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The following are lists of films produced in Japan in the 1970s: List of Japanese films of 1970; List of Japanese films of 1971; List of Japanese films of 1972; List of Japanese films of 1973; List of Japanese films of 1974; List of Japanese films of 1975; List of Japanese films of 1976; List of Japanese films of 1977; List of Japanese films of ...
Yakuza film (Japanese: ヤクザ映画, Hepburn: Yakuza eiga) is a popular film genre in Japanese cinema which focuses on the lives and dealings of yakuza, Japanese organized crime syndicates. In the silent film era, depictions of bakuto (precursors to modern yakuza) as sympathetic Robin Hood -like characters were common.
D. Daimon Otokode Shinitai; Dangan Runner; Darc (film) Dead or Alive (1999 film) Dead or Alive 2: Birds; Dead or Alive: Final; Deadly Outlaw: Rekka; Deliver Us from Evil (2020 film)
Japanese The Akumyō ( 悪名 , "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films based on the novel by Tōkō Kon. [ 1 ] starring Shintarō Katsu and Jirō Tamiya [ Wikidata ] , [ 2 ] produced between 1960 and 1974.
The Japanese Filmography: 1900 through 1994. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-0032-3. Galbraith IV, Stuart (1994). Japanese Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. McFarland. ISBN 0-89950-853-7. Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
Street Mobster, known in Japan as Gendai Yakuza: Hitokiri Yota (現代やくざ 人斬り与太), is a 1972 Japanese yakuza film directed by Kinji Fukasaku and starring Bunta Sugawara and Noboru Ando. It is the sixth installment in Toei's Gendai Yakuza series of unrelated films by
Called Ryū ga Gotoku 8 in Japan, this is the first main series game in the West to use the Like a Dragon title instead of Yakuza, due to the events of the game prior.
[5] [6] According to yakuza film historian Akihiko Ito, Toei producer Koji Shundo conceived the idea to set the film against the social background of Japan's then-current high economic growth period in order to depart from the ninkyo eiga subgenre. [6] It was Shundo who cast Wakayama and Ando and chose Fukasaku to direct because of his style. [6]