Date of birth: 1943-02-03
Place of birth: Kasumi, Hyogo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Seizo Fukumoto, 笹本清三 , Seizō Fukumoto

Seizo Fukumoto was a Japanese actor, specialized in samurai movies. He often played the role of 'kirareyaku', the person who loses the sword fight and dies spectacularly: he is said to have acted out 50,000 on-screen deaths.

2003-12-05
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic

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

1984-02-02
The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai

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

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.

2006-06-21
Jun Terada is a producer in the year 2076 and is trying to convince the president of Magical TV to a

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

1975-01-15
This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as th

1973-04-28
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a

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1978-07-22
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.

2011-08-06
Leading an expedition in Germany, Kougami unseals the resting place of one of the alchemists that c

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

1975-11-01
Midori Satsuki stars as a serial seducer who destroys one man’s life after another. Finally she sedu

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

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

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

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

1994-05-14
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attack

2014-06-14
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera

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

1989-01-14
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He rece

1983-12-10
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face

2001-08-11
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai

2013-10-26
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage ye

2010-12-18
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domai

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

2014-01-11
After taking the blame for another disastrous advertising campaign, Ota Kiichiro is asked by his arr

2019-04-12
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal

2011-10-08
Young French journalist Ada Servier arrives in Kobe to cover the memorial ceremonies of the big eart

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

1974-10-05
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of

1973-06-06
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs in

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

1986-06-14
A new shogun is appointed to the throne when his brother dies. He find out that the former Shogun on

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

1982-12-18
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the wor

2015-05-25
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh

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

1977-02-26
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sp

1994-01-15
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks

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

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

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

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

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

1999-01-15
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprentic

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

1978-01-21
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers

1978-10-28
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells

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

2018-10-26
Living away from his family, a physical therapist sees his father entering the hospital he works at

1984-11-17
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th

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

1976-10-01
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talent

2017-04-29
Manji, a highly skilled samurai, becomes cursed with immortality after a legendary battle. Haunted b

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

2019-07-05
GOZEN is a jidageki (period piece) dramas. The word “gozen” refers to a feudal game held in the pres

2015-10-18
Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara,

1967-10-10
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga

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

1978-04-29
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders

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

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

1982-03-19
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s

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

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

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

2011-04-01
Eiji and Ankh team up with Kotarou and Momotaros as they travel back in time to 1971 aboard the Den-

1980-05-24

2004-07-17
Tange Sazen: Hyakuman Ryo no Tsubo is a remake of a classic 1935 film of the same name by Yamanaka S

2019-10-05
The era when Samurai and Ninja existed in Japan. Rikka Isurugi was born and raised in a Ninja clan s

2013-01-04
Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the firs

2008-08-09
The Go-Ongers intercept the Recycle Barbaric Machine Beast Army in their Engines, managing to scrap

2019-03-23
This is a “Movie in a Movie” like no other ever before. Kyoei, a historical film studio in Kyoto (Mo

1979-06-03
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mothe
1983-01-21
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised

1983-05-27
Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple

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

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
1992-03-30
Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, jo

1987-06-25
The original novel is by Shugoro Yamamoto. It depicts a friendship that transcends social status and

1971-02-13
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides

1988-04-09
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of th

1965-03-07
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque
1983-06-17

1974-06-15
Bronson Lee, a Japanese-American raised by his grandma in the harsh, poverty-stricken desert Southwe