Tatsuo Endō Movies

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he...

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of...

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A...

1962 Japanese movie

A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...

The Domain: Severed Relations

A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of...

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

The second part of the Gamblers series.