Minken Karasawa
Minken Karasawa (唐沢 民賢, Karasawa Minken, January 3, 1937) is a Japanese actor and talent from Minowa Town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
The Street Fighter
as Warden YamazakiTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Chief Investigator NakamuraIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as uncreditedRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Orgies of Edo
as Young man AThree stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
as uncreditedThe evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Reporter AAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Yasuo KobeWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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Doberman Cop
as Manager TakemuraJoji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...
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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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The Red Silk Gambler
as uncreditedWith her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a...
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Eleven Samurai
as uncreditedThe lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
as uncreditedAfter a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw...
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Restoration Fire
as uncreditedMegastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
as A Yoshioka CronieThe remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to...
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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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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as uncreditedThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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A Revengeful Raid
as uncreditedIn this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho,...
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Classmates
as uncreditedA story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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The Mad Fox
as Imperial Guard OfficerA court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
as uncreditedNatsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader....
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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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Eighteen Years in Prison
as uncreditedA former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
as government officialKogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
as uncreditedAmidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...
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Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
as uncreditedThe second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi
as uncreditedPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of...
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
as uncreditedThird part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's...
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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 Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedFour ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
as Detective NakataTsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
as uncreditedThe fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be...
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Brothers Serving Time
as uncreditedWhile imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...
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Code Between Brothers 2
as uncreditedThe services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal...
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
as uncreditedThe hero tries to unite various gangs.
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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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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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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
as uncreditedThe last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori +...
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Hoodlum Match
as uncreditedA good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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Whistling Drifter
as OkotanpeFriendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
as uncreditedThree stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as uncreditedThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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The Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
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Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes
as OkudaA wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into...
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Seventeen Ninja
as uncreditedAs the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
as uncreditedThe rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That...
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Yoka chigo zakura Make no wakamusha
as uncredited1962 Japanese movie
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The Medicine Case
as uncreditedMagistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
as uncreditedIn the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of...
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Industrial Spy
as OharaKogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as Susumu TakigawaUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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Four and A Half Mats
as KumagaiFukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and...
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Fly Boys, Fly!
as uncreditedSix young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots.
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
as uncreditedThe Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new...
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Hikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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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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Skyscraper Hunting
as uncreditedThe ASH (Abnormal Species Humanoid) first appeared in the beginning of the 1980s. They looked...
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The Biggest Gamble
as uncreditedWhen Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do...
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Kamen Rider
as Rich manTakeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams...
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Professional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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