The best Ryōji Hayama’s drama movies

Ryōji Hayama

Ryōji Hayama

09/11/1932- 03/01/1993
Today we present the best Ryōji Hayama’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ryōji Hayama’s movies.
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Brothers Serving Time

Brothers Serving Time
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.

The Tattooed Hitman

The Tattooed Hitman
6.4/10
The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
6.7/10
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.

Father of the Kamikaze

Father of the Kamikaze
7.1/10
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.

Massacre Gun

Massacre Gun
7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/09/1967
  • Character: Midorikawa
Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

Bloody Territories

Bloody Territories
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/07/1969
  • Character: Kazuo Itakura, Itakura Clan boss (as Ryôji Hayama)
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo's drug, prostitution, and gambling rackets. Someone wants to stop them. Is it the police? Rival gang members? Or is it an entirely new group of hired killers who will stop at nothing to gain complete control of Tokyo's "bloody territories"?

Violent Streets

Violent Streets
6.9/10
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

The Rough One

The Rough One
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/06/1969
  • Character: Goro
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.

Hungry Soul, Part II

Hungry Soul, Part II
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 28/11/1956
  • Character: Tachibana's Old Friend C
A continuation of Hungry Soul, from the same year. Reiko, who tolerates abuse in her marriage to a man 23 years her senior, is friends with Mayumi, a beautiful widow. Reiko meets her husband’s business rival, a young, capable businessman, and falls for him. Meanwhile, Mayumi enters into a relationship with Shimotsuma, a friend of her late husband.

Burning Clouds

Burning Clouds
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/05/1967

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/01/1957
  • Character: Coach Toi
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
6.2/10
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

Dream Young Man's Dream

Dream Young Man's Dream
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Code Between Brothers: All New

Code Between Brothers: All New
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...

Showdown at Nagasaki

Showdown at Nagasaki
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/09/1969
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken over by the Matsui Group, a new gangster setup. So he becomes head of the Takama Group to regain lost territory. With the cooperation of all the Bosses from Tokyo to Nagasaki, who had known his father, Keiji recovers the rights to put on shows at the City Hall. As he had feared, however, Matsui begins to interfere with his plans. Keiji's men are furious, but he knows better than to take up the cudgels with Matsui at this important time. Whatever Matsui does, Keiji goes one better. Frustrated and bitter, Matsui calls in the help of Koiwa, a killer. Now, having tried his best to oust Keiji but finding that he is made of sterner stuff than he had counted on, he decides to have Koiwa do away with him for good.

A Turning to Hell

A Turning to Hell
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1959
  • Character: Maki
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

アカシアの雨がやむとき

アカシアの雨がやむとき
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/04/1963
Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"

Wolves of the City, Operation
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.

Windy Street

Windy Street
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/09/1959
  • Character: Jinkichi Kobayashi

The Third Dead Angle

The Third Dead Angle
Yoshikawa and Kaji are alumni - Yoshikawa leads a life loyal to his company Toho Corporation, whilst Kaji works in the underground world for Aoyama, a fixer trying to buy Toho out. One day, Yoshikawa is ordered to take a look into the information leakage which had resulted in a serious fall of the company stock price. Following his order, Yoshikawa reunites with Kaji but their relationship gets complicated through the presence of Akiko, the daughter of Kubo, chairman of Toho Corporation. There is an obvious financial conspiracy and several men are killed - Who is the true mastermind behind all the plots?

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