Shōtarō Hayashi Movies

  • 1971
    Trials of an Okinawa Village

    Trials of an Okinawa Village

    Trials of an Okinawa Village

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    A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers,...

    Trials of an Okinawa Village
  • 1969
    A Gambler's Certain Death

    A Gambler's Certain Death

    A Gambler's Certain Death

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    Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt...

    A Gambler's Certain Death
  • 1969
    Gambler's Legacy

    Gambler's Legacy

    Gambler's Legacy

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    A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...

    Gambler's Legacy
  • 1964
    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

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    In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
  • 1960
    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

    01960HD

    First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
  • 1984
    The Story of a Man Among Men

    The Story of a Man Among Men

    The Story of a Man Among Men

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    During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

    The Story of a Man Among Men
  • 1981
    Roaring Fire

    Roaring Fire

    Roaring Fire

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    On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash....

    Roaring Fire
  • 1976
    Yakuza Graveyard

    Yakuza Graveyard

    Yakuza Graveyard

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    A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his...

    Yakuza Graveyard
  • 1976
    The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

    The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

    The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

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    Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

    The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
  • 1971
    Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

    Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

    Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

    01971HD

    The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil...

    Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
  • 1974
    The Tattooed Hitman

    The Tattooed Hitman

    The Tattooed Hitman

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    The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...

    The Tattooed Hitman
  • 1963
    Road In the Mist

    Road In the Mist

    Road In the Mist

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    Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.

    Road In the Mist
  • 1973
    Yakuza of the Present

    Yakuza of the Present

    Yakuza of the Present

    01973HD

    In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his...

    Yakuza of the Present
  • 1969
    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

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    This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

    Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
  • 1970
    House of Gamblers

    House of Gamblers

    House of Gamblers

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    Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...

    House of Gamblers
  • 1966
    Code Between Brothers 2

    Code Between Brothers 2

    Code Between Brothers 2

    71966HD

    The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.

    Code Between Brothers 2
  • 1968
    Red Peony Gambler

    Red Peony Gambler

    Red Peony Gambler

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    Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years...

    Red Peony Gambler
  • 1972
    The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

    The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

    The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

    01972HD

    Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

    The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
  • 1971
    Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

    Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

    Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

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    Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

    Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
  • 1963
    River Washes Away the Moon

    River Washes Away the Moon

    River Washes Away the Moon

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    River Washes Away the Moon