Shōtarō Hayashi
Japanese actor.
Harakiri
as uncreditedDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi....
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia....
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Matsunaga TakeshiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Orgies of Edo
as InosukeThree stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this...
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Message from Space
as EFF CaptainThe peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes...
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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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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
as uncreditedOryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...
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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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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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Roaring Fire
as SatoruOn his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s...
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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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Japan's Don
as Miyoshi KanedaA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Father of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedVice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...
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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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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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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as uncreditedOnimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties...
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Winter's Flower
as uncreditedKanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a...
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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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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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Trials of an Okinawa Village
as uncreditedA 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 uncreditedThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
as uncreditedThe Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have...
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Girl Boss Guerilla
as Shuji NakaharaMiko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up...
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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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Code of Wolves
as uncreditedIn gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...
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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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Gambling Den Heist
as HaruoAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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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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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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Kanto Street Peddlers
as uncreditedKokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
as uncreditedThe third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...
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Gray Sunset
as uncreditedGrandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as uncreditedUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
as uncreditedPart 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
as uncreditedSeijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...
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Red Peony Gambler
as uncreditedRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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Code Between Brothers 6
as Narumi SuematsuSixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in...
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
as uncreditedJunko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey...
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
as FukudaReconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after...
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The Blazing Valiant
as uncreditedJo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare...
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Gambler's Legacy
as uncreditedA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Ministry of Justice Official AGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
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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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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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Brothers Serving Time
as uncreditedWhile imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking...
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The Fort of Death
as uncreditedThe second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group...
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House of Gamblers
as uncreditedKen Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden...
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
as uncreditedA Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a...
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Keepers of Order
as uncreditedChuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal...
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Code Between Brothers 5
as Shohachi ShiotsuSaburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
as uncreditedA professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally...
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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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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
as uncreditedUpon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...
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A Gambler's Certain Death
as uncreditedPart 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic...
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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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Hikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Sakura Official
as uncreditedAs Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
as uncreditedAfter World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza...
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Road In the Mist
as uncreditedOkinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her...
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Woman Mobsters
as uncreditedBank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the...
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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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