Date of birth: 1921-02-16
Place of birth: Miyagi, Japan
Known for: Acting
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1968-04-19
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz

1969-02-21
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was r

1967-08-26

1967-01-14
Toru Sagara, a lone wolf assassin, is imprisoned for betraying his employer, Hanawa. After completin

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

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,

1981-06-19
A steel samurai blade that was to be given to the American ambassador by the Emperor of Japan is sto

1974-08-31
Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, hi

1978-06-30
A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the co

1967-01-01
Based on Episodes 14 , 22, and 24 through 26 of the Akakage 1967 TV Series. "A group of sorcerers c

1968-03-26
A strange cult spreads its evil influence across the country, and it's up to Akakage to find out wha

1969-07-20
Heroic masked ninja Akakage (Red Shadow) and his two companions fight evil warlords in feudal Japan

1966-03-05
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his

1969-04-10
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c

1970-03-05
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place

1969-10-01
Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey afte

1974-10-05
Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While

1969-11-08
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by

1970-03-05
The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.

1959-11-22
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three

1970-01-09
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20

1969-03-15
A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her gua

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

1968-11-22
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h

1968-08-27
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me

1972-11-22
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita

1970-10-03
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the

1974-02-02
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controll

1961-12-24
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J

1969-08-13
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho

1968-09-18
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the s

1977-02-26
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru

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

1971-08-26
Toei yakuza film.

1957-07-23

1968-10-25
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life

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

1967-05-30
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with

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

1968-01-03
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th

1967-06-03
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

1980-01-15
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold in

1958-06-29
Adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's novel.

1971-07-17
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set abo

1991-09-21
Time Traveling Samurai

1977-05-28
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. I

1968-11-30
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as

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

1972-01-22
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil

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

1976-04-10
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

1972-03-04
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t

1973-01-13
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territo

1964-03-28
Young swordsman Shintaro must fight against evil officials who plot to overthrow the youthful Shogun

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

1969-02-01
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory

1969-12-13
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f

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

1961-06-17
Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and

1965-09-18
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

1964-09-05
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba

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

1971-02-13
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and

1965-11-13
34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to fin

1971-04-03
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator an

1969-12-27
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mit

1972-09-29
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit
1971-07-31
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.

1970-10-29
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

1967-07-08
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi

1978-06-17
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year

1969-05-31

1973-09-15
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the de

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

1976-05-29
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome

1971-03-06
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have

1964-08-13
The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamas

1968-08-14
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yen.

1973-05-12
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co

1975-04-26
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Servic

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

1969-10-16
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass

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

1972-04-01
A ruffian joins the ranks of the emperor’s guards.

1970-02-21
Story about a big boss who built the foundation of an industrial city.

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

1968-11-02
Second part of the Zenka mono series.

1967-03-10
Part two.

1970-09-09
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f

1966-11-19

1970-05-23
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two riv

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

1961-09-04
In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Jap

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

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

1966-11-12
Set during the last days of the Tokugawa (Edo) Period, Moeyo-ken tells the story of Hijikata Toshizo

1974-07-04
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. T

1967-12-23
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern J

1978-04-08
Legendary detective returns.

1975-05-24
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin

1968-01-27
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea

1970-01-20
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de

1966-07-01
Part one.

1972-06-21
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

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

1965-01-03
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p

1967-12-01
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to becom

1965-01-30
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The

1970-04-18
8th part of the Gamblers / Bakuchi-uchi series.

1968-09-03
Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

1964-10-21
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained

1969-09-19
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of t

1974-02-02
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper

1966-03-19

1974-04-27
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n

1972-02-22

1965-08-01

1970-07-04
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now
1975-10-18
A young geisha/prostitute working in Tokyo's entertainment district earns a measure of reknown throu

1967-09-15
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

1966-02-03
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown

1966-09-17
The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action

1967-01-28
The Domain: White Blade

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

1965-02-25

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

1966-07-21
Adapted from Sanpei Shirato's classic manga, a legend unfolds as Watari, a young boy skilled in ninj

1971-12-03
Japanese movie.

1964-09-16

1957-01-03
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold

1957-10-08
After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drown

1958-06-08
Matsuki, a former war photojournalist, returns home and starts a modest life with his wife, Komiko.

1960-01-27
A reformed bartender is blackmailed into aiding a heist by former gang associates, leading to betray

1960-05-10
A university boxing captain struggles between love and ambition as he secretly longs for a woman pro

1957-04-08
A suspense drama about a thief who sneaks onto a late-night ski bus heading from Tokyo to Joshinetsu