Tetsuya Watari Movies

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...

A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance.

Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961,...

Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two...

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always...

Goro wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko, but finds that...

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...

The hard-boiled jidaigeki series follows four brothers seeking vengeance after their father is forced to commit seppuku by a feudal lord and their...

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

Based on the comic Gokuburi Deka.

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

A youthful Nikkatsu drama about a Japanese painter who travels to Australia and falls in love.

Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pursues Takei. This is Watari Tetsuya's first film...

A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.