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1994 sequel to Satoru Kobayashi's "The Blind Cat". Yakuza drug dealers lure the blind Kiriko into town to take revenge on her. However, Kiriko is a master swordswoman and has plans of her own.
Tanuma and Nakamoto of Osaka Prefecture take an interest in the construction site of a massive amusement park. Minato, who is in charge of equipment installation work, is drawn in by his coworkers and carries out a plan to illegally obtain the land rights. As a result, an old group that had been trapped by the construction-site ownership rights is driven to suicide.Toranosuke Uiba returns to Osaka after a long absence, but is asked by his elderly granddaughter to return those rights. This tragic drama portrays the endless misfortune born from corruption in Osaka.
Rinko, a flight attendant on the fast track to success, was worried about her friend Kiyomi's strange behavior. In fact, Kiyomi had been blackmailed by a drug courier and forced to be both his courier and mistress. However, when Kiyomi realized Rinko was being targeted by the courier, she turned herself in to the police. The police rushed to Rinko's house, but she had already been kidnapped… The thick, supple ropes of a stewardess were closing in on the flight attendant!
Facing off against corrupt businessmen and politicians lurking in the shadows of great evil, the members of the Tiger of Naniwa take a stand.
This Japanese thriller finds a sexy policewoman becoming entangled in Japan's S&M underground while investigating a gruesome murder. Soon, her investigation has led her to a seductive sadist and his equally appealing masochist victim. Falling prey to her suspects' powerful allure, she struggles to extricate herself from an increasingly torrid affair to solve the mystery she set out to investigate.
Ambitious Yakuza Kenji befriends harmonica-playing bartender Chuji, who moonlights as a part-time drug-dealer for the opposing gang. Their friendship is threatened by Kenji's plans for advancement, as well as by his bodyguards' growing jealousy of Chuji.
Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian mobster. To meet his price, they hold up a bigtime drug deal between the Chinese Mafia and the local Yakuza.
The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
The fairies from Infant Island discover a lost city, as well as a giant monster that is attracted to environmental calamities.
Home video drama by Shuji Kataoka.
Tomie is a mysterious, beautiful girl you just can't get rid of. She will come to your life from nowhere, and whatever you do, kill her or love her, she will come back to you in the end.
Haruo Iwashita, known as “Tōtsū no Tsuno” (The Heaven-Reaching Horn), along with his underling Sadayoshi, aim to be Kansai's top bargain hunters, snatching up anything profitable like locusts. Today, after getting word of a bounced check from a loan shark, they went to seize the goods, only to find them completely cleared out by Onikubo of the Yashiro-gumi gang.
In Kamakura, 12th grade Rikako falls in love with Tomoaki Fujii, rumoured to be the school Don Juan and having impregnated a girl. This doesn't bother Rikako one bit, as she too sleeps around.
A large, dinosaur-like monster has risen from Tokyo Bay and attacked the city. As the government collapses into chaos, the people of a rural town in Fukui Prefecture, from whose perspective we see the entire movie, watch as the events unfold on TV. Some decide to run for their lives, some take it as a sign of the apocalypse, some go completely crazy, but most of the townspeople wait and watch, and wonder where the monster will head next.
Children born with special power. They seek blood for eternal life. And tonight, the victims ...!
Noriko is an ex-prostitute married to Satake, a charismatic, wise-cracking lady-loving Yakuza. But when Satake is called upon to murder a rival, Noriko must take up the mantle to lead his gang.
Reiko Akigawa, married for three years to her husband, a bank employee, lives a seemingly ordinary married life, but she also has a secret life as a national secret investigator. One day, while her husband is away on a long business trip, Reiko returns home after her usual shopping, and senses someone's presence. Reiko's eyes turn into those of a hunter catching prey. The intruder is a woman, and her name is Maya. She seems to be a half-baked investigator sent by an organization. Maya's training begins that day, but...
In the yakuza world, where 'conflict,' 'prison sentences,' and 'death' are ever-present threats, the leader’s responsibility is immense, and their leadership skills are honed to perfection. To develop motivated subordinates and unite the organization, the key ingredient is undeniably 'charisma!' How do these bosses acquire their 'charisma'!? The highly popular 'Learn from the Yakuza' series continues with its fourth installment!!
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Satsuki, a high school student living in the countryside, travels to Tokyo to find out the truth about the death of her sister Kiyomi, who has apparently been murdered by her own boyfriend.
The last war in hiroshima begins
Ai enters the Kaneko-gumi gambling arena to seek revenge.
