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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda
featuring Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall

This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War II. With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the wheels are set in motion by Japan to plan the attack. After internal differences in the government, the Japanese quickly mobilize plans ...

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Samurai Reincarnation

Samurai Reincarnation (1981) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

In this Japanese fantasy, the wrathful ghost of a shogunate warrior emerges from a thunderstorm to exact revenge on those behind the terrible 1638 Shimbara Revolt in which 18,000 rioters were slaughtered. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Virus

Virus (1982) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Stuart Gillard

A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers. First of all, a virus has been developed that gets loose and starts to destroy humanity on a grand scale. The only people who are remotely safe are a group of eight hundred men and eight women on Antarctica. Since the ...

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Legend of the Eight Samurai

Legend of the Eight Samurai (1984) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Sonny Chiba, Hiroku Yokoshimaru

As might be gathered from its title, The Legend of the Eight Samurai is set in feudal Japan. Princess Hiroku Yokoshimaru's family is wiped out, along with her bodyguards. All that stands between the princess and certain death is an inexperienced young samurai played by martial-arts expert Sonny Chiba. Armed with little more than determination, ...

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The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy (1981) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Daijiro Harada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Mitsuru Hirata, Morio Kazama, Keizo Kanie

A has-been samurai movie star takes unfair advantage of the loyalty of one of his devoted fans in this Japanese comedy-drama. The star uses the fan's help to escape a number of sticky situations and eventually hatches a plan to use them as a double during a dangerous stunt. Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide

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Cops vs. Thugs

Cops vs. Thugs (1975) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Bunta Sugawara

The director of Battle Royale and The Yakuza Papers delivers yet another gritty yakuza masterpiece in this brutal tale of two warring underworld factions determined to gain ultimate power over Kurashima City. The year is 1963, and the delicate balance of power in Kurashima City is shakily maintained between two warring factions. The political ...

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Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor (1975) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Vengeance Is Mine meets La Strada in Japanese gangland auteur Kinji Fukasaku's real-life yakuza drama about a sociopathic loser who always seems to make the wrong decision. Opening in the blackmarkets of Shinjuku just after the war, Ishikawa (played by matinee icon Tetsuya Watari) works as muscleman for the Kawada crime family. After a raid on a ...

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The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics

The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics (1974) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Akira Kobayashi, Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Tatsuo Umemiya, Toshio Kurosawa

A long-standing gang war on the streets of Hiroshima escalates despite police pressure in this, the fourth film in Kinji Fukasaku's Yakuza Papers series. It's 1964, and with the Tokyo Olympics turning the eyes of the world to Japan, lawmen have set out to keep the Yakuza -- Japan's organized crime system -- out of sight. While dozens of low-level ...

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Blackmail Is My Life

Blackmail Is My Life (1968) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Hiroki Matsukata

A young swinger finds that his criminal habits have gotten him in over his head in this rare 1960s yakuza film from legendary Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku. Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki (Horoki Matsukata) quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep ...

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Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy

Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Sonny Chiba

You've seen him as the bone-cracking anti-hero of the Street Fighter films, now watch Sonny Chiba team with Japanese screen legend Toshiro Mifune and some of the biggest names in Asian cinema in an all-out martial arts melee that's guaranteed to please. Yagyu Jubei (Chiba) is the son of a shogun's instructor and the most powerful swordsman in ...

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Street Mobster (1972) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Legendary director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, The Black Lizard) takes the helm for this stylish and violent take on the life of a lower echelon yakuza thug striving to survive in a Tokyo where the rules are constantly changing. Thuggish Isamu Okita (Bunta Sugawara) has a bad reputation for his short temper and bad habit of flying off the ...

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The Yakuza Papers 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Asao Koike, Bunta Sugawara, Kinya Kitaoji, Meiko Kaji, Seizo Fukumoto, Sonny Chiba

Bunta Sugawara returns as Shozo Hirono in this sequel to the acclaimed yakuza film Jingi Naki Tatakai (aka The Yakuza Papers: Battles Without Honor and Humanity). Hirono, now dug deep into a Japanese crime family based in Hiroshima, finds a new adversary in the person of Katsutoshi Otomo (Sonny Chiba), a ruthless killer who is willing to do ...

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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

The quest of a war-widow for the truth about her husband's death during World War II serves as the backbone for this film, which portrays the Japanese militarism of that time and the attitudes which gave rise to it. Though the government labelled her husband as a deserter, his widow does not believe it, and every day she makes a trip to the war ...

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The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode (1974) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Akira Kobayashi, Bunta Sugawara, Goro Ibuki, Hiroki Matsukata, Kinya Kitaoji, Nobuo Kaneko

In this violent and morally ambiguous crime drama from master genre filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, Takeda (Akira Kobayashi), a longtime leader of one of Hiroshima's Yakuza families (the Japanese Mafia), attempts to resolve the longtime war between various mob factions by reshaping his organization into a political organization that would be both ...

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Black Lizard (1968) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Akihiro Maruyama, Yukio Mishima

The Black Lizard (Kurotakage) takes place in the sub rosa world of organized crime in Japan. Famed female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama stars as a Dragon Lady type called the Lizard. In this guise, she (he?) masterminds all illegal activities in Tokyo. The Lizard jeopardizes her power when she falls in love with detective Isao Kimura. The ...

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If You Were Young: Rage (1970) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

In the 1960's, young men in rural Japan were frequently sent to the city when they became old enough to work. The consequences, however, of sending these teenagers into a struggle of class, generations, and values proved frequently volatile and even violent. Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

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The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War (1973) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Akira Kobayashi, Bunta Sugawara, Reiko Ike, Shingo Yamashiro, Tsunehiko Watase

Kinji Fukasaku's violent chronicle of mob warfare in post-war Hiroshima continues with this, the third film in the Yakuza Papers series. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) struggles to remain independent and neutral in the midst of an ongoing battle between two mob families, but his drams of brokering a balance between them are dashed when a crime ...

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The Yakuza Papers (1973) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tsunehiko Watase, Nobuo Kaneko

Kinji Fukasaku directed this powerful and uncompromising look at the deadly stakes of life among the Yakuza -- the Japanese Mafia. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) is a former Japanese soldier who, following his nation's defeat in World War II, finds himself in a prison cell in Hiroshima on a murder charge. While behind bars, Hirono gains a loyal ...

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Battle Royale (2001) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku
featuring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Masanobu Ando, Kou Shibasaki

In a future where society is on the verge of collapse, the government takes drastic action against the problem of rebellious teenagers in this violent sci-fi opus from Japan. In the year 2002, Japan's economy has taken a dramatic turn for the worse, and massive unemployment and inflation have thrown most adults into a state of chaos; the nation's ...

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Black Rose Mansion (1969) more movies like this

directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Mysterious lounge singer Ryuko (Akihiro Maruyama) is the subject of awe with an intensity bordering on worship at the Black Rose Mansion, the private men's club that employs her. It's not just the patrons who are enamored with her -- Ryuko has also attracted the reverence of the club's millionaire owner (Eitaro Ozawa), his estranged son (Masakazu ...

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