The best Tamio Kawachi’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Tamio Kawachi’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 Tamio Kawachi.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.4/10
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Story of a Prostitute
7.3/10
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
The Warped Ones
6.9/10
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
6.5/10
The 224-minute compilation edition Battles Without Honor and Humanity The Complete Saga compiles these five movies : Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Proxy War (1973)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity 5: Final Episode (1974)
The Flower and the Angry Waves
6.6/10
Akira Kobayashi stars as a coal-miner who leads a rebellion against a nasty tyrant.
Lost in the Sun
The Black Sheep
Japanese drama film.
The Symbol of a Man: The Rule for a Vagabond
5.9/10
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
Savage Wolf Pack
5.8/10
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless slum. He is shocked to learn that his younger sister had committed suicide after being raped by unknown men. One day, he rescues a girl from being attacked by some gang, and discovers that the same gang had driven his sister to death. Using his lethal hunting skills, Tetsuya begins to take revenge…
Chi-n-pi-ra
7.5/10
Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse races. One day, Yoichi's companion commits a crime, which leads him to become a real yakuza. In this way Yoichi wishes to put an end to his hoodlum days, but on the other hand he has to leave his brother Michio behind...
Carmen from Kawachi
7.1/10
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.
Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
Investigation of a Typical Love
Black Sun
6.7/10
You’ve probably never seen anything quite like this manic, oddball, anti–buddy picture about a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws, and Koreyoshi Kurahara depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.
Professional Killers
7/10
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
I Hate But Love
6.7/10
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
Kitakami yakyoku
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...
The Stream of Youth
The Sky Is Mine
