Takuzō Kawatani
Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains.
Oxen Split Torturing
as uncreditedTwo short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are...
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Empire of Passion
as Inspector HottaIn a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Saijo KatsujiShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
as ThugA local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Mitsuo IwashitaRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Ryoichi EnamiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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The Street Fighter
as Skull Crushed Yakuza Thug ÔshimaTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
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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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Policeman at hospitalAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Return of the Street Fighter
as uncreditedMartial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money...
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A Lively Geisha
as uncreditedYoung geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago...
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Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses
as PrisonerThe Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as Moriya HitoshiWhile Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as uncreditedBunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...
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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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Cops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Doberman Cop
as Hiyoshi KinoshitaJoji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as KajiyamaA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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Virgin Breaker Yuki
as RokuzoBased on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki,...
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
as HenchmanOryu 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 DetectiveThe seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...
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Three Gamblers
as Prison GuardThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
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Heat Wave
as Ryukichi InedaRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
as uncreditedOlder, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful...
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The Dream of Russia
as KoichiSumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as KiyoshiThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
as Tosaku SatohAyase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up...
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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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Code of Ruffians
as uncreditedBecause of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or...
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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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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
as uncreditedThe Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have...
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The Burmese Harp
as Sgt. IdoIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen...
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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedRyotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this...
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The Man Who Shot the Don
as uncreditedHorai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is...
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Yakuza Law
as uncreditedA story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
as Kazunari TsugawaThe eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
as TokumaruA nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school...
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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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A Yakuza Goes Home
as TatsuoShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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Wicked Priest
as Yakuza henchmanDuring the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two...
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Girl Boss Guerilla
as Yakuza henchmanMiko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Sergeant Major NagataBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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The Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
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Succession
as Kyozo ShigetaA former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of...
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Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!
as Dayon (voice) / Kemunpasu (voice)Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival....
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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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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as SanjiKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
as uncreditedA truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers...
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Code Between Brothers 5
as Yakuza henchmanSaburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai...
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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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Turtle Geisha
as MurataNatsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In...
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Eight Men to Kill
as GuardThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
as uncreditedReconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
as Saburo TanimuraTest driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has...
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
as Teruhisa YoshinagaAfter spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new...
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Death Shadows
as YasukeThree men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
as uncreditedWith a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
as SoldierThis anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when...
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Eien no 1/2
as uncreditedAn unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle...
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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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Killer's Mission
as GuardIchibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to...
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For Kayako
as Irujun ImA film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
as uncreditedThe industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...
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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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Gambling Den Heist
as Tetsuya besshoAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
as Gang memberThe Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....
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Red Peony Gambler
as HenchmanRyuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
as Detective BGirl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...
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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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Tora-san's Island Encounter
as SakaiTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
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Gamblers: The Raid
as Umekichi5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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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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The Kyoto Connection
as uncreditedChristina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap....
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Tracked
as Ichiro MakabeWhen a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain...
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The Life of Chikuzan
as SentaA 1977 Japanese biographical film directed by Kaneto Shindo based on the life of shamisen player...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
as HisamatsuNatsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader....
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Crane
as UmaemonBased on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
as uncreditedKogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...
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Yakuza on Foot
as uncreditedAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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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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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as uncreditedPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
as uncreditedEven after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
as uncreditedAn unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history....
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
as uncreditedThe fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara...
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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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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
as uncreditedTaking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling...
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Samurai Geisha
as uncreditedPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
as uncreditedAs the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a...
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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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Blood of Revenge
as uncreditedOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
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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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Jeans Blues: No Future
as IshimatsuHijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile,...
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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
as uncreditedIn Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest...
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
as uncreditedThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
as ThugThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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as FarmerA man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to...
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Guys Who Never Learn
as uncreditedComedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
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Momotarō Zamurai III
as uncreditedMomotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he...
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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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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
as uncreditedA crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and...
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
as uncreditedHoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and...
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Sure Death! 3
as uncreditedThird movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
as ThugThe long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...
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Return of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Mother
as uncreditedFrom the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated,...
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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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Student Yakuza
as uncreditedA youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage,...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
as uncreditedThe final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
as HenchmanTetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...
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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
as uncreditedShinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political...
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Hikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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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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Heiji, the Detective
as uncreditedFamous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an...
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Silk Hat Boss
as uncreditedIn a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...
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Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
as uncreditedThe third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
as uncreditedIn the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It...
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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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Shimane Prison Riot
as Yakuza underlingJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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Evil Doers
as uncreditedHiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. ...
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Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District
as uncreditedThe sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and...
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
as uncreditedGokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle...
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The Smart Aleck Ten
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.
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The Third Gangster
as uncreditedA small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving...
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Ronin on a Mission
as Mori KojiroMori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack...
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Let's Shoot Ridiculously
as uncreditedTakashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as uncreditedFujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a...
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Harimao
as Tani TamakichiA movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay...
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The Karate 3
as uncreditedThis is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role...
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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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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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Pimp Heaven
as uncreditedClass-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens...
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A Scarred Life
as uncreditedSet in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set...
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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 Wad of Notes
as YakuzaA lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
as YakuzaSeijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...
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Modern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
as uncreditedA small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan...
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Short and Fat
as Kazuto TonomaA high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's...
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The Three Ginza Rascals
as uncreditedThree men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
as DanSet at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the...
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
as uncreditedA one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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The King of Minami: Sweet Trap
as uncredited#10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover."
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Chotchan
as 野々村泰輔The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother.
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Keishi-K
as uncredited" Keishi-K " is a detective drama directed and starring Shintaro Katsu. This drama tells the...
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Kokugo Gannen
as uncreditedSet in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was...
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Izakaya Chōji
as uncreditedThe special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small...
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