Tatsuo Endō Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

A yakuza family goes into show business.

The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil...

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.

Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A...

Japanese movie.

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

1966 Toei Comedy

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.

Part two.

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....

The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the...