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- DirectorKihachi OkamotoStarsYûnosuke ItôFubuki KoshijiIchirô NakataniFilmed as a traditional Japanese play, a yakuza boss is released from prison, but finds his gang usurped by a shady politician. With the help of his former cell mate he decides to assassinate the politician with an explosive pen.
- DirectorKenjirô MorinagaStarsFumiko AritaEimei EsumiToyo Fukuda
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsKinnosuke NakamuraTetsurô TanbaYoshiko MitaAfter killing a high-ranking officer in an illegal duel, a low-ranking samurai is declared insane and challenged to a fixed duel by the vengeful clan to which his dead opponent belonged to.
- DirectorBuichi SaitôStarsMitsuo HamadaSayuri YoshinagaChishû RyûMiko meets Mako when she was hospitalized for a bone cancer. They start writing to each other and continue to do it after she is hospitalized again.
- DirectorMio EzakiStarsSatoshi YamauchiTôru AbeEmiko Azuma
- DirectorMichio KonishiStarsMakoto FujitaYoshiko MitaKeiko FujitaAfter losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsYûjirô IshiharaRuriko AsaokaHideaki NitaniA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.
- DirectorTaizô NanbuStarsYôko Asahi
- DirectorShôhei ImamuraStarsMasumi HarukawaKô NishimuraShigeru TsuyuguchiA housewife living under her tyrannical husband has her life stressfully turned upside down after getting raped by a burglar.
- DirectorHiromichi HorikawaStarsTsutomu YamazakiMichiyo AratamaKyôko KishidaA Japanese detective, Kikuchi, is framed for a murder and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency to investigate his case and investigates Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm whom is really a crime lord responsible for Kikuchi's imprisionment and now sets sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsShintarô KatsuJirô TamiyaYukiji Asaoka
- DirectorShirô ToyodaStarsMachiko KyôKeiji SadaJunko Ikeuchi
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsMasayoshi NogamiKunimi Yashiro
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsTetsurô TanbaShima IwashitaEiji OkadaIn 1863, when Americans warships approach Japan, a enigmatic ronin becomes a important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.
- DirectorKiyoshi KomoriStarsMisa MoriYukari SaijôKen Sugiyama
- DirectorKôji ShimaStarsIsao BitôShizuo ChûjôRoland Hanna
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsHajime HanaHiroshi InuzukaShima Iwashita
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsHajime HanaMiyuki KuwanoToyo Fujiwara
- DirectorTai KatôStarsSumiko FujiChôichirô KawarasakiIsao KimuraA headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but as his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsRaizô IchikawaKôichi AiharaIchirô AmanoA peasant becomes a gambler for the Yakuza.
- DirectorJun FukudaStarsAkira TakaradaYôsuke NatsukiMakoto Satô
- DirectorTaizô NanbuStarsGanta E. VichakAngela Ushii
- DirectorKôji SekiStarsMiyoko KuroiwaShin NanaokaKeiko Tachibana
- DirectorTatsuo AsanoStarsHisashi Yokomori
- DirectorEiichi KudôStarsTakayuki AkutagawaKôtarô SatomiChôichirô KawarasakiA Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
- DirectorToshikazu KônoStarsKôtarô SatomiKôji NanbaraTôru AbeKai Provence, 1572, the Warring States period, Takeda Shingen wants Oda Nobunaga's head. Nobunaga's Iga spies want the head of Takeda's most notorious spy, Chidoken.
- DirectorSeiichirô UchikawaStarsIsamu NagatoTetsurô TanbaShima IwashitaThe adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain.
- DirectorKon IchikawaStarsShintarô KatsuChiemi EriEiji FunakoshiToo bad it so to find.
- DirectorKazuo MoriStarsShintarô KatsuYukiji AsaokaMiwa Takada
- DirectorTakaharu SaekiStarsMinoru ÔkiChisako HaraKeiji Takagi
- DirectorTadashi ImaiStarsYoshiko SakumaShôichi OzawaRentarô MikuniGonsuke has had to leave town to find employment and is working at a sake brewery far from his hometown. He travels back to his hometown to see and be with his mother when he hears that she has fallen ill. Despite the urgency he is sidetracked when he comes across a married woman called Oshin.
