Benny Safdie

biography:
Benjamin Safdie (born February 24, 1986) is an American filmmaker, actor, and editor best known for his collaborations with his older brother, Josh Safdie. Together, the Safdie brothers have established themselves as leading voices in contemporary independent cinema with acclaimed films such as Heaven Knows What (2014), Good Time (2017), and Uncut Gems (2019).

In addition to directing, Benny has pursued a parallel career as an actor. His performance in Good Time earned him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male. He has since appeared in high-profile films including Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza (2021), Kelly Fremon Craig’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023), and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023).

On television, he co-created, co-wrote, and starred alongside Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone in the Showtime series The Curse (2023).

Obi-Wan Kenobi

overview: During the reign of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, embarks on a crucial mission to confront allies turned enemies and face the wrath of the Empire.

character: Nari

original_name: Obi-Wan Kenobi

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

overview: After Jay Leno's second retirement from the program, Jimmy Fallon stepped in as his permanent replacement. After 42 years in Los Angeles the program was brought back to New York.

Togetherness

overview: Four adults nearing 40, living under the same roof, struggle to keep their relationships and their individual dreams alive.

character: Craddock Brother #2

original_name: Togetherness

The Neistat Brothers

overview: Following Casey and Van Neistat, The Neistat Brothers is a autobiographical documentary following the lives and adventures of the two brothers. The series follows their travels around the world and New York as they tell their stories about six week chunks of their lives in their signature vlog-like style

original_name: The Neistat Brothers

The Curse

overview: An alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a newly married couple as they try to conceive a child while co-starring on their problematic new HGTV show.

character: Dougie Schecter

original_name: The Curse

The Daily Show

overview: The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.

original_name: The Daily Show

Mr. Scorsese

overview: Explore the many lives of Martin Scorsese through intimate interviews with the man himself, access to his private archives, plus conversations with Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg, and more.

original_name: Mr. Scorsese

The Neistat Brothers

job: Set Decoration

department: Art

Telemarketers

overview: This docuseries chronicles the darkly comedic, unexpected 20-year journey of two unlikely office buddies, who stumble upon the murky truth behind the work they’ve been doing at a seedy New Jersey call center – persuading people to give money to charities – and vow to expose the crooked American telemarketing industry from within.

original_name: Telemarketers

Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God

overview: Chronicles the life and death of Amy Carlson, also known as Mother God, a self-proclaimed spiritual savior who built a cult through her online manifestos and live-streaming sessions. As Amy's health declined, her followers believed her death would lead to her evacuation by UFO and salvation for humanity. Told through the eyes of Amy's devotees and constructed from the cult's archival footage, the three-part docuseries captures the perils of internet proselytizing and a conspiracy-driven faith.

original_name: Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God

The Curse

job: Story

department: Writing

job: Writer

job: Teleplay

Ren Faire

overview: When the ailing king of America's largest renaissance festival declares his retirement, an epic power struggle ensues between an actor, a former elephant trainer, and a kettle-corn kingpin to claim his throne.

original_name: Ren Faire

Pee-wee as Himself

overview: A kaleidoscopic portrait told in two parts tracing the life of the imaginative artist.

original_name: Pee-wee as Himself

Superfakes

overview: A small-time Chinatown luxury counterfeit dealer enters a dangerous black market underworld in order to fund a life of suburban respectability for her family.

original_name: Superfakes

The Curse

job: Creator

department: Creator

instagram_id: bowedtie

English

iso_3166_1: US

Deutsch

biography: Benjamin Safdie ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmemacher, Schauspieler und Editor, der vor allem für seine Zusammenarbeit mit seinem älteren Bruder Josh Safdie bekannt ist. Gemeinsam haben sich die Safdie-Brüder mit gefeierten Filmen wie „Heaven Knows What“ (2014), „Good Time“ (2017) und „Uncut Gems“ (2019) als führende Stimmen des zeitgenössischen Independent-Kinos etabliert.

עִבְרִית

iso_639_1: he

iso_3166_1: IL

english_name: Hebrew

한국어/조선말

iso_3166_1: KR

Pусский

Бенни Сафди

biography:
💥Бенджамин Сафди. Родился в 1986-ом году в Нью-Йорке, США. Рос в семье со старшим братом. Родители работали преподавателями. Учился в Бостонском университете. Работает режиссёром, сценаристом, продюсером и актёром. Женат на Аве Сафди, у пары 2-ое сыновей, имена которых, не раскрываются

🏆Главные награды🏆: Номинация на Готэм (2019) [Неогранённые драгоценности]

🎬Главные проекты🎬: «Одиссея» (2026), «Неогранённые драгоценности» (2019), «Крушащая машина» (2025), «Счастливчик Гилмор 2» (2025), «Оппенгеймер» (2023)

⭐Интересный факт⭐: Бенни часто снимает сцены с минимальным числом дублей и живой камерой, добиваясь ощущения документального напряжения, а в актёрских ролях использует тот же принцип полной импровизационной вовлечённости

العربية

iso_639_1: ar

iso_3166_1: SA

english_name: Arabic

فارسی

iso_3166_1: IR

english_name: Persian

беларуская мова

iso_639_1: be

iso_3166_1: BY

english_name: Belarusian

普通话

本杰明·萨夫迪

biography: 本杰明·萨夫迪（Benjamin 'Benny' Safdie，1986 年 2 月 24 日出生）是一位美国导演、编剧和演员，以以纽约惊悚片《美好时光》（2017 年）和《未切割的宝石》（2019 年）而闻名。与他的兄弟和经常合作的乔什·萨夫迪（Josh Safdie）一起，他们拥有叙利亚犹太血统，在皇后区的欧洲父亲和曼哈顿的纽约人母亲之间长大。兄弟俩从小就开始拍电影，受到他们热爱电影的父亲的启发，他通过不断拍摄电影将他对电影的热爱传递给了本尼和他的兄弟。

Português

biography: Benjamin 'Benny' Safdie (nascido em 24 de fevereiro de 1986) é um diretor, roteirista e ator americano, mais conhecido pelos thrillers ambientados em Nova York Good Time (2017) e Uncut Gems (2019). Junto com seu irmão e colaborador frequente Josh Safdie, eles são de ascendência judaico-síria e cresceram entre o pai europeu no Queens e a mãe nova-iorquina em Manhattan. Os irmãos começaram a fazer filmes quando eram crianças, inspirados pelo pai, entusiasta do cinema, que traduziu seu amor pelo cinema para Benny e seu irmão, filmando-os constantemente.

普通话

本傑明·薩夫迪

biography: 本傑明·薩夫迪（Benjamin 'Benny' Safdie，1986 年 2 月 24 日出生）是一位美國導演、編劇和演員，以以紐約驚悚片《美好時光》（2017 年）和《未切割的寶石》（2019 年）而聞名。與他的兄弟和經常合作的喬什·薩夫迪（Josh Safdie）一起，他們擁有敍利亞猶太血統，在皇后區的歐洲父親和曼哈頓的紐約人母親之間長大。兄弟倆從小就開始拍電影，受到他們熱愛電影的父親的啟發，他通過不斷拍攝電影將他對電影的熱愛傳遞給了本尼和他的兄弟。

also_known_as:
Ben Safdie
The Safdie Brothers
Benjamin Safdie

title: John's Gone

overview: John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone.

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

overview: John is a lonely man who wanders through the city, encountering various acquaintances of differing temperaments. Though he crosses paths with many people, some simply prefer not to be bothered with him.

title: Stars at Noon

overview: In present-day Nicaragua, a headstrong American journalist and a mysterious English businessman strike up a romance as they become embroiled in a dangerous labyrinth of lies and conspiracies and are forced to try and escape the country.

title: Oppenheimer

overview: The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

overview: This is the story of a man named Charles Riverbank, who, upon losing his home, wanders into various adventures (and a lot of dirty looks).

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

overview: The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies.

title: Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs

overview: A documentary chronicling the production of Daddy Longlegs.

original_title: Second Stop from Jupiter: The Making of Daddy Longlegs

title: Happy Gilmore 2

overview: Happy Gilmore isn't done with golf — not by a long shot. Since his retirement after his first Tour Championship win, Gilmore returns to finance his daughter's ballet classes.

title: Good Time

overview: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

title: Person to Person

overview: Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.

title: Yeast

overview: A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.

title: Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie

overview: Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts. Produced by the Criterion Channel for their "Meet the Filmmakers" series.

original_title: Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie

title: I Think I'm Missing Parts

overview: When her station wagon conks out by a secluded house in the woods, a woman peers from the window and watches a string of peculiar goings-on next door. Josh Safdie’s 11-minute short turns a simple breakdown into a quietly absurd, deadpan set-piece.

title: The Ralph Handel Story

overview: Co-directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, this deadpan mock-documentary follows Ralph Handel, a buttoned-down office worker who spends his nights bombing on the open-mic circuit. Staged as cinéma vérité that edges into performance art—Safdie performed the disastrous sets in real clubs—the film channels Andy Kaufman’s anti-comedy and the self-reflexive diary mode of David Holzman’s Diary to sketch a sly portrait of a life quietly coming undone.

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

overview: John embarks on a trip to Coney Island for a day of fun and happiness. Things don't quite work out as planned.

title: What To Do When Choking

overview: A 3-minute short film directed and edited by Benny Safdie, featuring Cassie Seale, Daniel S. Callahan, and Safdie himself.

title: If You See Something, Say Something

overview: An early short film by Josh Safdie, co-written with Benny Safdie and featuring frequent collaborators including Sam Lisenco and Ariel Schulman. Running just over three minutes, it premiered at the 2006 New York Underground Film Festival.

title: Into the Woods with Mark

overview: A short film directed by Benny Safdie, with cinematography by Josh Safdie and produced under the Red Bucket Films collective.

title: Goldman v Silverman

overview: Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.

title: Solid Gold

overview: A short observational piece by Josh and Benny Safdie, Solid Gold follows a gold-painted “living statue” (performed by Benny Safdie) working the streets and subways of New York—a compact study of street performance and the struggle to be seen, featured online via NoBudge in 2013.

title: Pieces of a Woman

overview: When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

title: Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems

overview: A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more.

original_title: Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems

title: Licorice Pizza

overview: The story of Gary Valentine and Alana Kane growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

title: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

overview: When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

title: A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What

overview: The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes.

original_title: A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What

title: Question & Answer

overview: The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS.

title: The Odyssey

overview: Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

overview: A film crew trails Philbert Powell through his morning, from the supermarket to his job at a video store. Along the way, he crosses paths with several individuals all named “Slater.” His interactions with them raise the central question: who, among those Slaters, is his friend? The narrative unfolds across a single morning, blending encounters and identity as Philbert’s journey reveals the shifting dynamics of connection.

title: Alberto Live in a Bathroom

overview: A man lives in a bathtub. He goes out for the day, then returns.

title: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

overview: Having thwarted Bowser's previous plot to marry Princess Peach, Mario and Luigi now face a fresh threat in Bowser Jr., who is determined to liberate his father from captivity and restore the family legacy. Alongside companions new and old, the brothers travel across the stars to stop the young heir's crusade.

title: Daddy Longlegs

overview: After months of living a solitary existence, Lenny, 34, picks up his kids from school. Every year he spends a couple of weeks with his sons Sage, 9, and Frey, 7. Lenny hosts his kids within a midtown studio apartment in New York. During these two weeks, he must figure out if he wants to act as their father or be their friend. Ultimately, their trip upstate results in complete lawlessness taking over their lives.

title: The Pure and the Damned

overview: Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘The Pure and the Damned’ music video from the soundtrack of Good Time (2017) featuring Iggy Pop.

title: Thank You Very Much

overview: Andy Kaufman's provocative comedy often outraged audiences, challenging them to confront their own presumptions. Through never-before-seen footage and intimate recollections, filmmaker Alex Braverman explores Kaufman’s brief but impactful life and career. As the lines between performance and reality blur in our present age, Kaufman’s genius resonates more than ever.

title: John's Gone

title: John's Gone

title: Lenny Cooke

overview: In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony. A decade later, Lenny has never played a minute in the NBA. In this quintessentially American documentary, filmmaking brothers Joshua and Benny Safdie track the unfulfilled destiny of a man for whom superstardom was only just out of reach.

