Akira Shioji Movies

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....

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

A comedy about the lives of people living in the shopping district of Osaka.

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...

Japanese movie.

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.

These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite...

The second part of the Gamblers series.

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.