Kunie Tanaka
Kunie Tanaka (田中 邦衛 Tanaka Kunie, November 23, 1932 - March 24, 2021) was a Japanese actor. He had his first notable role in 1960 as a thug in Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well, and worked with the director again on Sanjuro. Tanaka is well known for his roles in Kinji Fukasaku's yakuza films, namely the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series. He also appeared in Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan. He has been nominated for five Japanese Academy Awards, winning the Best Supporting Actor statuette for Gakko in 1993. He appeared as the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, nicknamed Aodaishō, the antagonist of the hero, played by Yūzō Kayama, in all of the Wakadaishō series of films. The character Kizaru, from Eiichiro Oda's manga series One Piece, is modeled after Tanaka.
Kwaidan
as Yasaku (segment "Hoichi the Earless")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Masakichi MakiharaIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Sanjuro
as SamuraiToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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The Face of Another
as Mentally Ill Man #1A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask...
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The Bad Sleep Well
as HitmanIn this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position...
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The Bullet Train
as Koga's BrotherA Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train...
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The Sword of Doom
as SenkichiRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as Obara NitôheiKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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Dodes'ka-den
as Hatsutaro KawaguchiThis film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
as StorytellerZatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles...
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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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Goyokin
as HirosukeA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Pitfall
as Man in White SuitA man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a...
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Graveyard of Honor
as Katsuji OzakiA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his...
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Tenchu!
as Rokkaku Prison OfficerA ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the...
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Station
as SugawaraA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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Demon
as KeitaShuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways,...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Masakichi MakiharaShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a...
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The Hidden Blade
as Kanbê KatagiriSet in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his...
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The Demon
as PolicemanWhen Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Masakichi MakiharaAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Sword of the Beast
as TanjiLegendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the...
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Ronin-gai
as Magozaemon DoiNear the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district...
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The Sun's Burial
as ThiefIn Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution,...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as Kinpachi KomiyaWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Never Give Up
as BartenderSpecial forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Gen SakagamiBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as Rikichi KomaderaKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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Manhunt
as Yokomichi KeijiA tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Masakichi MakiharaWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing...
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The Last Ronin
as uncredited16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako...
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The International Gang of Kobe
as Teruo MaruyamaIn 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun...
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The Inferno
as Unpei IkegataHell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a...
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Village of Eight Gravestones
as uncreditedThe heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries...
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The Inheritance
as uncreditedA dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose...
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Choji Snack Bar
as IwashitaEiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...
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My Sons
as uncreditedTetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has...
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Winter's Flower
as Kokichi MinamiKanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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Silence Has No Wings
as uncreditedFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...
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Free and Easy Special
as uncreditedApproached by a friend about a matchmaking arrangement, Su-san goes to Hama-chan's home seeking...
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All About Our House
as Chouichirou IwataTwo newlyweds decide to build their dream home, and hire an old friend named Yanagisawa to...
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Summer Soldiers
as FujimuraThe plight of U.S. Army deserters from Vietnam on the run in Japan, centering on the culture...
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Take Me Out to the Snowland
as Yûichirô TayamaFumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. His own skiing ability is...
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Lupin the Third: Strange Psychokinetic Strategy
as Daisuke JigenThe Maccherone organization is out to get a priceless national treasure. But when they see...
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May Love Be Restored
as Yugiri-ro clientA tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.
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The Wolves
as Matsuzo TsumuraAfter going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai)...
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White Love
as uncreditedKobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left...
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Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy
as uncreditedTravel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
as KirikawaTwo convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to...
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The Rainbow Seeker 2
as uncreditedSequel to The Rainbow Seeker where Ryo meets Katsu on a small island in the south of Japan....
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Campus A Go-Go
as uncreditedYoung Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football....
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Yakuza G-Men
as Masayoshi Imanishi34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to...
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The Merciless Trap
as uncreditedTaut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy...
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Japan's Don
as uncreditedA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
as Buddhist PriestA noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target...
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Oración
as uncreditedSet on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as uncreditedFujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a...
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Kita no kuni kara '92 Sudachi Part 1
as uncreditedThere is a man who divorced his wife. He moved to rural Hokkaido from Tokyo where he lived with...
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Lt. TodorokiObayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the...
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Resurrection
as Dr. SaitoWhen dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada...
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A Class to Remember
as InoA cantankerous but loveable high school teacher teaches a night school in a poor neighborhood...
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Shimane Prison Riot
as Yoshikazu MinagawaJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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The Revolt
as uncreditedWhen a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being...
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Early Spring Story
as Okino, Hitomi's fatherA high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with...
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The Threat
as uncreditedTwo escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an...
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The Wild Trucker
as uncreditedThe comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue....
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Abashiri Prison
as OtsukiAbashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have...
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My Voiceless Friends
as uncreditedA man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country...
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
as Tadao UedaA man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as Kuroki TaroTaro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...
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The Human Bullet
as uncreditedA soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...
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Company Buggers
as uncreditedHiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and...
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Cash Calls Hell
as uncreditedBefore leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in...
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
as Doctor Michio HongôA street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the...
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Kita no kuni kara '84 Natsu
as uncreditedSet in the town of Furano in Hokkaido, Kita no Kuni Kara centers around the story of the Kuroita...
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Tale of Ninja Duty
as uncreditedMumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he...
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Birth of a Fighter
as uncreditedA young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
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The Machine Gun Dragon
as uncreditedRyu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine...
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Nogare no machi
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
as Katsuji NemotoGoro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his...
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Tasmania Story
as uncreditedEiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As...
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The Woman Champion
as uncreditedFifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Deadly Swords in Search of Hidden Gold
as uncreditedThe secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa....
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Red Diamond
as George TakaseAfter losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit...
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Third Generation Boss
as uncreditedBased on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...
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Banner of the Young
as TaroThe final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the...
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300 Million Thief Immune to Charges Begins
as ToyamaIn this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of...
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The Rainbow Seeker
as uncreditedA young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in...
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The Summit of Mt. Fuji
as uncreditedThe Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
as uncreditedA gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a...
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Hidden Fangs
as uncreditedSet in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
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Tora-san to the Rescue
as Ship CaptainTora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged...
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Stray Dog
as SagawaWhen his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is...
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Arupusu no wakadaishô
as Shinjiro Ishiyama / AodaisyôSeventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Masakichi MakiharaThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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Koto—The Lake of Tears
as Kenkichi OharaA touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo,...
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Dynamite Don-Don
as SakuzoYakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
as InoueA widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a...
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The Fixer
as uncreditedPolitical fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Nichiren
as uncreditedAn epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
as Shinjiro Ishiyama (Aodaisho)The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.
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Duel at Fort Ezo
as Kurobei1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...
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Down with The Big Boss
as uncreditedIn pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the...
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The Story of Pure Love
as SatoyanJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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Operation Sewer Rats
as Private AnayamaTowards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
as uncreditedOsaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan...
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Great Jailbreak
as GodaA group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a...
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The Young Ace in the South Pacific
as Shinjiro IshiyamaThe 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train...
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The Miracle of Joe, the Petrel
as uncreditedIn Okinawa, a Japanese-Filipino gangster named Joe kills an Okinawan mobster. Joe temporarily...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
as OtsukiUpon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
as uncreditedIn the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong...
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The Great Japanese Pick-Pocket Club
as KanegaiA crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
as OhnoThe great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s...
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Karate Cop
as NeighborA martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse...
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Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case
as DobuAfter two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu...
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Oishinbo
as TattsanBased on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai...
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Machi no Hi
as GoroChiyomatsu under the hill, also known as Choromatsu. He is a young man whose occupation is an...
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Let's Go! Young Guy
as Shinjirou IshiyamaCollege student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face...
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Game of Chance 2
as uncreditedBungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the...
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The Truck Rascals Go to The North
as uncreditedEighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series
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A Desirable Marriage
as Mr. KawamataA human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
as Johei YawataMonjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their...
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The Last Game
as uncreditedAfter the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of...
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Charming Men
as Kuramoto KurajiOne day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea...
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The Woman Gambler's Revenge
as uncreditedTenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
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Blood on the Sea
as uncreditedFour fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
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Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
as uncreditedIwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of...
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Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
as Teacher FukushiAfter a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
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Baian the Assassin
as uncreditedFujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime...
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At This Late Date, the Charleston
as Army MinisterA young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several...
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Deeper Than Blue
as AjikawaAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
as uncreditedAn early Okamoto yakuza film, though it's not in the Underworld series (along with The Last...
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Battle Cry
as uncreditedDuring the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal...
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
as uncreditedThis is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and...
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Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow
as uncreditedA drama about a father and his son centered around the Great Hanshin earthquake.
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture
as uncreditedThe Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured...
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Love on a Daily Basis
as uncreditedThe lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
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Women and Miso Soup
as uncreditedTemari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.
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Tomorrow
as Shoji's stepfatherOn August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story...
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Light of Africa
as KatsuhiroTwo semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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College Champ
as uncreditedYuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon...
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Kewaishi
as uncreditedDirector Mitsutoshi Tanaka's adaptation of a manga by Shotaro Ishinomori was an official...
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The Undercover Ninja Organization
as uncreditedOniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story...
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Luminous Moss
as HachizoA headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before...
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Seasonal Wind
as uncreditedShinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his...
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Shy Security
as uncreditedA motocross rider avenges his father's death
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Salaryman Senka
as uncreditedBased on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.
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Hymn to a Tired Man
as Hisataro OhnoZensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war...
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The Shootout
as IwaiA run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of...
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Three Rogues
as uncreditedTwo lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when...