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Question & Answer

title: The Black Balloon

overview: While escorting a group of children through New York City, a harried man loses hold of a bouquet of one hundred balloons. Among them, a single black balloon drifts free, seemingly lifeless, only to revive and embark on a strange journey through the city. Searching for companionship, it drifts among the highs and lows of human life, discovering both joy and despair along the way. Conceived as a children’s tale but emerging as a surreal urban fable, The Black Balloon follows the haunting odyssey of a balloon that longs to belong.

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Back of Her Head

overview: This is a story about a man, who lives above an older Hindi man, who lives above a delinquent British man, who lives above a girl. It is the back of her head that he is in love with.

title: The Black Balloon

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: Question & Answer

title: Question & Answer

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: The Smashing Machine

overview: In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.

title: The Smashing Machine

title: Solid Gold

title: Buttons

overview: Josh & Benny Safdie, Alex Kalman, and Factory 25 present this feature-length program of found moments from the everyday—films that showcase the wonder, beauty, sadness, love, aggression and magic that goes unnoticed on the hectic streets of NYC and elsewhere.

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

title: Buttons

title: The Pleasure of Being Robbed

overview: A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.

title: Good Time

title: The Surprise Tour

overview: Punk/Performance art band The Best Thing Ever tours the USA for three weeks performing exclusively unscheduled concerts for audiences who don't expect a performance. Venues include Waffle House and Best Cuts in Cleveland, Ohio.

title: Trophy Hunter

overview: Trophy Hunter (2012) is a short mock-documentary created by Josh and Benny Safdie for the Turtle Conservancy. It explores the illegal wildlife trade through a satirical lens, featuring the late New York cultural icon Glenn O’Brien as he visits an eccentric Chinese collector.

title: The Black Balloon

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: Uncut Gems

overview: A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Ralph Handel Story

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

title: Straight Hustle

overview: Commissioned by Northwest Film Forum’s One-Shot program, this Safdie short trails two street hustlers working a “cold” con in downtown Seattle, observing the quick pitch, misdirection, and payoff with lean, street-level immediacy.

title: Straight Hustle

title: Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident

overview: Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, this punchy short features James Toback recounting a bizarre, years-long rivalry sparked by a drunken argument with Norman Mailer over bourbon versus Scotch—an ego duel that escalates from boozy barbs to a tense Jets–Browns stare-down and a few jabs to the gut. A brisk, first-person tale of bravado, celebrity circles, and the fine line between literary legend and street-corner scuffle.

title: Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident

title: Gone Tomorrow

overview: A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman.

title: What To Do When Choking

title: What To Do When Choking

title: Into the Woods with Mark

title: If You See Something, Say Something

title: Trophy Hunter

title: Lenny Cooke

title: The Black Balloon

title: Buttons

title: John's Gone

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: John's Gone

title: The Black Balloon

title: The Groomsmen

overview: Blue-collar Paulie prepares for fatherhood and his forthcoming wedding to Sue by hanging out with his groomsmen. Brother Jimbo, cousin Mike, and his pals fill the reunion with drinking, boys-will-be-boys antics and a few unexpected personal confessions. But, when the bonding devolves into accusations and regret, Paulie has to decide whether he's ready to tie the knot and take this big step into adulthood.

title: Good Time

title: Uncut Gems

title: The Ralph Handel Story

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: Heaven Knows What

overview: A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Good Time

title: Funny Pages

overview: A teenage cartoonist rejects the comforts of his suburban life in a misguided quest for soul.

title: Uncut Gems

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

title: Goldman v Silverman

title: Heartland

overview: Commissioned by fashion label Vena Cava, Josh Safdie’s short replaces a runway show with an eerie, late-1970s Los Angeles-inspired tale about a women’s cult; it premiered online in November 2012.

title: The Smashing Machine

title: The Smashing Machine

title: Lizard Music

overview: When a boy left to his own devices stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open. His search for answers leads him to the eccentric and whimsical Chicken Man and his beloved companion, a seventy-year-old chicken named Claudia—two kindred spirits who have also glimpsed the impossible. United by this shared vision, they set off on an adventure that begins as a hunt for a hidden society but blossoms into something far greater: a voyage through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies, and the unbreakable bond between lost souls who discover magic not only in what they find, but in each other.

title: Lizard Music

title: Lizard Music

title: Marty Supreme

overview: Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

title: Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall

overview: A concert film documenting Cameron Winter's sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall.

title: Noah Britton: The Best Stuff I've Ever Done

original_title: Noah Britton: The Best Stuff I've Ever Done

title: Public Access

overview: A deep dive into one of America’s most radical media experiments, this documentary uncovers how New York’s underground public access television turned everyday people into boundary-pushing creators. Using rare archival footage, it reveals a chaotic free-speech arena where rules were shattered, censors challenged, and anyone could seize the screen. Long before influencers existed, public access channels like Manhattan Cable Television gave New Yorkers total creative freedom — spawning interactive oddities, anarchic art shows, and pioneering LGBTQ+ programming. As sexually explicit content pushed limits and ignited public outrage, major First Amendment battles ensued. The result is an unfiltered look at a transformative moment in media history that anticipated today’s creator-driven digital world, warning viewers to “brace yourself” for the wildness that defined it.

title: John's Gone

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Stars at Noon

title: Oppenheimer

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: Happy Gilmore 2

title: Good Time

title: Person to Person

title: Yeast

title: The Ralph Handel Story

title: I Think I'm Missing Parts

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

title: If You See Something, Say Something

title: What To Do When Choking

title: Into the Woods with Mark

title: Solid Gold

title: Goldman v Silverman

title: Pieces of a Woman

title: Licorice Pizza

title: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.

