41
event2020
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Due to Kikumura's resignation, Tsurumi-gumi was disbanded. The former Tsurumi-gumi Wakagashira is arrested, and the former Tsurumi-gumi Wakagami assistant is questioned. Meanwhile, Himuro and Tamura, who have recovered from their injuries, head to Nagoya again after receiving a report that Kozuchi was arrested after Himuro and his friends escaped. The mallet is released...
Unification of Japan 43
event2021
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While transporting 200 million yen, the tigers are attacked by someone, and the ownership of the land falls into the hands of the land master, Dave Uchino. Himuro and Tamura suspect that Iwao of the Sakoda group is involved, so they investigate Okita of the Marukamikai. In order to keep his promise to Himuro, Chairman Mita instructs him to return ownership of the land, but...
Unification of Japan 44
event2021
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Himuro and his friends are criticized by Hirono-gumi members, but they barely escape. Hirono's aim is to start a conflict between Himuro and Nakamori, and then take the sake cup from Sakoda. Himuro and his friends notice Hirono's plan, but follow the plan and send a message to Nakamori.
Unification of Japan 59
event2023
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One day, while Himuro (Yasufu Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), and the Yamazaki clan are watching the news, they hear shocking news. Gang members had barricaded themselves in the area and fired at the police officers who arrived. When Himuro learns that the scene is Tokorozawa, he wonders if it is Shima from the Sugimasa group. According to Sahara (Takayuki Kaneba) of the special investigation team, the incident was triggered by a tip-off that Gota, a member of the Sugimasa-gumi, was the head of Shabu, but Miyazono, the head of the Sugimasa-gumi, would have done something like that. Himuro couldn't accept that there was no such thing.
Unification of Japan 61
event2024
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Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) and others discover Ruby's true identity and discover a large amount of firearms and shabu. He tells Sahara (Takayuki Kanema), a member of the special investigation team, that the series of incidents was not the work of the Kyowa-kai and the Marukami-kai, and advises him to investigate the relationship behind the incident. Himuro suspects that there is a mastermind among the police, but Sawara is similarly suspicious of Matsumiya (Gen Hongo) and others. Meanwhile, the police begin to arrest Mita (Shun Suda).
Cut
Act like Masaki
event2011 star_border 7.1
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Shuji is an uncompromising young filmmaker at odds with Japanese society. One day he learns that his loan shark brother, who had helped to finance his films, has been executed by his own yakuza gang for failing to repay his debts.
Tatara Samurai
Act like Sakichi
event2017 star_border 5.5
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In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.
Shin-Karajishi Kabushiki-Kaisha
event1999
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Remake of Chusei Sone's 1983 comedy about a yakuza family trying their luck in show business.
64: Part 1
Act like Urushibara
event2016 star_border 7.1
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1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
64: Part 2
Act like Urushibara
event2016 star_border 6.9
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1989: 64th and last year of the Showa era. A girl is kidnapped and killed. The unsolved case is called Case 64 ('rokuyon'). 2002: Yoshinobu Mikami, who was the detective in charge of the Case 64, moves as a Public Relations Officer in the Police Affairs Department. His relation with the reporters is conflicted and his own daughter is missing. The statute of limitations for the Case 64 will expire in one year. Then a kidnapping case, similar to the Case 64, takes place. The rift between the criminal investigation department and police administration department deepens. Mikami challenges the case as a public relations secretary.
Dance till Tomorrow
event1991
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Live action adaption of Naoki Yamamoto's romantic comedy manga series.
25
event2014
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Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups and seize their money. One day, the Chief of Police becomes aware that 2.5 million yen in seized money is missing. He orders Shintarou and Koichi to bring the money in by tomorrow morning. Shintarou and Koichi are in big trouble. They then read an article about a pension fund embezzlement case involving 6 billion yen. The prime suspect of the pension fund embezzlement case spent most of that money, but he has 2.5 billion yen left.
Silence
Act like Samurai Commander
event2016 star_border 7.1
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In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Balloon
event1990
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Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
A Weapon in My Heart
Act like Hoshi
event1996
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A detective and his partner track down a call girl with information about a drug cartel. After taking her into custody, they are attacked by cartel members. The detective and the woman manage to escape, but they are soon hounded by a professional hitman hired to eliminate them and recover the heroin stolen by the woman.
Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
event2005 star_border 1
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Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
Fireflies in the North
event1984 star_border 5.3
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Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
Tokyo Bitch, I Love You
event2013
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Sex worker Hatsue is having an affair with a married man named Yoshinori, whom she first met as a client. He feels oppressed by his life with his wife and his secret trysts with Hatsue bring him peace of mind.
