While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their separate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...
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 from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
Avant de mourir, un des lieutenants de oryu lui avoue avoir du se battre pour protéger son honneur de femme.Oryu vient de reformer le clan Yano, mais sa quète initiatique a la recherche de la voie d'exemplarité n'est pas achevée. Hébergée par un ancien yakuza rentré dans le rang, oryu décide de l'aider a défendre les métayers, étranglés par leurs propriétaires terriens, eux mèmes ranconnés par des yakuzas en quète des fonds nécessaires à l’organisation d'un grand tournoi de cartes. Tournoi auquel la pivoine rouge a bien l'intention de participer... Episode le plus impur de la série lady yakuza, ce cinquième volet est signé par l'auteur du premier. On y retrouve les préocupations sociales et féministes des précédents, agrémentées d'outrances mélo et d'incursions pop dans le film de gangster...
Lors d’une chasse au cerf, un haut dignitaire royal venant d’Edo, tue d’une flèche dans le dos un fermier trop lent à s’écarter de son chemin. Puis il blesse grièvement d’une flèche dans l’œil le daimyo local (seigneur du fief) venu protester contre la première agression. La rudesse et la cruauté du tyran va susciter la haine chez certains membres du clan, qui vont s’organiser pour le piéger et le tuer. Son fidèle serviteur, commandant des troupes, va se battre jusqu’au bout pour défendre ce chef qu’il juge pourtant bien inhumain.
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
Ise, un trafiquant de drogue Yakuza de niveau intermédiaire, est capturé lors d'une opération policière. Le criminel craque lors de l'interrogatoire et accepte de devenir un informateur de la police.
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent gang battles in Japanese history. Forced by the situation to choose between family and yakuza honor, Nikichi faces off against the vile combination of Ano-Toku and Kurokoma Katsuzo, villains so low as to ambush their foes using snipers. Nikichi, who owes allegiance to Boss Jirocho of Shimizu asks Jirocho to spare Ano-Toku’s life until events force a showdown between the 30 member Shimizu gang and a force of over 200 men fighting on Ano-Toku’s behalf. Meanwhile, a mysterious samurai may hold the key to deciding the outcome of this battle!
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 Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Katsuji finds his long lost mother, who is a rich lady of a respectable family. Comedy and melodrama ensue. A thrilling spectacle with an overly violent ending, and a remarkable, Japan's only post-prison rape comedy, Masa is determined to have sex with the female guard, despite the fact that there is a bar between them. Michi Azuma (topless swordswoman from Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril) plays a tomboy who wants to join her brothers.