Tamio Kawachi
Birthday: 1938-07-21
Place of Birth: Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).
Movies
Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterio...
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Jidanya
Every day a car accident happens in the city. The involved parties are prey to the settlement agent...
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Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant
Set many years after the end of the original Ultraman Tiga series, in which Daigo Madoka (human host...
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Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle
Once again, Musashi has encounter Ultraman Cosmos. Now Ultraman Cosmos has gained some new modes to ...
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Gozu
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...
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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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Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino...
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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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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Fighting Knife Yoshi
Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan....
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Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between pol...
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Tokyo Drifter
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...
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The Angry Rambler
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....
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Story of a Prostitute
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds...
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Cruel Gun Story
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the ...
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Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) cha...
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Shura ga Yuku 9
The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the t...
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Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution 2
Sequel of Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution...
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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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The Warped Ones
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, ...
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I Hate But Love
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced To...
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Gunball
1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill...
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Empress
A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his m...
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Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring crimi...
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Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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Black Sun
Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a woun...
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The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local ...
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Everything Goes Wrong
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The...
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KISS ME
A hard-boiled touch love story that depicts the momentary love between a hitman and a woman who had ...
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Wharf Temperament
The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took respons...
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Youth of the Beast
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with vio...
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Gorotsuki
This coming-of-age drama comically depicts two young men who yearn to become members of the yakuza u...
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Prince of Wolves
As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and l...
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds ...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar...
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Aruhi watashi wa
The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriag...
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若い川の流れ
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employe...
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Gambling is My Destiny
Shadowed and alone. Today, a melancholy guitar sobs in a wandering seaside town.... To make amends, ...
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Remembering the Cosmos Flower
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted ...
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East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
Fukano, an elderly novelist who grew up in the mountains of Tokyo, met a young woman, Kana, for the ...
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The Setting Sun
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader o...
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Loss of Innocence
A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the sto...
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Confinement Escape: Plundered Love
The condemned criminal of the false accusation that I bet on a jailbreak to appeal for own innocence...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for alm...
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energeti...
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Return of the Vagabond
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinj...
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Woman from the Sea
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends ...
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Spartan Education
In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a pl...
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Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin
Kidnapped in childhood. Raised as an assassin. Shiori's spent her entire life following the orders o...
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing...
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Red Handkerchief
A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countr...
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, h...
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Retaliation
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrate...
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Carmen from Kawachi
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model s...
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine ...
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The Forced Marriage with Children
Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young si...
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Star of Destiny
"She's out there somewhere, well and alive." Eiji (Teruhiko Saigo) and his sister hadn't seen their ...
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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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Savage Wolf Pack
A professional hunter, Tetsuya, returns from Alaska to find that his hometown had become a lawless s...
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A Slope in the Sun
The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family ...
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Yabure Kabure
Ambitious action drama about a young man living a carefree life of women and money, struggling to cr...
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Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring c...
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Welcome, My Baby
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and h...
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The Black Sheep
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, ...
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Mini-Skirt Lynchers
The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group ...
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Chi-n-pi-ra
Shibuya, Tokyo. Yoichi and Michio are a pair of hoodlums who make their living as bookies at horse r...
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The Viper Brothers
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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The Viper Brothers Rage Again
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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Outlaw: Black Dagger
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the midd...
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Yakuza Don
Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his g...
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Shimane Prison Riot
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisone...
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Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a...
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The Guitarist from the Sea
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group...
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Whirlpool of Flesh
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparen...
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Kazoku no sentaku
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the...
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A Man's World
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. S...
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Waru: The End
Youji Himuro comes out of hiding and faces off against a powerful new foe from a rival dojo....
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Professional Killers
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w...
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My Sweetheart
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director I...
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Sukiyaki
Sukiyaki can be viewed two ways, a popular Japanese cuisine or a gathering of a family. This heart-w...
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The Rule for a Vagabond
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this his...
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Kitakami yakyoku
Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eigh...
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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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Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza fam...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his broth...
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Friendship of Jazz
Kenichi, who lives like a stray dog among fellow gangsters, finds his love for the first time while ...
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Investigation of a Typical Love
The screenplay is Haruhiko Arai of "Tragedy of W" and "Revolver". The man is a detective who doesn't...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for ...
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Gun Number Zero
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was...
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Wounded Beast
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and hi...
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The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at ...
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Unripe Fruit
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the co...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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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 Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
Part 7 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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The Hill is Full of Flowers
A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga...
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Cheers to the Sky
Stewardess Yuriko goes through rigorous two-month training and finishes her maiden flight safely wit...
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Kaze to Ki to Sora to
A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of wave...
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Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea
Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the...
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The Lion Who Conquers Shura
Nozomi Hanada, the underboss of the Kanto Saiseikai Obara Group, lives his life on the path of chiva...
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The Lion Who Conquers Shura 2
After assuming the title of second boss of the Obara Group, Nozomi Hanada begins a counterattack aga...
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The Earth is Born Again
A dramatic film that recorded the history of Japan in the period of high economic growth. This work ...
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Flowers in the rain
A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an in...
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Aoime no Sugao
A pure love story that depicts the joy of loving and the bitterness of being loved in a burst of you...
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Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Oddysey was sort of an epilogue of the Ultraman Tiga series. Just when we t...
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Emperor of Upheaval
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate l...
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午前零時の出獄
This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of ...
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Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Yonaki Numa
Otsuka, wife of actor Koheiji, is unfaithful and has many affairs. When Koheiji confronts her lover ...
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Pimp Heaven
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be...
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A Bumpkin of Tokyo
Bonta comes to Tokyo with the determination to rule the world, gets a job at a lingerie company, and...
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Boku wa naichicchi
Ichiro, who works for a shipping company, causes an accident while driving drunk. His younger brothe...
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Zurari oretacha yōjinbō
A trio of the best of the best! They beat up the bad guys with no mercy! The three main drug traffic...
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Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
The film depicts the resilient life of the daughter of a Kyushu boss who becomes a Ginza hostess wit...
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Proud Ambition 2
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura...
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Proud Ambition 3
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of th...
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The Bullet Train
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows...
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True Account: The Chivalrous Dragon of Japan
Once, there was a lone yakuza feared as the “One-Eyed Dragon.” His name was Seiji Moriya (Yasukaze ...
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Exiled
In an age where the Anti-Organized Crime Law has flipped the power balance, even civilians now dare ...
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