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The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place.
A tragic accident lead to Akari's blindness, but she clings to life and the smaller pleasures it can still afford her. She meets Rui and begins to talk to him. Rui was once a promising kickboxer, but something happened in his past. Akari's smile brings out a change in Rui. However, the two are connected in more than one way. Rui attempts to do what is right.
Genji and his victorious G.P.S. alliance find themselves facing down a new challenge by the students of Hosen Academy, feared by everyone as 'The Army of Killers.' The two schools, in fact, have a history of bad blood between them. And the simmering embers of hatred are about to flare up again, burning away any last remnants of the truce they had so rigorously observed until now.
News about the disappearance of panties is still being covered every day. Kyosuke still wears Aiko Completo's panties to battle evil. Meanwhile, Aiko has mixed emotions and decides to get her panties back. Kyosuke suffers from the loss of Aiko's panties and disappears, but his biggest enemy yet is about to materialise.
An elite real estate agent who lost the ability to lie due to a curse must navigate the cutthroat industry using only the honest truth.
To defend their kingdom against a sudden invasion, a mighty general returns to the battlefield alongside a war orphan, now grown up, who dreams of glory.
A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi Kazeo combats Kagami Ryohei for the coveted top spot, amidst a brewing inter-school conflict with Kurosaki Industrial High.
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
Fists fly when Oya High’s street fighters defend themselves from a three-school alliance of brawlers.
Satsuki Takashima's father Rokuro Shinonome has been missing for twenty five years. She obtains information and a lead and travels to a village to find the missing man. She finds her father and finds out he has a new family now.
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home. Adrift and unable to borrow money from Ushijima, Takemoto heads for Seiai Home where he can stay while doing work.
Mirai Suzuki (Yuko Oshima) becomes responsible for her mother's debt which is owed to loan shark Kaoru Ushijima (Takayuki Yamada). To begin paying off her mother's debt, Mirai begins working at a dating cafe. Meanwhile, Jun (Kento Hayashi) is the ambitious and greedy company president for an event group. To borrow money, Jun visits Kaukau Finance owned by Kaoru Ushijima.
Satomi Oka is worried about his final choir competition but is accosted by a shadowy gangster, Kyouji Narita, who demands karaoke sessions with him.
Sawamura, a contract part-timer dragged into a multi-million yen internet business, and Kamo, an office worker who lavished money on a beautiful club hostess, arrive at Cowcow Finance, the office of black-market lender Ushijima.
After losing their restaurant in a fire, a husband and wife come up with a strange plan to rebuild their shattered finances: marrying the husband off to a series of lonely women and defrauding them.
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.
At Asuka Nishi High School the mantra is survival of the fittest. The leaders of rival classes constantly fight for school territory supremacy. When a mysterious newcomer, Saeki, tips the balance of power at Asuka High, the biggest all out war in school history is lurking in the shadows. Get ready for hot-blooded street fights and high-octane drift battles!
Ikuto and Ryoma grow close after meeting in juvenile detention. Motivated by Mikuru Asakura's words, they set their sights on the martial arts event Breaking Down, but looming rivalries threaten to derail their dream.
In the 1970s, 80% of mahjong parlours in Kabukichō were "Buu Mahjong" establishments, where cash flowed freely in high stakes games. In this city that never sleeps, Shoichi Sakurai—known as the “Legendary Mahjong Demon”—enjoyed high stakes matchups with men who shared his love for the game. Shoichi Sakurai, who carried his winnings about without a care; a pickpocket who set his sights on that money; a self-proclaimed disciple of the “Mahjong Demon” begging for money; a man who only aimed for a “National Treasure” hand; a legendary hitman; a hitman for a rival yakuza gang, and more—the lives of gamblers living in Kabukichō intertwine.
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During the Sengoku period, villagers brutally killed eight samurai, and in the Taisho era, the head of an old family murdered 32 villagers in the Eight-Tomb Village. Terada Tatsuya, who had long been estranged from the Terada family, returns as its successor. However, this return is the beginning of a tragedy. Grandfather, half-brother, monks, nuns... one after another, people related to the family are murdered. Yet, the truth remains elusive. In the midst of this, Tatsuya stumbles into a massive cave system. What he sees there is a wax figure of the head of the Terada family wearing the samurai armor. Meanwhile, Kindaichi, who has uncovered the secret of Tatsuya's birth, finds himself at the same cave. At that very moment, Tatsuya is cornered deep within the cave by villagers who fear the curse.
Shippuu (Hayate) appeared suddenly dead. However, he fell into the hands of Sarutobi for due to his loss of memory.
