Bin Amatsu

Born: 1921-02-16


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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

as Kikuchi Yamon
Released: 1973-08-11

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors,...

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Sister Street Fighter

as Shigetomi Kakuzaki
Released: 1974-08-31

Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug...

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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-04

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....

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The Street Fighter

as Môrôkô - Blind Wolf
Released: 1974-02-02

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...

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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan

as Arika's Father
Released: 1978-06-30

In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time...

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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

as uncredited
Released: 1968-11-22

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...

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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

as Narutogawa
Released: 1969-10-01

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey...

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Enlisted Yakuza

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-18

It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of...

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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

as Arrakida
Released: 1969-04-10

The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...

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The Blazing Sword

as uncredited
Released: 1966-11-12

Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata...

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Girls of the Night

as uncredited
Released: 1961-09-04

In the late 1950's prostitution was banned in Japan and if a woman was found exercising this...

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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-25

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...

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Killer's Mission

as Okiteyama Nikaido
Released: 1969-08-13

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to...

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Hokuriku Proxy War

as uncredited
Released: 1977-02-26

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...

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Trials of an Okinawa Village

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-19

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of...

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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

as Captain Tanuma
Released: 1972-01-22

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...

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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

as Taiken
Released: 1966-05-25

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission...

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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

as uncredited
Released: 1967-07-08

Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction...

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The Revolt

as uncredited
Released: 1980-01-15

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being...

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Dragon Princess

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-31

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He...

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The Bushido Blade

as Baron Zen
Released: 1981-06-19

A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is...

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A Kamikaze Cop

as Akutsu Hiroshi
Released: 1970-05-23

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two...

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Samurai Wolf II

as uncredited
Released: 1967-05-13

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their...

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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

as Tanahashi Saibei
Released: 1974-02-02

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have...

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Karate Warriors

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-10

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

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Fate Deals the Card of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1971-02-13

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...

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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

as Takimura
Released: 1969-02-01

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...

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Prison Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1968-04-18

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

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Desperate Hoodlum

as uncredited
Released: 1968-11-02

Second part of the Zenka mono series.

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Brave Red Flower of the North

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-09

An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of...

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Winter's Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1978-06-17

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...

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Lullaby for a Tough Guy

as uncredited
Released: 1972-04-01

A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

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Yukyo-retsuden

as uncredited
Released: 1970-07-04

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The Great Chase

as Takeo Inomata
Released: 1975-04-26

Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret...

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The Chivalrous Life

as uncredited
Released: 1967-05-30

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work...

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The Hard Core Criminal

as uncredited
Released: 1973-05-12

In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...

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Seven Fugitives

as uncredited
Released: 1966-11-19

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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1972-05-27

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...

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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-27

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There...

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A Wad of Notes

as uncredited
Released: 1970-09-09

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After...

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The Brawling Angel

as uncredited
Released: 1972-06-21

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

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Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman

as Denzō
Released: 1969-03-15

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her...

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Delinquent Street

as uncredited
Released: 1972-02-22

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The Tattooed Hitman

as uncredited
Released: 1974-04-27

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...

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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban

as Hirotake Yodo - Gang Boss
Released: 1973-01-13

The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang...

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The Path of the King

as uncredited
Released: 1971-03-06

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members...

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Brothers Serving Time

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-03

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...

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The Domain

as uncredited
Released: 1964-08-13

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of...

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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

as uncredited
Released: 1969-10-16

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...

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Scoundrel

as uncredited
Released: 1968-03-05

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his...

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A Yakuza Goes Home

as Defense
Released: 1970-01-20

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...

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The Detective Fencer

as uncredited
Released: 1964-03-28

Young swordsman Shintaro must fight against evil officials who plot to overthrow the youthful...

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Ninja Scope

as Genyousai Koga
Released: 1969-07-20

Heroic masked ninja Akakage (Red Shadow) and his two companions fight evil warlords in feudal...

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The Murder Corps

as uncredited
Released: 1975-05-24

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...

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The Rickshaw Man’s Son

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-01

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to...

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The Domain: Duel at Thunder Gate

as uncredited
Released: 1966-09-17

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb...

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Bloodiest Flower

as uncredited
Released: 1971-04-03

A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine...

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Silk Hat Boss

as Taichiro Kito, Bin
Released: 1970-02-21

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...

