The best Hitoshi Ozawa’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hitoshi Ozawa’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Hitoshi Ozawa.
Boiling Point
6.8/10
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Dead or Alive
6.7/10
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to bring it down.
Gozu
6.9/10
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.
Conflict
Tendokai's Washio Kazuma, the underboss of Japan's largest crime syndicate, goes on the warpath when his blood brother and family turn up dead.
Tokyo Dragon Chef
6.6/10
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld once more!
Conflict III
Washio now reigns as boss of Tendokai, but a deal over casino operating rights ignites a fierce war with a hostile faction in the Kansai region.
Conflict II
When Tendokai's headquarters are attacked, underboss Washio Kazuma orders his trusted lieutenant to investigate a possible mole inside the family.
Another Battle
6.7/10
While the film is a remake of the original Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, it has no direct similarities. Set in Osaka, it focuses on former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu as their lives cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with a distaste for crime gangs. When a yakuza boss dies, a struggle for his position takes place between Kaneo's boss Awano and the young Nakahira. Nakahira's men try to extort money from Masatatsu, bringing him in between a yakuza battle.
Kizu
Dogfight: Stray Dogs' Elegy
A cocaine deal is about to go down between yakuza and Hong Kong triad gangsters and a small time porn peddler is used as a mole by a dirty cop.
Wild Criminal
5.9/10
Tomoyo was the lover of Udo, a leading member of the Japanese mafia. When Udo disappears with a bundle of dirty money, she is a suspected accomplice. tomoyo is a woman who has always depended on men, and she often sleeps with them in order to survive. Yuki spent all her time around dangerous men, until her luck finally ran out. Beaten, raped and left in the trunk of a car, she ends up overhearing Udo as he assassinates his fellow mafia agents. Yuki is a woman who has always confronted men, and she often spills blood in order to survive. Thrown together by chance, Tomoyo and Yuki must work together, or die at the hands of the syndicate. They're always ready to love, always read to kill, and never ready to trust.
Waru
5.1/10
A former gangster gets released from prison and goes to work for a group of people. The leader of this group becomes his mentor and the fight to combat criminals and for world peace. The whole resulting in the wanted and are chased of all families mob in Japan. They may however be a little unexpected help from the police.
Lady Yakuza: Final
Based on the bestselling memoir - Yakuza Moon - by Shoko Tendo. The author stars as herself in the film adaptation of her tumultuous life as the daughter of a Yakuza boss, chronicling her many battles with drug addiction and domestic abuse. Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuji.
Unfinished
The yakuza have their best days behind them and are only a shadow of themselves. The old rituals seem out of date and their tattoos make them outcasts of society. The inexperienced student Ryō stumbles into their ranks by chance, and before he knows it, he becomes entangled in dark machinations. He quickly succumbs to the fascination of omnipotence fantasies and hedonistic decadence and sinks deeper and deeper into a parallel world of prostitution, blackmail and violence. However, there is one thing that Ryō has not considered in his naivety: once yakuza, always yakuza!
A Sniper's Woman
Noriko is an ex-prostitute married to Satake, a charismatic, wise-cracking lady-loving Yakuza. But when Satake is called upon to murder a rival, Noriko must take up the mantle to lead his gang.
Shinjuku Wolf
The name of the legendary fighter 'Toshi Toshi', Mr. Yoshino Masatoshi (Ozawa Hitoshi) in the Shinjuku business center, Shinjuku Kabuki-cho, legendary fighter, was roaring. Every day a tag litter of various places attacks a lone wolf Toshi. For such Toshi, only Toryokubai group manager Tanahashi group Tadashi Bashi (Shakuya) who used Shinjuku as a root founded his eyes. Toshi, who decided to live as a chorus, decides to live as a choreographer, making a fighting partner in the Gong Faction era as a brotherly son, and expanding its power as a fighter group.
Kizu to Okite 3
This is the sequel to the previous work Kizu to Okite 2 one year ago. Anzai Mikoto came to a jazz club operated by Sinkai Yuuzi, to listen to the performance of Pianist Namura Miyako, who had been in love with him since she was young. However, one day, Mishima went to the jazz club. He listened to Miyako's performance and fell in love with her soon. He had been pursuing Miyako since then. Miyako gradually felt attracted to Mishima too. Anzai noticed some of her strange behaviors, and asked his team member to investigate...
Lady Yakuza
Based on the bestselling memoir - Yakuza Moon - by Shoko Tendo. The author stars as herself in the film adaptation of her tumultuous life as the daughter of a Yakuza boss, chronicling her many battles with drug addiction and domestic abuse. Directed by Hiroyuki Tsuji.
Bond of Bloodshed: BROS
Kyokutokai from the yakuza clan Samurai Domon and Jack Davao from the Philippine Mafia , who were once raised as brothers and fought together. However, the organizations are in conflict with each other over the route of drug smuggling in the Philippines. The samurai and Jack became enemies staring at each other. And finally, the lives of the two men who were once bound in a deep bond now collide violently! Domon, a Japanese yakuza, and Jack, a Filipino mob, who once fought together and considered each other brothers. However, it shows the two fighting in a terrible conflict.
Waru: The End
6/10
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
