Both films are about main leads that are outlaws within the yakuza organisation who join forces to take down the crime syndicate.

Both films are about main leads represented as a killing machine bent on revenge, as lone swords wielders against a horde of enemies.

Both films are about the guilt and atonement between victims and perpetrators. Both show mixed with the dangerous attraction / repulsion for those who caused pain and suffering.

Both are about the self-destruction of the yakuza world. "Graveyard of honour" is a remake of Kinji Fukasaku's 1975 film of the same name, which is based on the life of a real-life Yakuza member.

Both are about betrayal and revenge in the yakuza world. "Ambition without honour" is a hommage to the film "Battles Without Honor and Humanity" directed by Kinji Fukasaku in the first half of the 70's.

Like in " Tokyo Story", "Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family" concerns itself with the failure of filial piety in an increasingly corrupt society.

After a badly done assignment, a hitman finds himself in conflict with his organisation, and one mysterious and dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

They show yakuza and sociopathic criminals who indeed lived by a code, but one dedicated to violence and power mongering.

A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

Col. Kato was real, the commander of one of the most admired squadrons in the Japanese Army Air Force. The Hayabusa was the model of their fighter, different from the Navy’s more famous Zero that was mostly carrier based. Esssentially, the movie follows the squadron from Kato’s arrival to take command through the arrival of their new planes, to their sorties in the 1941-42 campaigns against Singapore and in Malayia and Burma, until Kato’s own death in late ’42.

Lung is a former member of the national Little League team who lives with his old childhood sweetheart Ah-chin, a traditional family woman. Although they live together, Ah-chin is weary of Lung's past liaison with another girl.