Tatsuo Umemiya
Birthday: 1938-03-11
Place of Birth: Harbin, Manchukuo, Empire of Japan [now Harbin, Heilongjiang, China]
Biography: Tatsuo Umemiya (梅宮 辰夫, Umemiya Tatsuo, 11 March 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and talent Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows. Umemiya died of kidney failure on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old.
Movies
Henchmen
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz...
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Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was r...
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Once and For All Pt.２
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro....
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Wild Spirit
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the S...
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to pri...
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A Lonely Gamble
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt...
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A Blood Stained Love Affair
Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by O...
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King of Pornography
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens...
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Prince of Space
Attracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of Kra...
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Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission: From Japan With Love
Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young ido...
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Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work....
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Hunter in the Dark
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gom...
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Gokudo Otoko Juku
A rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization!...
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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Three Generations of Yakuza
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowin...
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Night Guy
Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-u...
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Night Bitch
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opp...
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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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 press...
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Okatsu the Fugitive
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good ...
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Bloodstained Clan of Honor
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the b...
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Shura ga Yuku 4
The fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the Kansai...
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A Single Flower Withered
Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Clan Violent Loyalty
The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara....
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides...
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was ...
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution 2
Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution...
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only ...
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Gang and G-Men Part 2
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of...
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Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell
Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a crimina...
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World War III Breaks Out
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan ...
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Devil's Flute
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent b...
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Wolves on Motorcycles
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground....
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money...
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Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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The Man Who Shot the Don
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attack...
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Gang vs. Gang
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame f...
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Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship be...
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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s ...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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The True Story of The Hiroshima Yakuza War
After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city....
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Unification Of Japan
After the young Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) force a local yakuza fam...
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Some Like It Hot
Detective investigates a murder connected to cocaine in a coin locker...
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Unification Of Japan 3
With the Kyowa and Shinto Clans in open conflict, Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) looks for a chance to...
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Unification Of Japan 2
Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who joined Kyowakai, steadily rose through the ranks with his calm and c...
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a co...
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsuk...
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G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his pol...
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The Gate of Youth Part 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu....
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Planet Prince
A mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a power...
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A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword
The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the rol...
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own....
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Capone Cries a Lot
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achievin...
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Nuclear Gypsies
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area w...
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 2
Sabu, a low-ranking samurai, finds himself unable to apprehend the ruthless leader of a violent gang...
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories
In Edo, a group of masked samurai stormed a seafood wholesaler, killing the head clerk and robbing t...
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 3
In the town of Edo, a series of bizarre incidents occur, where people are kidnapped, have fox masks ...
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Raised in a Palace
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl...
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Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil
The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s....
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Shura Group Part 1
Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yoko...
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dre...
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The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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Metamorphosis
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine....
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The Awesome Circus Bastard
Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori a...
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The Buddy: Yaji and Kita
Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwrec...
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The Challenge
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the p...
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Four Hours of Terror
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror....
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Enemy Is an Atomic Submarine
Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut....
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Industrial Spy
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corpo...
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Domineering
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the p...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies:...
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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 o...
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A Woman’s Road
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart an...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Dream Maker
Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases bu...
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The Seven Chefs
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the he...
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The Dump Truck Rascal
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets....
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G-Men in the Pacific
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokoha...
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Delinquent Boss: Smooth Talking, Good Fighting
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 &...
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Delinquent Boss: Devour to the Bone
This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando
This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968...
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Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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The Bad Boss
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1...
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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters....
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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters....
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money....
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Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yak...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Ka...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangs...
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King of the Widow-Killers
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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The Lucky Status Symbol
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touch...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nati...
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Convict son revenges innocent father's death....
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Life of Hishakaku
After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Ind...
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Life of Hishakaku 2
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain thei...
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to f...
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The Last True Yakuza
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and b...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest a...
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Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new...
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Gambling Den Heist
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor....
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Sex Peddlers
A young bartender acts as a pimp on the side: he pretends to have VD to get a girl an abortion. She ...
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The Fixer
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confu...
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Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his compan...
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Eleven Gangsters
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes ...
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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Yanagase Blues
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase....
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Gambler's World 2
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks....
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan...
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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The Big Boss
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the w...
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Nerves for Victory
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading ...
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Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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Daughter of Time
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman...
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Headphone Lullaby
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students....
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Mist and Shadows
The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective ...
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's large...
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Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin...
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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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Ryakudatsu ai
The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally...
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The Imperial Japanese Empire
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to c...
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her o...
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Succession
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing i...
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Sensei
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays...
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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later ...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested...
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The Great Road
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways ...
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Scoundrel Boss
Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and ...
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The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and n...
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Chained Bitch
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series...
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Won't Stand for Dying
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. How...
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Afternoon When Flowers Fell
A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of w...
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The Navy
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining th...
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Sabu and Ichi's Detective Stories 4
During a gathering of detectives, Satake is the only one not indulging in the hospitality of a wealt...
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Fugitive Joichiro Kijima
This work is a spin-off drama from the film " Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi ," which was released in...
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Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screen...
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True Account: Tohoku Yakuza War — Road to Power
In the early hours of August 5th, 1928, a baby was born into the family of the gang leader, Gizo Ato...
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千年の松 完結編
Makino Kuniyasu is consulted about the succession issue of the Joshu Okubo family. At that time, Mak...
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Shin Japan's Don: FINAL CHAPTER
Ninth and last film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata....
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Unification of Japan: Compilation I — Rise of Ambition
A complete digest of “Unification of Japan” from “Unification of Japan 1” to “Unification of Japan 1...
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