Ryō Nishida

Ryō Nishida

Born: January 20, 1939
in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Ryō Nishida...

King of Sha-kin 2
Title: King of Sha-kin 2
Released: October 11, 1997
Type: Movie
A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
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Fangs of Darkness: Vengeance
Title: Fangs of Darkness: Vengeance
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Wakayama Tomisaburo plays the role of Ichibei. His father is denounced from his clan and murdered, his family is hamed, and Ichibei is no longer a member of the Kurokuwa ninja. Living with his daughter as a peaceful pharmacist by day, Ichibei exerts his vengeance against the powers that be in the dark of night, under the pseudonym "Fangs of Darkness". Unaware of the true identity of the burglar who's bringing disgrace upon the noble houses, the efforts to stop him are being doubled by the day. Will they ever be satisfied? Can they be stopped or will the lords be shamed in the eyes of the Tokugawa Shogun? See how far a father and his daughter can take their quest for vengeance in this action-packed tale of honor!
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Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark
Title: Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also finds his family has been slaughtered and so now it is up to him and his pals to kick the heck out of Kogar and return the planet to its rightful rulers. This film was assembled from episodes of the Japanese TV series, Message from Space: Galactic Warriors (which in itself was a spinoff from the feature Message from Space).
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The Fall of Ako Castle
Title: The Fall of Ako Castle
Released: October 28, 1978
Type: Movie
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
Title: Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
Character: Baru
Released: July 22, 1978
Type: Movie
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.
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Title: Message from Space: Galactic Wars
Character: Baru
Released: July 8, 1978
Type: TV
The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru, organize the resistance. They are helped by Eolia, a mysterious woman traveling on a three masted space ship.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Title: Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Character: Ichiro Funase
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Gambling Code and Feuds
Title: Gambling Code and Feuds
Released: August 27, 1977
Type: Movie
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
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Doberman Cop
Title: Doberman Cop
Character: Det. Takuya Tamura
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.
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Hokuriku Proxy War
Title: Hokuriku Proxy War
Released: February 26, 1977
Type: Movie
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
Title: Decapitation of an Evil Woman
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.
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Japan's Don
Title: Japan's Don
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Title: The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Released: December 4, 1976
Type: Movie
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Released: February 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
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Outlaw Cop
Title: Outlaw Cop
Released: February 4, 1976
Type: Movie
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Title: Operation Plazma in Osaka
Released: January 31, 1976
Type: Movie
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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The International Gang of Kobe
Title: The International Gang of Kobe
Character: White Soldier
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.
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Gambling Den Heist
Title: Gambling Den Heist
Released: June 21, 1975
Type: Movie
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
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The Fancy Man
Title: The Fancy Man
Character: Matsumura
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love.
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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Title: Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Character: Nakahara
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.
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Code of Wolves
Title: Code of Wolves
Released: October 5, 1974
Type: Movie
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Third Generation Boss
Title: Third Generation Boss
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Released: June 29, 1974
Type: Movie
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Title: The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Title: Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Character: Okada Gonoshin
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: Movie
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Released: April 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
Title: Aesthetics of a Bullet
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks the life of a yakuza hitman.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Takano Shinji
Released: January 13, 1973
Type: Movie
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Title: The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Title: Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Character: Kamekura
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Title: Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Released: May 27, 1972
Type: Movie
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
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The Pledge
Title: The Pledge
Released: March 23, 1972
Type: Movie
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
Title: Zorome no San Kyoudai
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their hometown, Nakano Village, after getting word of their father's critical condition. In a Nakano Village divided by a clash between local pig bristle brush manufacturers and the village chief's group over factory expansion, the latter resorts to harassing the brush manufacturers associated with the Wadakura family. Tadayoshi and the villagers attempt to take on the village office but encounter opposition from the Wadakura family's interference. Meanwhile, Jinzuke finds himself at odds with the Wadakura family over territorial disputes in Tsuruhashi. He faces off against them, striving to thwart their factory plans...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Released: January 11, 1972
Type: Movie
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
Title: Trials of an Okinawa Village
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebed to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harrassed by a gang of thugs. When the harrassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
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Samurai Geisha
Title: Samurai Geisha
Released: July 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
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The Cross of Vengeance
Title: The Cross of Vengeance
Released: May 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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Brothers Serving Time
Title: Brothers Serving Time
Released: May 3, 1969
Type: Movie
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
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Return of the Outlaw
Title: Return of the Outlaw
Released: June 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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The Bandits
Title: The Bandits
Character: Boy
Released: May 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
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Code Between Brothers 5
Title: Code Between Brothers 5
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Title: The Shogun and His Mistresses
Character: Igamono 2
Released: July 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Title: Gambler: Victory Without Death
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
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Tears of Banishment
Title: Tears of Banishment
Released: June 17, 1967
Type: Movie
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
Title: Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
The second part of the Gamblers series.
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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
Title: Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
Character: 徳山五兵衛
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
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Eighteen Years in Prison
Title: Eighteen Years in Prison
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
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Gamblers
Title: Gamblers
Released: January 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
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Samurai Wolf
Title: Samurai Wolf
Released: November 19, 1966
Type: Movie
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
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Judo vs. Karate
Title: Judo vs. Karate
Released: October 30, 1966
Type: Movie
A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
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Rub Out the Past
Title: Rub Out the Past
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Released: March 13, 1966
Type: Movie
1966 film directed by Kudo.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Title: The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Released: August 12, 1965
Type: Movie
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.