Date of birth: 1936-12-29
Place of birth: Kochi Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1965-01-06
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol

1968-03-05
Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, l

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

1967-04-20

1975-12-27
The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro an

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

1967-05-13
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their execut

1973-02-03
A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin w

1970-06-25
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'

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

1971-11-10
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later

1970-08-14
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung A

1967-11-23
Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on h

1977-12-24
The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar

1969-08-09
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut

1969-12-27
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Kats

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

1968-06-20
The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scro

1984-01-03
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced

1986-09-20
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless

1968-06-01
A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, th

1980-03-15
The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival

1972-01-15
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag

1984-09-01
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde

1968-08-14
A detective tries to outwit an art loving thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get t

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

1974-04-13
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a

1972-12-16
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half

1968-04-18
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

1964-05-13
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dic

1972-04-14

1971-12-01
Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

1975-06-07
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone

1978-07-01
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang

1965-09-18
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve

1976-01-31
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He train

1966-05-25
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for

1972-07-03
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the c

1970-12-18
Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i

1972-12-30
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a

1973-08-11
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee

1967-12-16
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s

1966-04-23
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camara

1973-11-17
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is s

1969-08-13
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf ba

1978-04-08
Legendary detective returns.

1973-04-21
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin

1967-03-10
Part two.

1971-01-13
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking

1970-11-11
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-

1971-10-30
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi gets released early -- o

1972-02-22

1982-10-22
Seeking revenge after a brutal attack that left him disfigured, a former assassin gets drawn into a

1975-04-05
A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to

1969-05-01
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

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

1973-06-20
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench

1971-06-25
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucr

1975-02-15
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan i
1992-03-30
Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, jo

1966-01-15
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f