Ryōhei Uchida Movies

A blockbuster youth action film based on the serialized novel in Nikkan Sports by Yoshirō Akinaga, now adapted for the screen.

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

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

1965 youth / yakuza film

A sequel to Ohana han.

1970 Toei movie.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and...

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen....

1962 Japanese movie

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...

Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

Historical action film about the struggle for gold of two feudal clans in the Edo period.

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

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...