title: Question & Answer

title: The Odyssey

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: Alberto Live in a Bathroom

title: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Pure and the Damned

title: Thank You Very Much

title: John's Gone

title: John's Gone

title: Lenny Cooke

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Question & Answer

title: The Black Balloon

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Back of Her Head

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: The Black Balloon

title: Question & Answer

title: Question & Answer

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: The Smashing Machine

title: The Smashing Machine

title: Solid Gold

title: Buttons

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

title: The Story of Charles Riverbank

title: Buttons

title: The Pleasure of Being Robbed

title: Good Time

title: The Surprise Tour

title: Trophy Hunter

title: The Black Balloon

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: The Adventures of Slater's Friend

title: Uncut Gems

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

title: The Ralph Handel Story

title: Straight Hustle

title: Straight Hustle

title: Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident

title: Toback Vs. Mailer: The Incident

title: What To Do When Choking

title: What To Do When Choking

title: Gone Tomorrow

title: Into the Woods with Mark

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: The Black Balloon

title: Lenny Cooke

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Buttons

title: Trophy Hunter

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: If You See Something, Say Something

title: John's Gone

title: The Groomsmen

title: John's Gone

title: The Black Balloon

title: Daddy Longlegs

title: The Acquaintances of a Lonely John

title: Good Time

title: Uncut Gems

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: The Ralph Handel Story

title: There's Nothing You Can Do

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Heaven Knows What

title: Good Time

title: Funny Pages

title: Uncut Gems

title: John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island

title: Goldman v Silverman

title: Heartland

title: The Smashing Machine

title: The Smashing Machine

title: Lizard Music

title: Lizard Music

title: Lizard Music

title: Marty Supreme

title: Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall

title: Public Access


Takuzō Kawatani

biography: Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 165 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains.

Aitsu to Ore

overview: Cops solve cases as they travel the country.

original_name: あいつと俺

original_language: ja

前略おふくろ様

original_name: 前略おふくろ様

Izakaya Chōji

overview: The special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small yakitori restaurant.

original_name: 居酒屋兆治

Kokugo Gannen

overview: Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national language used today was created.

original_name: 國語元年

Keishi-K

overview: " Keishi-K " is a detective drama directed and starring Shintaro Katsu. This drama tells the story of Inspector Katsutoshi Gatsu, a hammy detective, as he fights crime.

original_name: 警視-K

Chotchan

overview: The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.

character: 野々村泰輔

original_name: チョッちゃん

Downtown Story

overview: The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singer and hostess at the bar . The bar originally belonged to Yobuko's mother, Ranko, but Ranko committed an assault and is serving time in prison, and the bar now belongs to Tsukiyo. This is the story of the twists and turns of the love story between Yobuko and a poor pastor , Shioya Isaku. The story begins on Christmas Eve, when Isaku helps Yobuko, who is suffering from a miscarriage .

original_name: ダウンタウン物語

Hana no Furu Gogo

overview: Television drama.

original_name: 花の降る午後

悪女Ⅱ　サンテミリオン殺人事件

original_name: 悪女Ⅱ　サンテミリオン殺人事件

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Takuzo Kawatani

biography: Takuzo Kawatani (Changchun, Xina, 21 de juliol de 1941 - Kyoto, Japó, 22 de desembre de 1995) va ser un actor de cinema japonès. Va aparèixer en 56 pel·lícules entre 1967 i 1995.

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title: Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage

overview: The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Matsukichi came to Yokosuka relying on his old friend Mitsuo Nakai from the Nakai gang, but Nakai was killed and the gang disbanded. Matsukichi discovers that the Shimanaka gang is behind everything, and from her the thread reaches the Navy. With the help of grenades and sword, Matsukichi, nicknamed "Bomb Man", sets off a disorderly rampage.

original_title: 前科者 縄張荒し

title: Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

overview: Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebted to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harassed by a gang of thugs. When the harassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒 鉄火場列伝

title: Shogun and His Mistress 2

overview: In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forced to become nuns, which they are not happy to be. The subject is life inside a shogun's harem, and the treatment is again more restrained than in most of the historical pinku eiga films being produced by independents at the time, but the tone of this middle installment in the trilogy is decidedly more grim than that of its predecessor. There's a good deal of abuse and violence on display, as the shogun dies and his concubines are sent to a remote convent to become buddhist nuns. the hysterical nuns are being punished for their transgressions and committing suicide in grand exploitation fashion.

original_title: 続大奥(秘)物語

title: Red Peony Gambler

overview: Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father’s death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.

character: Henchman

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒

title: Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

overview: Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒　お竜参上

title: Student Yakuza

overview: A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.

original_title: 学生やくざ

title: Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!

overview: Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely based on a manga chapter, the film revolves around an alien plot to take over the world.

character: Dayon (voice) / Kemunpasu (voice)

original_title: おそ松くん スイカの星からこんにちわザンス！

title: Eight Men to Kill

overview: The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.

character: Guard

original_title: 賞金首 一瞬八人斬り

title: A Scarred Life

overview: Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someone seeks to fill the seat of power.

original_title: 傷だらけの人生

title: Gambler's Legacy

overview: A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader.

original_title: 渡世人列伝

title: Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

overview: A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.

original_title: 東京－ソウル－バンコック　実録麻薬地帯

title: The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers

overview: A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.

original_title: 極道VSまむし

title: A Kawachi Rascal's Song

overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...

character: Matsutaro Tokuda

original_title: 河内のオッサンの唄

title: Pimp Heaven

overview: Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.

character: Mr Zen

original_title: 喜劇 特出しヒモ天国

title: Yakuza Graveyard

overview: A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

character: Detective Kajiyama

original_title: やくざの墓場　くちなしの花

title: Jeans Blues: No Future

overview: Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.

character: Ishimatsu

original_title: ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派

title: Empire of Passion

overview: In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.

character: Inspector Hotta

original_title: 愛の亡霊

title: The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

overview: The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto  region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet  tough geisha, becomes the boss. But will she be able to confront a yakuza gang trying to  take over the area?

