Isao Tamagawa

Born: 1922-01-11


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Kwaidan

as (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Released: 1965-01-06

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...

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Tokyo Drifter

as Umetani
Released: 1966-04-10

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to...

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Japan's Longest Day

as Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section
Released: 1967-08-03

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...

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Pale Flower

as Police Officer
Released: 1964-03-01

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the...

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Branded to Kill

as Michihiko Yabuhara
Released: 1967-06-15

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of...

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Gate of Flesh

as Horidome
Released: 1964-05-31

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of...

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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

as Saburo Aizawa
Released: 1971-06-12

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of...

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Mount Hakkoda

as Captain Okitsu
Released: 1977-06-04

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the...

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Zigeunerweisen

as Doctor Amaki
Released: 1980-04-01

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go...

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Story of a Prostitute

as Narita
Released: 1965-02-27

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service...

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Kagero-za

as Clerk
Released: 1981-08-21

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

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Fighting Elegy

as Principal
Released: 1966-11-09

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his...

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The Visitor in the Eye

as Detective Geta
Released: 1977-11-26

Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball...

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Graveyard of Honor

as uncredited
Released: 1975-02-15

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his...

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The Street Without Sun

as Moriyama
Released: 1954-06-24

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The Sands of Kurobe

as Sayama
Released: 1968-03-01

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...

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The Militarists

as Tsukamoto
Released: 1970-09-11

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Twice on a Certain Night

as uncredited
Released: 1956-06-08

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband,...

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Hazardous Graduation

as uncredited
Released: 1970-12-15

Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the...

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The Flower and the Sword

as uncredited
Released: 1964-11-11

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji...

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Port Arthur

as Kanemoto Matsumura
Released: 1980-08-02

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified...

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Actress

as uncredited
Released: 1956-11-27

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...

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Take Me Away!

as Shintaro Ishiguro
Released: 1978-07-22

Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was...

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Utamaro's World

as uncredited
Released: 1977-02-20

Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late...

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House of Terrors

as uncredited
Released: 1965-08-01

A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous...

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Sweet Revenge

as Detective Oka
Released: 1977-12-17

Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of...

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The Rough One

as uncredited
Released: 1969-06-13

A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a...

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Shadow Hunters

as uncredited
Released: 1972-06-10

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the...

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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

as Mori
Released: 1977-05-21

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her...

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Profit from Killing

as uncredited
Released: 1964-11-11

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there...

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To Your Majesty, The Emperor

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-28

A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his...

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The Flower and the Angry Waves

as uncredited
Released: 1964-02-08

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before...

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Outlaw: Heartless

as Gohara
Released: 1968-08-01

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a...

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Zero Fighter

as uncredited
Released: 1966-07-13

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Tale of Army Brutality

as uncredited
Released: 1963-06-14

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill...

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Gambling is My Destiny

as uncredited
Released: 1965-04-04

Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make...

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Safari 5000

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-19

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...

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Penitentiary Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-26

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

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Tokyo Bay

as Ryohei Inoue
Released: 1962-05-27

An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets...

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若い川の流れ

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-14

The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...

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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

as uncredited
Released: 1984-12-28

Japanese comedy film.

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Seishun no Sabaki

as uncredited
Released: 1965-04-14

University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked...

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Homecoming

as uncredited
Released: 1964-08-14

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that...

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Cross-Currents

as uncredited
Released: 1972-09-09

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager...

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The Fall of Teenager

as uncredited
Released: 1979-02-24

High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a...

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The Stars and I Decided...

as Iwakichi Mori
Released: 1965-08-14

The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of...

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Kokoro no sanmyaku

as uncredited
Released: 1966-02-02

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...

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Onihei Hankachō

as uncredited
First aired: 1989-07-12

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...

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Taikouki

as Matsubara Takumi
First aired: 1965-01-03

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period...

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Super Robot Red Baron

as Inspector Ippei Kumano
First aired: 1973-07-04

Super Robot Red Baron is a Japanese tokusatsu series that aired from April 4, 1973, to March 27,...

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