Tatsuo Umemiya
Birthday: Born in 1938-03-11 in Harbin, Manchukuo, Empire of Japan [now Harbin, Heilongjiang, China]
Deathday: 2019-12-12
Tatsuo Umemiya (梅宮 辰夫, Umemiya Tatsuo, 11 March 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and talent Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows. Umemiya died of kidney failure on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old.
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Iron Chef
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Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Cooking Channel in the United States and on Spec...
揺れる想い
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The wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's marriage in this hard-edged drama of misdirected passion. The quirky characters who fill out the cast include a youthful entrepreneur and the heroine's father, a police officer who would do anything to make his daughter happy....
スクール☆ウォーズ
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拝啓、父上様
Character: Komiya Ryuuji
Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young itamae (cook for Japanese dishes) struggles his life, love and work while the long-lasted ryotei and the beloved old town face the change to survive the time. This heartwarming drama shows the intimate relationship of the community that has been lost nowadays, asks what the most important things in your life is, and tells how difficult it is to make a decision. The story is told in the fo...
SMAP×SMAP
Character: Skit Guest
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games. These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges w...
刑事純情派
Character: Yokomizo Shigetada
Detective Kichinosuke Yasuura, also known as "Yasu-san", A detective with a sense of humanity and justice that deviates from the framework of the police organization is popular....
男たちの旅路
Character: Jun'ichi
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war....
特命係長 只野仁
Character: 总裁
Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the employees wonder why such a passive and incompetent person like Hitoshi is yet to be laid off, there is just one person who heavily relies on him as a “savior” to the company, the CEO. In fact, the “Mr. Nobody” is simply a disguise from the real Hitoshi, as he is under various special missions of the CEO to quietly carry on his “extraordinary” task to fi...
絶対に笑ってはいけない
Character: Guest
After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year)....
とんぼ
Character: Takejiri Kenzo
Eiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence. However, it was only Tsunekichi Mito, the younger brother, who came to meet him....
裸の大将
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A new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter Kiyoshi Yamashita, starring Tsukaji Muga....
大激闘マッドポリス'80
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The time is the 1980s . Japan 's organized violence achieved national unification through numerous fierce conflicts, collusion with the political and business world, and collusion with overseas mafia , forming a huge organization " Japan Mafia ". The whole of Japan has become a lawless zone dominated by crime and violence. In order to deal with this situation, the National Police Agency overcame the old-fashioned sectionalism of the National Police Agency and challenged the Japan Mafia directly....
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Henchmen
Character: Kazusaburo Funakoshi
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action....
Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
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The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Matsukichi came to Yokosuka relying on his old friend Mitsuo Nakai from the Nakai gang, but Nakai was killed and the gang disbanded. Matsukichi discovers that the Shimanaka gang is behind everything, and from her the thread reaches the Navy. With the help of grenades and sword, Matsukichi, nicknamed "Bomb Man", sets off a disorderly rampage....
Once and For All Pt.２
Character: Goro
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....
Wild Spirit
Character: Eijiro Kikukawa
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....
Yokohama Bakkuretai
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Based on the comic book by Tetsu Kusamoto....
Vermin
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
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Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a ...
A Lonely Gamble
Character: Toshihiko Takagi
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his proprietress is forced to turn to a successful businessman, owner of entertainment establishments and bars. But she has nothing to guarantee the return of the debt, and then she offers herself as collateral. A drama about the contradictory nature of human feelings....
A Blood Stained Love Affair
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Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same time, she gives money to Riki, a young aspiring photographer, and has a relationship with him. Riki gets to know Emika and falls in love with her at first sight. When Riki asks Ineko for money to buy a car, Ineko sells Emika's virginity to Ohashi....
South Pacific Waves Are High
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1962 Japanese movie...
Woman His Prey
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Shōwa Gokudōshi
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King of Pornography
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Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiya's ego). He visits a doctor, impresses ladies and opens a porn shop before running afoul with yakuza......
Prince of Space
Character: Prince of Space / Wally
Attracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of Krangkor, the dark planet, descends on Earth to steal the formula from its creator, the benevolent Dr. Makin....
Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission: From Japan With Love
Character: Juzo Kurokawa
Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young idol, Sylvia , who is the main character at the "Flower Earth Festival 2008" organized by Denodo. Sylvia has been threatened by someone to resign from the main character role. Tadano starts investigating while supporting Yamanishi, the event organizer. However, Tadano is struck down by a mysterious giant of a man. Yamanishi, who has obtained important information, is murdered, and Sylvia is kidnapped...
Killing Melody Lady Smith
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A painfully splendid adventure has begun!...
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
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Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work....
Hunter in the Dark
Character: Kawazu
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming....
Gokudo Otoko Juku
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A rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization!...
Yakuza Graveyard
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A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice....
Three Generations of Yakuza
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The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a brutal war for territory between the clans according to the merciless laws of the yakuza....
Color
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Dupe
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Secret Club 000
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Nocturnal Lights
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Night Guy
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Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, there are men who live off of these women. This movie depicts the conflict of sex and desire between a procurer, called a "night arranger," and women who live in the neon city seeking money and pleasure....
Woman
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Main Street in the Underworld
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Gang's Upward Strategy
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Rogue Of The Night
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The Big Chase
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Night Bitch
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A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically....
Graveyard of Honor
Character: Kozaburo Imai
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa....
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Character: Shinichi Iwai
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima....
Okatsu the Fugitive
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Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he a...
Orders from Hell
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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor
Character: Hayami
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squattin...
Shura ga Yuku 4
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The fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the Kansai yakuza who are planning to advance to the Kanto region by taking advantage of the off-track betting dispute....
Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô
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A Single Flower Withered
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The Final Gamble
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Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
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The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara....
Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
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The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiroshi Nawa, who at one point employs rebellious young hood Tsunehiko Watase and Kagawa. Tatsuo Umemiya also shows up as a cool, leather jacket gunman who gains Sugawara’s respect despite playing for the opposing team. What eventually keeps this film from being as good as the first is the loose script that doesn’t really tie all the fun stuff into a c...
Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
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An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was shot dead by a member of the Umeyama group dividing the place. This is the beginning of the "Osaka War" that shook the world of Japanese gangsters....
Otoko Michi
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A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past....
Night Scandal
Character: Eisuke Enjo
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Character: Hiroshi Kosaka
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…...
Girl in College
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
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A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop....
Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell
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Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’s medical treatment. Five years later, he is allowed to enter Edo with a fresh start. He make ends meet by selling toys. One day, he meets Otoki, a woman who is a lookalike of his late wife and who is being pursued by a mysterious man....
World War III Breaks Out
Character: Shigeo
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'....
Devil's Flute
Character: Shunroku Kazama
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner....
Wolves of the City: First to Fight
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Pinku from 1971....
Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
Character: Hiroshi Matsunaga
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women....
The Experience
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Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love....
Cops vs. Thugs
Character: Lt. Kaida
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city....
The Man Who Shot the Don
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Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked....
Gang vs. Gang
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The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters....
Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
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With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the underworld....
不良少年
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Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki...
Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
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1963 Japanese movie...
Komadori shimai oke-sa wataridori
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1962 Japanese movie...
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
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Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance....
Nerai uchi buraikan
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1962 Japanese movie...
Hiroshima Yakuza War
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After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city....
Shura Group
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Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)...
Unification Of Japan
Character: Tadao Kawabata
After the young Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) force a local yakuza family to disband, they leave Yokohama and head to Kobe where they meet members of the Kyowa Clan....
Some Like It Hot
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Detective investigates a murder connected to cocaine in a coin locker...
Unification Of Japan 3
Character: Tadao Kawabata
With the Kyowa and Shinto Clans in open conflict, Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) looks for a chance to kill the head of the Shinto Clan as others attempt to forge a truce....
Unification Of Japan 2
Character: Tadao Kawabata
Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who joined Kyowakai, steadily rose through the ranks with his calm and clear mind. Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) was also released from prison and Ryuseikai was thought to gain even more power. At that time, there is an internal split in Kyowakai as a whole, caused by an unusual executive appointment, and Himuro and others get caught in the vortex. After the conflict, the leader of the Ueda group, Ueda (Okazaki Jiro) and other gang members withdrew from Kyowakai, creat...
Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
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Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysterious encounter....
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
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1962 Japanese movie...
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
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A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case....
G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
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G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all the way from Kyushu to Tokyo. Disguising himself as a yakuza member, he intends to root out the underworld's base of operations, weaving together love, guns, and violence to unravel the mystery behind the enigmatic incident and the true nature of evil. This thrilling action drama combines suspense with excitement, depicting a tale filled with love...
The Gate of Youth Part 2
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Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
Planet Prince - The Terrifying Spaceship
Character: Planet Prince / Waku-san
Sequel to 1959's Planet Prince...
Planet Prince
Character: Planet Prince / Waku-san
A mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a powerful new rocket fuel....
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
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Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own....
Challenge Beneath the Waves
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1960 Toei action film....
Element of Surprise
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1963 Toei war / action film....
Capone Cries a Lot
Character: Kyubei Hori
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune....
Nuclear Gypsies
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Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her return, Barbara faces problems beyond her control. Her brother and two friends take one of their teachers hostage to extort money to go on a school trip. Miyazato, the man who loves Barbara is there, but not Aiko, her best friend. Miyazato, a yakuza and manager in a nuclear power plant has forced Aiko into prostitution for the workers of the plant...
Raised in a Palace
Character: Shigemi Nitta
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi)....
Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil
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The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s....
Hiroshima Yakuza War: Finale
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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....
The Last Kamikaze
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With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission....
Human Torpedoes
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Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War....
Metamorphosis
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A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine....
The Awesome Circus Bastard
Character: Detective Hattori
Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori and others that he's the culprit. In order to unravel the truth, he does his own investigation with the cooperation of members of his circus troupe....
The Challenge
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Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan....
Four Hours of Terror
Character: Fujio
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror....
Industrial Spy
Character: Takeshi Kogure
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a new engine invented by a rival company. Kogure manages to obtain the secrets, but Sawada's goal was not the secrets themselves, but to use them to obtain the position of president of the company. Angered by Sawada's dirty tricks, Kigure begins to take revenge... Spy action film directed by Eiichi Kudo and starring Tatsuo Umemiya as a lone industrial...
Break Town Story
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Japanese drama film....
Domineering
Character: Muraoka
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy....
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Character: Shinichi Iwai
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics....
Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
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A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved....
Love on a Daily Basis
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The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend....
Nagasaki Blues
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Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe....
Downtown Blues
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The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted....
The Bad Guy Blues
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A story about club hostesses in Osaka....
A Woman’s Road
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Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul....
King of the Night Life
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1970 Toei movie....
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Character: Shinichi Iwai
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto....
Dream Maker
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Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work together in a CD shop and catch every chance to show their talents. Under the efforts of Masato, his company at last becomes an entertainment giant in Japan....
The Seven Chefs
Character: Seizo Matsuki
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business....
The Dump Truck Rascal
Character: Masao Machida
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets....
G-Men in the Pacific
Character: Munekata
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama....
Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
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This is the Twelfth 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…...
The Swindlers
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Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group"....
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
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This is the thirteenth film in the series....
Delinquent Boss: Devour to the Bone
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This is the Sixteenth 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…...
Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
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This is the Fifteenth 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…...
Father of the Kamikaze
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Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. ...
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....
Wolf Escort
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Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization....
The Bad Boss 3
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A story of rivalry between two gambling clans....
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…...
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, Money Hunters
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The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
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....
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
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Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role....
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Character: Goro
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area....
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Character: Kaizu
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa....
King of the Widow-Killers
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The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service, his gambling partner Masa not only confiscated Hiroshi's store and bankbook, but was also saddled with debts in Hiroshi's name. Although Hiroshi was angry, he made a decision and decided to start over using his body. Starting with a female de...
The Lucky Status Symbol
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Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buying his sister a washing machine for her wedding, he travels to Tokyo, where he must help his friend Masa out of a half-million yen debt. Among other hijinks, he becomes a penis god in the process....
Karate Warriors
Character: Gangster
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs....
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Character: Owner of Hotel Sanno
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed....
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Character: Masa
Convict son revenges innocent father's death....