character: Gang member

original_title: 純子引退記念映画 関東緋桜一家

title: Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back

overview: In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is badly injured, and must face his worst enemy in what could be their final showdown.

original_title: 極悪坊主 念仏三段斬り

title: The Kyoto Connection

overview: Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her...

original_title: ポルノの女王 にっぽんSEX旅行

title: Three Gamblers

overview: Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.

character: Prison Guard

original_title: 三人の博徒

title: Death Shadows

overview: Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.

character: Yasuke

original_title: 十手舞

title: Kanto Street Peddlers

overview: Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).

character: Iwase

original_title: 関東テキヤ一家

title: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

overview: Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

character: Sanji

original_title: 雲霧仁左衛門

title: Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

overview: The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiroshi Nawa, who at one point employs rebellious young hood Tsunehiko Watase and Kagawa. Tatsuo Umemiya also shows up as a cool, leather jacket gunman who gains Sugawara’s respect despite playing for the opposing team. What eventually keeps this film from being as good as the first is the loose script that doesn’t really tie all the fun stuff into a coherent package. Much is forgiven however when the last 20 minutes arrives with several visually striking set pieces (including one death scene stylized to the point of ridiculousness) and a terrific final massacre. This was Suzuki’s last contribution to the series; the fifth and final picture would be helmed by Takashi Harada.

character: Kazuo Tsukamoto

original_title: 関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩火祭り

title: Tracked

overview: When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.

title: Heat Wave

overview: Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

title: Virgin Breaker Yuki

overview: Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it's her job to break them in for future clients. The film finds Yuki involved with a group of political rebels and anarchists after the Peace Preservation Law was passed in 1925 and walks a fine line between black humor and severe cruelty.

title: Decapitation of an Evil Woman

overview: An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.

title: The Great Department Store Robbery

title: Kidnapping Blues

overview: A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.

title: The Rapacious Jailbreaker

overview: Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.

title: Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

overview: Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their separate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...

title: For Kayako

overview: A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Sanjun, a Korean.

title: Story of a Nymphomaniac

overview: Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. To even attempt that she first needs to get out of the Buddhist monastery she is working at...

title: Blood of Revenge

overview: Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.

title: Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

overview: Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

original_title: トラック野郎　望郷一番星

title: Hikage-Mono

overview: A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

title: House of Gamblers

overview:
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the head of Tanuma's family, and slaying others along the way, he then surrenders to the law and serves time.
 Before his last year to serve, the head of the Aramasa family falls ill and decides to retire, Ryoji miss chance to be successor, his old friend is reluctant but accepts. Now this gives the Tanuma family a chance for revenge! But with Tomisaburo Wakayama (Sekine) always having your back, how can you go wrong?

title: Woman Mobsters

overview: Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where she meets Yuki, and the two of them manage to escape. Their plan is meet up with the robber who avoided capture, get ahold of the cash, and get for away from the big city.

title: The Man Who Shot the Don

overview: Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.

title: The Dream of Russia

overview: Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

overview: While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

title: Hokui 15° no duo

title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash

overview: Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.

title: The Karate 3

overview: This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take over the Japanese karate organization and will do everything they can to prevent it.

title: Return of the Outlaw

overview: Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

title: Modern Lady Gambler

overview: Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...

title: A Wad of Notes

overview: A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back and saves the town that is becoming run-down from yakuza’s ill deeds.

title: 人妻セックス地獄

title: Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group

overview: A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.

original_title: 恐怖女子高校 不良悶絶グループ

title: Yakuza Law

overview: A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

title: Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder

overview: The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG

title: The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

overview: Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

title: Third Generation Boss

overview: Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

title: Code of Ruffians

overview: Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group.

title: Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit

overview: When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.

title: Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

overview: Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.

title: Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

overview: The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.

title: The High Cost of Virginity

title: Mother

overview: From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five children is living in the Tohoku area. In order to take care of her paralysed husband, the mother has to sacrifice her five children by giving them away. The children has to suffer all the loneliness and hardships that this decision has brought them. 15 years have passed, all five of them have got married. Now, they come to understand that their mother's love for them was the greatest love of all.

title: Short and Fat

overview: A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".

title: Ronin on a Mission

overview: Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi later apologizes privately, revealing that Kira has a decoy and assigning Mori a secret mission to kill the real Kira if necessary. Devastated, Mori finds solace with Okame, a local bar owner. After the ronin avenge their master, Mori, believing their mission complete, plans to leave his samurai life for Okame. However, Terazaka Kichiemon reveals that Kira was not killed but fled, and the decapitated man was a decoy. Mori decides to complete his mission and hunt down the real Kira.

original_title: 忠臣蔵異聞　生きていた吉良上野介

title: The King of Minami: Sweet Trap

overview: #10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover."

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版V 甘い罠

title: The Buddy: Yaji and Kita

overview: Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from masked samurai, and he entrusts them with a secret letter for Saigo Takamori of Satsuma. A shogunate spy, Chizou, overhears and pursues them. Along the way, a pickpocket named Okoma steals their wallet and the letter. When they finally deliver the letter in Satsuma, they realize it was a decoy to mislead the enemy.

title: Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro

overview: Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.

title: Tora-san's Island Encounter

overview: Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and attempts to bring her back to her home. In doing so he encounters a school-reunion group who are traveling to meet their elementary school teacher, which is a reference to the film Twenty-Four Eyes by Keisuke Kinoshita. Tora-san joins them and falls in love with the teacher.

original_title: 男はつらいよ　柴又より愛をこめて

title: River of Fireflies

overview: During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.

title: Goodbye, Flickmania

overview: Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.

original_title: さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー

title: Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

overview: This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

title: Harimao

overview: A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

overview: Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.

original_title: 仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇

title: Guys Who Never Learn

overview: Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

title: Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

overview: Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!

title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad

overview: Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.

title: Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro

overview: Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.

original_title: トラック野郎　突撃一番星

title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

overview: The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日

title: The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

overview: Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

title: The Fancy Man

overview: A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love.

