Kiryu Mamoru, a subordinate boss of the Tomogashira Group, earns a living through the shady business of "yamikin" or underground lending. He preys on desperate customers who cannot get loans from legitimate lenders, charging exorbitant interest rates of 30% in 10 days or even 90% in some cases, in...
The Successful Businessmen Handbook: Economic Tactics You Can Learn from the Yakuza
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Sometimes, yakuza must face shrewd civilians even more cunning than themselves, armed only with ethics. What are the 'negotiation tactics' you can learn from yakuza beyond fights and threats!? The unparalleled negotiation skills of the yakuza, refined to perfection, are now revealed!!
A lonely accountant adjusting to big city life, a struggling manga artist forced to conclude her series and a millennial convenience store clerk without direction; three women decades apart all bound by one inescapable fate.
Saji (Motomiya Yasukaze) and his junior Tera (Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki) are members of the Kicchou Clan, a fearless yakuza group known for its long history within Yokohama. The pair are close with the captain of the group, Godou (Ozawa Kazuyoshi), whom they admire as being a devout follower of the...
A young professional mahjong player, Sakurai Shoichi (Shimizu Kentaro), who graduated from university, was employed at a real estate company. While on a business trip with the company president (Hamada Akira) to a secluded hot spring town, he learns that an elderly couple who are the president's...
"Assassination" - Adaptation of Hermann Hesse's novel "Demian". A young man's detachment from and revolt against the superficial ideals of the world of appearances and eventually awakens into a realization of self. Max Demian is his childhood friend and mentor.
Not to be confused with the 1995 theatrical film directed by Shûji Kataoka. In "Female Prisoner Punisher Maria," a wronged woman transforms into a fierce avenger within the confines of a brutal women's prison. Amidst betrayal and violence, she unleashes revenge on those who wronged her, blending...
Kawamata is a psychotic soldier who fell in with the Russian Special Operation Forces. It was at this time that Kawamata became the guinea pig for this secret scientific research organization. The Russians wanted to ensure that they were ahead of the U.S. in the arms race, and used this...
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later in a similar manner, he begins to suspect that something bigger is going on...
This is the first volume of a series of one-part horror dramas based on rumored haunted places, real-life stories, and accidents that occurred in various regions, and which have had a nationwide impact since being aired on Nagoya TV in July 2003.