Tatsuo Endō Movies

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Toei yakuza film.

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...

Mysterious incidents occur around geiko in Fukagawa, and there is always the presence of a black cat at the scene of the tragedy. The woman, unaware...

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.

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 story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

The harrowing joruney of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts.