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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
as uncreditedWhile 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 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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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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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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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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Yakuza Graveyard
as KajiyamaA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Death Shadows
as YasukeThree men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of...
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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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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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The Dream of Russia
as KoichiSumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean...
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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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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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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 uncreditedMomojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
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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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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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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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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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Cops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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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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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: 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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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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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
as uncreditedThe Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have...
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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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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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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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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 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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Yakuza Law
as uncreditedA story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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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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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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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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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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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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Return of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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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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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
as uncreditedTaking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling...
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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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Silk Hat Boss
as uncreditedIn a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like...
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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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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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Momotarō Zamurai III
as uncreditedMomotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he...
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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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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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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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Samurai Geisha
as uncreditedPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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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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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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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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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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The Pledge
as uncreditedWhen Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict...
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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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A Yakuza Goes Home
as TatsuoShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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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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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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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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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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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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Code of Wolves
as uncreditedIn gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...
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Three Gamblers
as Prison GuardThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
as uncreditedSecond television special.
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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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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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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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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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Mother
as uncreditedFrom the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated,...
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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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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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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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Company Buggers
as uncreditedHiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and...
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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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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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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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Modern Lady Gambler
as uncreditedFujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...
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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 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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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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The Smart Aleck Ten
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.
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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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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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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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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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The Great Department Store Robbery
as uncreditedKatsuyo plans her last gang robbery.
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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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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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Tracked
as Ichiro MakabeWhen a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain...
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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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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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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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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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Heiji, the Detective
as uncreditedFamous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an...
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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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Crane
as UmaemonBased on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru...
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Gamblers: The Raid
as Umekichi5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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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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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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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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For Kayako
as Irujun ImA film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between...
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Kidnapping Blues
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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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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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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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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Story of a Nymphomaniac
as HisamatsuNatsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader....
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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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Student Yakuza
as uncreditedA youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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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 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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Yakuza on Foot
as uncreditedAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Hikage-Mono
as uncreditedA Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Truck Rascals VII: Close Encounters of the First Star
as uncreditedHoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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