Shirō Yanase Movies

1962 Japanese movie

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

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

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

1962 Japanese movie

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

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

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...

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

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

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

A jazz pianist named Shiro Tsuda returns from an overseas tour unwittingly carrying drugs that have been sewn into his jacket. When he stops by to...

Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after...

A 1960 crime film

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

A 1971 crime film

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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