Yakuza Don
event2006
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Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the group in-fightings, he learns what it really takes to be Yakuza.
Shin Shizukanaru Don
event1997
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Part one of a six part direct to video film series. Sequel to the Shizukanaru Don film series.
Butterfly Sleep
Act like Ryuji Ayamine
event2018 star_border 6.1
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Ryoko Matsumura is a popular writer in her 50's. She also knows that she has Alzheimer’s. Ryoko Matsumura begins to teach at a university. She meets a young Korean man in his 20's. They become attracted to each other.
The Monster Bus
event1988
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Based on the comic book by Hiroyuki Murata.
ZVP
Act like Zatoichi
event2017 star_border 7.5
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In feudal Japan, blind Swordsman Zatoichi comes to the aid of a noblewoman carrying a secret treasure, and must fight cyborg ninjas and a powerful and mysterious Samurai.
Kekko Kamen 3
Act like Kaoru Mayuzumi
event1993 star_border 6.4
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A teacher sent out by Toenail Of Satan to the prestigious Sparta Academy had students receive the highest-ranked humiliation punishment in the name of shame ...
Izo
Act like Monk Soldier
event2004 star_border 6.1
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Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Tear Jar
Act like Shugo
event2008 star_border 2
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A magazine editor loses his wife to cancer and he keeps her ashes in a jar. When he begins dating her sister, he becomes overwhelmed with guilt.
Blade of the Immortal
event2017 star_border 6.7
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Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, Manji knows that only fighting evil will regain his soul. He promises to help a young girl named Rin avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen led by ruthless warrior Anotsu. The mission will change Manji in ways he could never imagine.
Black Crow 1
Act like Kanai
event2019
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Kazuki works as a rookie host at a host club. One of his regular customers is Mai, but she disappears. Mai has a tab of 6 million yen with the host club. The bar owner orders Kazuki to find Mai within a week or Kazuki will have to pay back her debt. Kazuki turns to problem-solving office Kurogarasu. There, Kuroto, Yuya and Hina are hired by Kazuki to find Mai and he offers them 3 million yen.
Daydream
event2009 star_border 2
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An artist named Kurahashi and a female artist named Cheiko wait in a dentist's waiting room. The man feels attracted to the woman but says nothing to her. Later in the examining room, both patients are going under anesthesia, but the man looks over at the woman and sees the dentist and nurse taking off her clothes, while sucking her body for blood like vampires. The man and woman escape from the dentist's office, but their horror is only about to begin...
The Outsider
Act like Prison Warden
event2018 star_border 6.2
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A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
Ley Lines
Act like Detective
event1999 star_border 6.4
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The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
The Soup of Heaven
event2008
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Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.
Shabu
event1996
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Makabe is a yakuza who is addicted to 'shabu' (a slang refers to stimulant drug). He lives as if he wants to destroy himself. He steals a mistress of the boss of a big yakuza syndicate by force. He takes over the yakuza group he belongs to, by killing the old boss. When he tries to use 'shabu' as the main finacial resource of his group, it leads to the serious confrontation with another big yakuza syndicate.
Dirty Hearts
Act like Sasaki
event2012 star_border 6.6
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In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated - by their own countrymen - causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
The Chrysanthemum and the Guillotine
Act like Maruman, Police Chief
event2018 star_border 6.2
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In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called the Guillotine Society, spark an unlikely connection.
Conflict
Act like Otani
event2016 star_border 7
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Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead.
Conflict II
Act like Otani
event2016 star_border 7
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When Tendokai's headquarters are attacked, underboss Washio Kazuma orders his trusted lieutenant to investigate a possible mole inside the family.
Danger de mort
event1999
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The story of a young man and woman who set out to revenge the death of her mother. The lovers enter a mysterious world where space and time are twisted, where love is more dangerous than death.
Attack! Yan Mama Gang
event1995 star_border 6
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Ayako, who was the leader of the ladies gang until five years ago, washed her hands of gang life at the time of her husband's death. Now, she and her daughter-in-law are on a trip. With gangsters targeting children in the port town, things quickly become dangerous.
Dogfight: Stray Dogs' Elegy
event2000 star_border 6
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A cocaine deal is about to go down between yakuza and Hong Kong triad gangsters and a small time porn peddler is used as a mole by a dirty cop.
Vigilante
Act like Takeo Shindo
event2017 star_border 5
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Original work from director Irie Yu of Memoirs of a Murder and the "8000 MILES: SR Saitama's Rapper" series. Set in a provincial city, the story depicts men who are trapped in a vicious downward spiral. Eldest son Ichiro absconded as a youth. Second son Jiro is a city councilman. Youngest son Saburo manages a call girl service. The death of their father brings together three brothers who have pursued different paths in life, and the situation deteriorates as their inescapable fates intertwine once again.
