Shirō Yanase Movies

A 1971 crime film

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

1967 Nikkatsu film.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming...

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

A 1960 crime film

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and...

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....

1962 Japanese movie