Best movies of Junko Fuji

Actors : Yuki Enomoto, Junko Fuji, Manami Konishi, Takeshi Kaneshiro,
Directors : Masaya Kakehi,

Kaneshiro plays a Grim Reaper who appears to his victims in human form and spends a week with them before deciding whether to off them or not.

Actors : Kikunosuke Onoe, Nanako Matsushima, Junko Fuji, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa's remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret.

Actors : Masako Araki, Junpei Arishima, Junko Fuji, Daisuke Awaji,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Oryu (Fuji Junko) is invited to stay with a local yakuza boss of a silk farming town. When a rival gang murders the boss Oryu takes it upon herself to protect his business and family.

Actors : Kanjûrô Arashi, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Teruo Ishiyama,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Actors : Mai Kitajima, Junko Fuji, Maki Miyamoto, Kaho Minami,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Young Tokiko works at a geisha house as a maid, waiting for her maiko practice (apprenticeship of geisha) to begin. The movie depicts detailed lifestyle of geishas at that time, showing their rules, loves, beauties and humanities.

Actors : Takao Ohsawa, Yuriko Ishida, Junko Fuji, Arata Furuta,
Directors : Itsumichi Isomura,

Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his girlfriend, ...

Actors : Saki Aibu, Yûki Amami, Junko Fuji, Hiroshi Abe,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yukawa,

after their twenty-something son moves out Yohei, a school teacher, and his wife Miyoko may begin a new phase in their lives. Yohei is taken aback, however, when he comes across divorce ...

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Shin'ichi Chiba, Junko Fuji, Shigeru Amachi,
Directors : Tsuneo Kobayashi,

Another obscure, early entry in the just-beginning ninkyô cycle.

Actors : Tôru Abe, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Tai Katô,

A tale set in the late Meiji era - circa 1880s-1890 as opposed to the early Meiji which began in the 1860s.

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Minoru Ôki, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

This is yet another ninkyô yakuza film that seems to be (unconsciously?) trying to deal with issues of repressed homosexuality. In any case, long-lost friend.

Actors : Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe, Yoshi Katô,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyôden" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.

Actors : Junko Fuji, Bunta Sugawara, Keiko Yumi, Junzaburô Ban,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

Koshizu (Fuji), a young geisha, tries to kill herself but is saved by cook Yukichi (Sugahara). Rival geisha Adakichi (Yumi), greedy trader Yasukawa (Abe) and wealthy businessman Asai (Soganoya) add up to dramatic turns.

Actors : Michiko Araki, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Ryô Ikebe,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada (Takakura) goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. ...

Actors : Gorô Ibuki, Junko Fuji, Asao Koike, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Noribumi Suzuki,

Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the ...

Actors : Katsutoshi Akiyama, Kanjûrô Arashi, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji,
Directors : Tai Katô,

Oryu meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being damaged by air pollution from a local factory.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Junko Fuji, Shôtarô Hayashi, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

It is hard to think of another ninkyô yakuza film that leaves the main protagonist - a chivalrous female at that - in so much pain and sorrow, such an emotional abyss of desolation at the ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Ken Takakura, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Makino,

It is almost unheard of for a ninkyô or jitsuroku yakuza to have an even halfway happy ending.

Actors : Akira Hirasawa, Junko Fuji, Daisuke Awaji, Masao Hori,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promises she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and ...