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Blood for Blood 1971 A uniformly excellent, no no nonsense, straightforward yakuza sage This also has one of underrated and comparatively unknown in the west composer Kaburagis most exciting and memorable scores, a testament to just how much can add to a storys already intoxicating momentum and susp

A Night in Nude Salvation 2010 Jiro Naoto Takenaka is a man who can do anything for you for a price Part odd jobs man and part private eye he takes on tasks as simple as clearing out storage lockers to tracking down lost items Thats what hes asked to do by a beautiful young woman Hiroko Sato who sho

A Colt Is My Passport 1967 The melancholy, homely Kamimura is a hit man who takes a job to kill a mob boss whos gotten greedy The rival gang lord who hires Kamimura and his driver Shun pays them and sets them up in a hotel for a night while arranging safe passage on a ship The son of the dead man co

Fugitive Alien 1987 An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans

Youth of the Beast (1963) Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how

The Visitor in the Eye (1977) Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student, however one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but is advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye.

Retaliation (1968) Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, Jiro approaches the powerful Hasama family to ask for assistance. Hasama kindly offers him a

Danger Pays (1962) When one billion yen goes AWOL, "Joe the Ace" (Shishido) spies an opportunity to get rich quick, but things soon go wrong as it turns out he isn't the only one who'll stop at nothing to get his hands on the missing cash.

Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph (1966) When the mysterious Joe of Spades executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem.

Branded to Kill (1967) The number-three-ranked hit-man, with a fetish for sniffing boiling rice, fumbles his latest job, which puts him into conflict with a mysterious woman whose death wish inspires her to surround herself with dead butterflies and dead birds. Worse danger comes from his own treach

Murder Unincorporated (1965) When a mob cartel is threatened with assassination of its leadership, and indeed one of its heads is shot, the remaining heads hire hitmen of their own via an audition as defense. With ...

Aisuru (1997) Two young people meet by chance and fall in love but the woman is diagnosed with leprosy and sent away to a remote mountain sanitorium.