original_title: 史上最大のヒモ　濡れた砂丘

title: Four Days of Snow and Blood

overview: Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

title: The Burmese Harp

overview: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

title: Gambling Den Heist

overview: After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

title: The Yakuza Code Still Lives

overview: After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

title: Doberman Cop

overview: Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grisly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.

title: Cops vs. Thugs

overview: When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.

title: Yakuza of the Present

overview: In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza group from the Kansai region.

title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

overview: Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.

title: Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage

overview: Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.

title: The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

overview: With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity

overview: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

overview: Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

overview: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

overview: The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

title: Shimane Prison Riot

overview: Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence.  He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?

title: The Smart Aleck Ten

original_title: ピラニア軍団　ダボシャツの天

title: Code of Wolves

overview: In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

original_title: 実録飛車角　狼どもの仁義

title: Maji!

overview: Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.

title: Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District

overview: The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows him around. Their love triangle nearly dissolves in Yuki's favour, but takes a sudden turn after an intervention of a perverted painter who believes in fatalism.

original_title: 玉割り人ゆき 西の廓夕月楼

title: Eien no 1/2

overview: An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the local yakuza. - Wikipedia

title: Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

overview: The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in women, but in his new status.

original_title: エロ将軍と二十一人の愛妾

title: The Red Silk Gambler

overview: With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.

title: Yakuza on Foot

overview: An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.

title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

overview: Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

title: Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

overview: Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take over a rustic hot-spring town. Handling a gun and sword as skillfully as a man, Fuji Junko portrays an appealing personality that differs from Oryu in the Red Peony Gambler series.  Tsuruta Koji stars as the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji that tops the list of an impressive all-star cast that includes Endo Tatsuo, Kogure Michiyo, Ashiya Gannosuke, Kitamura Eizo, and many others. This film is an authentic yakuza movie that conveys the true "Matatabi" (wandering gambler) feeling.

title: Girl Boss Guerilla

overview: Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.

title: Code Between Brothers 5

overview: Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.

title: Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

overview: The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒 お命戴きます

title: Return of the Street Fighter

overview: Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.

title: Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

overview: The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒　仁義通します

title: Wicked Priest

overview: During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG

title: The Life of Chikuzan

overview: After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.

title: Aesthetics of a Bullet

overview: A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks on the life of a yakuza hitman.

title: Evil Doers

overview: Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder.  The film details his subsequent attempts to escape.  It's the third and final entry in the "Hiroki Matsukata Toei Jailbreak Trilogy" following Escaped Murderer from Hiroshima Prison (1974) and Riot in Shimane Prison (1975), both directed by Sadao Nakajima.

title: Turtle Geisha

overview: Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There’s also a subplot about a mad scientist type who needs vaginal juices to create a potion designed to turn Japanese girls black.

title: The Three Ginza Rascals

overview: Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.

title: Silk Hat Boss

overview: In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.

title: The Silk Hat Boss 2

overview: The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

original_title: シルクハットの大親分　ちょび髭の熊

title: Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

overview: Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

title: Operation Plazma in Osaka

overview: Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

title: Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On

original_title: 河内のオッサンの唄　よう来たのワレ

title: Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

overview: A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.

title: The Street Fighter

overview: Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

title: The Pledge

overview: When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.

title: Eleven Samurai

overview: The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sentenced to be disbanded. Eleven of the best samurai of the clan refuse the sentence and are willing to give their life for justice.

title: A Lively Geisha

overview: Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his aid, and thus repay a debt that's long overdue.

title: Heiji, the Detective

overview: Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro.

title: The Biggest Gamble

overview: When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.

title: Crane

overview: Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife...

title: Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

overview: The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a nihilistic ronin on the verge of self destruction. Blood gushes and limbs fly for anyone who stands against Saburai as he instills the Way of the Bohachi.

title: Momotarō Zamurai III

overview: Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must now wage a furious battle against the terrible “Ran” clan, villains in league with Ohara Ukon, a bitter samurai nursing a grudge against the shogunate. Together the ruthless conspirators will threaten the foundations of shogunate rule over Japan. Only the relentless slashing sword of Momotaro may save the nation from the Ran clan's army of killers.

title: Company Buggers

overview: Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

title: A Yakuza Goes Home

overview: Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!

title: Sure Death! 3

overview: Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series.  Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.

title: The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

overview: Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.

original_title: まむしの兄弟　恐喝三億円

title: Succession

overview: A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremony.

title: Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments

overview: As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, a master killer thirsting for revenge.

title: Gamblers: The Raid

title: Scoundrel Boss

overview: Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and a urinary treatment business, and put it on track, but each time, they are caught in the ploy of a money lender, Sumitomo Mitsui, who works a scam, and take over the management rights, and they are taken away, and they are satisfied with the employees of Toyo Kogyo led by Mitsui.  Mitsui, who embarked on a multi-corner management, acquired the rights to the long-awaited cabaret "Ryokumiya" and led the store to a great prosperity by introducing the limited service "Jungle Bump". However, due to the informant of Yamawaki Kogyo, which runs a rival store, 'Ryokumiya' was suspended from business, and hostesses and boys were pulled out one after another.

title: The Third Gangster

overview: A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decide whether to disband his dwindling gang or fight.

title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General

overview: The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing their true nature.

title: The Tattooed Hitman

overview: The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?

original_title: 山口組外伝　九州進攻作戦

title: The Silk Hat Boss 2

original_title: シルクハットの大親分　ちょび髭の熊

title: Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

overview: A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town’s businesses, murders him, Oryu is obliged to protect his children and business.

title: Baian the Assassin: Showdown

overview:
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly eliminate those whose existence is deemed toxic to society. Baian's latest target, assigned by his boss Otowa, is Shirakoya Kikuemon, the head of a powerful organization in Osaka.
 In the past, Baian had been indebted to Shirakoya, but due to a conflict involving the swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō, their relationship has turned adversarial. After his lover is abducted, Shirakoya storms into Edo. With his life now targeted, Baian resolves to confront Shirakoya in a desperate final showdown.

original_title: 仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決

title: Dangerous Trade in Kobe

overview: Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.

title: Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

original_title: 幕末青春グラフィティ Ronin 坂本竜馬

title: Deer Friend

title: Kimi ga kagayaku toki

overview: A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.

