Jiro Shirai Movie Trailers

Operation Plazma in Osaka Trailer (1976)

31 January 1976

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

Sex and Fury Trailer (1973)

17 February 1973

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).

Company Buggers Trailer (1975)

09 August 1975

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.

Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle Trailer (1991)

28 December 1991

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

Fireflies in the North Trailer (1984)

01 September 1984

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.

Hell Riders in Kyoto Trailer (1973)

28 April 1973

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics Trailer (1974)

15 January 1974

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.

Goryokaku Trailer (1988)

30 December 1988

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country.

Japanese Humanity and Justice Trailer (1977)

28 May 1977

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

Yakuza Ladies Trailer (1986)

15 November 1986

When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful gangs in Japan.

Third Generation Boss Trailer (1974)

10 August 1974

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

The Shogun Assassins Trailer (1979)

01 September 1979

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Legend of the Eight Samurai Trailer (1983)

10 December 1983

The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu.

The Decisive Power of Aikido Trailer (1975)

22 November 1975

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it.

Japan's Don Trailer (1977)

22 January 1977

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Decapitation of an Evil Woman Trailer (1977)

22 January 1977

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders.

Odokumiyaku Shushou Kawaite sōrō Trailer (1983)

17 June 1983

Roaring Fire Trailer (1981)

08 August 1981

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash.

The House Where Evil Dwells Trailer (1982)

14 May 1982

At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday.

Yakuza Graveyard Trailer (1976)

30 October 1976

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist Trailer (1976)

29 May 1976

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun Trailer (1983)

21 January 1983

Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji.

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4 Trailer (1984)

15 March 1984

Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama.