Hiroshi Kondō Movies

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

1962 Japanese movie

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Three young men face off against corrupt officials and Yakuza in order to complete a reclamation project of the coastal embankment, who try to derail...

Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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.

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...