Tatsuo Endō
Tatsuo Endō (遠藤太津朗, Endō Tatsuo, 30 January 1928–7 July 2012) was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Manhichioyabun on the television jidaigeki series Zenigata Heiji.
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 4: Rebel Forces at the Threshold
as uncreditedThe female ninjas have to stop an alliance from carrying out their dastardly deeds, which...
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 3: Sacred Book of Sexual Positions
as uncreditedThe government is worried that the Emperor will have no children because he can’t get an...
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Audition
as DoctorSeven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new...
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Sex and Fury
as InamuraSex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified...
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles
as uncreditedThe female ninjas need to protect their particular master's unborn infant from enemies. They use...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as uncreditedIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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The End of Summer
as Banpei's BrotherThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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The Street Fighter
as BayanTakuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Yagyu RetsudoIn the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed...
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New Tale of Zatoichi
as Inn keeperWishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as AiharaAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Daimajin
as GunjuroA giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
as HikirokuThe evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the...
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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
as Shirobei DaimonA Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
as Kanichi TokimoriRepeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Shigeo AiharaShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Night Train
as YunosukeA woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
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Female Yakuza Tale
as GôdaOcho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
as Gisuke KuramochiA local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
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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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Doberman Cop
as FujikawaJoji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly...
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King of Pornography
as uncreditedDumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman...
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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
as Yakuza boss of EjimayaZatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and...
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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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Human Torpedoes
as uncreditedStory of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end...
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The Third Will
as uncreditedA story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives,...
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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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The Chivalrous Life
as uncreditedRyoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
as Rikizo WatanabeTerry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a...
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Yakuza on Foot
as KuronumaAn Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
as IwagoroZatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as uncreditedConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Cops vs. Thugs
as Takeo OharaWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Naked Ambition
as uncreditedWicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by...
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The Bandits
as Daisaku NishikawaAction drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese...
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Code Between Brothers 3
as uncreditedA man finds great camaraderie while traveling.
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
as Boss Yasugoro of TakeyaBlind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang...
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Yakuza Ladies 2
as HayanoseYuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
as uncreditedInspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace...
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The Funeral Racket
as YonekuraThe film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
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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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Samurai from Nowhere
as uncreditedMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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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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Samurai Wolf
as uncreditedThis is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives...
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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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Lord Mito
as Hatao KurobeOne of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose...
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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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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Boss IwagoroZatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many...
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Team of Ruffians
as ShuryuPrisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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Karaoke
as uncreditedKodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a...
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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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Love Under the Crucifix
as uncreditedThe basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
as IshikiriPresident of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the...
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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
as uncreditedThe Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang...
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Samurai Geisha
as BanyasuPopular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business...
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Heiji, the Detective
as Manshichi MinowaFamous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an...
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
as uncreditedA roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
as uncreditedThe third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street...
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Japan's Top Gangster
as uncreditedA boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...
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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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The Domain: Severed Relations
as uncreditedThe Domain: Severed Relations
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The Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
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Three Gamblers
as Shorin OThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
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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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Gambler's Legacy
as TokachiA yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the...
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
as uncreditedAn honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
as Hiroshi NikaidôA nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school...
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The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
as uncreditedThe Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
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Zatoichi the Outlaw
as Boss TomizoWhen a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
as uncreditedThe continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
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Lone Wolf Isazo
as uncreditedIsazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his...
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Gambling Den's Master Clan
as uncreditedSixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Seven Gamblers
as uncreditedHanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group...
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Roaring Fire
as YangOn his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s...
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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 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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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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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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Flames of Blood
as uncreditedThe story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of...
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The Flower and the Dragon
as uncreditedA story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman...
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Game of Chance 3
as uncreditedBungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has...
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Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering
as uncreditedA fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as...
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
as uncreditedYakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There...
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A Yakuza Has His Way
as uncreditedThe eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by...
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The Dropout
as uncreditedDetective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Ryukichi YoshinoThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
as Genshin KusakabeNemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to...
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The Protector
as uncreditedMine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her...
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A Madcap Corporation
as uncreditedA comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.
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Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
as Mantaro KurodaA high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
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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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The Hard Core Criminal
as uncreditedIn the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in...
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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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Osaka Tough
as uncreditedThe film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people...
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Eight Men to Kill
as HirutokuThe third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a...
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The Thieves' Who's Who
as uncreditedIn the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
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Code Between Brothers 5
as Kanda TsurumatsuSaburo 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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Sworn Brothers
as GozoIchikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders....
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Showdown of Men 3
as uncreditedAfter being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to...
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
as HorikyuThe second part of the Gamblers series.
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
as uncreditedThe third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
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A Yakuza Goes Home
as MoneyShimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
as uncreditedThe Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri...
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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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Ninja's Mark
as Mushikago UjinWhen the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes...
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The Murder Corps
as uncreditedA violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...
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The Yakuza Awaits
as uncreditedForth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
as uncreditedThe film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between...
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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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Brothers of Capones
as uncreditedSuperbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his...
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Return of the Outlaw
as uncreditedSecond film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Prison Boss
as uncreditedRival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
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The Great Duel
as uncreditedIn this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his...
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The Path of the King
as uncreditedWhen the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
as uncreditedAn absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young...
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Crimes of Sex
as KazamaAn omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
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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 of Seki
as GosakuA young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister,...
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Four and A Half Mats
as Kikuzo SegawaFukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and...
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The Story of a Geisha
as uncreditedIn the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
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Rabble Tactics
as MagorokuThe warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers...
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Hoodlum Match
as uncreditedA good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
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Prison Gambler
as TakikawaA film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
as uncreditedNezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in...
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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 Yakuza Code Still Lives
as uncreditedAfter spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new...
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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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Assassins for sale
as uncreditedNagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
as uncreditedTetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...
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Yakuza Hooligans
as NishikawaA bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up...
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Bloodiest Flower
as uncreditedA dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine...
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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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The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
as uncreditedA man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.
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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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A History of the Japanese Underworld
as uncreditedThe hero tries to unite various gangs.
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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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Life of Matsu the Untamed
as uncreditedA poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
as uncreditedWith his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of...
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The Marked Man
as uncreditedA man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
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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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Legend of the Devil
as uncreditedA gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her...
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King of the Widow-Killers
as uncreditedThe third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the...
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Tears of Banishment
as uncreditedNinkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
as uncreditedIt’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by...
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Gambler's World 2
as Masugorô IwabuchiThriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Rise and Fall of Chivalry
as uncreditedA reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
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Golden Ninja
as uncreditedJust after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
as uncreditedEighth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his...
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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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Gambler
as Goro TanakaThe main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is...
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Ladies in Torture I
as uncreditedThis story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
as uncreditedIn Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...
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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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Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi
as uncreditedRyoko, a beautiful and renowned chief surgeon at a medical university, begins to groan and claw...
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Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano
as uncreditedKaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has...
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Master Dochu, Grudge and Love
as uncreditedWho are “Dochu-shi?” They are street thieves. Ankuro’s blissful holiday with his parents is...
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The Black Cat Mansion of Hatred
as uncreditedMysterious incidents occur around geiko in Fukagawa, and there is always the presence of a black...
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Professional Killers
as Genjuro OnoderaA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
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Yell
as uncreditedNHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife...
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Onihei Hankachō
as uncreditedHasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...
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The Shin Hasegawa Series
as uncreditedFrom the Taisho era to the Showa 30s, known as the father of popular literature who left many...
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The Samurai's Justice
as uncreditedThe 8th Tokugawa shogun, Yoshimune, sets up a suggestion box to hear the complaints of the...
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