Akikane Sawa Movies

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...

Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorable Yakuza in Tokyo's Asakusa district.

Movie adaptation of the TV series.

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.

Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair...

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

Sonny Chiba's first martial arts film, a partially fictionalized judo biopic based on prominent judoka Shiro Saigo (Chiba), the second student of...

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups.

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.