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Films with theme "Yakuza films", sorted by production date
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Underworld Beauty (1958)
, 1h27Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Hideaki Nitani, Shinsuke Ashida, Kaku Takashina, Toru Abe, Tomio Aoki
Après un séjour en prison, Miyamoto (Michitarô Mizushima) récupère des diamants volés qu'il avait réussi à cacher avant de se faire arrêter. Il retourne voir un ancien associé, Oyane, et lui annonce qu’il compte donner les diamants à Mihara (Tôru Abe) qui a perdu l’usage d’une jambe au cours du vol, mais a gardé le silence. Oyane compte bien mettre la main sur les diamants à l’aide de son gang.
Drunken Angel (1948)
, 1h38Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Noriko Sengoku, Yoshiko Kuga, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
It stars Takashi Shimura as an alcoholic doctor in postwar Japan who treats a young, small-time hood named Matsunaga (Toshiro Mifune), after a gunfight with a rival syndicate. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster with tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment (and quit boozing and womanizing). The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss, Okada, who is also the former abusive boyfriend of the doctor's female assistant, is released from prison and seeks to take his gang over once again. The sick young man then stops following the doctor's advice, slips back into old habits and going to night clubs with Okada. But Matsunaga realizes that Okada is not a true friend when Okada threatens to kill the doctor if he doesn't reveal the female assistants whereabouts, and then finds out that the big Yakuza crime boss is grooming Okada and merely using Matsunaga as a pawn to be given up to the rival gang. When the doctor leaves his house to go report on Okada to the police, despite the doctor's orders to remain in bed, Matsunaga slips out to confront Okada (who has also managed to steal Matsunaga's girlfriend Nanae) but Matsunaga is killed in the ensuing knife fight. The film ends with a local shop-owner woman who had feelings for Matsunaga planning to take Matsunaga's ashes to be buried on her farm, far from the corrupt and dirty city, and the doctor happily learning that one of his younger patients has followed his advice and has been fully cured of tuberculosis.
, 1h36Directed by Daisuke Itō
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Denjirō Ōkōchi, Ranko Sawa
The three films focus on the travels of the kindly yakuza boss Kunisada Chūji. The existing print begins with Chuji on the road, fleeing the law while taking care of Kantaro, the son of a dead friend. He leaves Kantaro with Kabe Yasuemon, an honorable local boss, but is shocked to find out that his own men have been committing robberies using his own name. Angry, Chuji hits the road and eventually settles in another town, assuming another name and working as a clerk for a sake brewery. Okuma, the daughter of the brewer, falls in love with Chuji, but he ignores her. When he saves her brother from trouble with the Otozo gang, his identity is revealed and the police close in. Okume kills herself and Chuji flees, but the palsy he had been suffering from worsens and he is finally caught. His henchmen, however, succeed in rescuing him and bring him back to his home village. Unable to walk and confined to bed, Chuji is hidden in a storehouse. His woman, Oshina, discovers that one of his men has betrayed him, but it is too late. Despite the valiant efforts of his men to hold off the police, Chuji is finally arrested by the authorities.