战后的日本格局混乱，黑道横行。盘踞关西大阪的淡野组通过各种非法勾当不断壮大，并开始蚕食周边。经过几次战争，淡野组一统关西，随之开始了进军关东的计划。为对抗入侵者，东京周边的黑社会团伙组成了关东联合会阻击淡野组。在此期间，淡野组•滨中组和关东联合会•樱田组发生接连发生一系列小规模的代理战争。
服刑八年的冢本铁男（鹤田浩二 饰）视滨中组组长如亲生父亲，组长遇刺，他决心刺杀樱田组长报仇。经过决议，其兄弟椿五郎（内出良平 饰）请求北龙会的宫原一义（若山富三郎 饰）出手相助，淡野组长（内田朝雄 饰）则寻求政客为靠山。双方战争不断扩大化，而无辜的牺牲者也继续增加……

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

1963 film by Shōhei Imamura