Tatsuo Umemiya
Tatsuo Umemiya (梅宮 辰夫, Umemiya Tatsuo, 11 March 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and talent Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows. Umemiya died of kidney failure on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as Hiroshi WakasugiIn the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as uncreditedOnimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties...
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Ryakudatsu ai
as uncreditedThe fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An...
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The Shogun Assassins
as Sanada NobuyukiThis is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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Graveyard of Honor
as Kozaburo ImaiA self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
as Shinichi IwaiShozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
as Shinichi IwaiAs Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
as uncreditedGang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to...
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Metamorphosis
as uncreditedA sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
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Hunter in the Dark
as KawazuYataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill....
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Cops vs. Thugs
as Lt. KaidaWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
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Prince of Space
as Prince of Space / WallyAttracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as Jûdayû ArakiKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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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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Gang vs. G-Men
as KurokiTwo rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
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Capone Cries a Lot
as Kyubei HoriUmiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of...
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Nuclear Gypsies
as uncreditedBarbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an...
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Yakuza Graveyard
as uncreditedA police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in...
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The Tattooed Hitman
as Ichiro IshinoThe most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
as KaizuChiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent...
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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 Rapacious Jailbreaker
as uncreditedConvicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...
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The Last Kamikaze
as uncreditedWith World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...
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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 Great Road
as uncreditedThe story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National...
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The Last True Yakuza
as OtomoA made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Owner of Hotel SannoBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Japan's Don
as FukushimaA yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...
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Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission: From Japan With Love
as Juzo KurokawaTadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young...
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G-Men in the Pacific
as MunekataG-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to...
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Life of Hishakaku
as uncreditedAfter eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf....
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The Japan Derby Race
as uncreditedA story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
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Succession
as Toshimitsu HanamuraA former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of...
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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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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
as uncreditedThis is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
as GoroAfter World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of...
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The Challenge
as uncreditedJournalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that...
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
as uncreditedMid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
as Hiroshi KosakaKosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living...
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
as Hiroshi MatsunagaA man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle...
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
as HayamiIt takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created...
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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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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as uncreditedAfter a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they...
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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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A Lonely Gamble
as Toshihiko TakagiIn post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a...
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Gang vs. Gang
as uncreditedThe plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the...
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
as uncreditedThis is the thirteenth film in the series.
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The Bad Boss
as uncreditedThe first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It...
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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
as uncreditedA modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin...
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Gambling Den Heist
as NoshiroAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
as uncreditedThis biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his...
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The Seven Chefs
as Seizo MatsukiTraveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With...
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Devil's Flute
as Shunroku KazamaFamous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An...
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The Bad Guy Blues
as uncreditedA story about club hostesses in Osaka.
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Wild Spirit
as Eijiro KikukawaIt has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
as uncreditedA series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke...
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The Navy
as uncreditedA tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
as Shinichi IwaiThe 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...
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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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The Fixer
as uncreditedPolitical fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly...
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
as uncreditedSakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of...
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Afternoon When Flowers Fell
as uncreditedA widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out...
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Down with The Big Boss
as uncreditedIn pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the...
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
as uncreditedA gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that...
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Shura Group
as uncreditedRemake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
as Ryusuke AkutsuUsing a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try...
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
as MasaConvict son revenges innocent father's death.
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
as uncreditedThe film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys...
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Headphone Lullaby
as uncreditedThe story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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Domineering
as MuraokaWhen the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up...
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The Dump Truck Rascal
as Masao MachidaDepicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
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Gambler's World 2
as OtojirôThriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Four Hours of Terror
as FujioAirline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
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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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Man of the World
as uncreditedAn upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his...
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The Big Boss
as uncreditedA shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is...
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Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell
as uncreditedHamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a...
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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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Unification Of Japan 3
as Tadao KawabataWith the Kyowa and Shinto Clans in open conflict, Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) looks for a...
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Okatsu the Fugitive
as uncreditedOkatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is...
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Life of Hishakaku 2
as uncreditedUpon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain...
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Henchmen
as Kazusaburo FunakoshiThe three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city...
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Killing Melody Lady Smith
as uncreditedA painfully splendid adventure has begun!
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Karate Warriors
as GangsterSakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
as uncreditedA police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a...
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Once and For All
as uncreditedFilm concerning warring yakuza families.
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Love on a Daily Basis
as uncreditedThe lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
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Unification Of Japan
as Tadao KawabataAfter the young Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) force a local yakuza...
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
as uncreditedThis is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
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Troops of Darkness
as uncreditedA disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...
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The Swindlers
as uncreditedInteresting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
as uncreditedWith the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the...
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Delinquent Boss: Devour to the Bone
as uncreditedThis is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between...
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Chained Bitch
as uncreditedJapanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
as uncreditedJunko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work.
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Hooligans on Buggies
as uncreditedRivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
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World War III Breaks Out
as ShigeoThe lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war,...
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Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil
as uncreditedThe sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.
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Raised in a Palace
as Shigemi NittaSet in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young...
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Violent Fraternity
as uncreditedSet in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's...
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Mist and Shadows
as uncreditedThe film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale...
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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 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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Sex Peddlers
as uncreditedA young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion....
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Nerves for Victory
as uncreditedA young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars...
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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
as uncreditedThe hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
as uncreditedThe hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
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Unification Of Japan 2
as Tadao KawabataHimuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who joined Kyowakai, steadily rose through the ranks with his calm...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
as uncreditedThe son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza...
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
as uncreditedSomewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a...
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Daughter of Time
as SotaroA member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a...
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Planet Prince - The Terrifying Spaceship
as Planet Prince / Waku-sanSequel to 1959's Planet Prince
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The Awesome Circus Bastard
as Detective HattoriDaigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective...
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Night Bitch
as uncreditedA playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another...
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不良少年
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki
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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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Flower Cards Chivalry
as Ryuichi KitagawaAn absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
as Shinjiro AsahiRika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds...
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The Experience
as uncreditedTwo boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
as uncreditedThis is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between...
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Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
as uncreditedThe second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.
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A Woman’s Road
as uncreditedPoor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her...
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Won't Stand for Dying
as Kenji MamiyaThe son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company....
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A Blood Stained Love Affair
as uncreditedEmika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed...
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Three Generations of Yakuza
as uncreditedThe film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not...
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Once and For All Pt.２
as GoroContinuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
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Shura ga Yuku 4
as uncreditedThe fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the...
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Nagasaki Blues
as uncreditedJapanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
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The Revenge and the Death
as Hideo MatsunagaA gritty, noirish gangster saga.
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Night Guy
as uncreditedTokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and...
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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
as uncreditedTokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
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Yanagase Blues
as Jiro FukumotoJiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.
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Downtown Blues
as uncreditedThe desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
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Wolf Escort
as uncreditedRivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
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Hiroshima Yakuza War
as uncreditedAfter World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city.
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The Lucky Status Symbol
as uncreditedHiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is...
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Yokohama Bakkuretai
as uncreditedBased on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto.
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Otoko Michi
as uncreditedA man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.
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Legends of Honor
as uncreditedFirst ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
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Some Like It Hot
as uncreditedDetective investigates a murder connected to cocaine in a coin locker
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Industrial Spy
as Takeshi KogureKogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin...
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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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G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
as uncreditedG-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his...
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The Bad Boss 3
as uncreditedA story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
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Planet Prince
as Planet Prince / Waku-sanA mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a...
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Dream Maker
as uncreditedMasato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious...
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Gokudo Otoko Juku
as uncreditedA rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization!
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SMAP×SMAP
as Skit GuestSMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the...
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Iron Chef
as uncreditedIron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which...
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Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
as GuestAfter participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of...
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Hitoshi Tadano, the Extraordinary Undercover Detective
as 总裁Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a...
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The Roads Men Travel
as Jun'ichiThe series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and...
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The Naive Rogue Detective
as Yokomizo ShigetadaDetective Kichinosuke Yasuura, also known as "Yasu-san", A detective with a sense of humanity...
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Wave in Mind
as uncreditedThe wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's...
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Dear Father
as Komiya RyuujiSet in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of...
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Hadaka no Taishō
as uncreditedA new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter...
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Dragonfly
as Takejiri KenzoEiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence....
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