Movies: Yankii

In the 1970s, director Fukasaku Kinji’s Yakuza Papers films chronicled decades of gang warfare in post-war Hiroshima. Over three decades later, up-and-coming young director Kubata Takashi brings a new generation of Hiroshima motorcycle gangsters to t...

A powerful new enemy appears in front of 3 gangs: Gokuraku Cho, Biisuto and Hiroshima Naitsu. Based on the manga "BADBOYS" by Hiroshi Tanaka (published from 1988 to 1996 by Shonen Gahosha through biweekly manga magazine Young King)....

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Under the influence of his delinquent friend, a former model student eschews schoolwork and joins a gang of school kids who do nothing but fight....

"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters....

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After completing his time in a juvenile detention center, Daiki Imanishi returns to his hometown in Ibaraki. Upon hearing that his former cellmate, Ken Kohinata, is in danger, Daiki, along with two companions he met in the detention center—Kaito Saka...

After working as a reporter and an assistant at a radio station, Watanabe Yoshimitsu, former leader of the bosozoku gang Black Emperor, returned to his old stomping grounds and began to make a film about bosozoku. At the time, he was 21. The teenage ...

An aging Japanese bike gangster mentors a crop of halfhearted pledges threatened by police pressure. In doing so, he confronts his tough guy past and dwindling options for the future....