Hitori Gekidan gets off a crew bus, assuming he will participate in a travel program. He overhears people in the monitoring room announce the beginning of the "24 Hour Kiss Pressure Game." He is then assaulted by attractive actresses pleading for a kiss as well as deadly mercenaries and zombies attempting to kidnap him. Soon he grasps his character and situation. He is Shogo Kawashima aka The Desert Reaper and he is on the run with Aoi Tsukasa (Aoi Tsukasa). For unknown reasons, the Red Shadow, who raised him, wants him back.
Shimazaki Sanpo is an experienced mountain climber and rescue team volunteer. Sanpo loves the mountains and wants as many people as possible to experience everything they have to offer so much so that he never holds a grudge against anyone for causing an accident due to their own negligence. Even if a fellow rescuer dies, he's the kind of man who can look toward the corpse and say "You did your best." One spring, newcomer Shiina Kumi is assigned to the Nagano prefecture mountain rescue team where she experiences growth thanks to Sanpo's guidance and the seemingly harsh training methods of the team's captain, Noda. However, she becomes depressed when she's unable to translate her skills to a real-life situation. As her confidence wanes, multiple accidents occur simultaneously due to a mountain blizzard, forcing the entire team into action.
Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases down his debtors, who normally come from the bottom of society, with ruthless efficacy.
Nishinari, Osaka— Katsuhiro Tokuyama (Ryu Gan), who had been living as a civilian, gives in to repeated pleas from his former comrades and revives the delinquent gang Tokuyama-kai. The Tokuyama-kai begins seizing territory one after another from local yakuza groups. However, a clash with Nishinari’s largest prostitution syndicate, Shiraku-kai, becomes inevitable. Shiraku-kai retaliates by murdering one of Tokuyama-kai’s members, Shinjiro Nakanishi (Kyosuke Yabe), and kidnapping Katsuhiro’s only son, Nishiki. Swearing vengeance for Shinjiro and the rescue of Nishiki, six men arm themselves with Japanese swords and head for the Shiraku-kai headquarters. Waiting for them are 100 elite swordsmen, the Shiraku-kai’s fearsome “Batto-tai.” Six against one hundred. The curtain rises on a brutal, fearless battle where death holds no meaning.
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline the helicopter will be dropped. 8 hours is given as the deadline. Making the situation even more dire, a young child is in the helicopter.
Ken (Takahiro Kuroishi), a liquor store worker, spends his days fighting alongside his senior Seijiro (Kyosuke Yabe), taking on anyone regardless of numbers. One day, while out on delivery, Ken causes chaos by crashing into an underground fight club and ends up in a brutal battle with Masa (Hirotaka Kikuchi) of Yokohama’s powerful crime group “Grips.” Soon after, Seijiro is abducted by Grips, who seek another direct showdown with Ken. At last, an all-out mixed-style ultimate battle between men begins. The fiery cult classic returns, reimagined!
Hide and Minoru are a pair of underground mahjong players on a winning streak. One day, Minoru falls in love at first sight with Mai, the girlfriend of the yakuza boss Shiroyama. Shiroyama then sets his sights on Mai, and a mahjong showdown begins in which Hide and Minoru stake their very lives…
In this prequel to "Chaka", Inside a hamburger shop, gunfire suddenly erupts. Shima is ambushed by several men—and kills them all. Wounded and on the run, Shima is hidden by Kishi, a part-time worker at the shop, on the second floor of a lathe factory once owned by Kishi’s late father. There, Kishi’s childhood friend Toko tends to his injuries. What appears to be a chance meeting between two solitary men conceals a deeper, inescapable fate. The “bond” between men centered around an old-style revolver…
Having discovered the yakuza connection between the Kirin University's President Ninomiya to the Kadomatsu Family yakuza group, Bunji (Motomiya Yasukaze) and his friends have become targets for silencing, spearheaded by Ninomiya's ambitious and ruthless illegitimate son Kimijima (Inari Takuo). Bunji, while lauded for his history of being a vicious fighter, has explicitly chosen to avoid entering the yakuza with Tora (Sakaki Hideo) or "grey area" business with the Odagiri brothers (Yabe Kyosuke and Minami Keisuke) for the sake of his wife. However, constant stalking, beatings, and endangerment of his family and friends pushes Bunji to the edge to finally dealing with Ninomiya and Kimijima by whatever means necessary ...
Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
A few weeks after their last deadly fight, Ken and Seijiro are still living for brawls. But when Ken’s junior Shun (Kinomoto Minehiro) gets entangled in Grips’ drug trade, tensions escalate. Around the same time, Ken receives a challenge letter from Grips leader Masa, demanding a final showdown at the underground fight club. At last, the ultimate clash—Ken vs. Masa—begins.
Kiryu Mamoru, a subordinate boss of the Tomogashira Group, earns a living through the shady business of "yamikin" or underground lending. He preys on desperate customers who cannot get loans from legitimate lenders, charging exorbitant interest rates of 30% in 10 days or even 90% in some cases, in violation of the law. With the backing of his yakuza group, he employs extremely vicious and unethical methods...
