Simultaneously a yakuza movie, a kung-fu flick and a love letter to cinema, Japanese director Sion Sono's Why Don't You Play in Hell is the anti-gritty gangster tale. Following a group of young ...

Gangster movies are about as old as Hollywood itself ... A wildly entertaining gangster comedy from one of the most prolific and acclaimed Japanese filmmakers of all time, Takeshi Kitano's ...

After that he rose to stardom in Toei’s signature yakuza films, culminating with the lead ... and Humanity” series was widely recognized by Japanese critics as a post war masterpiece, while ...

Marauding gangs of violent delinquents have provided rich material for Japanese filmmakers since the taiyozoku (Sun Tribe) days of the 1950s. Much like their American counterparts, Japan’s post ...