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Acting
Keiichi Kitagawa
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Known For
Sympathy for the Underdog · 1971Sympathy for the Underdog
★ 7.11971
MovieDramaAction
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Japan Organized Crime Boss · 1969Japan Organized Crime Boss
★ 7.41969
MovieCrimeDrama
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Violent Street · 1963Violent Street
1963
MovieCrime
1963 Toei film
Glorious Fights · 1966Glorious Fights
★ 7.21966
MovieDramaAction
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
The Ando Gang Documentary Film · 1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film
★ 6.51973
MovieCrime
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody · 1973Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
★ 6.61973
MovieActionCrime
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly · 1972Wandering Ginza Butterfly
★ 6.81972
MovieActionThriller
Nami "The Red Cherry Blossom" returns to her old stomping ground in the seedy Tokyo district of Ginza after a stint in prison for killing a yakuza boss. She soon settles in, living in her uncle's pool hall and working at the local hostess club. But when ruthless yakuza Ōwada attempts to take control of the club, Nami and her uncle devise a plan to take him down.
Zoku ôsho · 1963Zoku ôsho
★ 8.01963
Movie
Adaptation of novel.