#Kosaku Yamashita

[gokaiju]

The Valiant Red Peony 1-3 (Kosaku Yamashita, 1968, Norifumi Suzuki, 1968 and Tai Kato, 1969) | Cover for Blu-ray boxset by Eureka Entertainment | Made in 2024 by Gokaiju

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RED PEONY GAMBLER - HIBOTAN BAKUTO (1968-1972) - GUNS SWORDS AND TATTOOS: YAKUZA FILMS SERIES (Part 2/10)

One of TOEI most successful series with 8 films starring once again their lead female star, JUNKO (Sumiko) FUJI as Oryu the beuatiful gambler along TOEI's BIG FOUR (Takakura, Tsuruta, Sugawara and Wakayama).

Most of the posters of the series in various forms have been included above (Please click on each image for details)

Director: Kosaku Yamashita, Shigehiro Ozawa, Tai Kato Actors: Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Koji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburo Wakayama

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[basedkikuenjoyer]

Now we get to the best part of these, the "Wano Pair" if you will. Part 5 or Here Comes Oryu is the most Kiku. The plot revolves more around Oryu wanting to lie low for the standard mourning period after one of her men fresh out of prison dies. They ended up in a humble village and the lead man this time is an older retired Yakuza. There is very much this literal "abandon your name" element for Oryu. Even have a little girl she gets a serious chance to play mommy with. This is the conflict; you have your chance to leave it behind. Can you stand by idly while these villagers are threatened? Will you play the innocent lady even when you know you can help? You know the answer. I'm not embellishing, the plot of this film is exactly the same tone of how I read Kiku's starting point in Wano.

This is a very good entry, I believe the longest. It is a nice personal tale for our heroine. Return of the original director and you can see that Charlie Chaplin stasche on the poster this time. Torakichi is always a plus in these. We're back to the original director Kosaku Yamashita. That's really how this feels, we stepped back from some of the more bombastic elements to tell a better character drama. Great palate cleanser when you're binging the whole series.

[givemefreshtofu]

Samurai Geisha (1969), Kosaku Yamashita

[jailhouse41]

Poster for Mankiller (Onna Shikaku Manji,おんな刺客卍), 1969, directed by Kosaku Yamashita (山下耕作) and starring Junko Miyazono (宮園純子).

[theyakuza893]

Gambler - The Big Gambling Ceremony directed by Kosaku Yamashita starring Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Junko Fuji (1969)

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[saemed-jaejoong]

Just Yamapi casually strutting his stuff on Code Blue 3 Set

[youremyheartshaker]

”救いたいという思いが、終わることはない。”

[thekimonogallery]

" "The Last Battle of the Wives of the Gokudo" (1990, Director / Kosaku Yamashita) From left: Shima Iwashita, Rino Katase, Show Aikawa".

[imamurashohei]

best japanese gangster movies?

Dragnet Girl (1933, Yasujiro Ozu), Youth of the Beast (1963, Seijun Suzuki), Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963, Seijun Suzuki), Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965 Koyoshi Saeki), Velvet Hustler (1967, Toshio Masuda), Street Mobster (1972, Kinji Fukasaku), Tokyo Drifter (1966, Seijun Suzuki), Cops vs Thugs (1975, Kinji Fukasaku), Battles Without Honor and Humanity series (1973-74, Kinji Fukasaku), Sonatine (1993, Takeshi Kitano), Black River (1957, Masaki Kobayashi), Yakuza Graveyard 1976, Kinji Fukasaku), Tattooed Life (1965 Seijun Suzuki), Stray Dog (1949, Akira Kurosawa), A Colt is my Passport (1967, Takashi Nomura), Graveyard of Honor (1975, Kinji Fukasaku), Drunken Angel (1948, Akira Kurosawa), Sympathy for the Underdog (1971, Kinji Fukasaku), Violent Streets (1974, Hideo Gosha), Outrage (2010, Takeshi Kitano), Boiling Point (1990, Takeshi Kitano), The Wolves (1971, Hideo Gosha), Ryuji (1983, Toru Kawashima), Another Lonely Hitman (1995, Rokuro Mochizuki), Pale Flower 1964, Masahiro Shinoda), Rainy Dog (1997, Takashi Miike), Shinjuku Triad Society (1995, Takashi Miike), Onibi (1997, Rokuro Mochizuki), Rusty Knife (1958, Toshio Masuda), Pigs and Battleships (1961, Shohei Imamura), Demon (1985, Yasuo Furuhata), Abashiri Prison (1965, Teruo Ishii), Minbo (1992, Juzo Itami), A Diary of Chuji’s Travels (1927, Daisuke Ito), Keisatsukan (1933, Tomu Uchida), A Certain Killer (1967, Kazuo Mori), Big Time Gambling Boss (1968, Kosaku Yamashita), I Am Waiting (1957, Koreyoshi Kurosawa), Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969, Kinji Fukasaku) and Gambling Den Heist (1975, Kinji Fukasaku) are some good films that are about/heavily feature yakuza

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TALES OF JAPANESE CHIVALRY - NIHON KYOKAKUDEN (1964-1971) - GUNS SWORDS AND TATTOOS: YAKUZA FILMS SERIES (Part 5/10)

A long (11 movies) TOEI Yakuza Nikyo eiga style series taking place in Japan between 1900 and 1939 starring lead actor KEN TAKAKURA and a then young Junko Fuji.

Most of the posters of the series in various forms have been included above (Please click on each image for details)

Director: Masahiro Makino, Shigehiro Ozawa, Kosaku Yamashita Actors: Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Koji Tsuruta, Tomisaburo Wakayama

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[jailhouse41]

Lobby card for Chivalrous Geisha (Nihon Jokyo-Den: Kyokaku Geisha, 日本女侠伝 侠客芸者), 1969, directed by Kosaku Yamashita (山下耕作) and starring Ken Takakura (高倉健).

[yomota258]

『ゾロ目の三兄弟』山下耕作/東映/1972 Zorome no San-kyodai / Director: Kosaku Yamashita / Distributor: Toei / 1972

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[krbyskrn]

山口組三代目

山下耕作監督　1973年

[youremyheartshaker]

“We can keep walking when we have mates who seek a light together in the dark.”