Date of birth: 1939-01-20
Place of birth: Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1972-01-15
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi

1972-08-25
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

1977-10-29
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking con

1967-05-03
The second part of the Gamblers series.

1967-07-08
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his B

1978-07-22
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

1974-10-19
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl g

1977-01-22
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with

1969-05-03
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Af

1967-02-24
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and

1966-08-26
A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

1982-03-19
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s

1974-01-15
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under press

1974-06-29
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,

1968-06-28
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama

1967-01-28
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, w

1974-08-10
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag

1974-10-05
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of

1981-01-01
Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native plan

1965-08-12
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate be

1972-06-21
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c

1977-02-26
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sp

1974-04-24
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr

1976-12-04
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif

1976-02-28
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a
1974-12-21
A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and em

1977-07-02
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur

1974-12-28
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun

1974-06-01
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst

1973-01-13
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new

1973-04-28
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a

1975-06-21
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

1976-04-24
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around

1978-10-28
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells

1977-01-22
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. Duri

1969-10-01
Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her fat
1966-03-13
1966 film directed by Kudo.

1975-10-14
In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by U

1973-02-10
A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sha

1966-11-19
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a

1977-08-27
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movie

1997-10-11
A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.

1967-07-30
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period.

1972-05-27
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered

1972-07-30
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw

1971-11-19
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinaw

1967-08-12
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi s

1969-07-31
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro

1967-06-17
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

1969-05-24
Film with Junko Miyazono.

1976-02-04
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away wi

1976-01-31
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large

1972-01-11
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an al

1966-10-30
A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

1975-03-01
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side

1967-04-20
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form o

1968-05-21
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mount

1971-06-01
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji

1979-06-06

1968-01-14
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose

1977-05-28
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei

1965-07-10
A crime film released in 1965

1979-08-01
Dance teacher Omiyo survives a double suicide with her lover and is forced into life as the courtesa
1982-09-03
A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, be