title: Oxen Split Torturing

overview: Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.

original_title: 徳川女刑罰絵巻　牛裂きの刑

title: Samurai Geisha

overview: Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. A stellar all-star cast, a thrilling story, and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, make this a classic Yakuza movie!

title: Killer's Mission

overview: Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...

title: Fate Deals the Card of Death

overview: Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.

title: A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

overview: President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime groups based in Osaka to war it out and order the Shima to the Onishi group of the branch to expand the territory. Now members of the same yakuza gang are forced to fight each other over territory and honor.

original_title: 傷だらけの人生　古い奴でござんす

title: Let's Shoot Ridiculously

overview: Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a member of the Mutsumi Imai Federation

title: Haruka, Nostalgia

overview: Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name.

title: The Viper Brothers

overview: After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets of Kobe to make a name for themselves amongst the local yakuza organization.

title: The Man Who Became The Don

title: The Protector

overview: Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the business, Mine is put to the ultimate test when a former gangster sets his sights on closing her down.

title: The Man

title: Japanese Humanity and Justice

overview: When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

title: A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers

overview: When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.

title: Kigeki kazoku dōmei

title: Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

overview: Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.

original_title: 女渡世人　おたの申します

title: Japan Organized Crime Boss

overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.

title: 本日ただいま誕生

title: Rainbow Bridge

overview: Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement house.

title: Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage

title: Shogun and His Mistress 2

title: Red Peony Gambler

title: Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

title: Student Yakuza

original_title: おそ松くん スイカの星からこんにちわザンス！

title: Eight Men to Kill

title: A Scarred Life

title: Gambler's Legacy

title: Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

original_title: 東京－ソウル－バンコック　実録麻薬地帯

title: The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers

title: A Kawachi Rascal's Song

title: Pimp Heaven

title: Yakuza Graveyard

original_title: やくざの墓場　くちなしの花

title: Jeans Blues: No Future

original_title: ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派

title: Empire of Passion

title: The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

original_title: 純子引退記念映画 関東緋桜一家

title: The Kyoto Connection

original_title: ポルノの女王 にっぽんSEX旅行

title: Three Gamblers

title: Death Shadows

title: Kanto Street Peddlers

title: Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

original_title: 関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩火祭り

title: Tracked

title: Heat Wave

title: Virgin Breaker Yuki

title: Decapitation of an Evil Woman

title: The Great Department Store Robbery

title: Kidnapping Blues

title: The Rapacious Jailbreaker

title: Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

title: For Kayako

title: Story of a Nymphomaniac

title: Blood of Revenge

title: Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

original_title: トラック野郎　望郷一番星

title: Hikage-Mono

title: House of Gamblers

title: Woman Mobsters

title: The Man Who Shot the Don

title: The Dream of Russia

title: Hokui 15° no duo

title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash

title: The Karate 3

title: Return of the Outlaw

title: Modern Lady Gambler

title: A Wad of Notes

title: 人妻セックス地獄

original_title: 恐怖女子高校 不良悶絶グループ

title: Yakuza Law

title: Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder

title: The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

title: Third Generation Boss

title: Code of Ruffians

title: Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit

title: The High Cost of Virginity

title: Mother

title: Short and Fat

title: Ronin on a Mission

original_title: 忠臣蔵異聞　生きていた吉良上野介

title: The King of Minami: Sweet Trap

original_title: 難波金融伝 ミナミの帝王 劇場版V 甘い罠

title: The Buddy: Yaji and Kita

title: Tora-san's Island Encounter

original_title: 男はつらいよ　柴又より愛をこめて

title: River of Fireflies

title: Goodbye, Flickmania

original_title: さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー

title: Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

title: Harimao

original_title: 仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇

title: Guys Who Never Learn

title: Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad

original_title: トラック野郎　突撃一番星

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日

title: The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

title: The Fancy Man

original_title: 史上最大のヒモ　濡れた砂丘

title: Doberman Cop

title: Cops vs. Thugs

title: Gambling Den Heist

title: Four Days of Snow and Blood

title: The Burmese Harp

title: The Yakuza Code Still Lives

title: Yakuza of the Present

title: Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage

title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity

original_title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長の首

title: Shimane Prison Riot

title: The Smart Aleck Ten

original_title: ピラニア軍団　ダボシャツの天

title: Maji!

