
7.2
Branded to Kill
IMDb: 7.2 1967 91 min
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

7.1
Tokyo Drifter
IMDb: 7.1 1966 83 min
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata’s top operative, Tetsuya ...

6.9
Fighting Elegy
IMDb: 6.9 1966 86 min
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, ...

7.3
Story of a Prostitute
IMDb: 7.3 1965 96 min
Volunteering as a “comfort woman” on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is ...

7.1
Tattooed Life
IMDb: 7.1 1965 87 min
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

6.4
The Call of Blood
IMDb: 6.4 1964 97 min
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

7.2
Gate of Flesh
IMDb: 7.2 1964 90 min
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, ...

7.3
Youth of the Beast
IMDb: 7.3 1963 92 min
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo’s underworld explodes with violence.

6.8
Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
IMDb: 6.8 1963 89 min
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. ...

6
Teenage Yakuza
IMDb: 6 1962 71 min
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

6.1
Tokyo Knights
IMDb: 6.1 1961 81 min
A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

6.3
The Man with a Shotgun
IMDb: 6.3 1961 84 min
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of ...

6.7
The Sleeping Beast Within
IMDb: 6.7 1960 86 min
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive ...

6.3
Smashing the 0-Line
IMDb: 6.3 1960 83 min
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a ...

6.7
Voice Without a Shadow
IMDb: 6.7 1958 92 min
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his ...

6.5
The Boy Who Came Back
IMDb: 6.5 1958 99 min
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

6.7
Eight Hours of Terror
IMDb: 6.7 1957 77 min
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.