Yuriko's Picture Book
event2016
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Onodera Yuriko sets off for Sweden where her husband, Major General Onodera Makoto, is stationed as a military attache in Stockholm during World War II. Called the "god of intelligence", Makoto is an intelligence officer of the Russian service of the Japanese Army General Staff. Fluent in Russian and German and trusted by the spies of many countries because of his integrity, his office would eventually become the most important Japanese intelligence post in Europe. From the day of her arrival in Stockholm, Yuriko helps her husband's intelligence activities. She encrypts the highly classified information obtained by Makoto and sends it in coded telegrams to the General Staff Headquarters in Japan every day. Husband and wife have jointly undertaken this intelligence work for confidentiality.
Helpless and Reckless
Act like Aoki
event2012 star_border 5.3
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Narumi, who has an aggressive personality, stabbed her colleague and went to prison. After serving her time, Narumi is released and goes back to her hometown where she grew up. Narumi goes to her younger brother Kei's home. At a young age, their parents died in a accident and Kei is the only one left Narumi can rely on. After Narumi sees Kei and his girlfriend Kana living together happily, Narumi decides to take her brother back. Narumi reveals a secret between her and Kei.
Blowback: Midnight Gangsters
event1990
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Lone wolves join forces and plunge into a reckless fight with the organization.
The Wild Ones: The Osaka Yakuza War
event2017
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Sakamoto Toshiya (Kawahara Hideyuki), a young assistant head of the Yamashinkai, is imprisoned himself after his partner is killed in a feud with the Takahara family. When Sakamoto was released from prison eight years later and returned to the Yamashinkai, the organization was already under the control of the Takahara family and was involved in the sale of shabu, which was a taboo practice. Sakamoto tries to rebuild the organization with Yamahashi and his subordinate, Asada, but the Takahara family spots him and the chairman, Hirano, excommunicates him.
Madness in Bloom
event2002 star_border 6
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Yamaguchi, Ichikawa and Kosuge dress in white military-style uniforms to "clean" the streets of Shibuya from bad elements. After rightist gang boss, Aota takes an interest in the three, the boys gradually become influenced by him, but start to go their different ways.
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Act like Boss Benta
event2011 star_border 8
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An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Murder Net
event2004
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Ai, who attends a girls' school in Tokyo, spends her student life with her classmates from middle school, Fuyumi, Chiharu, Akiko and Yoko. One day, a chain mail called "murder net" arrives on Ai's mobile phone. According to rumors, "You can kill someone by including the name of the person you want to kill and sending it to them." Ai didn't believe the rumors at all, but Fuyumi tells Ai to put her name on and send it, and Ai reluctantly sends her the name of Fuyumi. Immediately after that, Fuyumi jumps from the roof and commits suicide. After Fuyumi's death, a mysterious accident occurs one after another, and the teacher dies... Did Fuyumi die due to the "murder net" sent by Ai?
A Family
Act like Makoto Takeda
event2021 star_border 7.3
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Taken in by the yakuza at a young age, Kenji swears allegiance to his old-school boss, pledging to adhere to the family code amid ever-changing times.
Blood
event1998 star_border 5
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Kasaki the hitman needs to set scores with his target Ri after the syndicate hunts him and blackmails his childhood friend to kill him.
Black Crow 2
Act like Kanai
event2019
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One day, Chizuru (Nana Asakawa) and Mioto (Aino Kuribayashi) enters problem-solving office Kurogarasu. The two girls look naive, but Chizuru is a leader of a enjo kosai group. Their group makes money by having young girls date older men for money. Thugs are threatening Chizuru for money. Chizuru pays 2.5 million yen to the problem-solving office Kurogarasu for their help. Kuroto (Tsubasa Sakiyama), Yuya (Keisuke Ueda) and Hina (Moga Mogami) take the case and begin to investigate the thugs, but they find something unexpected.
[Is A.]
event2004
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Detective Mimura was living peacefully with his loving wife and son when the latter two were killed in an explosion caused by a 14-year-old boy, Yuya. Four years later, when Yuya is released from juvenile detention centre, Mimura's feelings towards the boy have evolved from grief to outright hatred, and he must cope with the pain. Meanwhile, Yuya's father quits his job as a teacher and dedicates himself to compensate the victims and to take care of his son. While the adults are trying to come to terms with their disrupted lives, Yuya is about to test the law again...
