Nenji Kobayashi
Toshiji Kobayashi (小林 稔侍, Kobayashi Toshiji, born on February 7, 1941), known by his stage name, Nenji Kobayashi (alternative reading of 稔侍), is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 23rd Japan Academy Prize for Poppoya.
Virus
as Doctor's Assistant #2Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in...
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The Twilight Samurai
as Choubei KusakaSeibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
as uncreditedAfter being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom...
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
as The Young ManAfter being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as TsuneIn a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go...
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Railroad Man
as Senji SugiuraA railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of...
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Message from Space
as Officer FoxThe peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes...
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Station
as Detective TatsumiA detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in...
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Love and Honor
as Sakunosuke HiguchiA look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice...
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Street Mobster
as TetsuoAfter serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Hiroshi TaniguchiAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
as uncreditedA war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for...
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47 Ronin
as uncreditedKon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is...
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His Motorbike, Her Island
as News ReporterAfter a series of chance meetings a shiftless motorbike enthusiast Ko begins a romance with a...
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Why Not?
as MatakichiThe film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in...
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Farewell to the Land
as FarmerYukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his...
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The Motive
as Mutuo TouraFour people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims...
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Organized Violence
as uncreditedA war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
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Doberman Cop
as Katsuo KōyamaJoji 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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What a Wonderful Family!
as NumataA husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife...
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Shogun's Samurai
as Scarred RoninFollowing the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by...
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Suspicion
as Prosecutor MunakataA car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the...
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Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
as uncreditedThe 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
as uncreditedThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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New Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
as uncreditedOnce again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
as uncreditedHidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he...
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What a Wonderful Family! 2
as Ginnpei MarutaSeveral years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a...
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Tsubaki Sanjuro
as Kurofuji"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper,...
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Hokuriku Proxy War
as uncreditedIn the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...
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Curse of the Dog God
as uncreditedA trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as Akira KitajimaA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Moment of Demon
as Sushi chefFilled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds...
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Miss Lonely
as Douryou InoueLonely and love-stricken high-school student Hiroki pursues a girl, but another one mysteriously...
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A Kamikaze Cop
as uncreditedAn undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two...
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The Story of a Man Among Men
as uncreditedDuring the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss...
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IMPOSSIBILITY DEFENSE
as Hiroshi TorimoriAt a certain park, there is a mysterious man, who has red eyes and a black suit, that people can...
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The Revolt
as Sergeant HaradaWhen a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being...
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The Bear Storm
as uncreditedAn adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of...
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Winter's Flower
as Kiichiro HanaiKanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...
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The Little House
as Gunji AraiFollowing the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers,...
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
as uncreditedThe 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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The Hidden Blade
as KôdaSet in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedThe film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys...
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Tracked
as MoritaniWhen a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain...
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Secret Information
as Thug AA gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and...
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
as uncreditedAttacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
as uncreditedThis biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his...
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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
as uncreditedA fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts...
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The Longest Tunnel
as uncreditedAfter a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
as uncreditedThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
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Café Lumière
as Yoko's FatherIn a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is...
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
as uncreditedMomojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
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Tokyo Family
as NumataAn elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
as uncreditedComing out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang...
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The Island Closest to Heaven
as Yoshimi AoyamaA Japanese teenager travels to New Caledonia in search of the fabled "island closest to heaven"...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
as CookEasily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in...
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The Firefly
as uncreditedJapanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look...
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The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor
as Customer at 'Hero'A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time...
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Labyrinth of Cinema
as KizumaThe only movie theater on the Onomichi seafront is about to close its doors. Its last night of...
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A Homance
as FukuokaA homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the...
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Festival Champ
as uncreditedHiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls...
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The Seburi Story
as uncreditedThe culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy...
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Gate of Youth
as ChotaThe story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal...
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The Yoshida School
as Eiichi NishimuraCoinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece...
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Uzumasa Limelight
as uncreditedFewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day,...
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son
as uncreditedNobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier...
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Free and Easy 9
as Tsunetaro BabaHama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very...
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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
as GonzohDuring the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is...
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About Her Brother
as Shohei TannoGinko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing,...
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Yanagase Blues
as uncreditedJiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Takenosuke ShigaThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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Lullaby of Death
as Detective AkutsuAlso known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya...
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Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us
as uncreditedExciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
as uncreditedSet loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most...
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Momoe's Lips: Love Beast
as Masanobu ÔmichiThis year's Record Award was decided to go to popular singer Natsu Akemi. Yoshioka, the...
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Game of Chance
as TigerBungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling....
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The Private Police
as uncreditedAfter the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
as uncreditedTakashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
as uncreditedIn the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...
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Jugyo Sankan no Onna
as KiriharaOne spring, Tasaka, an elementary school teacher, receives a new class of first graders. While...
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Amateur Singing Contest
as uncreditedTraditional Japanese pop singer Reiko (Muroi) decides to enter a well-known TV program for...
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MARKS
as Yuzo RinbaraAssistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member....
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It All Began When I Met You
as TaizouSix love stories following the love lives of ten different people.
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Flower Season
as uncreditedKitamori Yuki was particular about her promise to her mother-in-law Hana. The promise is that,...
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The Silent Sword: Loyalty and Honor
as uncreditedKeinosuke (Masakazu Tamura) is a ronin (wandering samurai) who lives on the streets although he...
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
as uncreditedAn undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination...
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Prison Boss
as uncreditedRival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
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Early Spring Story
as Coffee shop ownerA high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with...
