Kōjirō Hongō

AKA: Kojiro Hongo, Кодзиро Хонго

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1938-02-15

Okayama, Japan

Biography

Kōjirō Hongō was a Japanese actor best known for his work with Daiei Studios in the 1960s. Hongō won an Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {82}

Keisuke Hirata

1966-04-17 6.4

Gamera vs. Barugon

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster ...

Genre :Fantasy, Action, Science Fiction

Scout Master Mr. Shimida

1968-03-20 5.8

Gamera vs. Viras

As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabita ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Science Fiction, Family

1977-05-14 6.7

Karate for Life

The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend ...

Genre :Action

Lord Juro

1966-08-13 6.2

Return of Giant Majin

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorab ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

1962-03-04 0

情熱の詩人啄木

1962 Japanese movie ...

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Tetsutaro Hata

1960-04-27 0

Victory and Defeat

After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title figh ...

Genre :Drama, Action

2003-06-18 0

Road to the Don Theatrical Version

A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version o ...

Genre :

1965-09-04 0

Zero-Fighters

Genre :

Li Hei

1962-11-01 6

The Great Wall

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: ab ...

Genre :Drama, History

1961-04-26 0

Gonin no totsugeki tai

Genre :War

Seki no yatappe

1968-08-24 0

The Two Bodyguards

Film directed by Kenji Misumi ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1962-04-29 0

Princess and I

1962 Japanese movie ...

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Foreman Shiro Tsutsumi

1967-03-15 6.1

Gamera vs. Gyaos

Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a wa ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction

1999-08-01 0

Japanese Gangster History Ambition Corps 4

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1994-01-08 0

Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II

The second 'Gotoshi' film. ...

Genre :

Captain of the Nojima

1995-03-11 7.4

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe

A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist ...

Genre :Fantasy, Science Fiction, Action, Horror

Kakizaki

2002-06-22 0

Music of Remembrance -Gb-

A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Mystery

Hyakasuro

1969-03-12 6.3

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to ste ...

Genre :Fantasy, Horror

1995-01-25 0

Garōden

Based on the Baku Yumemakura martial arts serials ...

Genre :Action

1973-12-20 7.2

Tsugaru Folksong

A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1994-04-28 0

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3

Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara), who was thinking about the next money plan for the 200 million yen he got from the painting trick, looks at high-rate poker gambling. The target is Shinya, Saijo's sergeant. ...

Genre :

1959-06-03 6.8

Jirocho Fuji

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa. ...

Genre :Drama

1962-09-01 0

Otoko to onna no sei no naka

1962 Japanese movie ...

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1960-02-10 0

Ah Special Attack Corps

Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps. ...

Genre :

Uzuki Hyoma

1960-12-27 6.6

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, History

1959-10-28 0

風来物語任侠篇

Genre :

1960-09-28 0

風来物語あばれ飛車

Genre :

1962-09-16 0

Ashita au hito

1962 Japanese movie ...

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1999-07-30 4.9

Embalming

Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle ...

Genre :Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Hyoma Utsugi

1960-10-18 6.6

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tel ...

Genre :Action

1962-12-26 0

Order of Yakuza

Order of Yakuza ...

Genre :Crime

Yamadaira

1995-07-23 7

Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars

After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1962-12-01 0

Fūshinraishin

1962 Japanese movie ...

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Siddhartha

1961-10-31 0

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion whe ...

Genre :Drama

2001-11-13 0

Nationwide Conquering Tekiya Spirit Chapter 2 Sardine Shrine and Love Fubuki

Ricky's Back! ...

Genre :

2001-07-16 0

National Conquest Tekiya Tamashii

It's Ricky! ...

Genre :

1962-08-12 0

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

Genre :Action, Drama

1961-12-27 0

Wakai yatsura no kaidan

1961 Japanese movie ...

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1998-05-30 0

The Hidden Festival

Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecess ...

Genre :Drama

Eiichi Shibusawa

1963-11-02 0

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Enten ...

Genre :Action, Drama

2nd Lt. Ando

1969-11-01 0

The Falcon Fighters

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to b ...

Genre :Drama, War

1969-07-12 7.5

Gateway to Glory

A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy. ...

Genre :War

1960-09-20 0

Dare yori mo kimi o aisu

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo. ...

Genre :Music, Drama, Romance

1991-09-27 0

Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case

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 g ...

Genre :Action

1965-05-27 0

雲を呼ぶ講道館

Genre :

Komori Hanzaemon

1969-12-20 6.1

Haunted Castle

This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes revenge for the death of its master as well as for the ...

Genre :Horror

Priest Shin-so

1969-09-13 5.8

The Magoichi Saga

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1967-07-14 0

The Woman Gambler

Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two f ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, History

1959-09-06 0

Etajima, the Naval Academy

The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's d ...

Genre :Drama, War, Mystery

1970-02-07 6.6

Mission: Iron Castle

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Is ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime, War

1963-10-19 0

Operation Underworld

A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate. ...

Genre :Crime

1969-06-14 5

Lefty Fencer

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has bec ...

Genre :Action

Sakata-no-Kintoki

1960-04-27 5.8

The Demon of Mount Oe

A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual ...

Genre :Horror, Fantasy

2001-03-10 5.2

Family

When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Is ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Shaki

1962-07-15 6.8

The Whale God

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it. ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Shûzô Takarai

1961-01-03 0

The Ginza Three Boys

The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

2001-09-21 4.2

Family 2

In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds somethin ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Hagiwara Shinzaburou

1968-06-15 7.6

The Bride from Hades

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her. ...

Genre :Horror

Yamadaira

1996-04-05 7

Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza

Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Yasubei Nakayama

1969-05-30 7.7

Broken Swords

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Ginnosuke Nakamura

1963-07-27 0

Sentimental Mobsters

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and ...

Genre :Drama

1961-05-17 7

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword tr ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Sasuke

1961-10-14 0

Okoto and Sasuke

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. ...

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Kihachirô Tahara

1960-01-14 0

Princess Sen in Edo

A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love! ...

Genre :Drama

1960-01-03 5.3

The Two Musashis

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki K ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1960-06-01 5.7

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlig ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1991-12-30 0

Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal

A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire's plot to rig the auction and takes action against him. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Chonosuke

1959-08-01 0

The Lord and the Gambler

Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan su ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1962-05-12 0

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

Genre :

1971-02-17 0

The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1959-12-08 0

The Princess Says No

Genre :Drama

1963-03-01 0

Teinen Taishoku

Genre :Drama

1993-04-23 0

The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law

#3 in the King of Minami series. Ginjiro Manda sets his sights on a corrupt cop named Tatsuya, who finds himself in debt to Manda after unsuccessfully trying to scam the ruthless loan shark. The pair ...

Genre :

1964-11-14 0

The Gambling Samurai

Genre :Drama

2003-04-25 0

Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea

Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the Saito group, a branch of the Asahikawa Sekine Association, grew increasingly distrustful of the gro ...

Genre :Crime

1961-02-01 0

Bara to ryū

1961 Japanese movie ...

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1963-06-30 0

Zero Escape Visibility

Genre :Action, Crime

1963-04-14 0

Young Trees

A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires to become a maid and lives a healthy life despite th ...

Genre :

1967-09-15 0

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards

Genre :

1965-12-11 0

ほんだら剣法

Genre :

1961-03-01 0

Wakai nakama

1961 Japanese movie ...