Tetsuya Watari Movies

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and...

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

1967 Japanese movie

Based on the comic Gokiburi Deka.

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama...

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

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

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken...

Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage....

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

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...

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

Based on the comic Gokuburi Deka.

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

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