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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms (1969)
朱鞘仁義 鉄火みだれ桜 TMDB
other title: 朱鞘仁義 鉄火みだれ桜
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...

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Rebellion Reward (1973)
反逆の報酬 IMDb TMDB
other title: 反逆の報酬
The film tells about drug trafficking from Vietnam to Tokyo and Okinawa. Tetsuya Watari plays a photographer who uses his camera as a blackmail weapon. He is on the trail of a narcotics smuggler (Mikio Narita) and his beautiful contact (Haruko Wanibuchi). Watari meets a former gangster (Yujiro Ishihara) who is seeking revenge against Narita, his former partner. Watari and Ishihara become allies and hijack the dope shipment. But Narita threatens the life of Haruko, who turns out to be Ishihara's sister, and demands the dope in return for the girl.

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Hangyaku no Tabi (1976)
反逆の旅 IMDb TMDB
other title: 反逆の旅
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...

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Glorious Fights (1966)
地獄の掟に明日はない WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: Il n'y a pas de lendemain dans les lois de l'enfer / 地獄の掟に明日はない
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.

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Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
恐喝こそわが人生 WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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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Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
日本暴力団 組長 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.