Sayoko Tanimoto Movies

The fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First...

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

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

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

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

1962 Japanese movie

An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.

A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to...

1960 Toei war movie.