Akira Shioji Movies

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE),four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The fil...

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When...

Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The seco...

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

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home t...

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

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

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart,...

We find Reiko Ike once again cast as a tough schoolgirl who has to band together with her enemies to upset the reign of their private Catholic high sc...

The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by siniste...

Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on...

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

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

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 ra...

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Film with Junko Miyazono.

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own, none...

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

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