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Demon
as ToshioShuji was once a feared member of the Yakuza crime syndicate, but he's reformed his ways,...
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Nuns That Bite
as uncreditedA woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and...
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Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
as uncreditedAfter the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its...
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The Drifting Classroom
as YoshioAn entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a...
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Karate Warriors
as uncreditedSakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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The Stupid Teacher
as uncreditedFilm director Mario Baba meets a mysterious gentleman, and realizes he is a important man from...
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A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
as TakanoA widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a...
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Love Lost in Tears
as uncreditedJapanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
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Military Comfort Woman
as uncreditedMovie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese...
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Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
as uncreditedUpon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must...
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Glorious Fights
as uncreditedA young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor....
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Code Between Brothers: All New
as uncreditedWhen the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss...
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
as HideoBored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the...
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Nuclear Gypsies
as uncreditedBarbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an...
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The Political Game
as uncreditedThis is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and...
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It's a Flickering Life
as uncreditedThe story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of...
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Clock Store's Girl
as TomoyasuThe story is about the emotional and spiritual exchange between an elderly watchmaker and a...
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Crazy Thunder Road
as TsuyoshiWhen Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as uncreditedWith his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...
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Nogare no machi
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as uncreditedAfter a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they...
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The Classroom of Terror
as uncreditedYusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a...
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The Armed Organization
as uncreditedViolent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...
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Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad
as Noboru Takahashi (Episode 4)Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
as uncreditedA gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo...
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See You
as uncreditedEven while having tremendous technology, now have a funeral shop walk picking up the car was...
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Stay or go?
as uncreditedShohei Taguchi is a salaryman who works for a securities company and loves women like no other....
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Hoshi Meguri no Machi
as Yusaku ShimadaAn old widower who lives with his two daughter runs a tofu store,one day a distant relative...
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Gate of Youth 2
as Ryoji KimotoMid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Desperate Pursuit
as SanoIn the desert of Egypt, Kurata, the CEO of the Japanese corporation Tokokaihatsu, is killed by a...
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The Navy
as uncreditedA tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...
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Night Guy
as uncreditedTokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and...
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A Desirable Marriage
as Masayuki YamauchiA human drama on the state of marriage today, following the battle between a mother and daughter...
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Nerves for Victory
as uncreditedA young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars...
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Megumi no Sekai
as uncreditedA unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who...
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The Audition
as YamawakiFour girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
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Love Beast: Attack!
as KawamuraA high school girl gets molested by her mother’s current lover. He is a sleazy detective working...
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Choji Snack Bar
as KozekiEiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for...
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Tax Inspector Madogiwa Taro: Case File 30
as uncreditedA man is murdered after stealing documents from the Olympic Department of the Ministry of...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
as Yamano SaburoAiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang...
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Zeccho shimai ochiru
as Shôji SonodaMika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
as Oda TsunemiKatsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film...
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Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits
as Kuhei SagiharaAn old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in...
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A Brief Message from the Heart
as uncreditedA young woman tries to reconcile with her mother, who left their family for another man.
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Captain Ultra: The Movie
as Joe, Space AlienIn the latter half of the 21st century, Captain Ultra and the crew of his ship the Mighty...
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Essential Information for a College Girl
as Ken Kakurai - Handsome HomosexualThe erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.
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Shin Jidan Koshonin Ura File
as Sosuke Ohara"Elite" members of an insurance company are gathered together to form a unit to investigate an...
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Dr. Hikojiro
as Kyosuke TanigawaOne day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine...
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Paper Lantern
as uncreditedA new wave Yakuza film in which Takanori Jinnai plays a young Yakuza suffering from stomach...
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The detective whose path was crossed by a snake
as uncreditedStarring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh...
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Detective Tokunosuke Jinbo 11 ~ Friendship Through Train Trip ~
as uncredited
Chūshingura Urabanashi: Nakazō Kyōran
as uncreditedNakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the...
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Hanayome
as uncreditedChiyo, a 59 year old mother of 4, had lost her husband seven years ago. She will soon lose her...
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SMAP×SMAP
as Skit GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Furuhata Ninzaburo
as uncreditedFuruhata Ninzaburō is a Japanese television series that ran periodically on Fuji Television from...
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The Woman of S.R.I.
as Shunsuke KobaMariko is a forensic scientist working at the Kyoto PD Crime Lab. Her credo is “science never...
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Tsuyosi Teshigawara（勅使河原 毅）Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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Mission To Kill
as uncreditedContinuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the...
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Dear Students!
as uncreditedSeito Shokun! is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yoko Shoji. It is serialized in...
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Hanekonma
as Kojiro TachibanaRin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her...
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Papa for One Summer
as Daigoro KonariA high school student’s mother passes away leaving her alone with her grief. The girl, Marimo,...
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Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
as uncreditedAfter the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil....
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Stalker
as uncreditedThe wife and child of a businessman find themselves in danger when the man unwisely becomes...
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Papa to Nat-chan
as uncreditedPapa to Nat-chan is a drama about a young girl who matures from a high school student into a wife.
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The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?
as uncreditedAn epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during...
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Older brother
as BunkichiThe series tells about the life of construction foreman Eiji and his sister. Both have a love...
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Korekara: Umibe no Tabibitotachi
as uncreditedThrough the lives of people aging in a seaside retirement home, the drama depicts the aging...
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A Dangerous Woman
as uncreditedFollowing on the heels of "Stalker," this title continues the same theme, focusing on a young...
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The Story of Bodyguard Shuhei Fujisawa
as Matahachiro Aoe13th year of the Genroku era. Matahachiro Aoe, a samurai of the Shonai clan from Dewa Province,...
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