Date of birth: 1934-06-21
Place of birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 高橋 徹, 池 徹, Shôtarô Hayashi

Japanese actor.
1960-04-01
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
1959-10-09
First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh

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

1962-08-22
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama a

1962-02-21
1962 Japanese movie

1976-02-28
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a

1962-04-24
1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

1973-05-24
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested
1961-06-17
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already i

1960-01-21

1958-11-11
1958 Mito Kōmon film.

1961-10-14
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale

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

1961-08-06

1970-03-29
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h

1985-10-10
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he

1969-01-09
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama

1962-05-09

1968-01-14
The hero tries to unite various gangs.

1963-09-08

1972-08-12
Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over

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

1962-12-09
1962 Japanese movie

1962-09-15
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp

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

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

1989-09-22
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They

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

1968-09-14
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die

1967-05-03

1963-12-11
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr

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

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

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

1964-01-01
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st

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

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

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

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

1974-03-01
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three,

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

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

1969-01-09
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody fo

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

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

1978-06-03
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered.

1972-10-12

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

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

1968-08-14
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac

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

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

1971-07-31
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

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

1966-08-13
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend

1973-10-27
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi rest

1969-04-19
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do ever

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

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

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

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

1969-09-06
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards

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

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

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

1971-04-28

1962-02-28
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca

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

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

1963-04-06
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish li

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

1962-07-01

1961-06-21

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

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

1965-08-01

1975-01-15
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

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

1961-12-15
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However,

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

1971-12-03
Japanese movie.

1961-02-15
1961 Japanese movie

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

1963-05-19
During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegi

1961-07-02
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her s

1961-02-08
1961 Japanese movie

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

1970-05-01
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl

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