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Hangyaku no Tabi
as uncreditedHiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto...
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Shingo's Final Duel
as uncreditedAfter Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest...
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Young People
as Taro"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'The Bad Sleep Well'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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As the River Flows
as Matsuda (The Shopkeeper)2000 live-action Japanese film.
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The Bullet and the Horse
as uncreditedA number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a...
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Debt of Honor
as uncreditedA hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.
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Castle of Sand
as Eitaro ImanishiWhat is the dark fate of a young up-and-coming artist who is on the verge of achieving glory?...
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A Fishmonger's Tour
as uncreditedThe supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a...
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How to Be the Worst of Office Workers
as uncreditedA salaryman comedy.
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Young Guy at Sea
as 石山新次郎（青大））Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young...
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Hoshi wo tsugu mono
as Kenji YoshidaAn old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.
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The Desperate
as uncreditedA noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its...
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The Boat to Heaven
as Masato SakuraiA young boy, Masahiko Sakurai, grows up in Nagasaki where he sees the clear blue ocean everyday....
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New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
as uncredited
Doterai Man
as uncreditedBusiness is a game! A theatrical version of the TV drama that became a social phenomenon...
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Japan's Top Gangster
as uncreditedA boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...
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Sukanpin Walk
as Keizo FukamiMusical star vehicle for a young Kikkawa Koji.
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The Young Ace in Hawaii
as 石山新次郎（青大将）Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous...
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Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
as uncreditedComedy centered on a stripper agency
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Fukumimi
as uncredited29-year-old Satonaka Takashi (Kudo Kankuro) is a freelancer. He falls in love at first sight...
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Murder in the Doll House
as Detective NarakiYūsaku Matsuda plays the part of a private detective in this modern day "who dunnit" mystery,...
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
as uncreditedIn Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...
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The House of Wedlock
as uncreditedTokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work...
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Golden Ninja
as RisukeJust after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of...
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Kamigata Kugaizoshi
as uncredited"Do Not Fall" - Set during Japan's Meiji period, three sisters are abused and exploited by their...
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Angel's Lover
as uncreditedComedy about two employees who work against their boss.
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Private Detective DOBU 1
as uncreditedDobu (Kunie Tanaka) used to be a soldier but now is a private detective. Three vagrants were...
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
as uncreditedToei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
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In Broad Daylight
as MarchAfter his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old...
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Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
as DobuA spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method....
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The love song of farewell later
as uncreditedA suspense drama based on Osamu Takahashi's original work starring Shinobu Otake. The shooting...
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The Return of the Newshound and the Lady Cop
as Yutaro HatoriA jewelry broker is killed and a large amount of money is stolen. A female detective from the...
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Troubleman Laughs and Kills
as uncreditedKensho Yamashita's directorial debut.
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Private Detective DOBU 3: The Exile Island Murder Case
as DobuAfter six exiles return to Edo, four are mysteriously killed. Two survivors, Kosuke and Kingo,...
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Pride of the Campus
as Shinjiro Ishiyama (Aodaisho)Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant,...
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
as uncreditedBased on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series,...
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Tokimeki Coast Story
as uncreditedSet in the fishing port of Shingu, Nankishu, it depicts a young man aiming to become a...
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Tonga Adventure Family
as uncreditedThis adventure family drama is based on the story of Kazuhiko Inoue, who quit his job as a...
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Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
as Seiji MatsumiyaBeginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi...
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Private Detective DOBU 4: The Mysterious Kite Murders Case
as uncreditedIn Edo's autumn, a wave of murders hits, targeting those linked to an old case. A young man,...
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Forward, Young People!
as TaroThe second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman....
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Private Detective DOBU 2: The Kyoto Murder Case
as DobuDobu, an Edo samurai, is tasked with investigating a string of noble murders in Kyoto,...
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Kita no kuni kara
as 黑板五郎Set in the town of Furano in Hokkaido, Kita no Kunikara centers around the story of the Kuroita...
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Rice Curry
as uncreditedSet in the majestic Canadian wilderness, the drama depicts the adolescence and love of three...
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The Password is Courage
as uncreditedThe story takes place in a small rural village surrounded by beautiful nature. However, it is...
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Baian the Assassin
as Han-Emon of OtowaDuring the day, Dr. Baian is the friendly and trusted village acupuncturist. At night, he...
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Private Detective Dobu
as uncreditedDobu, an unconventional detective, teams up with Yoriki Samon to solve crimes in Yaoyacho, Edo,...
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Submersion of Japan
as TatsunoIn this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan....
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Hacchōbori Torimono Banashi
as uncreditedA jidaieki drama where a hard-nosed doshin, Shinpachiro Kariya, takes on difficult cases with...
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Older brother
as KintaroThe series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love...
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The Nagasaki Crime Chronicles
as Yoshitoshi KogureThe drama depicts in the late Edo period in Nagasaki, Hiramatsu takes up Nagasaki bugyō`s head...
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