Acting
Japanese actor and singer.
Bison, the ruthless leader of the international terrorist organization Shadowlaw, has been desperately searching for the greatest fighter on the planet for years. He finds it in Ryu, a young wanderer who never stays in one place long enough for Bison to find him. He does, however, get a fix on Ken Masters, an American martial arts champion who studied with Ryu as a child under the same master. Meanwhile, Major Guile of the United States Army is forced to team up with Chun Li from China in hopes of apprehending Bison and putting a stop his international ring of crime.
The series tells The story of the 1609 invasion of Ryûkyû by forces from the Japanese domain of Satsuma, an event which changed the course of Ryukyuan history dramatically.
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A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.
Toei V-Cinema
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.
1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill Sasamoto, who betrayed the group and tried to join the fifth Sannokai-affiliated Minamiyama group. This triggered the interruption of the "Yamaha War" by Sannokai and Hayama-gumi.
A boy seeks manhood in joining his school’s militaristic cheer squad.
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the dangerous task of launching a new office in rival territory.
Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if he had a dos, started working at a hunting station and a town factory. There, I met Keiko, a clerk. Keiko lived with her son, who was born to a yakuza. Seiji's former group was crushed by the Ryujinkai, and Akamatsu, who had a grudge against Seiji, was at the top. Knowing the source of Seiji, Akamatsu begins revenge using bodyguards Kobiki and others. Seiji lived in peace, but the people around him were harmed and his heart returned to "Yaksha" ...
An upbeat, action-filled drama that depicts the lives of two obnoxious high school students, Koji and Toru, who are caught in exciting and dangerous adventures involving their fellow students. Based on the best selling comic series, “Be-Bop High School” has gained popularity among the young audience, and become an icon of Japan’s pop culture in the 1980’s.
The Umezu-gumi stands in opposition to the Iwasa-gumi, which rules the streets. In this city where tensions remain on the brink of explosion, Hideki Minashima is released from Osaka Prison. He visits Iwasa to convey the final words of Shimizu, with whom he had shared a cup of sake as brothers whilst in prison. Meanwhile, Umezu’s expression changes upon meeting Minashima. For he was none other than the former boss of the Kobe Kazama-gumi—the parent organisation of the Umezu-gumi. Twelve years earlier, the boss had been stabbed to death, leading to the dissolution of the group; senior members Hirokawa, Kurahashi and Kudo had each gone their separate ways. Iwasa, who had become enamoured with Minashima—who was devoting himself to training with the aim of one day rebuilding the group—proposed handing over the position of second-in-command to him. Umezu, however, betrayed the code of honour of the underworld and turned his blade against Minashima...
Tetsuya, a young yakuza, returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against dishonorable enemies and corrupt yakuza politics, he makes an unlikely ally in a rebel cop.
An action drama that depicts the history of the fierce gang conflicts of the Higashi-gumi—renowned nationwide as an ultra–combat-oriented syndicate—brought to life with a star-studded cast including Hakuryu and Hideo Nakano. In the brutal battleground of Osaka, the Higashi-gumi managed to remain independent and avoid submission to any larger syndicate. Their survival was owed entirely to the overwhelming charisma of the boss and his younger brother. Set in Nishinari—known as the “Mecca of Osaka’s yakuza”—this true-crime yakuza epic portrays the rise of the ultra-combat-oriented Higashi-gumi, a syndicate that maintained its independence without ever bowing to any major organization. With overwhelming charisma, the Higashi-gumi boss, Higashi Kiyoshi, and his younger brother Isamu carve out their own dominant presence in Osaka through their extreme, unapologetic brutality.
Tachibana of Mutsumi Yato Kogyo, whose leader was assassinated. He is glared at the work of the hostile organization Konan Service, but his big brother Kurosaki is well rounded up with his traces as bait. Masa and Jun, who are the thugs, ignore the unsuccessful executives and aim for the Konan service leader who was the chairman of the Mutsumikai, but failed! Jun is captured and killed. Kurosaki tries to secure Yato Kogyo in exchange for Jun's life.
Maria is in need of money. Because her day-time job doesn't pay enough, she works at night at a cabaret. She needs the money so that she can pay for her sister, Nana's eyes operation. When both Maria and Nana were younger, Maria burned down the home, causing her sister's blindness and killing their father (mother survived.) Shiro is a famous concert pianist. However, he isn't happy with his marriage or his life in general. Maria and Shiro are united through a traffic accident, causing Shiro to be hospitalized. Faking amnesia and his identity, he stays at Maria's place and eventually starts to work at the cabaret as a piano player. As you will find out later on, life was not meant for Maria and Shiro to find one another.
Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep the peace. Wanted what he was promised, Tetsuya becomes a one-man path of destruction, only to be betrayed once again…
New film adaptation of the manga "Police Branch 82".
