"Yakuza"
Yakuza Ladies 2
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence. As she grows into her new role, she manages to assert control and increase the influence of her organization. But when her husband is released from prison, she finds him a changed man, lacking the charact..
Yakuza Ladies 3
Upon the passing of the Sakanishi Clan’s boss, a fierce battle between his wife Hazuki and his disciple Terada breaks out. Will Hazuki be able to assume her husband’s position as the head of the established yakuza clan?
Yakuza Ladies Revisited
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.
Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.
Young Yakuza
Véritable plongée dans l’univers de la mafia japonaise, YOUNG YAKUZA est le récit initiatique d’une rencontre, celle d’un jeune homme désœuvré et d’un parrain, lui-même en pleine crise identitaire. Placé par sa mère en apprentissage au sein d’un clan mafieux, Naoki va découvrir le quotidien des Yakuzas pendant une année entièr..
Seijun Suzuki: kabuki & yakuzas
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
Yakuza: The Stage Play
A stage play adaption of the 2005 video game 'Yakuza' as part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of the game's release. Ran from April 24 - April 29, 2015. A recording of the stage play was released on DVD in Japan.
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.
The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and its members against much larger, more established organizations.
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.
Twilight of the Yakuza
Découvrez les yakuzas de l'ère moderne, qui tentent de survivre aux mesures répressives gouvernementales visant à les exterminer une fois pour toutes.
Mondo Yakuza
Ichiro Kataki, a violent Yakuza gang member travels to Melbourne, Australia after his beloved sister Yuko is brutally murdered by a group of criminals. Hell bent on vengeance he teams up with Cassidy Arizona, a lady of the night with a vendetta of her own.
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. P..
Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukasaku.
Enlisted Yakuza
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the military and fight in China.
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
Descendant des films des samouraïs, le cinéma des yakuzas arrive sur les écrans japonais au début des années 60. Grâce à lui, les gangsters japonais accèdent au rang de mythe. Les clans participent à cette industrie cinématographique : non seulement ils la soutiennent financièrement, mais ils acceptent de raconter aux scénaristes leurs ..
Battling the Yakuza
Organized crime syndicates are deeply entrenched in Japanese history. Known as the Jakuza, they were once seen as gangsters with strict code of honor, helping the police to fight the criminal underworld. The Yakuza in Japan has links that extend as far back as 400 years to Edo era. But their days of protecting the weak against the strong are long ..
