Mikio Narita
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1935-01-31
Locus Natus: Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: 成田三树夫
Tokyo Bordello
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the...
release : 1987.06.13popularis : 5.218
Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
release : 1972.11.07popularis : 1.485
Blood Vendetta
The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict...
release : 1971.07.31popularis : 1.143
Karate Bullfighter
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After...
release : 1975.08.09popularis : 5.275
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep...
release : 1973.07.29popularis : 7.204
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
release : 1977.10.29popularis : 3.29
Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...
release : 1979.06.17popularis : 2.573
Roaring Fire
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....
release : 1981.08.08popularis : 2.404
Hanzo the Razor: Who's Got the Gold?
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers...
release : 1974.02.09popularis : 6.529
Ninja Gangsters 2: The Lullaby of Hell
The second in Norio Nanjo’s “Secret” series. The former secret phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata) and Yume no Gosuke (Ashiya...
release : 1982.02.05popularis : 2.163
Back Stairways
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of...
release : 1965.02.06popularis : 2.355
Seisaku's Wife
On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...
release : 1965.06.25popularis : 5.695
Utamaro's World
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...
release : 1977.02.20popularis : 2.141
Ninja Wars
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with...
release : 1982.12.18popularis : 3.466
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...
release : 1965.12.24popularis : 3.021
G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...
release : 1979.09.17popularis : 6.597
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody...
release : 1972.10.10popularis : 1.303
Shadow Hunters
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...
release : 1972.06.10popularis : 1.938
Rebellion Reward
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail...
release : 1973.02.17popularis : 3.174
A Certain Killer
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
release : 1967.04.29popularis : 1.628
Easy Money
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
release : 1970.04.18popularis : 1.202
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...
release : 1982.07.10popularis : 1.816
Oar
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
release : 1985.01.15popularis : 11.143
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
release : 1981.09.12popularis : 1.08
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the...
release : 1980.02.23popularis : 1.4
Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...
release : 1988.09.15popularis : 1.844
Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...
release : 1975.04.26popularis : 3.118
Young Boss
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
release : 1965.03.13popularis : 0.622
The Legend of Zipang
Jigoku-gokuraku-maru is a samurai on the run. One bounty hunter hoping to collect the sizeable reward is Teppo Oyuri, a comely lass who is an ace...
release : 1990.01.27popularis : 5.131
Homeless Dog
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
release : 1964.05.02popularis : 0.906
Quick-Draw Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu...
release : 1967.05.27popularis : 1.721
Stray Dog
Stray Dog (野良犬) is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series.
release : 1966.11.26popularis : 1.079
Legend of the Eight Samurai
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess...
release : 1983.12.10popularis : 14.763
Black Panther Bitch M
An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name M. Hayami is a yakuza boss and a divorced father who is not allowed to come near his young...
release : 1974.08.14popularis : 2.446
Shogun's Samurai
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the...
release : 1978.01.21popularis : 8.073
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....
release : 1982.06.05popularis : 6.094
The Sea and Poison
Two interns and a nurse are interrogated by American MPs for their involvement in an atrocity during the war: the vivisections of a downed American...
release : 1986.10.17popularis : 2.746
Karate Bear Fighter
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend,...
release : 1975.12.27popularis : 5.675
A Chaos of Flowers
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much...
release : 1988.10.01popularis : 1.994
Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
release : 1979.07.04popularis : 1.961
The Notorious Bored Samurai 7
The great merchant of Kaga Daitokuya , had taken control of the domain with his wealth and by holding onto the weakness of Lord Maeda Tsunanori , and...
release : 1992.05.26popularis : 1.788
The Notorious Bored Samurai 3
One night, Sawatari Shusui saves a geisha named Osode from a ninja attack. Osode's mother is said to be carrying the child of the shogun,...
release : 1989.08.10popularis : 1.715
Water Moon
As the monk Ryuun, whose past and origin make him prone to internal and external fits, leaves the temple towards Tokyo, he gets to catch a glimpse of...
release : 1989.12.16popularis : 1.433
Gateway to Glory
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
release : 1969.07.12popularis : 3.01
No More God, No More Love
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...
release : 1985.03.23popularis : 1.203
Father Avenger
Master director Sadao Nakajima brings to life the adventures of Shohachi, a ronin (masterless samurai) searching for his father's enemy. O-Tama, the...
