Date of birth: 1927-02-25
Place of birth: Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1972-08-05

1995-12-30
Hajime Kindaichi is working a part time job as an assistant to a TV station for the filming of a sho

1973-04-14
Teenage film

1959-12-26
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company

1959-08-23
Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's par

1965-02-24
American and Japanese soldiers, stranded on a tiny Pacific island during World War II, must make a t

1961-04-04
Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shink

1962-04-08
1962 Japanese movie

1969-05-14

1973-11-17
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who cros

1971-08-21
A young man who aspires to become a big-shot businessman, finds himself in a twist of fate. Despite

1982-06-05
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl

1965-04-03
The new head of a powerful family faces danger from an evil rival out for blood.

1965-08-04
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this his

1967-06-28
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local

1961-06-27
1961 Japanese movie

1961-07-23
1961 Japanese movie

1962-12-05

1974-08-03

1968-08-01
It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in

1983-06-04
The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

1971-10-01
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

1970-10-31
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri

1975-08-30
The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and hi

1970-08-12
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a pl

1962-05-15
Comedy movie

1985-03-30
An old man cashes in all his possessions and sets off on a journey to the Tohoku region in late autu

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
1959-01-15
Japanese comedy film.
1960-10-29
Japanese comedy film.

1964-12-06
Japanese comedy film.
1960-12-27
Japanese comedy film.
1958-01-03
Japanese comedy film.
1960-03-06
Japanese comedy film.

1959-12-27
Japanese comedy film.

1967-10-06
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He han

1971-03-20
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning t

1966-01-27
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University"

1965-08-25
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the ser

1976-09-04
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inl

1981-05-09
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course

1972-04-14
Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seekin

1968-11-02
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai

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

1973-07-13
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not

1973-03-17
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi

1977-12-24

1971-04-16
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.

1966-01-14
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival.

1983-12-24
Murder case.

1969-06-13
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a cru
1984-02-18
To solve the mystery of her deceased husband, his wife departs to Shinshu.

1972-09-09
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o

1973-06-09
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w

1970-02-09
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi

1965-12-18
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollar

1963-12-15
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs

1986-12-13
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a

1972-12-16
Roman Porno from 1972.

1969-09-27
Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.

1961-12-06
Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad

1993-04-17
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by

1974-08-03
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th

1976-12-25
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his

1970-08-26
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to

1971-12-29
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

1972-02-03
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

1963-09-21

1980-10-25

1970-07-04
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now

1971-07-24
Comedy of a phony doctor.

1972-09-29
One day an innocent-looking girl in white clothes appears on board of a ramshackle boat The owner o

1961-06-11
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d
1991-12-16
On the night train home from a memorial service, a detective meets a woman who has killed her sick f

1965-06-20
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing,

1963-02-17

1971-05-22
Set in Kawasaki in 1925, Challenge at Dawn is based on the Tsurumi Riot Incident, which actually ocu

1971-12-17
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug

1958-10-12
Part 2 of Holiday in Japan

1965-08-01
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills

1969-04-16
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery.