Takuzō Kawatani

AKA: Takuzo Kawatani

1.7529

1941-07-21

Changchun, Jilin, China

Biography

Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 165 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {172}

1969-02-21 0

Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage

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 ...

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

1967-11-01 3

Shogun and His Mistress 2

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. When the Shogun passes away, his concubines are forc ...

Genre :

Henchman

1968-09-14 7.2

Red Peony Gambler

Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a strange ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy, Thriller, Romance

Henchman

1970-03-05 6.3

Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1974-02-16 0

Student Yakuza

A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster. ...

Genre :Crime

Dayon (voice) / Kemunpasu (voice)

1989-03-18 0

Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!

Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely based on a manga chapter, the film revolves around an alien plot to take over the world. ...

Genre :Animation, Comedy

Guard

1972-12-16 6.7

Eight Men to Kill

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despit ...

Genre :Action

1971-07-17 8

A Scarred Life

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun (big boss). Battles erupt as tempers explode as someon ...

Genre :Drama

1969-12-27 6.5

Gambler's Legacy

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the de ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1973-09-15 0

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle

A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggli ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1974-08-31 0

The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers

A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don' ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

1976-11-17 0

A Kawachi Rascal's Song

Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

Mr Zen

1975-05-24 1

Pimp Heaven

Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Detective Kajiyama

1976-10-30 6.7

Yakuza Graveyard

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. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Ishimatsu

1974-03-30 7.7

Jeans Blues: No Future

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Inspector Hotta

1978-09-06 6.915

Empire of Passion

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Horror

Gang member

1972-03-04 6

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsuruji, a beautiful yet tough geisha, becomes the b ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1970-02-21 0

Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is ba ...

Genre :

1973-03-03 4.667

The Kyoto Connection

Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Chri ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Prison Guard

1967-01-12 8

Three Gamblers

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Yasuke

1986-09-20 6.1

Death Shadows

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal bus ...

Genre :Action

Iwase

1969-11-08 0

Kanto Street Peddlers

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bos ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Sanji

1978-07-01 5.868

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

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. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

Kazuo Tsukamoto

1971-02-13 0

Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

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 youn ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Ichiro Makabe

1985-10-26 5.2

Tracked

When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail. ...

Genre :Drama

Ryukichi Ineda

1991-02-09 5.6

Heat Wave

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Rokuzo

1975-05-14 4.75

Virgin Breaker Yuki

Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's ...

Genre :Drama

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

1987-12-26 0

The Great Department Store Robbery

Genre :Drama

Farmer

1982-10-09 9

Kidnapping Blues

A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to ph ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1974-12-07 6.5

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

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. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Detective B

1973-05-24 6.167

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escapin ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Irujun Im

1984-11-10 6.2

For Kayako

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean. ...

Genre :Drama

Hisamatsu

1975-10-14 4.2

Story of a Nymphomaniac

Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social posi ...

Genre :Drama

1965-09-18 6.6

Blood of Revenge

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beaut ...

Genre :Action

1976-08-07 7

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Romance

1972-11-22 0

Hikage-Mono

A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita ...

Genre :

1970-03-29 7

House of Gamblers

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the ...

Genre :Crime

1974-03-01 0

Woman Mobsters

Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where sh ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1994-05-14 0

The Man Who Shot the Don

Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Koichi

1992-06-25 6.2

The Dream of Russia

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique ev ...

Genre :Drama, History

Moriya Hitoshi

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

Takuzō

1991-03-23 0

Hokui 15° no duo

Genre :History, Drama

1976-02-28 5.4

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

1975-01-15 3

The Karate 3

This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take ...

Genre :Action

1968-06-28 0

Return of the Outlaw

Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1972-05-26 7

Modern Lady Gambler

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she l ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Yakuza

1970-09-09 7.2

A Wad of Notes

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back and saves the town that is becoming run-down from ya ...

Genre :Action

1974-03-16 5.5

人妻セックス地獄

1974 Japanese film. ...

Genre :

Tokumaru

1973-09-01 8

Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group

A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's ga ...

Genre :

1969-06-27 5.917

Yakuza Law

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Thug

1968-11-30 6.5

Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder

The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his young son to live with his grandfather, the master ...

Genre :Action, Drama

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

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

1965-12-04 5

Code of Ruffians

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group. ...

Genre :

1991-03-29 4

Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country t ...