Based on a novel "The Battle Of The Yanagawa-Gumi" by Koichi Iiboshi, it tells the story of criminal Jiro Yanagawa. Released from prison, Jiro joins the notorious Yoshimizu Yakuza family as a member. Not long after however, he sets out to form his own Yakuza clan in Osaka. This sparks a bloody territory war with the Devils Dragons.
The first installment of the Showa Gamblers series. In 1964, as Tokyo buzzes with excitement over the upcoming Olympics, Ginzaki of the Kansai Senba Union approaches Hanamura, the leader of the “Asakusa Union Eight,” who controls the gambling dens in the Asakusa area. He proposes a joint operation for a grand gambling event.
The movie is set one year after the events of Mafia Family Yanagawa - Part 1, in which 8 Yanagawas faced off against 100 Devil Dragons in an epic bloody battle. Jiro Yanagawa (Takeuchi Riki) continues his feud with the Devil Dragons as he attempts to usurp their western territory.
Based on a delinquent battle-themed video game series - a high school senior named Takashi the toughest fighter at Rashin High School. When he travels to Tokyo during a class field trip, he’s almost immediately attacked by a local thug. Takashi dispatches his opponent with ease, but he soon discovers gang leaders from all over Japan have gathered for a massive battle to determine who the toughest badass fighter is. During battle scenes, various recognizable fight moves from the game are incorporated for comic relief.
The second installment of the Showa Gamblers series. In the mid-1950s, Orin, the daughter of Takashima Tomezō, the 8th-generation leader of the Takashima clan in Jōshū Nitta, seeks out Seijirō Hanamura, an old friend of her father. She hopes to stop the Narita-gumi, who are plotting to take over the main family.
The second of three V-Cinema sequels.
Having lost her husband, the second-generation head of the Nanjo-gumi, Shiho inherited the position of the third-generation head and works as a nurse while continuing her yakuza business. One day, a man named Masaya is brought to the hospital where Shiho works, severely injured and unconscious. Masaya's injuries are improving, but he has lost his memory. Several men who look like gang members appear and threaten Masaya, causing chaos in the hospital. Unable to bear watching this any longer, Shiho hides Masaya and takes him away from the hospital without telling anyone, intending to take care of him until he regains his memory...
Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai, known as the "Yokohama Four Heavenly Kings," and the Inahara group quickly expanded its influence from Yokohama to the Tokaido region. The world of yakuza then enters the era of Ryuji Inahara and Masao Tashiro, the third generation member of the Yamaga-gumi.
Tatsuo Hara (Ryosuke Yabe) arrives at Hailaku High School, a hangout for dropouts. He immediately wins the position of the first-year gang leader, but ends up making enemies with the third-year gang leader Ando (Gunji Masato) and the Ishin-gumi, who control the town!
Yuta Kimura is the leader of an unsuccessful theater troupe. Yuta, who dreams of becoming a film director, runs a small bar in Osaka while running an unsuccessful theater troupe.
Yanki (Japanese delinquent) Hayato, is on his way with his senpai, (upperclassman) Yocchan to a so-called “resort” job with good pay, food, and housing. Hayato, not being able to commit to work, meets another Yanki who’s trying to work hard and form a family. Meanwhile, Yocchan ends up falling for the lunch lady at the “resort”... Will she be the one for him?
Rofu High School is divided between three rival gangs. While Toshi (Nagayama Takashi) is known as the leader of the weakest faction of the bunch, he is actually a skilled street racer as well. In order to defend his friends and preserve their friendship, he takes on two rival gangs in a final showdown.
Fuyuko, a magazine reporter, receives information of a "Curse Dial". If you enter your name and phone number into the "Cursed Message Dial," and when you get an answer, tell the name of the person you want to kill within 10 seconds, and that person will die.
A case of match-fixing was discovered in the university baseball league. Their coach, Kurosawa (Sugawara Takuma) is made to hold an emergency press conference, where the media accused the prestigious Kirin University of match-fixing, with Kurosawa being pressured to take the fall. Harangued at every turn and convinced of a criminal conspiracy going to the top, Kurosawa turns to his old friend Aramasa Bunji (Motomiya Yasukaze), a fellow Kirin University alum and now a real estate company president, for help. Bunji reaches out to his "brothers", the "grey area" day-traders the Odagiri siblings (Yabe Kyosuke and Minami Keisuke) and the heir apparent of the Osaka-based yakuza Kiyotake Family, Kiyotake Yoshitora (Sakaki Hideo) to investigate Kurosawa's lead ...
A critically ill patient was brought to Matsunami General Hospital. The emergency patient was Nanjo Koji, the head of the Nanjo-gumi. Nanjo was targeted by henchmen of the rival Hashiba-gumi, but his life was saved thanks to the attentive care of nurse Tachibana Shiho. During his hospital stay, Nanjo met Shiho and asked her to be his girlfriend. Nanjo and Shiho began living together on the condition that Shiho would continue her nursing job even after marriage, but while Shiho was on duty, she received a phone call informing her of Nanjo's tragic death. And then Shiho...
In 1985, during the "Yamasei Conflict" in Kitami City, Hokkaido, Kazuharu Hashizume (Jiro Okazaki), leader of the Hashizume group under the Kamo faction of the Seiwa-kai, was gunned down by a member of the Tsuzuki faction, part of the Iwai group under the Inahara-kai. Despite this, the Seiwa-kai, the parent organization of the Hashizume group, pushed for a truce with the Tsuzuki faction, which had ties to their current rivals, the Yamaga group, to prevent further escalation. Unwilling to accept this decision, Kohei Nagamine (Yasukaze Motomiya), the Hashizume group’s lieutenant, leads his men in a defiant act of "truce-breaking," prepared to make enemies of yakuza across Japan.
Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ready to face off against Takeshi, but comic challenges keep his nemesis out of reach. It's not until years later -- when Kazuyoshi becomes a championship boxer and Takeshi is a pro wrestler -- that they meet again in a battle that pits two combatants with very different fighting styles.
A fishing town on the verge of ruin. The Oikawa clan, which runs the local government, is at odds with the Sado Union and the Hoshikawa clan, who are plotting to take over the town. When a man named Kizaki arrives in the town, he finds the Oikawa clan leader and Shogo's sister, whom Kizaki had met, murdered in a war between the two groups, and Kizaki finds himself caught in the middle of the conflict.
The Yanagawa-gumi challenges violent organizations one after another until a formidable man rises to block their path. This third installment depicts their story from their repeated rapid advances across the length and breadth of Japan to the eventual wave of intensified police crackdowns that leads to their disbandment.
The third film in 'The Way to Fight' series.
1977, the "Crazy Horse" runaway tribe was created This strongest team, called invincible, later changed its name to "Japan-Korea Union" and became a coalition of nearly 500 people in total
The fifth and final 'The Way to Fight' film.
Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961, Inahara-kai opened a new headquarters office in Roppongi, Tokyo. Further incidents and conflicts await Ryuji and the Inahara-kai.
After serving a term in prison because of shooting the leader of the rival group, Goro finds out that his fellow Yakuza Shiroyama, left the group and living as a normal people.
A graduate of American Harvard University with a degree in justice, Daigo is a wanderer who steps into the life of Miura Hiroki after seeing the boy bullied. Becoming employed as a teacher at Hiroki's school, Daigo works continually to unearth the source of Hiroki's sadness and try to revitalize his love for life.
The story follows the risque misadventures of three students named Akagi, Miyamoto, and Taniguchi, known by others as the Numa-Kō 3 Baka Trio ("The Asanuma Technical High School Idiot Trio"). The trio start a second volleyball team at their school in a misguided attempt to be popular.
In the early hours of August 5th, 1928, a baby was born into the family of the gang leader, Gizo Ato (played by Ryuutaro Hara) from the Ato family in Honjo City, Akita Prefecture. This child would grow up to succeed as the second-generation leader of the Joto Kansan family, eventually unifying and ruling the Tohoku tekiya (street vendor) industry. The story of the Tohoku's supreme leader, Giei Ato (played by Mikio Osawa), begins with a life full of turmoil...
An erotic mystery based on Hideo Yamamoto's comic of the same title, directed by Takeshi Yokoi Yokoi. A mysterious man eavesdrops on an affair between a teacher and a student at a prep school and harasses him. The teacher asks a member of "Voyeurs, Inc." to investigate.
Kinugasa is under attack by a lone Yanki, Goki, who claims to be a member of the Piranha gang. Unable to stop his onslaught, Kinugasa high school is shut down. With Kinugasa’s boss Monji Mori gone, nobody’s there to save them. Desperate for help, Monji’s old friend Taiga Deguchi is called upon for help. Unfortunately for Kinugasa, Taiga isn’t exactly known for his strength...
Second movie in the Yanmama Gurentai series
The fourth 'The Way to Fight' film.
Toru, who was associated with Shibata who dropped out of Joto Kogyo and boarded Shibata's hideout alone. He beat Shibata with all his might but Shibata had his front teeth broken and turned upside down.
Straight to video sequel to Takashi Miike's 'The Way to Fight'.
First movie in the Yanmama Gurentai series
Sawaki Shohei (Yabe Kyosuke) is a strong fighter with a strong manly spirit and a weak heart. He is asked by his classmates to help them in a fight, and in no time at all he knocks out the rival Morikawa and his friends, but a few days later, his friends are turned back by a boxer who calls himself Azuma (Motomiya Yasukaze).
