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1. Tokyo Vice (2022– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Western journalist working for a publication in Tokyo takes on one of the city's most powerful crime bosses.
Stars: Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe, Rachel Keller, Shô Kasamatsu
Votes: 45,460
2. Audition (1999)
R | 115 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 89,356
3. Sex & Fury (1973)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
During the Meiji era, a gambler called Ocho takes revenge on three gangsters who killed her father, shelters a wanted anarchist and confronts a British spy.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Akemi Negishi, Ryôko Ema, Yôko Hori
Votes: 3,438
4. The Street Fighter (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After failing to reach a deal with her enemies, a mercenary karateka protects the daughter of a recently-deceased oil tycoon from the evil conglomerate gunning for her inheritance.
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Goichi Yamada, Yutaka Nakajima, Chiyoko Kazama
Votes: 5,672
5. Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka, Eiko Nakamura
Votes: 4,311
6. Samurai Wolf (1966)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.
Director: Hideo Gosha | Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Ryôhei Uchida, Junko Miyazono, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 778
7. Legend of the Eight Samurai (1983)
133 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Princess Shizu was born under a terrible curse. Only the eight legendary samurai, hailing from across Japan, can protect her from an ancient supernatural clan to fulfill their destinies as foretold by prophecy.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Hiroko Yakushimaru, Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi
Votes: 1,312
8. Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1974–1979)
45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.
Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Renji Ishibashi, Keizô Kanie, Shintarô Akatsuki
Votes: 257
9. The End of Summer (1961)
103 min | Drama
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Ganjirô Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Votes: 4,511
10. Female Yakuza Tale (1973)
86 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ocho gets abducted by a yakuza clan that uses a gang of women to smuggle drugs in their vaginas. Finding out that the kingpin had killed the last boss and abducted his daughter, Ocho joins forces with the drug mules against the clan.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Reiko Ike, Makoto Aikawa, Arumi Kuri, Meika Seri
Votes: 943
11. Daimajin (1966)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Miwa Takada, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Jun Fujimaki, Ryûtarô Gomi
Votes: 1,893
12. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Not Rated | 81 min | Action, Thriller
Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.
Director: Buichi Saitô | Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yoichi Hayashi, Michi Azuma, Akihiro Tomikawa
Votes: 4,963
13. Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight (1973)
81 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A ronin Shino Asu (I die Tomorrow) gets rescued by the Bohachi clan. Their leader Shirobei Daimon, charged by the Shogun with running Edo's brothels enlists him to kill clients of tea-house whores who are stealing his business.
Director: Teruo Ishii | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Gorô Ibuki, Tatsuo Endô, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 683
14. Hiroshima Death Match (1973)
Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow's niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji, Shingo Yamashiro
Votes: 1,914
15. Doberman Cop (1977)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Crime
A tough-as-nails cop from Okinawa investigates a savage murder in Tokyo's nightlife district. Originally dismissed as a bumpkin, he soon proves more savvy than the local police.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Janet Hatta, Eiko Matsuda, Masaru Shiga
Votes: 617
16. Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban (1973)
86 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A group of girls find themselves immersed in an Osaka gangland war when they escape from a detention transport. They form their own gang called The Gypsies.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Miki Sugimoto, Reiko Ike, Misuzu Ôta, Hiromi Sairaiji
Votes: 324
17. Roaring Fire (1981)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been murdered in mysterious circumstances. ... See full summary »
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Etsuko Shihomi, Mikio Narita
Votes: 254
18. Doctor X (2012– )
Not Rated | 54 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Daimon Michiko is a freelance surgeon who wanders from hospital to hospital because the harsh environment led many doctors to retire. However, Michiko doesn't look like a doctor at all with her flashy clothes and eccentric attitude.
Stars: Ryôko Yonekura, Ittoku Kishibe, Yuki Uchida, Toshiyuki Nishida
Votes: 793
19. Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Crime
Acting boss Hirotani of the Ohara gang uses his friendship with corrupt cop Kuno to usurp a staged land deal that rival yakuza gang Kawade had arranged through local politicians. Open warfare erupts between the two gangs.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hiroki Matsukata, Mikio Narita
Votes: 949
20. Bounty Hunter 3: Eight Men to Kill (1972)
88 min | Action
This is the third and final chapter of the Shokin Kasegi (Bounty Hunter) series starring the great Wakayama Tomisaburo as a doctor who doubles as a bounty hunter with a vast array of weapons and the greatest sword skill in the land.
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Ebata, Tatsuo Endô, Jûkei Fujioka
Votes: 45
21. Kunoichi ninpô-chô IV: Chûshingura hishô (1994)
79 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
The female ninjas have to stop an alliance from carrying out their dastardly deeds, which includes bizarre ninjitsu sex magic to aid them in their quest.
Director: Masaru Tsushima | Stars: Tatsuo Endô, Hisao Hata, Kenji Naka, Megumi Sakita
Votes: 33
22. The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Mercenary karate master Tsurugi is hired to retrieve a cassette tape which holds a very sensitive recording of governmental corruption. A back and forth game of who got the tape ensues.
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Kôji Wada, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 1,497
23. Game of Chance 3 (1967)
88 min | Crime
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a Yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his son Kenichi. Tired of running, the two settle in a mountain town.
Director: Ryûichi Takamori | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kenjirô Ishiyama
24. The Insatiable (1971)
86 min | Drama
Young Yuki runs away from home after her mother's villainous boyfriend rapes her. She ends using sex to survive, but when she finally meets a nice architecture student, she starts thinking that her suffering may be over, but is it?
