Tamio Kawachi
Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).
Tokyo Drifter
as Tatsuzo the ViperAfter yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to...
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Gozu
as uncreditedMinami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder...
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
as Hiroshi KurosakiAn expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Kanbara SeiichiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Youth of the Beast
as Hideo NomotoWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with...
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Story of a Prostitute
as Shinkichi MikamiVolunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service...
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Heat Wave
as Shinkichi, HashibaRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
as uncreditedOnce again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes...
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
as uncreditedAn incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
as KatsuUpon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
as uncreditedThe life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for...
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Retaliation
as NaruseEmerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has...
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The Warped Ones
as AkiraA juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered...
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Everything Goes Wrong
as Jirô SugitaEverything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man....
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
as uncreditedStory of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during...
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Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant
as OsaSet many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human...
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I Hate But Love
as Hiroshi OzakiA celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves...
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Gambling is My Destiny
as uncreditedShadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make...
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
as uncreditedA young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before...
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Cruel Gun Story
as TakizawaBusinessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
as ManabeTajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring...
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Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin
as uncreditedKidnapped in childhood. Raised as an assassin. Shiori's spent her entire life following the...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Seiichi KanbaraThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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The Angry Rambler
as uncreditedFourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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Penitentiary Brothers
as Jiro MatsubaraAuthentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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Chi-n-pi-ra
as OtaniShibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at...
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Red Handkerchief
as uncreditedA hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the...
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The Viper Brothers Rage Again
as uncreditedPart 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
as Isamu TsujikawaGoro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime...
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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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Teenage Yakuza
as JiroA high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a...
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The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
as uncreditedPart 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Shimane Prison Riot
as Dog breederJapan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites...
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Gun Number Zero
as YoshioEric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It...
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
as Sueo ShigeA street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the...
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Black Sun
as AkiraAkira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a...
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Yakuza Don
as uncreditedKazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under...
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Carmen from Kawachi
as Seiji TakanoLike a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a...
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Savage Wolf Pack
as uncreditedA professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a...
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Woman from the Sea
as ToshioWhile in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who...
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Professional Killers
as Gozamatsu no MagohachiTwo assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
as uncreditedPlans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza...
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
as uncreditedA 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu...
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A Slope in the Sun
as Tamio TakagiThe young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro...
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KISS ME
as uncreditedA hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who...
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Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
as uncreditedIn this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku...
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Kazoku no sentaku
as Yoichi KanazawaA single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore...
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
as Kenjiro YoshidaAn unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young...
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The Setting Sun
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
as KurokawaAn exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007)...
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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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Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
as Kenji IgarashiAfter serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza...
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Prince of Wolves
as Ginji TachibanaAs the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers...
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East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
as uncreditedFukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for...
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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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Friendship of Jazz
as Kenji KawazoeKenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time...
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Wharf Temperament
as Eiji IwasaThe story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took...
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Loss of innocence
as uncreditedA young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the...
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Unripe Fruit
as uncreditedA youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on...
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Wounded Beast
as uncreditedA tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister...
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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
as uncreditedYakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 5
as uncreditedThe fifth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Dream Young Man's Dream
as uncreditedAn early contemporary yakuza action drama.
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Yakuza Emblem Chapter 2
as uncreditedThe second 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Empress
as uncreditedA struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as...
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Aruhi watashi wa
as uncreditedThe four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of...
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Return of the Vagabond
as uncreditedThe 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler,...
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Kitakami yakyoku
as Keisuke ShiratoKeisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it....
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I Fly for Kicks
as uncreditedA musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as Kaoru ShirafujiFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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Suparuta Kyouiku Kutabare Oyaji
as uncreditedIn a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara,...
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Shura ga Yuku 9
as uncreditedThe 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
as Masaya NozakiA youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira...
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A Gangster's Morals
as uncreditedYakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe
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The Rule for a Vagabond
as NaojiroA brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this...
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
as uncreditedThe third 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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若い川の流れ
as uncreditedThe story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department...
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Seishun no kaze
as uncreditedA romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 8
as uncreditedThe eighth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 4
as uncreditedThe fourth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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My Sweetheart
as KawachiIt had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by...
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Escape Captivity Looting Love
as uncreditedThe condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own...
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
as uncreditedAkiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she...
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
as uncreditedThe seventh 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Whirlpool of Flesh
as Kenichi SekiguchiDuring the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is...
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Star of Destiny
as uncredited"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen...
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
as uncreditedIn the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he...
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
as Ishikawa no TorakichiA man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the...
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Jidanya
as uncreditedEvery day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement...
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Sukiyaki
as Ryohel MiharaSukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This...
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Investigation of a Typical Love
as TakimuraThe screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who...
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 6
as uncreditedThe sixth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
as uncreditedA flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime...
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Gunball
as uncredited1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and...
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Welcome, My Baby
as Toshio TanimuraTwo friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage...
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Road to the Don 23
as uncreditedThe twenty-third 'Road to the Don' film.
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 9
as uncreditedThe ninth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Waru: The End
as uncreditedYouji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.
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A Man's World
as uncreditedTadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's...
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Bad Guys Only
as uncreditedA one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
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Conquest 11
as uncreditedThe eleventh film in the 'Conquest' series.
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 10
as uncreditedThe tenth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Fighting Knife Yoshi
as uncreditedKazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
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Gorotsuki
as uncreditedThis coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the...
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The History of Yakuza Struggles in Kyushu - The Ogura War
as uncredited
Kogarashi Monjiro
as SentaroMonjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned...
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Lost in the Rain
as Nozaki MasayaIt tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women....
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Tokugawa no Onnatachi
as uncreditedA drama about three different women living in the inner palace of Edo castle during the Tokugawa...
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