Masato Hoshi

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Detonation! Violent Games

Teruo Ishii's West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It's the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide.

Metamorphosis

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Dansen

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

Ore no sora

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, who is immensely gifted in nearly everything he does.

The Man Gang

Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya.

A Violent School Revolution

A Violent School Revolution

Aijin Bank Satsujin Jiken

An office lady joins a "mistress bank", starts falling in love with her client and gets involved in a murder case.

Hobo General

Violent Fighters

In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada rushed back to make his own version. "Towards the 80! Our era! Now filming!" the trailer exclaimed. The plot is roughly the same as in The Warriors except this time the chased gang has to make it from Kobe to Tokyo and the leader's got the enemy's sister handcuffed to him. Hardly great cinema, but undeniably entertaining with frantic pacing, loads of music and even a massive roller blade street chase! As a vision of future, it wasn't too far off if the future was defined as 80s rock, bad fashion and comic book films.