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Reiko Ike, Sandra Julien, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 81
25. Proxy War (1973)
Not Rated | 119 min | Action, Drama
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase, Shingo Yamashiro
Votes: 1,540
26. New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Seizaburô Kawazu, Fujio Suga
Votes: 2,383
27. Police Tactics (1974)
Not Rated | 101 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya, Toshio Kurosawa
Votes: 1,297
28. Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation (1968)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A local Yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Sumiko Fuji, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michitarô Mizushima, Yuki Shirono
Votes: 146
29. Love Under the Crucifix (1962)
102 min | Drama
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Director: Kinuyo Tanaka | Stars: Ineko Arima, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjirô Nakamura, Mieko Takamine
Votes: 274
30. Poruno no teiô (1971)
88 min | Crime
Umemiya stars as a sexist son-of-a-bitch yakuza involved with the sex business.
Director: Makoto Naitô | Stars: Tatsuo Umemiya, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomoko Mayama, Naoko Fujiyama
31. Kunoichi ninpô-chô III: Higi densetsu no kai (1993)
73 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
The government is worried that the Emperor will have no children because he can't get an erection. The female ninjas try to find a sacred book that will help him, but they face a stiff challenge.
Director: Masaru Tsushima | Stars: Tatsuo Endô, Marino Hase, Masuhiko Ida, Toshiya Ito
Votes: 42
32. The Tattooed Hitman (1974)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
One of the only pre-1980s yakuza films to be dubbed-into-English.
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Tatsuo Umemiya
Votes: 97
33. A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
124 min | Drama
Fumiko struggles to get her literary work published, spending years working in poverty while being abused by her boyfriend all the while hoping to break free from the cycle.
Director: Mikio Naruse | Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katô, Keiju Kobayashi
Votes: 432
34. Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being wounded in a fight, Zatoichi is nursed to health by a young woman and her father. Now indebted to the family, he works to protect their ferry business from local thugs.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Tatsuo Endô, Takashi Etajima, Ryûtarô Gomi
Votes: 1,712
35. Kyofu joshikôkô: Furyo monzetsu guruupu (1973)
87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest ... See full summary »
Director: Masakazu Shimura | Stars: Reiko Ike, Yûko Kanô, Hiroshi Nawa, Jun Aida
Votes: 66
36. Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Drama
Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Eiji Okada, Kei Satô
Votes: 1,092
37. Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967)
Not Rated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Shiho Fujimura, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Makoto Fujita
Votes: 1,403
38. Nihon no Don: Kanketsuhen (1978)
131 min | Crime, Drama
The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Shin Saburi, Toshirô Mifune, Chiezô Kataoka, Bunta Sugawara
Votes: 44
39. Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.
Director: Kenji Misumi | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi, Kaneko Iwasaki
Votes: 1,597
40. Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Hiroki Matsukata, Yumiko Nogawa, Shin'ichi Chiba, Mikio Narita
Votes: 198
41. Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In a town where debt-ridden peasants are being ruthlessly exploited, Zatoichi is forced to take sides between a cruel yakuza boss and his seemingly altruistic rival.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Rentarô Mikuni, Kô Nishimura, Yûko Hamada
Votes: 1,373
42. The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974)
97 min | Crime
Masayuki Ueda is sent to prison for murder, but is unable to be contained for long.
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Hiroki Matsukata, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Naoko Ôtani, Tsunehiko Watase
Votes: 59
43. Onna hankachô: Edo gômon keibatsu-shô (1995 Video)
Director: Masaru Tsushima | Stars: Yoshizumi Ishihara, Ryôka Yuzuki, Mayu Nakada, Naoki Eguchi
Votes: 14
44. Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei (1965)
90 min | Action, Crime
A tale set in the late Meiji era - circa 1880s-1890 as opposed to the early Meiji which began in the 1860s.
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Sumiko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba, Tôru Abe
Votes: 104
45. Yakuza Ladies 2 (1987)
119 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Tooru Dobashi | Stars: Yukiyo Toake, Rino Katase, Hiroaki Murakami, Ako
Votes: 40
46. The Secret of the Fylfot (1968)
89 min
The freelancing ninja Shiinusho Toma is assigned security at the Eno Castle. When he meets his match in the form of whip-wielding kunoichi femme-fatale Kageroi, a deadly romance blooms.
Director: Norifumi Suzuki | Stars: Isao Natsuyagi, Yukiko Kuwahara, Hiroko Sakuramachi, Minoru Ôki
Votes: 20
47. Shin heitai yakuza (1966)
86 min
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka | Stars: Shintarô Katsu, Takahiro Tamura, Mikio Narita, Ryôichi Tamagawa
Votes: 9
48. Brave Red Flower of the North (1970)
94 min | Crime
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Sumiko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Shingo Yamashiro, Bin Amatsu
Votes: 52
49. Dangerous Trade in Kobe (1973)
93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ise, a Yakuza mid-level drug dealer, is captured during a police sting operation. The Yakusa criminal breaks down under interrogation and agrees to become a police informant.
Director: Eiichi Kudô | Stars: Tatsuo Umemiya, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Nobuo Kaneko
Votes: 39
50. Hibotan bakuto: Nidaime shûmei (1969)
95 min | Drama
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, whose livelihoods are threatened, and the railway construction workers.
Director: Shigehiro Ozawa | Stars: Bin Amatsu, Kanjûrô Arashi, Masaharu Arikawa, Daisuke Awaji
Votes: 103