No Problem 2
Act like Kazuo Ota
event2002 star_border 5
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Kimura wins a trip to Hong Kong, but once he arrives, he is mistaken as a hitman and is assigned to kill Yumiko, the female successor to the Ota Group conglomerate. When Kimura falls for his target instead, he must learn kung-fu from a local (Yuen) to fight off the yakuza assassin "Invincible" assigned to finish the job.
The Supporting Actors in Byplaywood
event2021 star_border 6.7
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In a studio at the foot of Mt. Fuji, Gaku Hamada is struggling to shoot a movie with a dog in the lead role. Enter a huge cast of veteran actors who get involved in misadventures while on set.
Chasuke's Journey
event2015 star_border 6.2
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Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is increasingly vehement in demanding avant-garde ideas. Take, for example, the beautiful Yuri, a girl who dies in a car crash. Some of the heavenly scribes find this very dull and send former gangster Chas, who has become a heavenly tea-boy, back down to earth with instructions to save Yuri no matter what. And so Chas ends up in Okinawa, gets to know the earth-dwellers, interferes in their fates, becomes celebrated as 'Mr Angel' and is hounded by brutal enemies. His falling in love with Yuri is of course a foregone conclusion. But no one could anticipate what happens next. Not even God himself
Summer of the Lion Kings
event1991
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Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Katsu, who met Osamu who belongs to the conflicting Dainippon Kyokushinkai, feels the real gangster scent of Osamu.
Public Security Police Investigator
event2007
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Ken Kariba, who was transferred to the Public Security Department of the Metropolitan Police Department, was investigating allegations of kidnapping of Japanese groups in Europe amid a series of explosions in various parts of Japan and the spread of fear of terrorist attacks with bombs. It eventually led to a series of terrorist attacks and, gradually, to a great conspiracy.
Yakuza Blood Wind Record Unreliable Crest
event2000
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Tachibana, who was once regarded as the next young leader of the gangster group but lost the promotion battle to rival Yamamoto, is now a central figure in a group of outlaws who have been banished from yakuza society. He was repeating the wrongdoings of. One day, in exchange for 100 million bounties from Yamamoto, he receives a request to crush the Kanto Wide Area Gangster Association and Iron Heart.
I Am a Weapon
event2016
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A piano teacher struggles with the dark legacy of his family: he once witnessed his father beating a man to death. Fearing a genetic inclination for violence he struggles to stay sane when he is pulled down the dark path of an illegal firm that sells revenge for hire.
The Lady in a Black Dress
event1987 star_border 5.3
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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 shoji. Tamura who lives on the second floor of the store for the time being the son who wants to work here. A few days later, Tamura finds a handgun from Yuko's baggage and holds a suspicion ....
Welcome Back
event2024
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Teru is a boxer and rookie of the year contender. Ben has had an excellent memory since birth but struggles to communicate with others. The two of them grew up like brothers in the same housing complex. Ben is happy simply imitating Teru because to Ben, Teru is a hero. However, Teru loses to Kitazawa in the deciding match for the title of rookie of the year, and then pretends as if nothing has happened and drowns himself in partying.
Jingi 50
event2008
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The 50th film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.
Jingi 49
event2008
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The 49th film in the popular yakuza action series starring Takeuchi Riki and Sakakibara Toshihiko.
Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 2: The Explosion
event2000
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A snack bar opens in the Kirigaoka central shopping street, which has begun to co-exist with the major supermarket Angel A. The owner is Akemi, a childhood friend of the ‘second generation’. The owner is Akemi, a childhood friend of the ‘Nidaime’. The Nidaime were excited, but in fact she was a pawn of Angel A. And those who are after the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Arcade are once again plotting against them in an unexpected and despicable way...
Scars and Codes 2
event2018
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A drug deal within Anzai-gumi's territory sparks conflict with the Otsuru Family, leading to the death of the group's secretary, Daimura (Toshiyuki Nagashima). Driven by vengeance, the Daimura-gumi is determined to retaliate. Their lieutenant, Kawabe (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), captures and tortures a member of the Otsuru Family, uncovering that the mastermind behind the chaos is Higashio (Eiichi Furui), Anzai-gumi’s underboss. Enraged, Kawabe prepares for revenge. However, war has already begun. Otsuru Family attacks claim the lives of many young Anzai-gumi members. Amidst the bloodshed, Tachibana (Kazuki Namioka) receives crucial words from Boss Anzai (Koichi Iwaki) about what it truly means to live as a yakuza.
Unification of Japan Gaiden: Kawatani Family - Jiro the Outlaw Assassin
event2024
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A "side story" film centered on Onaga Terukuni (Kyan Yutaka), the Captain of Yuusei Group, a subsidiary of the Kawatani Family. A legendary assassin is released from prison, and Teru is charged by Himuro (Motomiya Fujikaze) and Tamura (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) to welcome him back. But who he meets appears to be a senile old man who may need more help than he realizes ...
