Hiroki Matsukata Movies

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

Sarutobi Sasuke’s army is attacked by the enemy and after returning to the hideout with a broken duplicate and a false sword, the real Muramasa...

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his...

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When...

Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...

Ninth and last film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata.

In spite of a longstanding tradition forbidding women from working in a sake brewery, Retsu, a young blind woman, challenges herself to overcome her...

Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in...

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...

When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...

Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.

The story of Iwaki, a young brawler who becomes a professional criminal when he joins a Yakuza clan.

With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in...