Fumio Kōnami — Playwright (53)

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Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley (1961)
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other title: Le Policier vagabond : La Tragédie de la vallée rouge / 風来坊探偵 赤い谷の惨劇 …
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.

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Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
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other title: Kamikaze Club / 恐喝こそわが人生 …
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.

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Miracle on Lubang Island: Army Nakano School (1974)
ルバング島の奇跡 陸軍中野学校 IMDb TMDB
other title: ルバング島の奇跡 陸軍中野学校
In the spring of 1945, Murakami, an apprentice officer, was ordered by the General Staff Headquarters to be assigned to the secret 33rd Eastern Unit, known only to the upper ranks of the General Staff. This is where secret warriors, spies and guerrillas, are trained. Eventually, a variety of training will be held, from pistols, karate, martial arts to pickpocketing wallets.

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The Four Roughnecks (1974)
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other title: あばよダチ公
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.

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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody (1973)
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other title: Criminal Woman : Killing Melody / 前科おんな殺し節
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.

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Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
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other title: Le Caïd de Yokohama / 日本暴力団 組長 …
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.

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Shogun's Ninja (1980)
忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Les Tueurs noirs de l'empereur fou / El guerrero ninja …
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.

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A Chaos of Flowers (1988)
華の乱
Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / 松田优作 …
other title: 华之乱 / 華の乱 …
Set in the Taisho era, which might be regarded as Japan's Hippie Phase, Hana no ran is a story about fashionable people without impulse control. Much of the action centers on a popular woman writer, the real-life poet Akiko Yosano, and her experiences among the literati of early 20th century Japan. Because of her independent, anti-war and often erotic poetry, she was a lightning rod for revolutionaries and other extremists, many of whom were destined to glamorous, yet ultimately pointless, deaths. The closest parallels might be the Byron/Shelley group or the people drawn to the Beat Generation.

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Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)
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Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tsunehiko Watase / Miki Sugimoto …
other title: Violent Panic : The Big Crash / 暴走パニック 大激突
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.

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The Classroom of Terror (1976)
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Akihisa Okamoto actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Hiroshi Tachi …
other title: The classroom of terror / 暴力教室
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.

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Panic in High School (1978)
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Gakuryu Ishii / Yukihiro Sawada actor: Shigeru Yamamoto / Miyoko Akaza …
other title: Panique au Lycée / 高校大パニック …
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.

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Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974)
0課の女 赤い手錠
Yukio Noda actor: Miki Sugimoto / Eiji Gō …
other title: Der Tiger von Osaka / Les menottes rouges …
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.

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Wet Weekend (1979)
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Kichitaro Negishi actor: Junko Miyashita / Aoi Nakajima …
other title: L'été de la dernière étreinte / 濡れた週末
A bored office clerk is having an affair with her married boss. Since he refuses to leave his wife, she and another couple plan to kidnap his daughter to collect a ransom.

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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder (1972)
狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: Yakuza Wolf 1, I Perform Murder / 狼やくざ 殺しは俺がやる
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.