Genji Kawai Movies

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

A story about a woman who is a research student of a theater company and the three men who are at the mercy of her.

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col....

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

1962 Japanese movie

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs,...

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect...