Minken Karasawa
Birthday: 1937-01-03
Place of Birth: Minowa, Nagano, Japan
Biography: Minken Karasawa (唐沢 民賢, Karasawa Minken, January 3, 1937) is a Japanese actor and talent from Minowa Town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan.
Movies
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, ...
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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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Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a g...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That make...
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Brothers Serving Time
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Af...
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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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Eighteen Years in Prison
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...
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Restoration Fire
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale...
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The Mad Fox
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appea...
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Cold Rice, Osan, Chan
Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying...
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Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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Four and A Half Mats
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. ...
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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 be...
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Fly Boys, Fly!
Six young pilots who all volunteered to be Kami-kaze or suicide pilots....
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his B...
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Skyscraper Hunting
The ASH (Abnormal Species Humanoid) first appeared in the beginning of the 1980s. They looked like h...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike h...
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Doberman Cop
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur...
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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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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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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...
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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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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Orgies of Edo
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody fo...
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The Red Silk Gambler
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pill...
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The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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The Ninja Hunt
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional ba...
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Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, s...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend c...
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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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Code Between Brothers 2
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend ...
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A Revengeful Raid
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss o...
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The Biggest Gamble
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do ever...
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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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Company Buggers
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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Seventeen Ninja
As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress ...
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Classmates
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II....
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red...
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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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The Street Fighter
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + side...
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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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Brave Red Flower of the North
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20...
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's....
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Moonshadow Ninja Scroll: Twenty-One Eyes
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party,...
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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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The Great Shogunate Battle
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of br...
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei...
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza fami...
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The Unruly Ronin's Journey II
Formerly a covert spy under the shogunate, ronin Azami Onijuro and his carefree companion, ronin, jo...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddl...
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