Tōru Abe Movies

1961 gangster film.

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family....

Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

One summer night, officer Kojima is lured away from his police box by a thug, then drugged with a juice; when he wakes, a murder has occurred nearby,...

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Pro boxer Aoshima Toru is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor and given three months to live. He uses his prize money to pay the medical expenses...

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value &...

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's...

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was...

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