Shirō Yanase

Born: 1930-02-16


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The Perfect Game

as Akiya
Released: 1958-11-11

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the...

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Youth of the Beast

as Ken Ishizaki
Released: 1963-04-21

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...

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Blind Woman's Curse

as Kawaguchi
Released: 1970-06-20

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang...

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The Flower and the Angry Waves

as uncredited
Released: 1964-02-08

A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before...

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A Colt Is My Passport

as uncredited
Released: 1967-02-04

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

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Tokyo Knights

as uncredited
Released: 1961-02-01

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

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I Am Waiting

as Man B
Released: 1957-10-22

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster...

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Carmen from Kawachi

as Club DADA Manager
Released: 1966-02-07

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a...

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Kanto Wanderer

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-23

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....

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The Call of Blood

as Yamada
Released: 1964-10-03

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-29

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the...

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Man Who Causes a Storm

as uncredited
Released: 1957-12-28

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...

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Jungle Block

as uncredited
Released: 1960-06-15

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...

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Tattooed Life

as Asakichi
Released: 1965-11-13

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his...

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Teenage Yakuza

as Appliance Store Owner
Released: 1962-06-20

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a...

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100 Gamblers

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-14

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss...

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Gambler's Dilemma

as Masaraku
Released: 1969-09-27

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of...

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Three Rogues

as uncredited
Released: 1968-10-19

Two lone wolf yakuza (Hideki Takahashi and Kunie Tanaka) rob a gambling den, then split up when...

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The Incorrigible

as uncredited
Released: 1963-09-21

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars...

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A Slope in the Sun

as Buddy B
Released: 1958-04-15

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro...

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The Rule for a Vagabond

as uncredited
Released: 1965-08-04

A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this...

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Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-01-14

1962 Japanese movie

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The Guys Who Put Money on Me

as Kataoka
Released: 1962-12-09

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young...

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The Symbol of a Man

as Tsubo furi
Released: 1963-07-14

In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is...

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Jūdan no arashi

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-02

1962 Japanese movie

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Peonies And Dragons

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-15

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost...

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Everything Goes Wrong

as Tamiya
Released: 1960-10-08

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man....

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Family Crest: Die Like a Man

as Hampa Matsu
Released: 1969-03-15

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake,...

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Yoko o muita seishun

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-19

1962 Japanese movie

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Break Down that Wall

as uncredited
Released: 1959-06-23

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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Hana to ryu

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-26

Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie

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Showdown in Gangland

as uncredited
Released: 1970-03-07

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

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Records of Bloodshed

as uncredited
Released: 1970-06-10

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military....

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Living by Karate

as uncredited
Released: 1961-04-16

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

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Friendship of Jazz

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-03

Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...

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Smashing the 0-Line

as uncredited
Released: 1960-06-25

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and...

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Family Crest: Loyalty Offering Hell

as Kenzo Handa
Released: 1969-06-24

Nonaka Tetsugoro, a substitute for the Aoi group, held a flower party to celebrate the complete...

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Red Pier

as uncredited
Released: 1958-09-23

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a...

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Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger

as uncredited
Released: 1970-02-07

Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone...

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Frankie the Milkman

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-05

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out...

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Hageshī kawa

as uncredited
Released: 1962-10-06

1962 Japanese movie

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Song of the Underworld

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-12

A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken...

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The Man of Victory

as uncredited
Released: 1967-02-25

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The Spiders' The Noisy Parade

as uncredited
Released: 1968-01-03

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired...

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Night of Sorrow

as Tetsuji Nojima
Released: 1966-03-27

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is...

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The Aftermath of War

as uncredited
Released: 1967-11-18

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or...

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Underworld Beauty

as uncredited
Released: 1958-03-25

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen...

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Season of the Sun

as uncredited
Released: 1956-05-17

The film tells the story of a group of high school boxing team members who spend their days...

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Kaerazeru hatoba

as uncredited
Released: 1966-08-13

A crime film from 1966

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Farewell to the Code

as uncredited
Released: 1971-09-11

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The Dragon of Macao

as uncredited
Released: 1965-12-18

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand...

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Born Under Crossed Stars

as Eikichi
Released: 1965-08-25

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the...

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Utau abarenbō

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-26

1962 Japanese movie

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Hawk of the Harbour

as uncredited
Released: 1967-08-12

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets...

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Wakai futari

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-21

1962 Japanese movie

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The Reckless One

as uncredited
Released: 1967-04-09

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has...

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Women's Police: Part II

as uncredited
Released: 1969-05-28

Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. ...

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The Gun Like Lightning

as uncredited
Released: 1960-05-14

Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just...

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The Dragon Crest

as uncredited
Released: 1963-11-10

A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan.

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Duel in the Storm

as Sohachi
Released: 1968-08-01

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to...

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Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life

as uncredited
Released: 1971-06-10

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads...

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A Turning to Hell

as Nabe
Released: 1959-10-06

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on...

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Greatest Boss Of Japan

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-18

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to...

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Kôkôsei burai hikae: Tsuki no Muramasa

as uncredited
Released: 1973-04-07

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

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Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-28

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Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler

as uncredited
Released: 1969-07-12

Japanese crime film

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Hitoribotchi no futari daga

as uncredited
Released: 1962-11-03

1962 Japanese movie

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Lone Rebel

as uncredited
Released: 1969-09-13

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive,...

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Girl Boss: Broken Justice

as uncredited
Released: 1969-02-22

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