An action film based on the original story and screenplay by Hisao Maki of "WARU". Yoji Himuro is an unparalleled sword user and is known as a badass. As a child, he received intensive training from his father, the owner of a kendo dojo, which resulted in him sustaining 15 wounds. Yoji, who is always looking for stimulation, seeks the smell of blood again today...

Eight Māori female directors have each contributed a sequence to this powerful and challenging feature which unfolds around the tangi of a small boy who died at the hands of his caregiver.

If they look down on you, it’s over.That’s why you’ve got to crush them completely!” After going way too far and landing in juvie, Tatsuya finally gets out, only to find that his old crew has scattered and already moved on with their lives. One day, he goes to check out a popular martial arts event. But when one of the fighters bails at the last minute, Tatsuya ends up stepping into the ring in his place. Despite getting beaten to a pulp by a powerful opponent, he pulls off a comeback victory. However, that win puts a target on his back. A challenge arrives for WARU — a tournament to decide who’s the strongest street fighter. The heart of the rabid dog that had been lying dormant starts to burn again. With his new trainer Itagaki, Tatsuya begins his journey as a fighter, aiming for the top

在黑帮分子动则便使用手枪打打杀杀的年代里，年过不惑的男人冰室洋二（哀川翔 饰）绝对是一个异数。他继承了父亲的剑道馆无心塾，和自己的高中老师美杉丽子（松坂庆子 饰）同居，从年轻时就用刀剑打拼天下。当年因暴力事件入狱期间，冰室结识了志同道合的伙伴更级十郎（真树日佐夫 饰）。出狱后两人成立组织“地平同”，向从事卖淫、诱拐、贩毒、恐吓的暴力组织发起冲击。他们的举动遭到黑帮憎恨，并发出江湖追杀令，势要将二人置于死地……

500 years before Saiyuki, a heretic child with golden eyes is brought to Heaven and given into the reluctant care of a minor deity, Konzen, nephew of the Merciful Goddess, Kanzeon Bosatsu. Konzen eventually names him "Goku". Goku befriends two other minor gods, Marshal Tenpou and General Kenren of the Western Army of Heaven, and a boy who seems to be his age, the War Prince Nataku. Though Goku is happy in his new home, Heaven is not kind to heretics.

Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school principal brings in a new student, an American educated karate expert Noboru Ohinata (Yuki Meguro), to counter Yoji’s terror!

The second installment of the Showa Gamblers series. In the mid-1950s, Orin, the daughter of Takashima Tomezō, the 8th-generation leader of the Takashima clan in Jōshū Nitta, seeks out Seijirō Hanamura, an old friend of her father. She hopes to stop the Narita-gumi, who are plotting to take over the main family.

While it has been reported on several anime news sites that the newest Takashi Miike film is based on the Hashida Yukari “boy’s love” manga, WARU, the live action film is actually based on a popular 70s manga of the same title. Japanese sources clearly credit Hisao Maki’s dramatic action manga, WARU — an edgy action-packed tale of outlaw swordsman Youji Himuro — as the story on which the film is based.

In Kobe, Kawatani Yuichi (Hitoshi Ozawa), head of the Kawatani-gumi under the Yamazaki-gumi of Kyowakai, once again sparks a brawl in the downtown area with Takei (Kentaro Shimazu) of the rival Nakamura-gumi. After the fight, Kawatani runs up a tab at the bar of his close friend Mikami Tetsuya (Eiichi Furui), head of the Mikami-gumi under Kyowakai’s Ueda-gumi, behaving with his usual arrogance.Disgusted by Kawatani’s conduct, Omiya Kazuya (Kazuyoshi Ozawa), the wakagashira of the Mikami-gumi, uncovers illegal prostitution rings and drug dealing operating without permission inside Mikami-gumi territory. Behind it all is the Nakamura-gumi.Teaming up with a Chinese syndicate led by Shi Qian (Wataru Takasugi), they begin plotting an all-out war against Kyowakai.

Around the same time as Kikumura’s disappearance, the Ryūseikai relocates its office.Strictly warned by the new landlord to keep things quiet, Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) cautions Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) and the rest of the members. However, Kawakami (Tatsuya Nakazawa) and Nakajima (Masami Tate) ignore the warning and immediately start causing trouble, earning Himuro’s fury. Meanwhile, a phone scam targets the home of the Kunimoto couple, whom Yamamura (Kenta Kawasaki) is close to. Hoping to catch the culprit, Hasegawa (Daisuke Oyama) and Ishizawa (Hiroto Honda) lie in wait at the house. They capture the money mule who shows up and take him back to the office—unaware that this marks the beginning of a nightmare night.