Date of birth: 1942-12-20
Place of birth: Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:


1976-09-04
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are per

1992-01-15
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful ya

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

1976-05-29
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate.

1982-02-05
The second in Norio Nanjo’s “Secret” series. The former secret phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata) and

2000-11-25
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza

1991-01-25
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

1983-10-29
Ryuji tries quitting the yakuza to actively support his wife and daughter; as he's used to easy mone

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

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

1981-08-08
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real

1975-05-14
Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who

1973-05-24
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested
1980-05-24

1974-11-22
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan

1975-10-14
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike h

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

1973-03-03
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He ta

1985-09-14
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me

1965-08-25
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

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

1983-09-09
The wandering swordsman, Ino Heihachiro, defeats Ichima, the youngest of the famed swordsmanship tri

1997-10-08
A hard-boiled man who lived in the world of the Yakuza, leaves everything behind in search of reveng

1986-11-15
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful g

1963-10-13
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu

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

1963-08-07
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotte

1981-12-19
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in

1988-01-15
A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.

1977-02-11
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gam

1982-10-02
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensi

1974-09-14
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali

1976-05-15
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept

1976-10-30
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia

1975-04-26
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic

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

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

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

1973-09-25
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e

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

1987-06-06
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by

1975-11-01
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the y

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

1981-06-06
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring

1964-06-03
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a vill

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

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

1965-09-04
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam

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

1977-04-29
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic

1963-12-01
Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the

1979-05-26
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza

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

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

1991-06-15
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a suc

1974-04-27
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from c

1999-04-10
This hard-boiled action starring Naoto Takenaka is directed by popular manga artist Kazuhiro Kiuchi.

1981-01-15
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner.

1976-06-19
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after Wor

1975-08-09
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d

1966-07-01
Part one.

1972-04-22
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai

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

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

1975-11-22
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido

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

1976-05-15
The success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their titl

1974-11-22
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price

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

1974-11-01
This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita repri

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

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

1973-06-07
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c

1965-08-01

1981-04-11
This is an ensemble period drama adapted from Shotaro Ikenami's popular novel, featuring the famous

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

1996-01-03
In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer

1995-04-01
Low-caste former samurai Hanayama Daikichi and his gambler friend Hanji of Yaizu, come to a once pea

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

1979-09-01
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

1976-02-14

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

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

1964-09-16

1966-04-01
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when

1965-03-07
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque