Top 35 Japanese Noir Movies

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart.

A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.

During a sweltering summer, a rookie homicide detective tries to track down his stolen Colt pistol.

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Two friends who witnessed an organized crime murder are threatened by the local mob into keeping quiet.

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

An injured thief on the run finds sanctuary within a brothel of united, ruthless women.

Two young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a murdering rapist.

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

Released from prison, a gangster (Michitaro Mizushima) retrieves diamonds sought by fellow yakuza.

Teiko's new husband disappears on a business trip. She discovers a pair of mysterious postcards hidden away in a book that may be clues to his fate.

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.