title: Code of Wolves

original_title: 実録飛車角　狼どもの仁義

original_title: 玉割り人ゆき 西の廓夕月楼

title: Eien no 1/2

title: Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

original_title: エロ将軍と二十一人の愛妾

title: The Red Silk Gambler

title: Yakuza on Foot

title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

title: Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

title: Girl Boss Guerilla

title: Code Between Brothers 5

title: Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒 お命戴きます

title: Return of the Street Fighter

title: Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

original_title: 緋牡丹博徒　仁義通します

title: Wicked Priest

title: The Life of Chikuzan

title: Aesthetics of a Bullet

title: Evil Doers

title: Turtle Geisha

title: The Three Ginza Rascals

title: Silk Hat Boss

title: The Silk Hat Boss 2

original_title: シルクハットの大親分　ちょび髭の熊

title: Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

title: Operation Plazma in Osaka

title: Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On

original_title: 河内のオッサンの唄　よう来たのワレ

title: Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

title: The Street Fighter

title: The Pledge

title: Eleven Samurai

title: A Lively Geisha

title: Heiji, the Detective

title: The Biggest Gamble

title: Crane

title: Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

title: Momotarō Zamurai III

title: Company Buggers

title: A Yakuza Goes Home

title: Sure Death! 3

title: The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

original_title: まむしの兄弟　恐喝三億円

title: Succession

title: Gamblers: The Raid

title: Scoundrel Boss

title: The Third Gangster

title: The Tattooed Hitman

original_title: 山口組外伝　九州進攻作戦

title: Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

title: The Silk Hat Boss 2

original_title: シルクハットの大親分　ちょび髭の熊

title: Baian the Assassin: Showdown

original_title: 仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決

title: Dangerous Trade in Kobe

original_title: 幕末青春グラフィティ Ronin 坂本竜馬

title: Deer Friend

title: Kimi ga kagayaku toki

title: Oxen Split Torturing

original_title: 徳川女刑罰絵巻　牛裂きの刑

title: Samurai Geisha

title: Killer's Mission

title: Fate Deals the Card of Death

title: A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

original_title: 傷だらけの人生　古い奴でござんす

title: Let's Shoot Ridiculously

title: Haruka, Nostalgia

title: The Viper Brothers

title: The Man Who Became The Don

title: The Protector

title: The Man

title: Japanese Humanity and Justice

title: Kigeki kazoku dōmei

title: Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

original_title: 女渡世人　おたの申します

title: Japan Organized Crime Boss

title: 本日ただいま誕生

title: Rainbow Bridge

悪女Ⅱ　サンテミリオン殺人事件

original_name: 悪女Ⅱ　サンテミリオン殺人事件


Leonard Retel Helmrich

biography: Leonard Retel Helmrich is a Dutch filmmaker who worked as a drama director and cameraman in the Netherlands before going to Indonesia to make a series of documentaries that have won awards world wide. His most famous film Shape Of The Moon won Best Documentary in the World Docs Competition at Sundance 2005 as well as at the International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in 2004.

Nederlands

iso_639_1: nl

iso_3166_1: BE

english_name: Dutch

Latviešu

iso_639_1: lv

iso_3166_1: LV

english_name: Latvian

job: Editor

title: Burp!

overview: A hooker is stranded at a bustop, and a man crashes his car next to a phonebooth there. The hooker is attacked by punks, but fends them off; the man is attacked by the phone, and doesn't fare as well.

department: Editing

original_title: Burp!

original_language: nl

job: Director

title: Position Among the Stars

overview: Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indonesia and the influence of globalization reflected in the life of her juvenile granddaughter Tari and her sons Bakti and Dwi.

department: Directing

original_title: Stand van de sterren

original_language: id

job: Camera Operator

title: Position Among the Stars

department: Camera

title: The Eye of the Day

original_title: Stand van de zon

title: The Eye of the Day

title: Shape of the Moon

overview: Three generations of one family weather the challenges of living in modern-day Indonesia, the largest Muslim community on the globe.

original_title: Stand van de maan

title: Shape of the Moon

job: Cinematography

title: Beautiful Crazy

overview: Three young girls on their way to adulthood. Xiao-Bu fights over a cigarette with her friend Angel. Ah-Mi sleeps with Xiao-Bu’s boyfriend. He is very popular and lets Angel steal a kiss. Can it get any worse? Life with a depressive, alcoholic father, who can only stare out of the window, for example. Or is it actually worse when dove excrements ruin the new dress that was supposed to be worn on the date with a handsome guy? When you are 17, a coin can still be thrown in order to make decisions. Should the friendship with Angel remain? Is everything that happened a coincidence? Adolescence without emotional chaos is like a life without reason. Is it really of importance who loves who the most, or is it just a game?

department: Crew

original_title: 乱青春

original_language: zh

title: Raw Herring

overview: Every year millions of people look forward to the first preparation of Hollandse Nieuwe, the popular snack of raw herring from the North Sea’s spring catch. But how do you find glory in the grueling pursuit of a once-iconic fish that even the queen no longer accepts as definitively Dutch? Raw Herring celebrates the cultural legacy maintained by Holland’s last great herring fishers even as new trends and foreign competition threaten their way of life.

original_title: Hollandse Nieuwe

original_language: en

job: Director of Photography

title: Raw Herring

title: Moving Objects

overview: “Moving objects” are the subject of this film, a portrait of six Dutch theater groups that make performances with puppets and other objects. Manipulation and creating illusions is their profession. For them, the visual aspect of theater making is of great importance. These theater makers all have a special relationship with fine arts, they often use theater as a complement to express themselves. This form of theater has a great variety: from traditional to contemporary visual art events and everything in between. However, the starting point is always the same: bringing objects to life. By following theater makers with the camera - before, during and after the performance - we get to see things that otherwise we would never get to see: improvisations, dilemmas, the carpentry and construction. The film confronts the audience with the ingenuity of the performers and explores the genre through observation and dialogue.

original_title: Moving Objects

title: Contractpensions - Djangan loepah!

overview: When Indonesia became independent after WW II, many Indonesian Dutchmen repatriated to the Netherlands. They were temporarily put up in contract pensions. They did not really feel welcome.

original_title: Contractpensions - Djangan loepah!

title: Het Phoenix Mysterie

original_title: Het Phoenix Mysterie

title: Het Phoenix Mysterie

title: Promised Paradise

overview: Using performance to inspire critical reflection, Promised Paradise delivers fascinating and revealing insight into the social and religious undercurrents dominating Indonesian society today and the Muslim world at large.

original_title: Promised Paradise

title: The Long Season

overview: A documentary by renowned filmmaker Leonard Retel Helmrich about life in Majdal Anjar, a Syrian camp in Lebanon. The film takes us inside and shows what daily life is like for those whose lives are postponed and waiting to return to Raqqa.

original_title: The Long Season

job: Executive Producer

title: Tarling is Darling

overview: The film tells a story of a Tarling Dangdut songwriter who loves being promiscuous but trying to serve an order to write religious Tarling dangdut song.

department: Production

original_title: Tarling is Darling

title: Position Among the Stars

title: Vrouwen van vandaag

original_title: Vrouwen van vandaag

place_of_birth: Tilburg

title: Burp!

media_type: movie

title: Position Among the Stars

title: Position Among the Stars

title: The Eye of the Day

title: The Eye of the Day

title: Shape of the Moon

title: Shape of the Moon

title: Beautiful Crazy

title: Raw Herring

title: Raw Herring

title: Moving Objects

title: Contractpensions - Djangan loepah!

title: Het Phoenix Mysterie

title: Het Phoenix Mysterie

title: Promised Paradise

title: The Long Season

title: Tarling is Darling

title: Position Among the Stars

title: Vrouwen van vandaag