- DirectorMichael AndersonStarsYul BrynnerRichard WidmarkGeorge ChakirisA flight crew tries to save the survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of Japan during a raging typhoon.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsKanako MichiMikio Terashima
- DirectorYasuzô MasumuraStarsYûnosuke ItôEiji FunakoshiTarô Marui
- DirectorShigeo TanakaStarsMachiko KyôEiji FunakoshiTamao Nakamura
- DirectorKô NakahiraStarsMariko KagaAkira NakaoYasukiyo UmenoYuka is a "good-time girl" from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
- DirectorYoshitarô NomuraStarsShima IwashitaYoshi KatôSachiko HidariA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsHashizô ÔkawaChiezô KataokaTetsurô TanbaA new prisoner arrives at a prison where the prisoners have their own obscene culture. There he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault.
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsMikio TerashimaKyôko ÔgimachiAtsuko Kô
- DirectorYasuki ChibaStarsHisaya MorishigeYuriko HoshiDaisuke Katô
- DirectorTetsuji TakechiStarsKanako MichiAkira IshihamaChôjûrô HanakawaWhile under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.
- DirectorKajirô YamamotoStarsHitoshi UekiKei TaniHajime Hana
- DirectorSeijun SuzukiStarsEimei EsumiChieko MisakiKeisuke NoroAnother 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(!)
- DirectorShunkai MizuhoStarsKen UtsuiJun FujimakiYukiko Fuji
- DirectorNozomu YanaseStarsJô ShishidoRyôji HayamaA one-off revival of the 'Joe-of- Aces' series starring Shishido.
- DirectorToshio SugieStarsHibari MisoraChiemi EriIzumi YukimuraPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater.
- DirectorSadatsugu MatsudaStarsRyûtarô ÔtomoSatomi OkaKikuko Hôjô
- DirectorKengo FurusawaStarsHitoshi UekiMie HamaHajime Hana
- DirectorKei MiyaguchiStarsAkemi NishiMichiko SakyôNaoya Hosokawa
- DirectorYôji YamadaStarsHajime HanaShima IwashitaTokue Hanazawa
- DirectorTeruo IshiiStarsKen TakakuraNaoki SugiuraYukiji Asaoka
- DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsKen TakakuraTetsurô TanbaIsao YamagataIn a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.
- DirectorYoshinori WadaStarsRikiya YasuokaAnnu MariMinori TeradaMixed-race children in Japan become involved in the petty theft of car parts.
- DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsChiezô KataokaMichiyo KogureTatsuo UmemiyaChiezo Kataoka is a gangster boss who barely escapes an assassination attempt by Toru Abe's evil gang. A gang battle ensues.
- DirectorSatoru KobayashiStarsChikako MakiReiko HaraAkemi Nishi
- DirectorKaizô AkiyamaStarsKyôko ÔgimachiJirô ArikawaYû Kodaka
- DirectorYoshio InoueStarsYoshihiko AoyamaMichiko ArakiYasuo Araki
- DirectorMasaki KobayashiStarsRentarô MikuniMichiyo AratamaMisako WatanabeA collection of four Japanese folk tales with supernatural themes.
- DirectorShigeo TanakaStarsKen UtsuiKyôko EnamiYukiko Fuji
- DirectorMasuo MaedaStarsHiroyuki NagatoYuri HaseYûnosuke Itô
- DirectorShigehiro OzawaStarsBin AmatsuTatsuo EndôKikuko HôjôA film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.
- DirectorMasuichi IizukaStarsMinoru ÔkiShin'ichi Chiba
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsJô ShishidoKen YamauchiTamio KawajiA rambunctious, rough-and-tumble tale of a rowdy trio (Shishido, Kawaji,Yamauchi) of gambling bumpkins belonging to a rural yakuza clan. Much humor.
- DirectorToshio MasudaStarsJô ShishidoKen YamauchiTamio Kawaji
- DirectorKôji WakamatsuStarsYukiko MitsuiKôji SatomiKyôko Miyamura
- DirectorMasahiro ShinodaStarsRyô IkebeMariko KagaTakashi FujikiA gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
- DirectorKiyoshi KomoriStarsMisa MoriShûji KawabeJun Funaki
- DirectorTai KatôStarsHashizô ÔkawaHiroko SakuramachiNaoko KuboHired on a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in the center of a conspiracy looking to unearth a mythical clan and their hidden gold.