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1. Captain Ultra (1967– )
30 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Stars: Hirohisa Nakata, Jirô Sagawa, Yuki Jôno, Nenji Kobayashi
Votes: 16
2. Hôjô Tokimune (2001)
Drama
Set during the Kamakura Shogunate in late-13th century Japan, this 49-episode series details the rise to power firstly of Hojo Tokiyori and then the succession of his young son Hojo ... See full synopsis »
Stars: Toshirô Yanagiba, Motoya Izumi, Atsuro Watabe, Kin'ya Kitaôji
Votes: 26
3. Playgirl (1969–1974)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
When mystery novelist and independently wealthy socialite Makoto Masako decides to start a business she settles upon a unique Insurance & Investigation Service. Recruiting a number of ... See full summary »
Stars: Hideo Murota, Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi, Hiroshi Ogasawara, Franz Gruber
Votes: 8
4. Amagi goe (1998 TV Movie)
107 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Susumu Ôoka | Stars: Misako Tanaka, Keizô Kanie, Kazunari Ninomiya, Morio Kazama
Votes: 17
5. Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)
PG | 162 min | Drama, History, War
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu
Votes: 38,164
6. A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
183 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three thieves escape from a heist, one of them killing the other two. He is sheltered by a prostitute and sought after by the police, but only after ten years his true motivation unravels.
Director: Tomu Uchida | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui, Yoshi Katô
Votes: 1,297
7. Daitokai - Tatakai no hibi (1976– )
54 min | Action, Drama
Sergeant Raisuke Kuroiwa (Tetsuya Watari) and the Kuroiwa Force, a special Flying Squad-esque division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police solves crimes and cracks down on their perpetrators.
Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Kaku Takashina, Takehiko Ono, Yûjirô Ishihara
Votes: 10
8. Kita no kuni kara '98 jidai (1998 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Shigemichi Sugita | Stars: Kunie Tanaka, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Tomoko Nakajima, Yoshihito Nakazawa
Votes: 30
9. Bakuchi-uchi: Nagaremono (1970)
100 min
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michitarô Mizushima, Kyôsuke Machida
Votes: 8
10. Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot (1967–1968)
TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young boy aids in the fight against a mechanized terrorist organization as the sole controller of a prototype giant robot.
Stars: Mitsunobu Kaneko, Toshiyuki Tsuchiyama, Kôichi Chiba, Akio Itô
Votes: 583
11. Umi no koto (1966)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Tomotaka Tasaka | Stars: Yoshiko Sakuma, Katsuo Nakamura, Ganjirô Nakamura, Hisano Yamaoka
Votes: 37
12. Nippon dorobô monogatari (1965)
117 min | Comedy
Gisuke is an illegal dentist by day and a thief by night. One night during an attempted robbery he witnesses a derailment. Later communists are found guilty of the incident, but he knows it was not them.
Director: Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Yûnosuke Itô, Shin'ichi Chiba, Shinjirô Ebara
Votes: 51
13. Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
G | 144 min | Action, Drama, History
The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda, Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Jason Robards, Joseph Cotten
Votes: 37,204 | Gross: $29.55M
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: 1,907
15. Ôkami to buta to ningen (1964)
95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A lonely gangster tries recruiting men to plunder a respected and powerful gang.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Ken Takakura, Rentarô Mikuni, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Shinjirô Ebara
Votes: 170
16. Inazuman (1973–1974)
30 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A college student, who transforms into an insectoid mutant superhero, fights the evil mutants sent by the Newmanity Empire led by the fearsome Phantom Banba.
Stars: Daisuke Ban, Shôzô Îzuka, Ichirô Murakoshi, Kôichi Kitamura
Votes: 32
17. Army Intelligence 33 (1968)
88 min | Drama, Action
Chiba portrays a promising young soldier who is framed for murder, and forced to become a spy after being found guilty in military court.
Director: Tsuneo Kobayashi | Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Mako Midori, Ryô Ikebe, Kenji Imai
Votes: 14
18. Saigo no tokkôtai (1970)
122 min | Drama, War
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. A Kamikaze squad leader has second thoughts about the suicide runs.
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Ken Takakura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tatsuo Umemiya
Votes: 57
19. Bakuto kirikomi-tai (1971)
97 min | Action, Crime
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 22
20. Boryokudan sai buso (1971)
99 min | Crime
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Tetsurô Tanba, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Jûshirô Konoe
Votes: 12
21. Abunai Deka (1986–1987)
54 min | Action
This series revolves around the investigations of Detectives Toshiki Takayama and Yuji Oshita. Famous for their unique personalities and unorthodox methods of catching the criminals, this ... See full summary »
Stars: Hiroshi Tachi, Kyôhei Shibata, Tôru Nakamura, Bengal
Votes: 18
22. Theater of Life (1983)
138 min | Drama
Directors: Kinji Fukasaku, Sadao Nakajima, Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Kie Nakai, Hiroki Matsukata
Votes: 22
23. Ku-Kai (1984)
179 min | Drama
Biopic about the Buddhist master Kukai who founded an important order in 19th century Japan.
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Mayumi Ogawa, Kô Nishimura, Hideo Murota
Votes: 32
24. Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
93 min | Crime, Drama
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase, Akiko Kudô
Votes: 1,043
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: 1,534
26. 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: 1,295
27. Yawaraka na hou (2001)
201 min | Drama, Mystery
The story of a person who is looking for her own daughter. She is married and has an affair with her husband's business partner. Her family and her lover's family were close and travelled ... See full summary »
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki | Stars: Yûki Amami, Shunsuke Matsuoka, Merii Ajima, Rina Akiyama
Votes: 37
28. Odoshi (1966)
84 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Rentarô Mikuni, Kô Nishimura, Masumi Harukawa, Sanae Nakahara
Votes: 44
29. 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
30. Hissatsu shikakenin (1972–1973)
46 min | Action
"Shikakenin", they have a double life and live inconspicuously in Edo. Baian Fujieda is an acupuncturist. Sanai Nishimura is a masterless samurai. They believe that Otowaya-Han'emon who is ... See full summary »
Stars: Ken Ogata, Gorô Mutsumi, Sô Yamamura, Yoichi Hayashi
Votes: 8
31. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: David Bowie, Tom Conti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Takeshi Kitano
Votes: 20,005 | Gross: $2.31M
32. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Rie Yokoyama, Yayoi Watanabe, Yôko Mihara
Votes: 4,866
33. A Taxing Woman (1987)
127 min | Comedy, Crime
If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Yasuo Daichi
Votes: 2,242
34. 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: 946
35. Hissatsu 4: Urami harashimasu (1987)
131 min | Drama
Following the local magistrate's death during a bloody massacre, a new maverick magistrate rides into town, and soon ends up toe-to-toe with the local law enforcement.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Makoto Fujita, Hiroaki Murakami, Kazuko Katô, Ken Nishida
Votes: 121
36. The Boss's Head (1975)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Drama, Comedy
Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to ... See full summary »
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Votes: 343
37. Kagami no onna-tachi (2002)
129 min | Drama
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida | Stars: Mariko Okada, Yoshiko Tanaka, Sae Isshiki, Hideo Murota
Votes: 249
38. Soshiki bôryoku (1967)
90 min | Crime
A war breaks out on the streets between rivalry Yakuza clans.
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Shin'ichi Chiba, Ryôhei Uchida, Ryûnosuke Tsukigata
Votes: 14
39. Zoku soshiki bôryoku (1967)
90 min | Action, Crime
Director: Jun'ya Satô | Stars: Tetsurô Tanba, Fumio Watanabe, Hayato Tani, Kyôsuke Machida
Votes: 10
40. Doro inu (1964)
110 min | Action, Crime
Director: Takaharu Saeki | Stars: Minoru Ôki, Chisako Hara, Keiji Takagi, Takashi Kanda
Votes: 10
41. Sutemi no Narazu-mono (1970)
97 min | Crime, Drama
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.
Director: Yasuo Furuhata | Stars: Ken Takakura, Jô Shishido, Mie Hama, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
Votes: 13
42. Yagyu Clan Conspiracy (1978)
130 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After the Tokugawa shogun's death by poisoning, his sons Iemitsu and Tadanaga compete for the shogunate, dividing the land into warring factions. Iemitsu's mentor, betrays all to secure Iemitsu's power, leading to widespread conflict.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Shin'ichi Chiba, Hiroki Matsukata, Teruhiko Saigô
Votes: 1,667
43. Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.
Director: Shun'ya Itô | Stars: Meiko Kaji, Fumio Watanabe, Yukie Kagawa, Kayoko Shiraishi
Votes: 3,370
44. Yakuza Graveyard (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When a cop is transferred to a new precinct it is obvious that the area's yakuza mob are not dealing with just another policeman. The cop is bent on results and is not immune to becoming ... See full summary »
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya, Hideo Murota
Votes: 938
45. Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Crime
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Tatsuo Umemiya, Yumi Takigawa, Eiji Gô
Votes: 1,958
46. Woman in Witness Protection (1997)
131 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A vain actress who witnessed a serious crime is guarded by 2 cops as she goes about her daily affairs.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Yuji Murata, Kazuya Takahashi
Votes: 330
47. Jînzu burûsu: Asu naki buraiha (1974)
91 min | Crime, Thriller
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ... See full summary »
Director: Sadao Nakajima | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Ryôhei Uchida, Hideo Murota
Votes: 160
48. Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
85 min | Action, Crime
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. But in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe, Hideo Murota
Votes: 154
49. Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
199 min | Drama, War
The historical drama follows the wartime experiences of the respected admiral who attempted to force America into considering a negotiated peace during World War Two.
Director: Kôsaku Yamashita | Stars: Kôji Tsuruta, Noboru Andô, Shinjirô Ebara, Tatsuo Endô
Votes: 77
50. The Yakuza Code Still Lives (1976)
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Yakuza in Hiroshima fight to dominate corporate extortion rackets.
Director: Yûji Makiguchi | Stars: Hiroki Matsukata, Akira Kobayashi, Yutaka Nakajima, Hideo Murota
Votes: 25