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The Domain: Flower and Dragon

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-31

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Tears of Banishment

as uncredited
Released: 1967-06-17

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

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Hikage-Mono

as uncredited
Released: 1972-11-22

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-03

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as...

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The Domain: The Naniwa Story

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-30

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as...

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Japan's Most Chivalrous

as Seikichi Hanayama
Released: 1966-03-19

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Code Between Brothers 6

as uncredited
Released: 1967-12-23

Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in...

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The Ninja Hunt

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-05

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...

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Tarao Bannai

as Hachiro Mochizuki
Released: 1978-04-08

Legendary detective returns

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Prison Gambler

as Hagiwara
Released: 1964-10-21

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which...

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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

as uncredited
Released: 1967-09-15

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

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The Karate Man and the Spy

as uncredited
Released: 1974-07-04

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and...

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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder

as uncredited
Released: 1968-11-30

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...

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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro

as uncredited
Released: 1965-09-18

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

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Code Between Brothers 5

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-12

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...

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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

as uncredited
Released: 1973-09-15

A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers...

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The Fort of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1969-12-13

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group...

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Kanto Street Peddlers

as uncredited
Released: 1969-11-08

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...

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The Drifting Gambler

as Kohei Kumagai
Released: 1970-04-18

8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

as uncredited
Released: 1966-02-03

The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

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Chivalrous Nature

as uncredited
Released: 1965-08-01

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Story of Japanese Bad Men

as uncredited
Released: 1971-08-26

Toei yakuza film.

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Human Torpedoes

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-03

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...

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A Scarred Life

as uncredited
Released: 1971-07-17

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set...

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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy

as uncredited
Released: 1967-11-23

Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors...

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The Cheating Underworld

as uncredited
Released: 1968-08-14

Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.

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Ore no sora

as Kurosaki
Released: 1977-05-28

Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly...

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Kigeki ekimae bentô

as uncredited
Released: 1961-12-24

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run...

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Gambling Den Heist

as Sagawa
Released: 1975-06-21

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

as Kanai
Released: 1970-03-05

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...

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Ninjascope: The Magic World of Ninjas

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

A trio of heroic ninjas use their superhuman powers and high tech gadgets to fight evil warlords...

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The Magic Serpent

as Daijô Yûki
Released: 1966-03-05

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and...

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Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage

as uncredited
Released: 1969-02-21

The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki...

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Zorome no San Kyoudai

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-15

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...

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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

as uncredited
Released: 1972-08-25

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...

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Yakuza G-Men

as Kenjiro Kurosaki
Released: 1965-11-13

34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to...

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Gambler's Legacy

as Gorakuji
Released: 1969-12-27

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...

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Fugitive Scoundrel

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-03

Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing...

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Born Fighter

as uncredited
Released: 1970-02-21

Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

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Third Generation Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1974-08-10

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...

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Hanayome-san wa sekai-ichi

as uncredited
Released: 1959-11-22

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with...

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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-27

Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...

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The Domain: White Blade

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-28

The Domain: White Blade

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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

as uncredited
Released: 1970-11-11

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this...

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Hadaka no Machi

as uncredited
Released: 1957-07-23

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Gambling Den's Master Clan

as uncredited
Released: 1968-09-03

Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

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Showdown of Men

as uncredited
Released: 1966-07-01

Part one.

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Henchmen

as uncredited
Released: 1968-04-19

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city...

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Showdown of Men 2

as uncredited
Released: 1967-03-10

Part two.

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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight

as Togashi Kokuten
Released: 1969-09-19

Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo...

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Killer of Seven

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-26

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Watari the Conqueror

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Watari is a young Iga ninja boy in feudal Japan who has magical adventures with his two heroic...

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Hooligans on Buggies

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-29

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

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Kantō tekiya ikka: Goromentsuu

as uncredited
Released: 1970-03-05

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The Sea of Genkai

as uncredited
Released: 1976-05-29

Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean...

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The Viper Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1971-06-01

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Death on the Mountain

as Shinkichi Toki
Released: 1961-06-17

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances,...

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Yakuza Skirmishes

as uncredited
Released: 1972-09-29

In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...

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Underworld series - Pardon My Violent Ways

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-14

Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After...

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A Single Flower Withered

as uncredited
Released: 1974-10-05

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Hi no kuni ni

as 長谷川社長
First aired: 1976-10-04

The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape...

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