release : 1987.04.30popularis : 2.256
Appassionata
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first...
release : 1984.01.14popularis : 4.283
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
release : 1973.01.13popularis : 7.165
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...
release : 1973.09.25popularis : 4.967
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...
release : 1973.04.28popularis : 9.94
The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced...
release : 1982.10.02popularis : 1.956
The Freezing Point
Keizo Tsujiguchi believes his wife Natsue was having an extramarital affair when their child was kidnapped and killed. He believes of her...
release : 1966.03.26popularis : 2.733
Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji...
release : 1977.02.26popularis : 2.846
Yakuza Ladies 3
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able...
release : 1989.04.08popularis : 3.105
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after...
release : 1976.09.04popularis : 3.6
The Sister Gamblers
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
release : 1967.11.15popularis : 0.921
The Woman Dicer
Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
release : 1968.10.02popularis : 0.745
Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
release : 1969.02.08popularis : 1.873
Champion Woman Gambler
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
release : 1968.09.21popularis : 1.698
The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...
release : 1979.08.04popularis : 3.721
Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his...
release : 1976.10.30popularis : 1.777
Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
release : 1975.02.15popularis : 4.421
Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced...
release : 1984.09.01popularis : 9.552
The Last True Yakuza
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld.
release : 1985.11.16popularis : 1.639
The Lady in a Black Dress
A woman named Fujiki Asuka arrives as an acquaintance of a sister in law for a day under the bar master Tamura who had guided Yakuza's escaping as a...
release : 1987.03.14popularis : 2.469
Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
release : 1974.11.01popularis : 2.361
Those Swell Yakuza
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
release : 1988.06.11popularis : 3.696
Sure Death 4
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in...
release : 1987.06.06popularis : 3.138
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The...
release : 1975.11.01popularis : 6.808
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization...
release : 1976.04.24popularis : 5.328
The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...
release : 1978.10.28popularis : 5.591
Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to...
release : 1981.06.06popularis : 6.486
The Fixer
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.
release : 1979.10.27popularis : 3.795
High School Juniors (Part II)
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...
release : 1964.08.22popularis : 0.992
The Pit of Death
Horror film directed by Koji Shima.
release : 1968.06.15popularis : 1.267
Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
release : 1979.03.24popularis : 2.962
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
release : 1978.07.01popularis : 5.155
The Geisha
Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it...
release : 1983.09.10popularis : 4.139
Hoodlum Soldier
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an...
release : 1965.03.18popularis : 4.725
The Hoodlum Priest
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...
release : 1967.11.15popularis : 1.644
The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
release : 1979.09.01popularis : 4.954
Be-Bop High School 2
Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.
release : 1986.08.09popularis : 0.941
The Killer's Killer
Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago....
release : 1970.12.05popularis : 0.627
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is...
release : 1967.07.15popularis : 2.941
Yakuza Ladies
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her...
release : 1986.11.15popularis : 5.33
Desperate Pursuit
In the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a sniper. After the news reaches Japan, the CEO's...
release : 1986.05.17popularis : 2.528
The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
release : 1976.10.01popularis : 3.218
Step on the Gas!
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
release : 1970.10.24popularis : 1.457
Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
release : 1976.01.31popularis : 2.047
Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a...
release : 1979.05.26popularis : 2.614
Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...
release : 1969.10.04popularis : 1.158
The First Catch
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
release : 1980.12.27popularis : 1.364
Break Out
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...
release : 1988.07.30popularis : 0.868
Ninja Hunt
It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...
release : 1982.04.09popularis : 0.812
The Murder Corps
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of...
release : 1975.05.24popularis : 1.136
The Story of a Geisha
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
release : 1977.08.27popularis : 2.17
Sure Death! 3
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket...
release : 1986.05.24popularis : 4.907
Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.
release : 1977.04.08popularis : 1.803
Message from Space
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King...
release : 1978.04.29popularis : 5.359
Stay Gold
Three girls go on a trip after a friend commits suicide and learn about friendship.
release : 1988.10.29popularis : 0.528
Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
release : 1977.01.22popularis : 2.001
The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Part 7 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...
release : 1974.03.01popularis : 1.604
Lonely Hitman
There are men in this world who seem to have been born to be a villain. His upbringing, his sexuality, everything about him was suited to being in...
release : 1989.09.09popularis : 1.483
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
release : 1969.11.15popularis : 0.822
Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
release : 1970.02.21popularis : 1.149