Ryō Nishida

AKA:
5.3873

1939-01-20

Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {65}

1972-01-15 0

Zorome no San Kyoudai

In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their hometown, Nakano Village, after getting word of their ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1972-08-25 0

The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats

Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sug ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

Ichiro Funase

1977-10-29 8.8

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-05-03 0

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo

The second part of the Gamblers series. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1967-07-08 6

Gambler: Victory Without Death

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Baru

1978-07-22 0

Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie

The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire. ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction

Nakahara

1974-10-19 6.7

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game

Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1977-01-22 7.5

Japan's Don

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1969-05-03 8

Brothers Serving Time

While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t re ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-02-24 8.7

Eighteen Years in Prison

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1966-08-26 6

Rub Out the Past

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation. ...
Genre :Crime

1982-03-19 5

The Shogun's Vault II

A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the shogunate one after another and steals the shogun's treasures, has been shaking the public authoritie ...
Genre :

Tsutomu Morita

1974-01-15 7

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

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 fami ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Hideshi Oda

1974-06-29 7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power. ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1968-06-28 0

Return of the Outlaw

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1967-01-28 0

Gamblers

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1974-08-10 0

Third Generation Boss

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan. ...
Genre :Crime

1974-10-05 7

Code of Wolves

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1981-01-01 2

Space Ninja: Sword of the Space Ark

Sci-fi meets martial arts in this lively chronicle of a warrior pilot who returns to his native planet to find it controlled by a wicked tyrant Captain Kogar. He also finds his family has been slaught ...
Genre :Science Fiction

1965-08-12 6

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Kamekura

1972-06-21 7.6

Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro

Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confes ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1977-02-26 6.9

Hokuriku Proxy War

In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action, Comedy

Okada Gonoshin

1974-04-24 7.1

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy

1976-12-04 7

The Yakuza Code Still Lives

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1976-02-28 5.7

Violent Panic: The Big Crash

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Matsumura

1974-12-21 0

The Fancy Man

A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love. ...
Genre :

Det. Takuya Tamura

1977-07-02 6.7

Doberman Cop

Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1974-12-28 5.571

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1974-06-01 0

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose. ...
Genre :Crime, Action

Takano Shinji

1973-01-13 7.4

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1973-04-28 7.4

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitio ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1978-10-28 6.6

The Fall of Ako Castle

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of th ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1976-04-24 6.6

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed i ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

1975-06-21 6.7

Gambling Den Heist

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1977-01-22 6.2

Decapitation of an Evil Woman

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murd ...
Genre :Action

1969-10-01 5.9

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fish ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1966-03-13 0

Convicted Woman

1966 film directed by Kudo. ...
Genre :

White Soldier

1975-10-14 5.7

The International Gang of Kobe

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1973-02-10 7

Aesthetics of a Bullet

A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks on the life of a yakuza ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1966-11-19 7.3

Samurai Wolf

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send agains ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1977-08-27 0

Gambling Code and Feuds

It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977) ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1997-10-11 7

King of Sha-kin 2

A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza. ...
Genre :

Igamono 2

1967-07-30 2

The Shogun and His Mistresses

Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period. ...
Genre :Drama

1972-05-27 0

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction. ...
Genre :

1972-07-30 5

The Pledge

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1971-11-19 6

Trials of an Okinawa Village

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She mu ...
Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Riichi Yuasa

1967-08-12 6.5

Code Between Brothers 5

Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Famil ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1969-07-31 6

Samurai Geisha

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story a ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-06-17 0

Tears of Banishment

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1969-05-24 0

The Cross of Vengeance

Film with Junko Miyazono. ...
Genre :Action

1976-02-04 5.3

Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers ...
Genre :Action

1976-01-31 6.5

Operation Plazma in Osaka

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1972-01-11 7.4

Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1966-10-30 6

Judo vs. Karate

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1975-03-01 0

The Viper Brothers and the Young General

The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in need as his naivety prevents him from seeing thei ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

徳山五兵衛

1967-04-20 0

Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival

A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song. ...
Genre :Comedy

Boy

1968-05-21 0

The Bandits

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1971-06-01 6.5

The Viper Brothers

After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets of Kobe to make a name for themselves amongst the ...
Genre :Comedy, Action

1979-06-06 0

The Rivals

Genre :

1968-01-14 7.2

Big Time Gambling Boss

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1977-05-28 7

Japanese Humanity and Justice

When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1965-07-10 0

The Gambler

A crime film released in 1965 ...
Genre :Crime

1979-08-01 0

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Tamagiku Dōrō

Dance teacher Omiyo survives a double suicide with her lover and is forced into life as the courtesan Tamagiku in Yoshiwara. Living in misery, she meets Gengo, her lover’s look-alike brother, and they ...
Genre :TV Movie, Horror, Drama

1982-09-03 0

Evil Spirit Princess Sakurako

A beautiful girl, haunted by the evil spirit of a woman who was burned at the stake 17 years ago, begins to kill one person after another. ...
Genre :Horror

Baru

1978-07-08 8.235

Message from Space: Galactic Wars

The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru, organize the resistance. They are helped by Eolia, a mysterious woman traveling on a three masted space s ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama