Shirō Yanase Movies

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

A 1971 crime film

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his...

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

A 1960 crime film

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Gangsters smuggle diamonds through customs by embedding them in The Spiders' tambourine, then go on a cross-country chase of the rock-and-roll band...

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and...

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.