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The Circuit Wolf (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
サーキットの狼
other title: サーキットの狼
Car mechanic Yuya (Shinya Fubuki) dreams of becoming a race driver. His daily routine – working with cars, and collecting pictures of his idol Niki Lauda – is interrupted by the appearance of an exotic girl (Mei Yokomoto) and troublesome car maniacs.
King Fang (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
大雪山の勇者 牙王
director: Eiji Okabe actor: Miyuki Ueda / Yoshito Yasuhara
other title: El Valiente de Daisetsuzan, el Rey de los Colmillos / 大雪山の勇者 牙王
The main character of the story is Fang, who was born to a hunting dog and a circus-runaway European wolf. Although Fang was raised by a human family, he is a wild animal after all, and is destined to live amongst nature. The story reaches its climax when Fang returns from the circus and faces his foe, a giant brown bear which killed his family.
Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夜の牝 花と蝶
other title: 夜の牝 花と蝶
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Profile of a Boss' Son (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
やくざの横顔
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Joe Shishido
other title: やくざの横顔
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.
Pay Off Your Debt! (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
大幹部 ケリをつけろ
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Reiko Ōhara
other title: 大幹部 ケリをつけろ
Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.
Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女の警察 乱れ蝶
other title: 女の警察 乱れ蝶
Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...
Women's Police: Part II (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
続・女の警察
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Tatsuya Fuji
other title: 続・女の警察
Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One day he visits Club Aron, to complain about attempts to lure hostesses from Club Rose. Aron's madam Hisayo reminds him of a tragic experience five years before, when a lovely girl named Kumi committed double suicide with a man in a hotel. For Aron's madam is Kumi's elder sister. Kagari's friend Hayazaki introduces him to Chie, the young sister of the man who died with Kumi, who has come to Tokyo to learn the truth about her brother's death. Kagari sends them both away. But he continues to be haunted by the warmed-over memories. When Club Aron is found selling bootleg whisky Kagari learns that Hisayo has been a tool in the hands of the Akune group who are also responsible for trying to steal his girls, and that Fujikura, the public prosecutor who presided over the case of Kumi's death and ruled it suicide, is now the personal lawyer of the Akune group...
Women's Police (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
女の警察
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Yukiyo Toake
other title: 女の警察
Around Ginza there is a night-city of bars and cabarets, hostesses, customers. Assisting to keep order here is Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) who specializes in the women, their problems and troubles. He has saved many a girl from blandishments of pimps, makes customers pay up and women play straight. So he is called 'the woman's police-man' and he takes his job seriously. One day, Chiyoko (Yukiyo Toake), a former hostess, comes to him. Her husband has been murdered and she wants help. The man had been a college classmate and Kagari decides to do what he can. In his investigation he overturns a whole nest of intrigue. Men he had thought irreproachable turn out to be corrupt; solid citizens are seen as the worst kind of scoundrels. Until now, Kagari has specialized in women and their problems. But, realizing the real state of affairs, he rolls up his sleeves for a good cleaning- up-at the same time discovering the murderer of his friend.
The Killer (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暴力団 乗り込み
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Meiko Kaji
other title: 暴力団 乗り込み
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations.
This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒い賭博師
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Akira Kobayashi / Manami Fuji
other title: The Black Gambler / 黒い賭博師
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
Kandagawa (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
神田川
other title: 神田川
Based on a blockbuster song by Kaguyahime, a folk group. Makoto, a college student who belongs to a puppet theatre club, meets Michiko, who works at a printing factory, and they come to learn the bitterness and sadness of love. The two live humbly by the River Kanda, but are viewed coldly by people around them.
A Man's World (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
男の世界
other title: 男の世界 / A Man′s World
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女の警察 国際線待合室
director: Yuji Tanno actor: Akira Kobayashi / Hiroyuki Nagato
other title: 女の警察 国際線待合室
Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
The Harbor of No Return (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
帰らざる波止場
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Takashi Shimura
other title: 帰らざる波止場
A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to see his girlfriend Kyoko, he walks in to find an unknown man attacking her. While struggling with the man, who is armed, Shiro accidentally shoots and kills her. The intruder knocks Shiro down and takes the drugs from Shiro's jacket. Shiro realizes that he was being used as a drag smuggler. He is sent to prison for three years for killing his girlfriiend. When he is released, he is determined to find out who set him up.