Joe Shishido Movies

Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets...

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...

A young yakuza just released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, a police inspector determined to clean up the corruption in his own hometown,...

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

The beast that lives in a cool man is awakening now!

Osaka, 1993. Sunagawa, assistant to the Morita Family underboss, proposes the establishment of a "Commercial Mutual Aid Association" as a future...

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...

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

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

1962 Japanese movie

Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival...

1959 Japanese movie

Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud.