The Definitive Watch Order & Chronological Timeline
Released: 1961 // Runtime: 84m // Rating: 6.0
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Released: 1962 // Runtime: 87m // Rating: 0.0
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.
Released: 1962 // Runtime: 89m // Rating: 7.0
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
Released: 1962 // Runtime: 82m // Rating: 6.0
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
Released: 1963 // Runtime: 93m // Rating: 0.0
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money.
Released: 1963 // Runtime: 85m // Rating: 0.0
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Released: 1963 // Runtime: 80m // Rating: 7.5
A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
Released: 1963 // Runtime: 93m // Rating: 5.0
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Released: 1964 // Runtime: 87m // Rating: 0.0
Released: 1965 // Runtime: 90m // Rating: 0.0
Released: 1972 // Runtime: 97m // Rating: 7.0
