Jushiro Kobayashi Movies

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from...

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord...

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful...

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Period film from 1934.

International agents have failed to track down the high-level source of government top-security leaks. Japanese officials suspect the involvement of...

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi,...

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor...

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.