Hayato Tani
Birthday: Born in 1946-09-09 in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Deathday: Alive
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風雲！たけし城
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Worldwide sensation Takeshi's Castle returns after 34 years! Popular games are revived on a larger scale and new, terrifying obstacles appear one after another. The lord of the castle, Beat Takeshi, entrusts BANANAMAN to protect it. Subaru Kimura is the attack force's new leader. The elite team gathers to bring down the revived Takeshi's Castle. The greatest battle in history begins!...
光戦隊マスクマン
Character: Sugata Sanjuurou
Commander Sugata discovered the existence of the Royal Underground Empire Tube, a malignant force that desires to dominate the land, which is based underneath Japan. He recruits five young people, each one specializing in a style of martial arts, and teaches them in the ways of the mystical "Aura Power" energy. A year after he recruited and trained the Maskmen, Tube is ready to strike....
三姉妹探偵団
Character: Director Uematsu
Three sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves....
横溝正史シリーズ
Character: Torata Yashiro
TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo....
熱中時代
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This light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and struggles to live and grow in the field of education....
風雲! たけし城
Character: General Lee
Takeshi's Castle is a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to get to him....
Daihijôsen
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An action detective drama depicting the activities of detectives belonging to a fictional department called the Fifth Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, commonly known as "Danger". From January to March 1976, a total of 10 episodes were broadcast on the NET (now TV Asahi) the leading role is Shinichi Chiba....
熱中時代・刑事編
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The struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch....
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Once and For All Pt.２
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Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....
Wild Spirit
Character: Seijurô
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families....
Call Girl
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A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior....
Nocturnal Lights
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Only on Mondays
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Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society....
The School Deviate Waru
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The Final Gamble
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The Incident at Takanodai
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Empress
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A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting....
Dai san no jôji
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Pinku from 1965....
The Experience
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Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love....
Wandering Himeshiro
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Himeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto region, and Himeshiro took over the knowledge of medicine from his father. If he encounters a sick person on the way, he uses his right hand, wrapped in a rosary, to give medical attention, while if he sees a bad person, he draws his sword with his left hand and uses it to punish the evildoers. So he travels on the verge of life and death along the Nakasendo highway......
Hikari Sentai Maskman: The Movie
Character: Commander Sanjuurou Sugata
Takeru fights to rescue a mermaid living in an underground pool being used by Igam to cause massive earthquakes to the surface....
Kekkon Annai Mystery
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A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy....
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
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The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland....
雪夫人繪圖
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1975 Toei movie....
Nagasaki Blues
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Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe....
Love Lost in Tears
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Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro....
The Bad Guy Blues
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A story about club hostesses in Osaka....
The Bad Boss
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The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films....
Organized Violence II
Character: Sugii
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Character: Tany
Convict son revenges innocent father's death....
Rampaging Dragon of the North
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The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both....
Reformatory Buddies
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Third film in the series....
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
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Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator....
Black Sun
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Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way....
Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
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Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters....
Wolves of the City: Checkmate
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This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…...
Wolf Escort
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Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization....
The School of Chaos
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Based on the comic by Tetsu Kariya....
Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
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The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money....
Hooligans on Buggies
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Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization....
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
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The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
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The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore....
The Bullet and the Horse
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A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number....
Once and For All
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Film concerning warring yakuza families....
The Japan Derby Race
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A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing....
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
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Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend....
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
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This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito....
Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
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Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…...
The Bad Boss 3
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A story of rivalry between two gambling clans....
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
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Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono....
Pretty Devil Yoko
Character: Jiro
Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film....
The Transgressor
Character: Kenta Aoki
18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior....
Delinquent Street
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Port City Blues
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Takeshi's Castle Vol. 1
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Various attacking forces unique to Takeshi's Castle were organized, aiming for "Defeat! Takeshi's Castle" There were many battles. This set gathers the tightness of the battle, such as parent-child tournament, Danjin tournament, female college student tournament, brave fighter tournament, etc. Also included is a collection of contests in Takeshi's Castle, as well as episodes of Takeshi & Takeshi Corps struggling to recapture the castle that was stolen by Captain Tani....