Tōru Abe
Toru Abe (安部 徹, Abe Tōru, 28 March 1917 – 18 July 1993) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1944 to 1985.
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant...
Movie pageTokyo Story
as Railway StaffThe elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village...
Movie pageBlind Woman's Curse
as DobashiAkemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang...
Movie pageThe Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Watarai GunsôAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
Movie pageLady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
as Kendo TerauchiLady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to...
Movie pageWrath of Daimajin
as Hidanokami ArakawaIn a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as...
Movie pageBallad of Orin
as BeshoA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
Movie pageZatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
as Boss ToubeiZatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is...
Movie pageLustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses
as uncreditedThe Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief...
Movie pageCops vs. Thugs
as uncreditedWhen a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their...
Movie pageAdmiral Yamamoto
as Chief of Staff SokaAs Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
Movie pageGirl Boss: Diamond Showdown
as Oshima HumioKeiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
Movie pagePrison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
as YodaTwo convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to...
Movie pageThe Imperial Navy
as uncreditedA lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of...
Movie pageLovers Lost
as uncreditedA poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the...
Movie pageThe Rambler Returns Home
as uncreditedFinal installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.
Movie pageTake Aim at the Police Van
as AkahoriA sharpshooter kills two prisoners in a police van at night. The guard on the van is suspended...
Movie pageKōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa
as uncreditedBased on the comic by Kazuo Koike
Movie pageZatoichi the Fugitive
as Boss Yagiri TokyuroAfter arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a...
Movie pageThe Last Samurai
as uncreditedThe film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many...
Movie pageThe Inheritance
as Detective AOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
Movie pageFemale Yakuza Tale
as AsakichiOcho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle...
Movie pageOn the Road Forever
as uncreditedA wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the...
Movie pageLove Letter
as uncreditedA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
Movie pageThe Blazing Valiant
as Sakae OyaJo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare...
Movie pageGirl Boss Guerilla
as uncreditedMiko Sugimoto is the leader of the Red Helmet Gang, a biker girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up...
Movie pageThe Black Current
as uncreditedA reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company,...
Movie pageKanto Wanderer
as Boss YoshidaHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....
Movie pageThe River Fuefuki
as uncreditedIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
Movie pageOkatsu the Fugitive
as uncreditedOkatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is...
Movie pageTruck Rascals X: Hometown Express
as uncreditedMomojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her...
Movie pageStreet of Violence
as TajimaAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
Movie pageThe Silk Hat Boss 2
as uncreditedThe Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
Movie pageRed Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
as Samezu no MasagoroOryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...
Movie pageForever a Woman
as YamagamiFumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her...
Movie pageGirl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
as Yakuza BossReleased from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another...
Movie pageThe Shogun's Vault
as uncreditedOkawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a...
Movie pageGang Loyalty and Vengeance
as ToribuA modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin...
Movie pageDemon Pond
as Leader of the Village AssemblyOutside of a small village in Japan, a mysterious pond is inhabited by mythic creatures. Their...
Movie pageHoodlum Soldier
as uncreditedA young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in...
Movie pageNew Prison Walls of Abashiri 2
as uncreditedSuehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce...
Movie pagePrison Walls of Abashiri 4
as uncreditedA gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a...
Movie pageThe Resurrection of the Golden Wolf
as uncreditedA seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by...
Movie pageThe Biggest Gamble
as IwasaWhen Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do...
Movie pageThe Great Duel
as uncreditedA cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a...
Movie pageTales of Ginza
as Gô MomoyamaIn the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged...
Movie pageDesperate Hoodlum
as uncreditedSecond part of the Zenka mono series.
Movie pageGreatest Boss Of Japan
as uncreditedA man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to...
Movie page100 Gamblers
as uncreditedSet in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers
as KitoFamous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great...
Movie pageSecret Information
as Yasaburo ObaA gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and...
Movie pageGirl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
as Yakuza BossIn the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime)...
Movie pageMan Who Causes a Storm
as uncreditedShoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is...
Movie pagePeonies And Dragons
as uncreditedYakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost...
Movie pageThe Blossom and the Sword
as Tsuyoshi KishimotoTai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who...
Movie pageGame of Chance
as KizakiBungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling....
Movie pageLord Mito
as Mondo MuraiOne of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose...
Movie pageA Lively Geisha
as uncreditedYoung geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago...
Movie pageAbashiri Prison
as Heizo YodaAbashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have...
Movie pageBattle of Roses
as uncreditedA Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by...
Movie pageDorodarake no seishun
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
Movie pageWicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
as uncreditedAs the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a...
Movie pagePoliceman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
Movie pageThe Blind Menace
as uncreditedThis is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
Movie pageThe Eagle and the Hawk
as MatsuIn a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who...
Movie pageThe Brothers who Protect the Mountain
as Kakubei OiwaIn the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the...
Movie pageThe Boss
as uncreditedTeruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and...
Movie pageThree Gamblers
as Kichinosuke KoizumiThree closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling...
Movie pageWolf Escort
as uncreditedRivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Movie pageWolves of the City: Checkmate
as uncreditedThis is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
Movie pageRampaging Dragon of the North
as uncreditedThe son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza...
Movie pageAn Outlaw
as TeAssassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a...
Movie pageThe Flesh Is Weak
as IidaA woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.
Movie pageSleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman
as GekiTwo devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but...
Movie pageThe Third Ninja
as uncreditedThree Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
Movie pageCrossroad
as Inspector HanadaIse, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having...
Movie pageEvil Boss vs. Henchmen
as uncreditedA high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
Movie pageRub Out the Past
as Bunsho TeiA lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.
Movie pageHarbor Rats
as uncreditedA scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...
Movie pageThe Domain
as uncreditedThe feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of...
Movie pageSleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
as AtobeFifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman...
Movie pageMonk's Paradise
as uncreditedA genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation.
Movie pageThe Murder Corps
as uncreditedA violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front...
Movie pagePenitentiary Brothers
as uncreditedAuthentic action drama of modern gangsters.
Movie pageThe Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
as Deputy Chief KawanishiThe last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
Movie pageThe Fearless Avenger
as uncreditedThirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being...
Movie pageI Will Challenge
as uncreditedAkira, a student who is professionally engaged in boxing, aspires to follow in the footsteps of...
Movie pageThe School Cap
as uncreditedA Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its...
Movie pageBlood of Revenge
as Tatsuzo KarasawaOsaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...
Movie pageBlack Thief
as uncreditedOrganized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Movie pageTrapped, the Crimson Bat
as BunzoOichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on...
Movie pageStorm Party
as uncreditedMany outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop.
Movie pageJapanese Godfather: Conclusion
as Kentaro YokokawaThe three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to...
Movie pageFlower Cards Chivalry
as uncreditedAn absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young...
Movie pageFoul Play
as Second baseman AoikePrivate eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa)...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers: All New
as uncreditedWhen the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss...
Movie pageA Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
as uncreditedJust released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling...
Movie pageGamblers and Racketeers
as uncreditedKomatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group...
Movie pageGambling Den Heist
as HadaAfter eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
Movie pageThe Champion
as Shinzo TakaokaEikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club...
Movie pageCode Between Brothers 6
as uncreditedSixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in...
Movie pageThe Ninja Hunt
as uncreditedFour ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the...
Movie pagePrison Walls of Abashiri 3
as uncreditedUpon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must...
Movie pageThe Portrait
as uncreditedThe mistress of a crook real estate broker comes to terms with her soulless existence after an...
Movie pageSword: Flower-Strewn Path of Courage
as KanzakiAfter serving his sentence, Yakuza family member Toshin-gumi Umebayashi is released from prison....
Movie pageJigoku no hatoba
as uncreditedA battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere....
Movie pageThe Classroom of Terror
as uncreditedYusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a...
Movie pageThe Homely Sister
as Ukichi TsurumuraIn the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal...
Movie pageFangs of Night
as uncreditedA young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some...
Movie pageWicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedThe long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury...
Movie pageThe Boy Who Came Back
as МиямураNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
Movie pageYoung Lord Yakuza
as uncreditedYoung Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under...
Movie pageChampion Woman Gambler
as uncreditedNinth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring...
