Kenjirō Ishiyama
Kenjiro Ishiyama (石山 健二郎) was a Japanese actor.
High and Low
as Chief Detective 'Bos'n' TaguchiIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Kwaidan
as Father (segment "The Black Hair")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Japan's Longest Day
as General Shizuichi Tanaka - C-in-C Eastern District ArmyFollowing the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as uncreditedThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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Admiral Yamamoto
as Cmdr. MomotakeAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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Classmates
as Senzô ShiratoriA story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
as TatsugoroWhen a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a...
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Eddy Currents of Life
as uncreditedIt is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study...
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Vanished Enlisted Man
as uncreditedIn June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military...
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Rogue
as Masayoshi AsakawaCoal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind....
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as uncreditedThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
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Love and Crime
as Kosuke Saito (segment "Toyokaku jiken")A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and...
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Blackmail Is My Life
as uncreditedThough he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the...
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The Great White Tower
as uncreditedThe story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors...
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Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
as Boss Jubei AraisoBlind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving...
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Birth of a Fighter
as IsaburôA young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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Kojiro
as Lord TomitaSasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with...
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Wicked Priest
as uncreditedDuring the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two...
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Miyamoto Musashi
as Mibu GenzaemonIn Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
as uncreditedThe seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...
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The Sound of Waves
as Terukichi MiyataOn a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji...
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Sex and Life
as uncreditedDr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with...
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Brave Red Flower of the North
as uncreditedAn exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of...
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Tears of Banishment
as uncreditedNinkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
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The Symbol of a Man
as Shozaburo OshimaIn 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is...
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Industrial Spy
as HajimaKogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
as uncreditedFukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and...
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The Angry Sword
as uncreditedStory about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
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Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
as uncredited[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were...
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
as uncreditedThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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Game of Chance 3
as uncreditedBungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has...
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Three Generations of Yakuza
as uncreditedThe film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not...
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The Chivalrous Life
as uncreditedRyoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work...
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The Falcon Fighters
as uncreditedIn the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor...
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Prince of Wolves
as Manzo KusakaAs the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers...
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Shiosai
as uncreditedLonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love....
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
as uncreditedThe third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
as uncreditedThe Domain: Where The Blade Enters
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Art of Assassination
as Taiichi IshizukaA beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with...
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Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
as uncreditedYoung widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha,...
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Kunisada Chūji
as IsaburôKunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad...
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Champion Woman Gambler
as uncreditedNinth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
as uncreditedTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
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The Bad Boss
as uncreditedThe first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It...
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武蔵と小次郎
as 細川三斉As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword...
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Nunnery Confidential
as uncreditedErotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.
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Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha
as 黒姫の吉兵衛At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of...
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On the Road Forever
as uncreditedA wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the...
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Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedIchikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders....
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A Scarred Life
as uncreditedSet in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
as uncreditedIt’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by...
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Masseur’s Curse
as SoetsuOne murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a...
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Ootone no Taiketsu
as uncreditedIn the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling...
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Kogarashi Monjiro
as ZensukeMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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