Akira Kobayashi Movies

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

1965 Japanese movie

Place your bets! Japan's greatest gambler, Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi), faces off against an international cabal of gamblers with only his wits and...

1957 Japanese movie

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his...

Goro Akitsu is a man playing poker in a bar in the port of Yokohama. He is a drifter from Kobe, Japan, who has been helping people who have left the...

Tsuchida Akira is a young man who recruits young hostesses around Ginza to work for other shady establishments.

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a...

Three young men face off against corrupt officials and Yakuza in order to complete a reclamation project of the coastal embankment, who try to derail...

A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamond theft and imprisoned escapes during transport,...

An ex-pro boxer makes his living as a drummer in cabaret.

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal...

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

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,...