Hidekazu Akai Movies

High school seniors Mikayo, Chuko and Kei are forced to join a historical research club to fulfill a graduation requirement. Their teacher, Mr....

A man is trying to flee from his past, and he ends up in an underworld filled with strange characters. He finds a job skewering meat in a dirty old...

2nd film in the '任侠哀歌' trilogy. Kurosaki Ken (Namioka Kazuki) burns with a desire for revenge after his father was...

Sasaki Ryohei (Yamada Ryosuke), the second son of the Sasaki family, is a high school student who lives in Shimane. He has just been chosen to be the...

The final 'Front and Back' film.

Takeda (Mikio Osawa) and Tsurumi (Junichi Kawamoto)—who killed their own boss and Wakagashira and rampaged through rival turf—are taken...

The third 'Front and Back' film.

The fall of Yoshimoto Imanishi spreads Nobunaga Oriki’s (Hitoshi Ozawa) reputation across Japan. In Omi, he forges a brotherhood oath with...

A pair of schoolgirls get caught up in a scheme targeting local businesses. Loan shark Ginjiro can help, but first things first: what’s in it...

The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Washio (Hitoshi Ozawa) orders Oda (Kōji...

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through...

The fifth 'Japan Gangster War' film.

The Tenma-kai, a Kansai yakuza organization, has been eagerly eyeing an expansion into Kanto, breaking the long-standing agreement between the two...

Japanese version of The Cat (1991), with a completely different director and cast (aside from Gloria Yip), made at the same time as its Hong Kong...

A man who borrowed money from Ginjiro commits suicide. He had been laid off by the unethical Naniwa Advertising Co. A new recruit is also suffering.

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera...

The sixth 'Japan Gangster War' film.

A yakuza boss's daughter starts a pirate TV broadcast.

Sakai's Happiness is a humorous and bittersweet portrayal of an ordinary family dealing with the challenges of everyday life.