Asao Koike

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss' widow's niece, piling up enemies and corpses along his wayward way.

After an artist is threatened by the yakuza into creating valuable but highly illegal pornography, the law aims to execute him. Zatoichi, having been honor bound to protect the man and his family, must now run against the law.

Conflicts between Hirono's family and Yamamori's family (and their allies) are made more tense by the ambitious underlings and the police's efforts to impose a crackdown on the gangs.

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks on a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power.

After extracting information by raping a ghost, Hanzo uncovers a plot among high officials to steal the shogunate's gold and loan it out to the poor.

Three tales of punishment and torture set in Japan in the Middle Ages.

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 plac...

Two highly skilled tattoo artists clash as the demand for tattooed geishas rises to satisfy European clients.

A group of kids compete with a team of bumbling pirates to find buried treasure.

A retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

The loves and tragedies of a geisha in 1933 Japan.

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

A thug is released after fifteen years in prison for the murder of a yakuza gang boss. Things were never going to be simple and bygones were never going to be bygones of course, but to make matters more complicated the murdered bo...

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of ...

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming that he did it. Tracking down the real culprit willtake him along a twisted trai...

Bunta Sugawara and his gangster mom robs a bagful of mafia money. They get in trouble when the mafia sends their finest hit men after them.

Young Yuki runs away from home after her mother's villainous boyfriend rapes her. She ends using sex to survive, but when she finally meets a nice architecture student, she starts thinking that her suffering may be over, but is it?

A low-life crook gets a job as a yakuza hit-man and proceeds to pretend to be a big shot. There are, however, things that cannot be faked.

The eastern and western factions of the Yakuza battle to control Japan.

A delinquent, budding yakuza has a clash of sensibilities with his good girlfriend in this gritty tearjerker.

A more original story than usual for a ninkyô yakuza film.

After killing a man in self defense, Ryuji goes searching for peace. But when he finds that his elderly mother, Kiyo, is being harassed by a rival family, Ryuji has no choice but to choose the fate of the sword.

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.