Genre :TV Movie

Henchman

1968-01-27 7

Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1969-04-10 6.2

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu th ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1973-06-20 0

The High Cost of Virginity

1973 Toei movie. ...

Genre :Comedy

1988-04-29 7

Mother

From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ...

Genre :Drama

Kazuto Tonoma

1977-04-29 0

Short and Fat

A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben". ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mori Kojiro

1987-09-17 0

Ronin on a Mission

Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi later apologizes privately, revealing that Kira has ...

Genre :Action, History

1995-02-04 0

The King of Minami: Sweet Trap

#10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover." ...

Genre :

Tajibee

1982-03-12 0

The Buddy: Yaji and Kita

Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from masked samurai, and he entrusts them with a secret let ...

Genre :Comedy, History

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

Sakai

1985-12-28 8

Tora-san's Island Encounter

Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in work. Tora-san follows her to Shikinejima, and at ...

Genre :Comedy

1987-02-21 0

River of Fireflies

During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, h ...

Genre :Drama

Dan

1979-05-26 0

Goodbye, Flickmania

Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movi ...

Genre :Drama

Soldier

1969-10-16 7

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Tani Tamakichi

1989-06-03 8

Harimao

A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War ...

Genre :War, Adventure, History, Comedy

Mitsuo Iwashita

1973-04-28 7.326

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

1987-08-15 0

Guys Who Never Learn

Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time. ...

Genre :Comedy

1970-11-11 6.5

Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Mona ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Saburo Tanimura

1976-05-15 6.3

A Savage Beast Goes Mad

Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

1978-08-12 0

Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro

Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Romance

Kazunari Tsugawa

1976-04-24 6.9

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

1976-06-19 5.7

The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II. ...

Genre :Crime

Shoji Akita

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 :

Hiyoshi Kinoshita

1977-07-02 6.481

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

Sergeant Major Nagata

1989-06-17 6.9

Four Days of Snow and Blood

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 b ...

Genre :Drama, War, History

Teruhisa Yoshinaga

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

Tetsuya bessho

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

Sgt. Ido

1985-07-20 5.2

The Burmese Harp

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk. ...

Genre :Drama, War

1975-04-26 6.1

Cops vs. Thugs

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 t ...

Genre :Drama, Action, Crime

Uno

1973-10-27 0

Yakuza of the Present

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his former family being overrun by a modern yakuza grou ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1974-12-28 5.563

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

1969-06-14 6

Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries. ...

Genre :Crime

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

Ryoichi Enami

1973-01-13 7.348

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

Katsuji Saijo

1973-09-25 7.167

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

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 ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Crime

Policeman at hospital

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

Detective

1975-11-01 7.176

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Cha ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

Yakuza underling

1975-06-07 5

Shimane Prison Riot

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of a ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1977-02-26 0

The Smart Aleck Ten

Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka. ...

Genre :Comedy

1991-04-13 6

Maji!

Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara. ...

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

1976-02-14 0

Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District

The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows him around. Their love triangle nearly dissolves i ...

Genre :Romance

1987-11-21 6

Eien no 1/2

An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then begin to happen to him, including a beating from the ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Prisoner

1972-12-02 4.333

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about love. But the double finds pleasure not only in wo ...

Genre :Comedy

1972-11-21 7.7

The Red Silk Gambler

With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1969-03-30 5

Yakuza on Foot

An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

1989-02-04 6.3

Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza cla ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Adventure

1971-01-23 6

Okoma, the Orphan Gambler

Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take ove ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Yakuza henchman

1972-08-12 5.923

Girl Boss Guerilla

Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. ...

Genre :Action

Yakuza henchman

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

1971-06-01 7.3

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villa ...

Genre :Drama, Action

1974-04-27 5.973

Return of the Street Fighter

Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Ts ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

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

Yakuza henchman

1968-08-14 5.9

Wicked Priest

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai inter ...

Genre :Drama

Senta

1977-03-17 7.75

The Life of Chikuzan

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biograp ...

Genre :Drama, History

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

1975-12-06 0

Evil Doers

Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The film details his subsequent attempts to escape. It's the third and final entry in the "Hiroki Matsu ...

Genre :

Murata

1972-07-03 4.667

Turtle Geisha

Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There’s also a subplot about a m ...

Genre :Drama

1976-10-01 0

The Three Ginza Rascals

Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld. ...

Genre :

1970-06-25 0

Silk Hat Boss

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1970-11-21 0

The Silk Hat Boss 2

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1974-11-22 5

Yakuza vs. Gang Leader

Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

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

1976-12-25 0

Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On

Genre :Crime

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 :

Skull Crushed Yakuza Thug Ôshima

1974-02-02 6.777

The Street Fighter

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

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

1967-12-16 7.6

Eleven Samurai

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, the Oshi clan is blamed for what happened and sente ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1970-08-01 5.3

A Lively Geisha

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's business is facing, she stands ready to come to his ai ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1967-10-10 3.8

Heiji, the Detective

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro. ...

Genre :Mystery

1969-04-19 7

The Biggest Gamble

When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Umaemon

1988-05-21 6.8

Crane

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife... ...

Genre :Fantasy, History

1974-02-02 6.5

Bohachi Bushido: The Villain

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a ...

Genre :Action

1994-03-31 0

Momotarō Zamurai III

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must now wage a furious battle against the terrible “Ran” clan, villains in league with Ohara Ukon, a bi ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama, Comedy, Action

1975-08-09 7

Company Buggers

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ...

Genre :Crime

Tatsuo

1970-01-20 0

A Yakuza Goes Home

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to th ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1986-05-24 5

Sure Death! 3

Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1973-09-01 6

The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Kyozo Shigeta

1992-08-29 6

Succession

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. ...

Genre :Comedy

1971-02-25 5

Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments

As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he mu ...

Genre :

Umekichi

1968-03-30 0

Gamblers: The Raid

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Katsuo Rojo

1975-10-18 0

Scoundrel Boss

Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and a urinary treatment business, and put it on track, but each time, they are caught in the ploy of a m ...

Genre :Comedy

1995-01-17 0

The Third Gangster

A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decide whether to disband his dwindling gang or fight. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

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

Kiyoshi

1974-04-27 6

The Tattooed Hitman

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 ...

Genre :Drama, Action

Thug

1968-11-22 6.8

Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation

A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town's businesses, mu ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Thug

1970-11-21 0

The Silk Hat Boss 2

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1993-10-06 0

Baian the Assassin: Showdown

Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly eliminate those whose existence is deemed toxic t ...

Genre :

1973-06-07 6.5

Dangerous Trade in Kobe

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. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Kogoro Katsura

1986-01-25 0

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma

Genre :Action, Drama, Romance

1991-04-20 0

Deer Friend

Genre :Family

1985-10-10 0

Kimi ga kagayaku toki

A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player. ...

Genre :Drama

1976-09-04 5.8

Oxen Split Torturing

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are capt ...

Genre :Horror, Drama

1969-07-31 6

Samurai Geisha

Genre :Drama, Crime

Guard

1969-08-13 6.6

Killer's Mission

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as ...

Genre :Action

Yakuza

1971-02-13 7

Fate Deals the Card of Death

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Un ...

Genre :Drama

1972-01-22 7

A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime group ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1991-05-10 0

Let's Shoot Ridiculously

Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a member of the Mutsumi Imai Federation ...

Genre :

Tosaku Satoh

1993-02-20 6

Haruka, Nostalgia

Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the author's real name. ...

Genre :Drama

Togo Shinkawa (thug)

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

1991-05-11 0

The Man Who Became The Don

Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy

1966-04-13 7

The Protector

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to continue the five generation long run of the busines ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1971-12-03 0

The Man

Japanese movie. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

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

1971-11-19 0

A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers

When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way. ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1983-12-28 0

Kigeki kazoku dōmei

Genre :

1971-07-31 10

Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler

Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1980-03-04 6

Aitsu to Ore

Cops solve cases as they travel the country. ...

Genre :Crime

1975-10-17 10

前略おふくろ様

Genre :

1992-07-10 0

Izakaya Chōji

The special drama depicts the sad and joyful life of a single-minded izakaya owner in a small yakitori restaurant. ...

Genre :Drama

1985-06-08 0

Kokugo Gannen

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national l ...

Genre :Drama

1980-10-07 0

Keishi-K

" Keishi-K " is a detective drama directed and starring Shintaro Katsu. This drama tells the story of Inspector Katsutoshi Gatsu, a hammy detective, as he fights crime. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Mystery

野々村泰輔

1987-04-06 0

Chotchan

The 38th NHK Asadora. Based on the autobiography of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's mother. ...

Genre :Drama

0

Downtown Story

The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singer and hostess at the bar . The bar originally belonged to Yobuko's mother, Ranko, but Ran ...

Genre :

1989-04-03 0

Hana no Furu Gogo

Television drama. ...