Showa Gamblers Gaiden
event2008
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The second installment of the Showa Gamblers series. In the mid-1950s, Orin, the daughter of Takashima Tomezō, the 8th-generation leader of the Takashima clan in Jōshū Nitta, seeks out Seijirō Hanamura, an old friend of her father. She hopes to stop the Narita-gumi, who are plotting to take over the main family.
Making of Confessions of a Dog
Act like Self
event2011
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Documentary on the film "Confessions of a Dog"
Denshi Sentai Denziman
Act like Akimoto (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 8.8
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Denzimen are warriors who fight against the Vader Clan, a clan that tries to pollute the Earth with sludge. Denzimen fight using the Super Science of the Denzi people.
Zero: Dragon Blood
(1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7
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Rei Suzumura continues to hunt Horrors in a certain city. One day, he meets a young woman in love with photography, Alice Hiromi. After witnessing Makai Knight ZERO in action, she develops an interest in Rei. Meanwhile, a carriage crosses a far away bridge. The carriage contains a coffin in which a man lies. That man is none other than the Dragon Knight, who used the power of Dragons to hunt Horrors.
Engine Sentai Go-Onger
Act like Gang Father (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.5
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The Barbaric Machine Clan “Gaiark” was exiled from the Machine World by the Engines, who are huge machines that have their own will. With the exile, the Gaiark switched their target to the world of humans and attacked to pollute the Earth in order to make it more habitable for them. This is when three young individuals with hearts of justice stand up as Go-Ongers.
Great Selection Taxi
Act like Hayami (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8.4
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Edawakare is the driver of Sentaxi, a marvellous vehicle which is able to take a passenger back to his or her “life’s turning point”. His cool appearance is at odds with his talkative, meddlesome, sweet-toothed character. He gives advice to passengers who are flustered after failing in their life’s choice.
Juukou B-Fighter
Act like Ryuzaburou Tatewaki / Bill Goldy (2 ep.)
event1995 star_border 9.7
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Juukou B-Fighter is a 1995 Japanese tokusatsu television series. B-Fighter is short for "Beetle Fighter". It was part of Toei's ongoing Metal Hero Series. It dealt with three members of the prestigious Earth Academia fighting against the evil forces of the otherworldly Jamahl Empire. The action footage and props were later used for Big Bad Beetleborgs.
Utenai Keikan
(5 ep.)
event2016
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The drama depicts the conflicts of elite police officers torn between career aspirations and justice.
The Woman of S.R.I.
(1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.3
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Mariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never lies” and she delves into the truth of the case with her colleagues with their specialized skills and knowledge in forensic medicine, physics, chemistry etc. Mariko’s steadfast belief in science makes her stand against conventional institutional ethics of the police department, diehard detectives averse to scientific investigation and sometimes even with her own colleagues, but she stays faithful to her belief in science and continues to pursue the truth.
Byplayers ~Meiwakiyaku no Mori no 100-nichikan~
(1 ep.)
event2021 star_border 10
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Set in "Byplaywood" a large film studio surrounded by forest, far from the city. The story depicts 100 days of turmoil caused by the gathering of serial dramas and movies from various TV stations at once in this remote studio. It is a drama full of battles for ratings between studios, clashes between young, mid-career, and big names, and a heartwarming story of friendship and bonding. Also, the self-deprecation and parodies are enhanced by the fact that the actors play a role of themselves.
Fuller House
Act like The Dragon (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 7.4
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D.J. Tanner-Fuller is a widow and mother of three. Things become too much to handle, so she asks for help from her sister Stephanie and her best-friend Kimmy.
Nekonade
Act like Ishiguro (12 ep.)
event2008 star_border 8
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Taro Onizuka is a 45-year-old businessman who is at the head of the human resources department. Highly disciplined at work and home, and tasked with cold-bloodedly laying off employees, his life changes when he finds a kitten.
Tokyo Vice
Act like Hitoshi Ishida (14 ep.)
event2022 star_border 7.9
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A first-hand account of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police beat following Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who embeds himself into the Tokyo Vice police squad to reveal corruption. Based on Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name.
Happy Kanako's Killer Life
(2 ep.)
new_releases Release: February 28, 2025
When Kanako accidentally applies to work at an assassination agency, the timid office worker discovers that she has a knack for bumping people off. Will she ever earn the respect of Sakurai, her prickly and kinda hot co-worker–and why is she still having silly workplace problems when she’s employed with hitmen?!
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