Movie pageDuel at Fort Ezo
as Ronin1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...
Movie pageTale of Scarlet Love
as uncreditedAssistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a...
Movie pageShowdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
as uncreditedTetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and...
Movie pageJubilation Street
as uncreditedThe few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to...
Movie pageHe Killed Dad
as uncreditedThe lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is...
Movie pageMaster Fencer Sees the World
as uncreditedA historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the...
Movie pageUnderworld Beauty
as MiharaThe moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen...
Movie pageGun Number Zero
as uncreditedEric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It...
Movie pageHana no shôgai
as 通訳In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times,...
Movie pageKamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair
as FuruyaExciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.
Movie pageSaga from Chichibu Mountains - Sword Cuts the Shadows
as Detective KuroshimaDuring the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a...
Movie pageWait for Tomorrow
as uncreditedKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
Movie pageVermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
as Tokuzo SekiyamaBeginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi...
Movie pageThe Swindlers
as uncreditedInteresting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group".
Movie pageThe Inner Palace Conspiracy
as Older brother Taro IchiA period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of...
Movie pageThe Killer
as uncreditedA former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a...
Movie pageBrothers of Capones
as uncreditedSuperbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his...
Movie pageDai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu
as uncreditedStrife between competing lumber mills.
Movie pageDaring Girls
as uncreditedComedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
Movie pageHawk of the Harbour
as uncreditedA Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets...
Movie pageRed Sword Sheath: Code Of Honour: Recieving Orders
as uncreditedJapanese crime film
Movie pageHuman Target
as Chief SendaAt midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic...
Movie pageMen in a Rough Town
as uncreditedAn action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Movie pageOnce and For All Pt.2
as uncreditedContinuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Movie pageVictory and Defeat
as Kenzo GodaAfter the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura),...
Movie pageFamily Crest: Die Like a Man
as Yoshiichiro OmoriThe story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake,...
Movie pageA History of the Japanese Underworld
as uncreditedThe hero tries to unite various gangs.
Movie pageThe Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
Movie pageWhen a Woman Loves
as YoshimuraStory of a romance between a middle-aged journalist and a young woman.
Movie pageBad Angel
as uncreditedOne of the earliest of subeban/ girl boss type eiga
Movie pageThe Last Betrayal
as uncreditedA crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.
Movie pageAnne no Nikki: Anne Frank Monogatari
as Otto Frank (voice)Amsterdam, June 12, 1942. Anne celebrates her 13th birthday and begins her diary, which she...
Movie pageWakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
as uncreditedA film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his...
Movie pageJungle Block
as Hanji TakebayashiA young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted...
Movie pageWhipmaster: Ballad of Murder
as uncreditedRyotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this...
Movie pageJûnana-sai no teikô
as uncreditedKanako is an intelligent and beautiful girl in her third year of high school, but there was a...
Movie pageWharf Temperament
as RyuThe story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took...
Movie pageDancing Sisters
as uncreditedIt’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a...
Movie pageHi no tori
as uncreditedEmi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
Movie pageYakuza of Seki
as Sukegoro IiokaA young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister,...
Movie pageIshimatsu of the Forest
as uncreditedThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
Movie pageThe Fellows Who Ate the Elephant
as uncreditedThe film is set during the days of the scarcity of food after World War II, during which five...
Movie pageGunman's Alley
as uncreditedNitani is an undercover drug enforcement agent in Kobe who not only busts two rival drug gangs...
Movie pageThe Scarred Crest
as uncreditedA war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he...
Movie pageFurankī no uchūbito
as uncreditedDr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange...
Movie pageBack Stairways
as uncreditedA young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the...
Movie pageA History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
as uncreditedBlood Vendetta
as Hideo TokuzawaThe film tells about Masayoshi, a noble Yakuza who lives by the laws of honor and humanity, and...
Movie pageChivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
as uncreditedEnd of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads...
Movie pageShōgun
as HiromatsuAn English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.
TV Show pageProfessional Killers
as uncreditedA shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an...
TV Show pageNemuri Kyoshiro
as uncreditedStarting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most...
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