Shirō Yanase Movies

A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands...

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving,...

1962 Japanese movie

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong...

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

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of...

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.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

A 1971 crime film

1961 Japanese movie

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.