Movies: Nobuo Yana

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother....

Follows the exploits of Phantom Agent Fantar and his ninja-skilled elite team. Based in Tokyo, the Phantom Agents were skilled in counter terrorism, espionage, all forms of weapons and worked for the Government against the forces of evil. Their tradi...

Japanese crime film....

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game....

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time....

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. Th...

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens....

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the pair enjoy several "fish-out-of-water" sequences before finding employment at a boxing gym with trainer...

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Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy....

A unique group of individuals who stand out in the Japanese film industry....

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....

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Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a su...

A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop....

Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era....

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto....