Tsunehiko Watase

Born: 1944-07-28

Tsunehiko Watase (July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Rintaro Kano in Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari ("Homicide Team 9"). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle.


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Carmen 1945

as uncredited
Released: 1988-04-09

Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third...

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Morning Moon Is Cruel

as Kusakabe
Released: 1981-06-21

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Virus

as Yasuo Tatsuno
Released: 1980-06-26

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

as Kuramoto Takeshi
Released: 1973-09-25

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family,...

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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun

as Makoto Sakuma
Released: 1981-12-19

A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes...

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G.I. Samurai

as Hayato Yano
Released: 1979-09-17

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

as Toshio Arita
Released: 1973-01-13

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a...

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The Fall of Ako Castle

as Kobayashi Heihachiro
Released: 1978-10-28

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie...

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Antarctica

as Ochi
Released: 1983-07-23

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an...

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

as uncredited
Released: 1973-03-31

Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school...

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Crest of Betrayal

as Yasubei Horibe
Released: 1994-10-22

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as Noboru Kitami
Released: 1974-12-28

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a...

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly

as Ryûji
Released: 1972-04-01

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to...

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Lovers Lost

as Kozo Watanabe
Released: 1982-06-12

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...

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Father of the Kamikaze

as uncredited
Released: 1974-09-14

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to...

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

as Kunimitsu Sugawa
Released: 1975-11-01

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of...

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Heaven and Earth

as Usami
Released: 1990-11-24

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal...

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The Tattooed Hitman

as Kenichi Furuta
Released: 1974-04-27

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war,...

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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup

as uncredited
Released: 1971-09-14

This is the thirteenth film in the series.

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

as Mari's friend
Released: 1971-04-28

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She...

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Operation Plazma in Osaka

as uncredited
Released: 1976-01-31

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's...

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Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Ryoji Ishihara
Released: 1989-06-17

Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...

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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

as Shuji Takagi
Released: 1976-05-29

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about...

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Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown

as Kuroki Tatsuya
Released: 1974-01-15

Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.

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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds

as Ashizawa
Released: 1977-04-29

A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a...

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Writhing Tongue

as Akira Miyoshi
Released: 1980-11-22

Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered...

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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage

as uncredited
Released: 1981-06-26

Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of...

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August without Emperor

as Akimasa Fujisaki
Released: 1978-09-23

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...

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A Savage Beast Goes Mad

as Shin Hayami
Released: 1976-05-15

Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has...

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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

as uncredited
Released: 1970-12-03

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting...

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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

as Akira Tateno
Released: 1993-07-03

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost...

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Fossilized Wilderness

as Sousuke Nishina
Released: 1982-04-17

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Marriage Counselor Tora-san

as Tony
Released: 1984-08-04

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...

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Death Shadows

as uncredited
Released: 1986-09-20

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of...

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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1974-06-01

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the...

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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

as Lower Hanzo
Released: 1980-02-23

The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were...

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1750 Days of Turbulence

as uncredited
Released: 1990-09-15

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

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Three Pretty Devils

as uncredited
Released: 1970-06-13

A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get...

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Violent Panic: The Big Crash

as uncredited
Released: 1976-02-28

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way,...

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Gate of Youth

as Kanayama
Released: 1981-01-15

The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal...

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Japan's Don

as Takeshi Nomizo
Released: 1977-01-22

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo...

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The Last Kamikaze

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-29

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step...

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Amagi Pass

as Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
Released: 1983-02-19

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha...

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Karate Killer

as uncredited
Released: 1973-10-13

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the...

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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

as uncredited
Released: 1972-03-04

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....

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Tokyo Blackout

as Asakura Tatsuya
Released: 1987-01-16

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped...

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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

as Yôichi Kikumura
Released: 1973-05-24

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more...

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The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years

as uncredited
Released: 1973-02-17

Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...

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Wolves of the City: First to Fight

as uncredited
Released: 1971-12-29

Pinku from 1971.

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Jesus is My Boss

as Yuji Kihara
Released: 2001-09-01

A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the...

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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

as uncredited
Released: 1972-08-25

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...

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The Horrible Obsessions

as Masayuki Shinshiro
Released: 1972-12-16

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after...

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The Street of Desire

as Sadaichi Yamakoshi
Released: 1984-04-14

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

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The Karate Man and the Spy

as Tekken Sakuragi
Released: 1974-07-04

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and...

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

as Antique Dealer
Released: 1997-11-08

A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.

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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro

as Genta
Released: 1972-06-21

Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his...

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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36

as uncredited
Released: 2014-12-13

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Violent Fraternity

as uncredited
Released: 1974-11-01

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's...

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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences

as Goro Yuki
Released: 1972-11-07

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

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The Three Undelivered Letters

as Minegishi
Released: 1979-10-06

A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to...

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Call from Darkness

as Kazuo Harada
Released: 1981-09-26

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo...

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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

as uncredited
Released: 1971-02-13

The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara...

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The Silk Road

as Li Yuanhao
Released: 1988-06-25

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of...

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Heaven Sent

as Shinsaku Miura
Released: 1979-12-28

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously...

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

as uncredited
Released: 1980-04-05

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four...

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Andromedia

as Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
Released: 1998-07-11

After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the...

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The Rapacious Jailbreaker

as uncredited
Released: 1974-12-07

Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But...

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Sanpei the Fisher Boy

as Ippei Mihira
Released: 2009-03-20

Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love...

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The Armed Organization

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-10

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji...

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Jeans Blues: No Future

as Jiro Katagiri
Released: 1974-03-30

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile,...

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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance

as uncredited
Released: 1970-08-01

The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.

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Beyond the Shining Sea

as Atsushi Tanii
Released: 1986-07-12

Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she...

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Sympathy for the Underdog

as Susumu Seki
Released: 1971-01-12

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to...

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The Wicked

as uncredited
Released: 1980-06-28

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the...

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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

as Watarai Kikuo
Released: 1973-07-04

After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they...

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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword

as uncredited
Released: 1982-06-04

A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke...

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Time and Tide

as Yasu-san
Released: 1983-03-18

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

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The Incident

as Takeshi Hanai
Released: 1978-06-03

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a...

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Golf Before Dawn

as uncredited
Released: 1987-12-19

Comedy film.

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Student Yakuza

as uncredited
Released: 1974-02-16

A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage,...

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Hell Riders in Kyoto

as uncredited
Released: 1973-04-28

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That...

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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War

as Hiroshi Kategaru
Released: 1976-09-04

Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent...

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The Decisive Power of Aikido

as uncredited
Released: 1975-11-22

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop...

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Gate of Youth 2

as Tadao Ishii
Released: 1982-01-23

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

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Code of Wolves

as uncredited
Released: 1974-10-05

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his...

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Yakuza Skirmishes

as uncredited
Released: 1972-09-29

In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively...

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Third Generation Boss

as uncredited
Released: 1974-08-10

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small...

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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-19

When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza...

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Troops of Darkness

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-10

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years...

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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

as uncredited
Released: 1974-11-22

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle...

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Gang Warfare

as uncredited
Released: 1972-04-14

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Zorome no San Kyoudai

as uncredited
Released: 1972-01-15

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke,...

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Prison Tales

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-10

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Killer's Hit List

as uncredited
Released: 1970-01-31

A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another...

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Woman Mobsters

as uncredited
Released: 1974-03-01

Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the...

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Emperor of Upheaval

as uncredited
Released: 1993-06-12

The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his...

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Pimp Heaven

as uncredited
Released: 1975-05-24

Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens...

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Fushin no Toki

as uncredited
Released: 1984-12-28

Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.

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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

as Mao
Released: 1973-09-01

Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his...

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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die

as uncredited
Released: 1989-01-14

Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist...

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Sensei

as Akira Nakajima
Released: 1989-04-08

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Nile

as uncredited
Released: 1999-11-13

A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his...

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Let's Get Happy

as uncredited
Released: 1998-12-09

A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The...

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Curtain Call

as Takuji Shinozaki
Released: 1984-07-14

Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko...

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One Bowl of Kakesoba

as Proprietor of Hokkaitei
Released: 1992-02-15

Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba...

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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears

as uncredited
Released: 1993-05-08

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Fate Deals the Card of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1971-02-13

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after,...

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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode

as uncredited
Released: 1990-04-20

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and...

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Aesthetics of a Bullet

as uncredited
Released: 1973-02-10

A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan...

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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38

as Hideo Yoake
Released: 2015-08-29

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Steel & Lead

as 探偵
Released: 1997-11-15

A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail...

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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack

as uncredited
Released: 1975-01-15

Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

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The Gambler's Counterattack

as Takeji
Released: 1971-10-14

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang...

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The Experience

as uncredited
Released: 1970-10-06

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

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Abandoned

as uncredited
Released: 1981-06-06

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship...

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Samurai Rebellion

as Futago Rokubei
Released: 1987-07-02

Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called...

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Shōwa Gokudōshi

as uncredited
Released: 1972-06-15

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Inside a Girl's Dormitory

as uncredited
Released: 1970-11-21

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Maji!

as uncredited
Released: 1991-04-13

Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.

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Haru Urara

as Dai Muneishi
Released: 2005-04-01

Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single...

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Chiritotechin

as Tsurezuretei Sojaku
First aired: 2007-10-01

The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about...

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Katsu Kaishu

as Tanaka Shinbei
First aired: 1974-01-06

Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "

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Antarctica

as Atsushi Kuramochi
First aired: 2011-10-16

Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied...

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Back of Father

as Asakura Kenzou
First aired: 2014-07-13

A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and...

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Homicide Team 9

as Rintaro Kano
First aired: 2006-04-19

The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal...

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Sanada Taiheiki

as Sanada Nobuyuki
First aired: 1985-04-03

The drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled...

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The Fire Still Burns

as Fujiwara no Hidehira
First aired: 1993-06-04

This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the...

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And Then There Were None

as Hyogo Iwamura
First aired: 2017-03-25

10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off...

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Unified Shadows

as uncredited
First aired: 1975-04-05

During the Tenpo period, the three samurai under the command of the Nanba magistrate were...

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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-05-09

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Omiyasan

as Torii Kansaburo
First aired: 2002-05-09

The head of the Information Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, Grass Wall Office...

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海を渡った愛と殺意

as uncredited
First aired: 1997-12-29

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ランドセルと目玉焼き

as Kunio Hayasaka
First aired: 1983-09-14

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