Tōru Abe Movies

1951 Japanese movie

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...

1961 Japanese movie

A story about volunteering in the rural silk farming industry. Recommended by the Ministry of Education.

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...

The film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and who is bound by an oath to his brother in a conflict...

After being discharged from the military, Kenzo, convinced of his older brother Kenichi’s innocence—who had been executed five years...

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Canal - A river created by cutting through nature for the sake of human life that flows silently, encompassing good, evil, sorrow, and joy, just like...

Tonomura has a singular taste in women. He likes them, but he wants them tattooed. To this end, young Osayo has herself decorated with a celebrated...

A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.

Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics ring. But he falls victim to the seductive wiles...

Order of Yakuza

The film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five men ate an elephant that died in a zoo. The elephant's...

Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.