Date of birth: 1938-07-21
Place of birth: Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Tamio Kawaji, Тамио Кавати

Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).

1967-04-22
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterio

1963-10-30
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agent

2007-06-25

2001-01-25
Set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human host

2003-08-02
Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to

2003-07-11
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take

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

1969-08-09
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

1968-03-30
A romantic Nikkatsu youth film about three female friends.

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

1976-11-17
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He

1974-08-31
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make

1973-02-17
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

2017-06-25
The eleventh film in the 'Conquest' series.

2017-04-25
The tenth film in the 'Conquest' series.

1962-03-28
1962 Japanese movie

2004-06-10
The twenty-third 'Road to the Don' film.

2000-07-14
Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.

1990-12-14
A one shot game setup by lonely outlaws!
2005-11-11
The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between pol

2007-01-15
The first 'Road to New Don' film.

2008-01-17
The second 'Road to New Don' film.

1970-01-24
Yakuza movie directed by Yasuharu Hasebe

2007-11-29

1966-04-10
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur

1960-11-16
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

1965-02-27
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds

1964-02-01
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the

1964-10-11
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) cha

2000-02-18
The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the t

1966-07-29

2007-11-13

2007-12-01
The second 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2007-12-28
The third 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2008-02-22
The fifth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2008-01-25
The fourth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
2002-04-25
Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution

2001-03-25
An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was

2008-03-31
The sixth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2009-01-30
The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2008-04-25
The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2008-07-24
The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

2009-11-26
The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem' film.

1960-09-03
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger,

1962-07-09
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To

2001-12-25
1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill

1983-04-29
A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his m

1963-01-27
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi

1991-02-09
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo

1964-04-24
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a woun

1962-05-13
1962 Japanese movie

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

1960-10-08
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The

1970-03-07

1996-06-06
A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had

1961-10-14
The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took respons

1963-04-21
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio

1992-03-21
This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza u

1962-08-08
1962 Japanese movie

1963-10-04
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and l

1966-06-15
In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds

1969-01-22
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar

1967-10-23
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag

1968-10-14
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe

1965-04-04
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends,

1962-09-19
1962 Japanese movie

1997-05-03
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted

1961-03-26
Released in the UK as Hotbed of Crime

1998-01-01
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the

1992-09-15
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o

1962-12-26
1962 Japanese movie

1965-06-20
A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the sto

1997-11-28
The condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own innocence

1992-01-03
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for alm

1962-12-09
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energeti

1960-04-23
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinj

1959-09-13
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends

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

2006-10-25
Kidnapped in childhood. Raised as an assassin. Shiori's spent her entire life following the orders o

1964-02-08
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing

1964-01-03
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr

1968-01-13
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, h

1968-10-05
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrate

1970-10-03
Based on Shinichi Mori song

1966-02-07
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model s

1985-06-15
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine

2001-06-08
1987-06-25
Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young si

1966-08-27
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their

1985-08-24
Japanese drama film.

1980-04-05
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:

2008-09-25

2008-07-25

1969-02-22
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless s

1958-04-15
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family

1961-02-11
Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to cr

1962-06-20
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring c

1964-02-23
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and h

1967-01-03
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister,

1969-06-28
The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group

1969-07-26
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

1984-11-17
Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse r

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

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

1968-12-28
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the midd

2006-09-25
Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his g

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

1961-08-16

2003-10-25
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a

1960-02-28
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group

1964-10-21
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen

1983-11-08
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the

1971-01-13
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. S

1972-10-12

2006-08-25
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo.

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

1967-11-03
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I

1963-03-03
A musical film with Yūjirō Ishihara and Ruriko Asaoka.

1995-11-11
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-w

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

1961-05-22
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eigh

1982-08-07
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the

1977-04-08
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza fam

1973-09-01
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth

1959-01-03
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while

1992-03-21
The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't

1959-11-01

1964-08-29

1958-06-17

1958-09-02
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for

1959-08-09
An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

1959-05-09

1959-04-28
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was

1959-04-01
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and hi

1959-06-30

1959-12-14

1958-08-12
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at

1959-01-15

1959-12-27

1958-10-01

1959-02-24

1958-10-29

1959-02-04
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the co

1958-12-03

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

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

1992-09-01

1974-03-01
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered,

2007-06-25

1963-09-11
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga

1970-03-21

1966-02-25
Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely wit

1964-07-12
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave

2003-04-25
Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the

2011-02-02
Nozomi Hanada, the underboss of the Kanto Saiseikai Obara Group, lives his life on the path of chiva

2011-03-02
After assuming the title of second boss of the Obara Group, Nozomi Hanada begins a counterattack aga

1961-01-15
1961 Japanese movie

1971-02-26
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work

1971-04-24
A 1971 crime film

1960-11-30
A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an in

2004-02-28

1961-05-08
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of you

2000-03-08
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Oddysey was sort of an epilogue of the Ultraman Tiga series. Just when we t

1993-06-12
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l

1963-06-16
This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of

1979-08-08
Otsuka, wife of actor Koheiji, is unfaithful and has many affairs. When Koheiji confronts her lover

1975-05-24
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be

1967-08-12
Bonta comes to Tokyo with the determination to rule the world, gets a job at a lingerie company, and

1961-02-18
1961 Japanese movie

1960-05-21
Ichiro, who works for a shipping company, causes an accident while driving drunk. His younger brothe

1961-12-24
A trio of the best of the best! They beat up the bad guys with no mercy! The three main drug traffic

1969-10-18
The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess wit

1962-09-22
1962 Japanese movie

2006-03-16
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura

2005-06-24
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of th

1988-12-03
Film directed by Koyu Ohara.

1975-07-05
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows

2007-09-25
Once, there was a lone yakuza feared as the “One-Eyed Dragon.” His name was Seiji Moriya (Yasukaze

2010-11-25
In an age where the Anti-Organized Crime Law has flipped the power balance, even civilians now dare

2004-04-03

1969-12-06
1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie