Yumiko Nogawa

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.

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

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.

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

A shogunate secret agent is sent to investigate a secret deal with a Dutch warship involving repeating rifles to be used in an uprising against the Shogun, but finds there's more going on than previously suspected.

After World War II when Okinawa was under control of the US, the local Yakuza prospered. But when the island was returned to Japan, the mainland Yakuza tries to take over and the locals tries to compete.