Bunta Sugawara
Series
Yakuza papers volume Vol. 5
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
After a police crackdown in 1966, the gangs of Hiroshima and Kure form the massive alliance "Tensei Coalition." Chairman Matsumura tries to change the ways of the gangs, which leads to more bloodshed as rivalries surface once again.
Series
Language
English
Description
In a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment, crops are dwindling, dragons have reappeared, and humanity is giving way to chaos. Journey with Lord Archmage Sparrowhawk, a master wizard, and Arren, a troubled young prince, on a tale of redemption and self-discovery as they search for the force behind a mysterious imbalance in the land of Earthsea. Based on the classic fantasy book series by Ursula Le Guin.
3) Proxy war
Series
Yakuza papers volume 3
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 1960, a power vacuum is formed within the Muraoka family when underboss Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) refuses to avenge the assassination of a superior. With the help of series hero Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), Uchimoto pledges loyalty to the powerful Akashi gang, but is soon expelled from the Muraoka for the act. Meanwhile, Akashi rivals the Shinwa Group form their own pact with Muraoka, and the enmity between the two gangs threatens to erupt...
Series
Yakuza papers volume Vol. 2
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
Set in Hiroshima, 1950. Demobilized kamikaze pilot Shoji Yamanaka (Kinya Kitaoji) is released from prison and finds himself hungry and broke. Following a bust up with a local gang, he earns the psychotic wrath of local underboss Otomo (Chiba), but Yamanaka's suicidal impulses are soon put to good use as a hitman for another gang, befriending series hero Shozo Hirono in the process. Despite a budding but forbidden romance with the boss's niece (Kaji),...
5) Dora-heita
Series
Publisher
AnimEigo
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
日本語
Description
Koheita is a samurai with a reputation for debauchery, so his appointment as magistrate of the most corrupt township in Japan raises a few eyebrows on both sides of the law...but is everything as it seems?
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
日本語
Description
Set in 1963, Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara), expelled from the Yamamori gang, has allied himself with the cowardly Uchimoto (Takeshi Kato) and the Akashi family, who are engaged in a power struggle with the Shinwa Group, allied with the Yamamori. But mainstream society, enjoying unprecedented economic prosperity, will no longer tolerate their violent criminal activities. The police begin a major crackdown, putting the gangs on the defensive. But rogue...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents. Chihiro and her parents accidentally wander into another world ruled by witches and monsters. When her parents are captured by the ruler of the world, she tricks the witch into hiring her so she can figure out how to free them.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
"1947. Ex-soldier Shozo Hirono, after proving his ability with a gun, emerges from the teeming black markets of postwar Kure City into the professional world of the yakuza. Shozo makes his way from prison to boss in the newly-formed Yamamori family via gang feuds, assassinations and the shifting allegiances of his fellow mobsters, desite his own growing disillusionment with the men he is supposed to respect ..."--Cover
9) Yakuza law
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
日本語
Description
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Taisho, and Showa periods.
Series
Yakuza papers volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
日本語
Description
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. After joining boss Yamamori, Shozo is drawn into a feud with his sworn brother's family, the Dois. But that's when the chivalry ends and the hypocrisy, betrayal, and assasinations begin.
Publisher
Arrow Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
While Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang, serves a prison sentence for a bungled hit, another family member attempts to seize power from the boss, leaving Miyoshi stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.