Masatoshi Takase Movies

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

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...

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military...

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the...

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment...

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual...

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Japanese crime film

“Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about...

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...