Tamio Kawaji Movies

Tokyo Drifter

73/100

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Youth of the Beast

76/100

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Daikyojû Gappa

39/100

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is ... See full summary »

Story of a Prostitute

74/100

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Cruel Gun Story

72/100

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

The Warped Ones

71/100

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards!

69/100

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Black Sun

69/100

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

Everything Goes Wrong

71/100

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

The Flowers and the Angry Waves

68/100

Another subversion of audience expectations has Kobayashi acting somewhat cowardly in the snow-bound final showdown, an unheard-of trait in a ninkyô yakuza hero. Also with Tamio Kawaji as a sword-wielding assassin in Zero-cape-and -hat(!)

Retaliation

69/100

Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, ... See full summary »

Outlaw: Gangster V.I.P.

72/100

The film stars Tetsuya Watari who plays Goro, a gangster who was sent to prison for three years for stabbing a hitman (Machida Kyosuke) who belonged to the rival gang called the Aokis. On ... See full summary »

Outlaw: Black Dagger

65/100

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is in the middle of action.

Kawachi Karumen

74/100

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school...

Teenage Yakuza

58/100

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

Hissatsu shikakenin

76/100

An assassin reconnects with his past while his friend desires change.

The Choice of a Family: I'll Kill Your Husband for You

A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past.

Bodo shimane keimusho

65/100

Ore ni kaketa yatsura

77/100

Gokudo VS Mamushi

48/100

Return of the Vagabond

46/100

Jotei