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Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Asuka Hanyu, a lone wolf who will stop at nothing to investigate, is a cool beauty who throws away her voluptuous body and strikes her enemies right between the eyes. This female detective infiltrates the Taiwanese mafia. However, her identity is compromised when someone tips her off!
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
Kazuhiko and Yuko grew up together as brother and sister, despite the fact that they are not blood related. Their relationship as adults takes a very bizarre turn as they discover they both share a secret passion for S&M. This rope-tying fetish film is a must for fans of the Japanese artforms of Shibari and Kinbaku.
When a young yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
Kanako, a math teacher who had previously inflicted punishment on a student at her previous school, has now been appointed to Kuronuma High School after completing her atonement. However, soon after arriving, she is attacked by four delinquents from her class. She is taken to an abandoned factory site, where the students, who have photographed her naked and bound, take turns raping her. Yada gazes at the unconscious Kanako, who is being held up in the air, with a look of amusement. He flashes the photographic evidence of what happened at the factory site, bringing up the past punishment, and corners the defenceless Kanako, saying, "There is punishment for every crime." She resists desperately, but there is nothing she can do...
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money for booze, who end up being drawn into the spiderweb of the yakuza. Gaijiro Saito and Sei Hiraizumi co-star. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
A two-part story. In "Let's Start from the Worst Day," the virgin Kyoko writes for an erotic magazine. She faces marriage, a returning boyfriend, and the attentions of her editor. In "On a Beloved Street Corner," a man (whose wife cheated on him) is approached on the street by Yoko. She awakens his desire and public filming. But who sent her?
After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out.
The story in "Silver" is about a female wrestler who is really an undercover agent. Disguised as a wrestling warrior, heroine Jun Shirogane (Atsuko Sakuraba) goes after the gang that killed her family in Takashi Miike's action-packed thriller. Aided by secret service colleague Yusuke Minamida (Kenji Haga), Jun goes undercover as Silver, a formidable fighter in the professional women's wrestling circuit. But Jun's success in the ring doesn't distract her from her primary mission: exacting revenge on the Paradise gang.
This is a yakuza action film depicting the exploits of a villainous duo nicknamed "human torpedoes" who are known for their brutality. Co-starring Ozawa Hitoshi from "The True Story of Yanagawa-gumi" and Osawa Mikio from "New Graveyard of Honor."
Joe and his delivery company friends are back. This time they become embroiled in the evil plot of a corrupt politician.
Rikiya Yasuoka, Ren Ōsugi and Junji Inagawa star in this early straight to video effort from Takashi Miike. Joe (Yasuoka), a lumbering tough guy with a heart of gold, is fresh out of prison, but it's not long before he lands himself in trouble again. The courier company he works for is attacked by a local yakuza gang. Joe takes matters into his own hands.
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Masato Sasaki film starring Hakuryu.
Yoriko wanders in a forest and ends up in a mansion where a man who studies parasites and his three daughters live. Yoriko learns from the girls' mother that she looks exactly like her, and she is asked to work as a housekeeper and begins living at the mansion, but...
A shock strikes the honeymoon couple Junko and Kazuhiko! Junko's ex-lover Kiyoshi, as if to cut off his feelings for her, indulges in SM play with the hotel call girl Sachiko. Kiyoshi is a true sadist who has implanted the pleasure of masochism into Junko's body.
A girl called Zero stands in a crowded street, her occupation an assassin. As she completes her tasks one after another, Zero has been feeling uneasy lately. As her code name suggests, she has nothing to prove her existence. She overlaps herself with the vanishing landscape and begins to wander in search of the meaning of her own existence. At the same time, a young man named One is also wandering the streets, and like Zero, he is an assassin. Surrounded by a sense of emptiness, he is unable to find the value of his own existence. One day, the two of them meet as if they were led together. They sense each other, and by touching each other, they regain their existence and humanity. However, the organization feels that contact between assassins is dangerous, and decides to dispose of them. They call in a highly skilled assassin. Their battle for their own existence begins now!
