Akira Hisamatsu Movies

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu"...

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

A true-life tale of a broken woman whose hedonistic tryst with a high-class restaurateur resulted in a horrific crime of passion that littered Tokyo...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

Roman Porno from 1972.

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

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,...

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

1962 Japanese movie

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Oman travels from Shanghai to Japan in search of her mother, only to be betrayed by her companion and sold to a brothel, where she becomes a geisha...

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

1962 Japanese movie

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was...