Junko Miyazono

  • Hideo Gosha – Kiba Ôkaminosuke AKA Samurai Wolf (1966)

    1961-1970ActionAdventureHideo GoshaJapan

    A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.Read More »

  • Kinji Fukasaku – Kaisan shiki aka Ceremony of Disbanding (1967)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanKinji Fukasaku

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    Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs while the low-level thugs have returned to their former gangs. Shimamura, a former executive of the Kotaki clan, has become the president of a construction company that built an oil complex on the landfill and now intends to build another one as soon as they clear the inhabitants off of land owned by Dr. Omachi. Shimamura takes control of the debt owed by Dr. Omachi on his poultry farm in order to exert pressure on him. The poultry farm is worked by Mie, Sawaki’s former lover and mother of his child. Sawaki feels connected to the residents and regrets past his actions that have caused their existence to now be threatened. When Shimamura and his rival former Kotaki clan executive Sakurada battle over the land rights and each pressure the residents in their own way, Sawaki views them as corrupt and decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents.Read More »

  • Nobuo Nakagawa – Yôen dokufu-den: Hitokiri Okatsu AKA Quick-draw Okatsu (1969)

    1961-1970ActionCrimeJapanNobuo Nakagawa

    An innocent man gets killed for the debt accumulated by his gambler son. This sets Okatsu, a master with the sword and an adopted daughter of the victim, on a path of revenge.Read More »

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