Mikio Narita

Matsu is sheltered by an incestuous prostitute on her run from the police, her ex-prison mate and a cop whose arm she hacked off.

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to escalate.

Hanzo discovers a conspiracy by high ranking officials to use the shogunate's money for loans to the impoverished and forcing them into debt.

A man tries to adapt to life outside of prison, but it proves difficult when an all-out war between the Yakuza and the mainland system breaks out.

Four ex-samurai are hired to hunt down deadly ninja infiltrators plotting to destroy the Matsuyama clan in this remake of the 1964 classic.

Merchant Daitokuya controls Kaga and schemes to rule Japan, but Shusui moves to stop him, uncovering Oyumi’s true origin and a secret rebellion plot.

Sawatari Shusui travels to Hachijo Island on a quest for truth after saving a geisha from a ninja attack, unaware of the danger that awaits him.

The celebrated Battles Without Honour and Humanity series continues with its second episode, Hiroshima Death Match, setting aside part one protagonist Shôzô Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) to follow a side story showcasing genre icons Sonny Chiba (The Street Fighter) and Meiko Kaji (Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion). Hiroshima, 1950. Demobilised kamikaze pilot Shôji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaôji) is released from prison and finds himself hungry and broke. Following a bust up with a local gang, he earns the psychotic wrath of local underboss Ôtomo (Chiba), but Yamanaka’s suicidal impulses are soon put to good use as a hitman for another gang, befriending series hero Shôzô Hirono in the process. Despite a budding but forbidden romance with the boss’s niece (Kaji), Yamanaka’s instability and recklessness soon begin to make him a dangerous liability. Taking an even more fatalistic turn than the series’ original entry, Hiroshima Death Match tells the story of the ultimate loser, based on a true story uncovered by screenwriter Kazuo Kasahara while interviewing real-life Hiroshima yakuza for part one. A prosperous era may be dawning for the protagonists, but one with new characters and new grudges to draw them more deeply into its world of blood and betrayal.

Chiba exacts his revenge for the setup that sent him to prison by attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in a no-holds barred massacre.

A fortune teller’s prophecy mounts a rivalry among clan leaders to wed the beauty Ukio in order to rule the world—and only ninja Jotaro can stop them.

The leader of a planet on the verge of annihilation sends a princess on a journey into space to find the eight warriors who can defeat an evil empire.