Zenji Yamada

AKA: Дзэндзи Ямада, 山田禪二

1.2234

1914-07-17

Hokkaido, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {117}

Captain of the Kamome-maru

1967-04-22 5.649

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside ...

Genre :Horror, Science Fiction, Action

1961-05-13 0

Tōkyō dodonpa musume

Motomu Ida movie ...

Genre :

1956-06-14 6

Phoenix

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she performed enthusiastically on the stage that night, attra ...

Genre :

Yamada

1966-10-22 0

Chivalry Broken from All Sides

This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take up a sword again because of the emptiness of the Yak ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1962-02-18 0

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1962-02-25 0

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1957-01-22 0

Saigo no totsugeki

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized by Toyama Tetsu of “Smuggling of the Body”, also dir ...

Genre :War

Barge captain

1967-02-04 7

A Colt Is My Passport

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1956-01-15 0

Cell No. 8

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city. ...

Genre :

1962-07-09 6.9

I Hate But Love

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he lo ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

1956-07-12 6.964

Crazed Fruit

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1956-03-21 0

Confession

Genre :

1962-04-22 0

The Frozen Plains

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1964-10-11 6

Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organization based in Japan. To defeat the villains, Joe uses ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Shimadachi

1961-11-19 0

Wind and waves of the South

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish school... But he failed. Mother died. The woman who repl ...

Genre :Drama

Ono

1960-03-23 6.976

Intimidation

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1957-07-14 7.014

A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—bu ...

Genre :Comedy

1965-10-22 6.3

Woman Gambler

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One day, a man that resembles her deceased lover asks for ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1966-09-07 0

Kill or Be Killed

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1962-05-20 0

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :Crime

1955-11-01 0

Such is Life

Japanese drama film. ...

Genre :Drama

1970-04-18 0

Greatest Boss Of Japan

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Owner of the diner

1961-10-14 0

Wharf Temperament

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a you ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Action

1964-03-04 0

Gun Demon Without Form

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from Kobe. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Zenzo Shima

1957-12-28 6.7

Man Who Causes a Storm

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their ...

Genre :Drama

Shokichi Umetani

1971-06-12 5.8

Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who ...

Genre :Drama, War, History

1956-06-26 0

Semyonov's Gold Ingots

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his gold bullion somewhere. ...

Genre :

1963-04-28 0

Ore wa Jigoku no Butaichou

Genre :History, Drama

1958-01-15 5

Fangs of Night

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and uncover a shady group of criminals with a sinister ...

Genre :

1962-11-21 0

Ai to shi no katami

Genre :Drama, Romance

1962-09-19 0

Yoko o muita seishun

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1962-09-22 0

Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō bōryoku chizu

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1963-08-31 0

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1964-11-22 6.8

The Flame of Devotion

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1965-04-29 0

Thanks for the Tears

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1959-09-20 0

The Human Cyclone

The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Man, popular and longing everywhere, and who is on t ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1966-12-24 0

The Scarred Angel

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki, Hachiro begins to investigate the cause of his older ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1965-06-20 0

Loss of Innocence

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when recognized by her former fiancee after she had become ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1966-09-07 0

Three Wild Cats

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1956-03-04 0

Jigoku no hatoba

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement, witnesses two men shooting each other and collapsing on t ...

Genre :

1965-03-07 0

Chivalrous Life

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido Federation, to which he belonged. The creditor, Izo, visit ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

1962-12-16 0

Namari o buchikome

1962 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1967-04-09 0

The Reckless One

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investig ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1967-06-28 0

The Singing Gunman

Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the bullion transport. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1964-11-11 0

Profit from Killing

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abash ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Toyogorô

1953-08-19 6.222

Brother and Sister

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that will threaten the marriage prospects of the younge ...

Genre :Drama

1961-01-03 0

Dai shusse monogatari

1961 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1968-04-28 6.7

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally il ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Thriller

1959-03-25 0

JA750 Gōki Yukuefumei

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between two newspaper reporters, one young and the other old, ...

Genre :Drama

1962-07-08 0

The Man From the Sea

Japanese action film. ...

Genre :Action

1966-05-18 0

Cry for Sorrow

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo. ...

Genre :Music, Drama

Nagai

1962-12-01 6.9

Danger Pays

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bill ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Junpei Murakoshi

1957-03-08 7.3

Eight Hours of Terror

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers. ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Drama

1963-01-03 0

Beyond the Green Hills

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled f ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

1967-02-04 7

Birth of a Fighter

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang. ...

Genre :Drama, Action

1960-01-31 0

The Poem of the Blue Star

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a whim! ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1966-10-29 0

I'll Never Cry!

