Dead or Alive (1999) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb

DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者

director: Takashi Miike actor: Riki Takeuchi / Show Aikawa …

other title: DEAD OR ALIVE 犯罪者 / Dead or alive I …

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.

Rainy Dog (1997) [Movie] TMDB Douban

極道黒社会

director: Takashi Miike actor: Show Aikawa / Gao Ming-Chun …

other title: 極道黒社会 / 极道黑社会 …

A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.

Ley Lines (1999) [Movie] TMDB

日本黒社会 LEY LINES

director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuki Kitamura / Dan Li …

other title: 日本黒社会 LEY LINES

The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.

Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban

スワロウテイル

8.5 (6 ratings) director: Shunji Iwai actor: Ayumi Ito / Yosuke Eguchi …

other title: スワロウテイル / Yentown - Swallowtail Butterfly …

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

Drive (2002) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb

ドライブ

director: SABU actor: Shinichi Tsutsumi / Ren Osugi …

other title: ドライブ / 驾驶

Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h speed limit even under the extreme situation.

Brass Knuckle Boys (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData

少年メリケンサック

director: Kazushige Tanaka / Kankuro Kudo actor: Aoi Miyazaki / Koichi Sato …

other title: The Shonen Merikensack / Brass Knucle Boys …

A record company office worker named Kanna discovers a punk rock band called Shonen Meriken Sakku 'Brass Knuckle Boys' through the internet and subsequently decides to represent them on behalf of her company. What Kanna did not know was that the Brass Knuckle Boys consists of all middle aged men.

Gehara: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster (2009) [Movie] TMDB IMDb

長髪大怪獣ゲハラ

director: Kiyotaka Taguchi actor: Ken Osawa / Mina Fujii …

other title: 長髪大怪獣ゲハラ / Geharha: The Dark and Long-Haired Monster

A fishing boat is attacked at sea by a gigantic, hairy monster. After examining the sole survivor (Kanji Tsuda), scientific adviser Dr Murakami (Shiro Sano) suspects the culprit is a “Keukegen spectre”, a shaggy supernatural beast from Japanese folklore. The announcement leads reporter Hideo Akihara (Ken Osawa) to a forest shrine dedicated to the Keukegen Geharha, where he finds several worshipers and learns that an ancient seal containing the monster has been broken.

Angel Dust (1994) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban

エンジェル・ダスト

director: Gakuryu Ishii actor: Kaho Minami / Takeshi Wakamatsu …

other title: Angel dust / エンジェル・ダスト …

A police psychologist suspects her former lover of serial murders on the Tokyo subway.

Doing Time (2002) [Movie] TMDB

刑務所の中

director: Yoichi Sai actor: Tsutomu Yamazaki / Teruyuki Kagawa …

other title: 刑務所の中

A man serving a sentence in a minimum-security prison. Life in the jail is rigid and organized, eventually leading all of the cell-mates to abandon their individuality.

Fudoh: The New Generation (1996) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData

極道戦国志 不動

director: Takashi Miike actor: Shosuke Tanihara / Riki Takeuchi …

other title: Fudoh: the new generation / Fudoh …

In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.

Strange Circus (2005) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb

奇妙なサーカス

director: Sion Sono actor: Rie Kuwana / Masumi Miyazaki …

other title: 奇妙なサーカス

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

Full Metal Yakuza (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData

FULL METAL 極道

director: Takashi Miike actor: Tsuyoshi Ujiki / Tomorowo Taguchi …

other title: FULL METAL 極道

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.

Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban

龍が如く 劇場版

director: Takashi Miike actor: Kazuki Kitamura / Goro Kishitani …

other title: 如龙电影版 / 龍が如く 劇場版 …

Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his yakuza past. Unfortunately, Kiryū's problems slowly escalate as he is pursued by a former associate, the baseball-bat-wielding psycho Gorō Majima, who has a grudge to settle with Kiryū.

White-Collar Worker Kintaro (1999) [Movie] TMDB

サラリーマン金太郎

director: Takashi Miike actor: Katsunori Takahashi / Renji Ishibashi …

other title: サラリーマン金太郎

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox tactics cause trouble with his colleagues. He is transferred to a tiny countryside branch, where he butts heads with his lazy superior until the two men discover a plot by the competition to put the construction company out of bussiness. With the help of his old biker friends, Kintaro prepares to confront the masterminds behind the scheme.

Kamikaze Taxi (1995) [Movie] TMDB

KAMIKAZE TAXI

director: Masato Harada actor: Koji Yakusho / Kazuya Takahashi …

other title: KAMIKAZE TAXI

A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.

Bullet Ballet (1998) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData

バレット・バレエ

director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Shinya Tsukamoto / Kirina Mano …

other title: バレット・バレエ / 子弹芭蕾 …

After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.

Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData Douban

鉄男II BODY HAMMER

director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Tomorowo Taguchi / Shinya Tsukamoto …

other title: Tetsuo 2 - Martello di carne / 鉄男II BODY HAMMER …

A Japanese salaryman finds his body transforming into a weapon through sheer rage after his son is kidnapped by a gang of violent thugs.

The Adventure of Denchu-Kozo (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB

電柱小僧の冒険

director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Nariaki Senba / Nobu Kanaoka …

other title: Le avventure del ragazzo del palo elettrico / 電柱小僧の冒険 …

A teenager discovers an electric pylon growing out of his back and is soon forced to battle cyborg vampires over the future of humanity.

Tokyo Fist (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban

東京フィスト

director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Shinya Tsukamoto / Kaori Fujii …

other title: Tokyo Porrada / TOKYO FIST …

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation.

A Snake of June (2003) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb

六月の蛇

director: Shinya Tsukamoto actor: Asuka Kurosawa / Shinya Tsukamoto …

other title: 六月の蛇 / 六月之蛇 …

A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he controls her and she has to do anything he says. Anything.