Life of Hishakaku
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After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku swears to dedicate himself to protect the Koganes in time of crisis. Hishakaku’s humble life comes to a sudden halt when the Kogane family becomes involved in a fatal feud with their rival, and Hishakaku’s services are called upon....
Life of Hishakaku 2
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Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To reciprocate the kindness of the Kikkyos, Hishakaku heads to meet the leader of Domoto, Osumi, and finds himself emotionally involved with her....
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....
The Last True Yakuza
Character: Otomo
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld....
Gang vs. G-Men
Character: Kuroki
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood....
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
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After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own....
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
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This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi....
Violent Fraternity
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Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs....
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Hiroshi Wakasugi
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza....
Gambling Den Heist
Character: Noshiro
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor....
Sex Peddlers
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A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She is actually infected by another and plans her revenge....
The Fixer
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Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight....
Down with The Big Boss
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In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld....
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Character: Jûdayû Araki
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan....
A Life of Intimidation
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Japanese action film....
Man of the World
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An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company....
Eleven Gangsters
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The Shogun Assassins
Character: Sanada Nobuyuki
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
Yanagase Blues
Character: Jiro Fukumoto
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
Gambler's World 2
Character: Otojirô
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks....
Gambler's World
Character: Shinjirô Ôizumi
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
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Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang....
Once and For All
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Film concerning warring yakuza families....
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
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Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy....
The Japan Derby Race
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A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing....
The Big Boss
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A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in response to Kikuya, the head of the Asahina family, refusing to join the Syndicate. Yamaoka relentlessly pursues the Asahina family and uses his brother Komatsu to kill Shibaki, Kikuya's brother, who owns Nagoya territory. When Kikuya receives information that a general meeting of the Brown and Yamaoka ...
Nerves for Victory
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A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother....
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
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A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era....
Daughter of Time
Character: Sotaro
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwara district. He takes her to an inn to gove birth, and stays on a few days as she recovers, but becomes fascinated with the strange people he meets there, particularly the owner, who visits a house in his courtyard every day to talk and give food to his mother. He says she is very sick and can't leave bed, but no one else has ever been inside or se...
Headphone Lullaby
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The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students....
Legends of Honor
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First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii...
Mist and Shadows
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The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters investigate the mysterious death of a teacher in Hokuriku and the dark suspicions that lurk behind it....
The Revenge and the Death
Character: Hideo Matsunaga
A gritty, noirish gangster saga....
Operation Plazma in Osaka
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Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover....
The Murder Corps
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A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan....
Company Buggers
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Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain....
Ryakudatsu ai
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The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda....
The Imperial Japanese Empire
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Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War....
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Character: Ryusuke Akutsu
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price....
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Character: Shinjiro Asahi
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....
Succession
Character: Toshimitsu Hanamura
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing in the next leader of their syndicate....
Sensei
Character: Ken Tadokoro
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Okite
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Yakuza film directed by Hiroki Matsukata....
Japan's Don
Character: Fukushima
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters....
Troops of Darkness
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A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind....
Flower Cards Chivalry
Character: Ryuichi Kitagawa
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remark...
The Great Road
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The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....
Scoundrel Boss
Character: Sumitomo Mitsui
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Even If Life Withers
Character: Wataru Emoto
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Speed Crazy
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Blue in Isezaki
Character: Miyata
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The Tattooed Hitman
Character: Ichiro Ishino
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?...
Duel of the Underworld
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Hell's Kitchen
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Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai
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Port City Blues
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City of Corruption
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The Eighth Enemy
Character: Dr. Hatsushi
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Chained Bitch
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Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...
Won't Stand for Dying
Character: Kenji Mamiya
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of the director of the company, is sexually harassed by him. Kenji beats the director and resigns. He asks his brother Ryota, the manager of the cabaret, to find a job, but his brother refuses him, and he is taken in by Senba, a yakuza boss specializing in smuggling and drugs......
Afternoon When Flowers Fell
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A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted to take over the restaurant from her late husband, she hires her late husband's best friend, a private detective, to investigate....
Botchan yarō seizoroi
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1961 Japanese movie...
Otoko no chiheisen
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1961 Japanese movie...
The Navy
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A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji....
The Man Who Became The Don
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