Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese, English
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koushun Takami, Kenta Fukasaku
Cast
Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto
Plot
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
Cast
Bunta Sugawara, Hiroki Matsukata, Kunie Tanaka
Plot
During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
Cast
Bunta Sugawara, Shin'ichi Chiba, Meiko Kaji
Plot
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow's niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
Cast
Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tsunehiko Watase
Plot
Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Crime • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Rampo Edogawa, Yukio Mishima, Masashige Narusawa
Cast
Akihiro Miwa, Isao Kimura, Kikko Matsuoka
Plot
Japanese sixties comedy featuring a cunning female jewel thief named Black Lizard who tries to kidnap Sanaye, a wealthy jeweler's beautiful daughter as part of a plot to steal the jeweler's expensive "Star of Egypt" diamond. To th...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koichi Iiboshi, Kazuo Kasahara
Cast
Bunta Sugawara, Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuo Umemiya
Plot
Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.
After the Tokugawa shogun's death by poisoning, his sons Iemitsu and Tadanaga compete for the shogunate, dividing the land into warring factions. Iemitsu's mentor, betrays all to secure Iemitsu's power, leading to widespread confl...
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Crime • Country: Japan • Language: Japanese
Director
Kinji Fukasaku
Writer
Koichi Iiboshi, Kôji Takada
Cast
Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Jô Shishido
Plot
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