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by find ...

Genre :Drama

1955-11-23 7.523

Forever a Woman

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Tanabe

1958-09-23 6.2

Red Pier

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Man Looks Like Carpenter

1956-07-31 7

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a ...

Genre :Drama

1952-01-03 6.8

Vendetta of a Samurai

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance. ...

Genre :Drama, Action, History

Owner

1964-04-24 6.5

Black Sun

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstanding ...

Genre :Drama

1964-02-01 6.5

Cruel Gun Story

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Police Officer

1955-05-08 5

The Green Music Box

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the research laboratory in Hokkaido, Ruriko hasn't heard ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Adventure

1964-08-14 0

Tiger of the Sea

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, Crime

1964-01-25 0

Kakedashi keiji

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Suzuki

1959-10-06 0

A Turning to Hell

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dea ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1964-11-22 0

Eddy Currents of Life

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not bei ...

Genre :

1957-04-03 0

Birth of a Jazz Maiden

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by working with a group of itinerant camellia oil peddlers ...

Genre :Music

1966-09-17 0

No Greater Love

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as the eye can see. People treated him with respect. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Nobuchi's uncle

1955-08-31 6.8

The Heart

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past. ...

Genre :Drama

1961-04-01 0

Quick Draw Joe

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction s ...

Genre :Action, Western

Lawyer Nagata

1956-03-14 3.75

Crossroad

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt to perfect his crime, he drives to a remote quarry ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Yoshio's Father

1962-06-20 7

Teenage Yakuza

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Janitor

1956-10-01 6.5

Summer Storm

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé. ...

Genre :

1960-08-06 0

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister. ...

Genre :Action

1967-07-08 0

The Will to Live

Genre :Drama

Fujita

1963-04-21 6.9

Youth of the Beast

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Action, Mystery

1967-01-03 0

The Black Sheep

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who i ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1958-03-25 5.5

Underworld Beauty

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

"Bar Carol" manager

1955-09-14 6.8

Tales of Ginza

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior. ...

Genre :Drama

1962-08-12 0

The Rambler Returns Home

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series. ...

Genre :

Coach Yamamoto

1957-05-01 6

The Champion

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted b ...

Genre :Action, Romance, Drama, Music

Senkichi Hamada

1961-03-15 0

Joe of Aces: Gambling for a Living

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime

1956-09-11 0

The Shadow of Fear

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder. ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

1960-03-20 0

Knock Down

Genre :

Kitagoshi

1963-07-07 0

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1953-09-15 6.5

The Wild Geese

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age. ...

Genre :Drama

Policeman

1966-06-25 0

Tomo o okuru uta

Genre :Drama

Ozuka

1960-12-03 0

Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow

The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says that he is the younger brother of Colt Jo's killer. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1960-01-09 0

The Devil's Sigh

Japanese crime film ...

Genre :

1954-07-27 0

Student Double Suicide

Genre :Drama

1961-07-01 0

Gambler in the Sea

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1961-01-09 0

Keiji monogatari jazu wa kurutchai nē

1961 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1958-07-22 0

Tokyo Bus Girl

1958 Japanese movie ...

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Akama

1959-06-30 0

Merciless Bullet

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, im ...

Genre :Crime

Tomota

1965-07-14 0

Why Are We Young?

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional teaching style stirs up the school, but the students gra ...

Genre :Drama

1955-10-18 0

The juvenile

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers ...

Genre :Drama

1961-08-13 0

The Plateau Man

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu. ...

Genre :Western

1961-06-11 0

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business ser ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1964-09-09 0

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few day ...

Genre :

1960-07-20 0

Wakai toppū

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. I ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1964-08-01 0

The Scarred Crest

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels ...

Genre :Crime

1960-04-29 0

The Day of Youth

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father ...

Genre :Drama

1971-04-28 6.083

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are tryin ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1970-12-03 5.333

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges i ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1954-01-15 0

Kokoro no nichigetsu

Genre :Drama

1961-02-02 0

Keiji monogatari buchō keiji o oe!

1961 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1963-04-14 0

Acacia no Ame ga Yamu Toki

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko. ...

Genre :Drama

1960-02-24 0

Kage no nai yōfu

1960 Japanese movie ...

Genre :

1955-05-29 6.2

Till We Meet Again

Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappointed with her husband Kappei, who is more attracted to mountain climbing and another girl. When Yachi ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1966-06-01 0

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1955-06-28 7

The Maid's Kid

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, ...

Genre :Drama

1958-08-05 0

I'll Kill the Women

A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his younger brother. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1954-09-21 0

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair. ...