Ryō Nishida

Born: 1939-01-20


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Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

as Okada Gonoshin
Released: 1974-04-24

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

as uncredited
Released: 1973-04-28

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

as Takano Shinji
Released: 1973-01-13

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...

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The Fall of Ako Castle

as uncredited
Released: 1978-10-28

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

as uncredited
Released: 1974-06-29

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

as uncredited
Released: 1974-01-15

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...

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Samurai Wolf

as uncredited
Released: 1966-11-19

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives...

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Doberman Cop

as Det. Takuya Tamura
Released: 1977-07-02

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...

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Aesthetics of a Bullet

as uncredited
Released: 1973-02-10

A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan...

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Hokuriku Proxy War

as uncredited
Released: 1977-02-26

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in...

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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

as uncredited
Released: 1969-10-01

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey...

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Gambling Code and Feuds

as uncredited
Released: 1977-08-27

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action...

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Japan's Don

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-22

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...

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Violent Panic: The Big Crash

as uncredited
Released: 1976-02-28

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...

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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo

as uncredited
Released: 1967-05-03

The second part of the Gamblers series.

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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-11

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of...

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The Yakuza Code Still Lives

as uncredited
Released: 1976-12-04

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new...

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Trials of an Okinawa Village

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-19

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1976-04-24

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...

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Return of the Outlaw

as uncredited
Released: 1968-06-28

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

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Samurai Geisha

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-31

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...

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Brothers Serving Time

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-03

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...

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Fangs of Darkness: Vengeance

as uncredited
Released: 1982-03-19

Wakayama Tomisaburo plays the role of Ichibei. His father is denounced from his clan and...

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The International Gang of Kobe

as White Soldier
Released: 1975-10-14

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun...

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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival

as 徳山五兵衛
Released: 1967-04-20

A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the...

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The Pledge

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-23

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...

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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

as uncredited
Released: 1972-05-27

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...

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Outlaw Cop

as uncredited
Released: 1976-02-04

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs...

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Code of Wolves

as uncredited
Released: 1974-10-05

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...

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Third Generation Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1974-08-10

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...

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Japanese Godfather: Ambition

as Ichiro Funase
Released: 1977-10-29

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...

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Eighteen Years in Prison

as uncredited
Released: 1967-02-24

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes...

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Code Between Brothers 5

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-12

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...

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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1974-06-01

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...

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Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark

as uncredited
Released: 1981-01-01

Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native...

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The Viper Brothers and the Young General

as uncredited
Released: 1975-03-01

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Judo vs. Karate

as uncredited
Released: 1966-10-30

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

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Operation Plazma in Osaka

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-31

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...

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The Bandits

as Boy
Released: 1968-05-21

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...

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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro

as Kamekura
Released: 1972-06-21

Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...

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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game

as Nakahara
Released: 1974-10-18

Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-28

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...

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Tears of Banishment

as uncredited
Released: 1967-06-17

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

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The Cross of Vengeance

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-24

Film with Junko Miyazono.

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Gambling Den Heist

as uncredited
Released: 1975-06-21

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

as uncredited
Released: 1972-08-25

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...

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The Shogun and His Mistresses

as Igamono 2
Released: 1967-07-30

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

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Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-28

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former...

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Decapitation of an Evil Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-22

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history....

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Rub Out the Past

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-26

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

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Gambler: Victory Without Death

as uncredited
Released: 1967-07-08

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing...

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Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie

as Baru
Released: 1978-07-22

The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

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Zorome no San Kyoudai

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-15

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...

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King of Sha-kin 2

as uncredited
Released: 1997-10-11

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

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Message from Space: Galactic Wars

as Baru
First aired: 1978-07-08

The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru,...

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