Otomo, the former boss of the yakuza, is now working in South Korea as a fixer for Mr. Chang. He was able to survive the war between Hanabishi and Sanno…
The cybernetics technology created by Hanka Robotics Corporation, owned by Cutter, will allow human organs to be enhanced in the future. Dr. Ouelet was responsible for developing secret project 2571,…
Welcome to Battle Royale. Forty-two students. Three days. One deserted island. An international group of Japanese ninth grade students have been ordered by law to participate in Battle Royale. Students…
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run,…
An exiled Japanese Yakuza gangster has been sent to the United States. Takeshi moves to Los Angeles with his half-brother, a Japanese Yakuza gangster. He finds it difficult to adjust…
Kikujiro is a loudmouthed, opportunistic and brazen little boy who wants to visit his mother, Masao, long distances. The first adventure for this unlikely couple is to visit the cycles…
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he…
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an…
As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. —Production
In 1942 British soldier Jack Celliers comes to a Japanese prison camp. The camp is run by Yonoi, who has a firm belief in discipline, honor and glory. In his…
The plot concerns a struggle for power amongst Tokyo's Yakuza clans, today just as likely to be playing the stock market as shaking down pachinko parlors, over which the Sanmo-kai…
A world-weary yakuza in Tokyo is assigned to take his clan to Okinawa to help settle a dispute between two factions. He's suspicious of the assignment, but he goes, and…
Nishi, a police detective, has had to deal with a series of emotionally devastating events over the recent past. His only child, then preschool age, died two years ago. His…
Two members of a Japanese junior baseball team get mixed up with the local yakuza. After their coach is severely injured by the gangsters, the two boys set off to…
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sachiko keeps supporting…
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete his latest project.