Shirō Yanase Movies

A 1960 crime film

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

Taro Uno, nicknamed "Fighting Taro," has joined Hyakusho Trading Company, which is currently busy with bidding for Southeast Asian reparations...

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

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...

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

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, dreams are instilled into the lives of many...

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days drinking, sailing and chasing girls, and who more often...

A 1971 crime film

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the...

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

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting...

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...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.