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Cose di Cosa Nostra (1971)
Directed by Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Carlo Giuffrè, Pamela Tiffin, Jean-Claude Brialy, Salvo Randone, Agnès Spaak, Mario Feliciani
Don Calogero Bertuccione, un parrain de la della mafia italo-americaine, ordonne par l'intermédiaire de son bras droit Don Cefalù, au jeune Salvatore Lo Coco, Sicilien émigré aux États-Unis, de rentrer dans son village natal Castropizzi pour assassiner Don Nicola Manzano dit "Nicky", parce qu'il le soupçonne de jouer double jeu. Salvatore ne veut pas le faire, mais doit obéir pour éviter les représailles sur sa famille. Arrivé en Italie, il cherche quelqu'un qui pourrait le remplacer, mais n'y arrive pas. Après une série de péripéties grotesques, il réussi à rentrer dans la villa de Don Manzano, où il découvre que Don Bertuccione et ses hommes ont déjà été tués.
Journal of a Contract Killer (2008)
, 1h30Directed by Tony Maylam
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Heather Bleasdale, David Janson
Stephanie Komack was a big-class hooker and assassin for the Italian Mob. She now was working in London as a waitress, and a single mother to her seven-year-old daughter, the Mob tracks Stephanie down and persuade her to do one final job. That when the hit goes wrong and Stephanie soon realises the reality of her failure. They snatch her daughter as punishment, but didn't figure on Stephanie's capacity for revenge. Inspired by true events,
Adventures of Zatoichi (1964)
, 1h26Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Miwa Takada, Akitake Kōno, Kichijirō Ueda, Mikijirō Hira
On his way to a village to celebrate the New Year's festival, Zatoichi is asked by a man to deliver a message to a woman. Upon delivery, he rooms with a young women who is searching for her missing father.
, 1h27Directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Films about chess, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Mikio Narita, Saburo Date, Naomi Fujiyama, Ryō Horikawa
On a boat trip to Honshu island, Zatoichi (Katsu) makes the acquaintance of Jumonji (Narita), an expert shogi (Japanese chess) player and swordsman. Once on Honshu, a group of men that had tried to cheat Zatoichi at dice try to take revenge upon him- only for Ichi to turn the tables on them in the tussle. However, Miki, the niece of a woman named Otane, is injured in the confusion, compelling Ichi to go to great lengths to procure the medicine needed to cure her injury. When she recovers, the child sincerely thanks him, leaving him overwrought with emotion.
Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
, 1h23Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Jun Hamamura, Mayumi Ogawa, Shigeru Amachi, Kei Satō, Saburo Date
Traveling on the road, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters a dying man who gives him a bag full of money and the name "Taichi". Traveling on, he makes the acquaintance of a blind biwa-playing priest. The two travel to a town that is having their annual thunder drum festival. The town is under the domination of a Yakuza boss who extorts from the people.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)
, 1h22Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Michiyo Okusu, Isao Yamagata, Kunie Tanaka, Hisashi Igawa, Saburo Date
Seeking to atone for his violent past, Zatoichi (Katsu) embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 88 shrines on Shikoku. On the road, a man (Igawa) attacks Zatoichi but is killed by him. Zatoichi follows the man's horse back to his home.
Family Killer (1973)
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, John Saxon, Agostina Belli, Pino Colizzi, Spiros Focás, Giuseppe Addobbati
Stefano Ferrante, fils d'Angelino, le chef de la mafia de Palermo, est tué par Gaspare Ardizzone, un jeune loup qui veut faire sa place parmi les chefs mafieux. Le vieux Ferrante demande à son ami des Etats-Unis, Santino Billeci de venir l'aider pour résoudre le problème Ardizzone.
The Mafia Triangle (1981)
Directed by Alfonso Brescia
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Mario Merola, Howard Ross, Massimo Mollica, Liana Trouche, Guido Alberti, Biagio Pelligra
Sgarro alla camorra (1973)
Directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti
Genres Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Mario Merola, Enzo Cannavale, Dada Gallotti, Pietro De Vico, Dolores Palumbo, Aldo Bufi Landi
Andrea Staiano est un jeune homme de Cetara qui finit en prison, piégé par le boss napolitain Enrico Cecere. Après sept ans de détention, il est libéré et retourne chez lui. Avec l'aide de son ami Pietro, il arme un bateau de pêche qui lui permet de gagner honnêtement sa vie. Cependant, l'ombre de la camorra plane sur lui. Angela, la compagne de Cecere, l'informe que sa libération anticipée de prison est due à l'intercession de certains notables du milieu du crime organisé et que, en compensation, il devra faire quelques sales boulots. En réalité, le plan de Cecere est de faire éliminer Andrea Staiano qui n'aime pas de travailler pour lui.
The Big Family (1973)
Directed by Tonino Ricci
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Gangster films
Actors Raymond Pellegrin, Simonetta Stefanelli, Richard Conte, Edmund Purdom, Maria Fiore, Stelio Candelli
Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)
, 1h36Directed by Satsuo Yamamoto
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Rentarō Mikuni, Kō Nishimura, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Mizuho Suzuki, Saburo Date
In a rural village, Zatoichi (Katsu) encounters Shushi Ohara (Suzuki; modeled after 18th-century agriculturalist Yagaku Ohara) a sword-less ronin who defends himself against multiple attackers without killing them. Ohara leads a peasant movement advocating the abstention from gambling, drinking, and whoring.
Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
, 1h27Directed by Kenji Misumi
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Miwa Takada, Yukiji Asaoka, Asao Koike, Eitarō Ozawa, Tatsuo Matsumura
Zatoichi (Katsu) checks into an inn where he shares a room with an ill woman and her young son named Ryota. Before the woman dies, she requests that Zatoichi take her son to his father, an artist living in the nearby town of Maebara.
Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)
, 1h22Directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Takashi Shimura
Zatoichi comes to a village which is the local hub of family farms in a silk growing region. The most prominent villager is Matsugoro who apparently will stop at nothing to bring all under his control. The small village does have a kind doctor, Dr. Junan, who lives with his daughter Oshizu.
Zatoichi's Revenge (1965)
, 1h24Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Transport films, Films about prostitution, Martial arts films, Samurai films, Yakuza films, Films about disabilities, Gangster films
Actors Shintarō Katsu, Takeshi Katō, Saburo Date
Zatoichi's travels have finally brought him back to the village where he was trained in the arts of the masseur, nearly ten years ago by his old sensei, Master Hikonoichi. His proximity to his former teacher compels him to pay a visit, only to learn that Hikonoichi was recently killed while traveling, and his daughter Sayo has been sold into prostitution to repay the money lent to her father by local business man Tatsugoro. Zatoichi sets out to free Sayo, only to discover that the entire village is suffering -- victims of a scheme that has either forced their daughters into prostitution, or into doing the bidding of Tatsugoro, who is working for the corrupt Intendant, Isoda. Sayo provides him with the toggle of a medicine pouch, recovered from her father's hand.
They All Must Die! (1998)
, 1h25Directed by Sean Weathers
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about writers, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Hip hop films, Rape and revenge films, Political films, Gangster films
Three black thugs sexually assault a white woman that moves into their Bedstuy neighborhood in this racially charged controversial horror film.