Takuzō Kawatani
Birthday: 1941-07-21
Place of Birth: 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.
Movies
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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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 afte...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes ot...
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Red Peony Gambler
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die...
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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...
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Student Yakuza
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and ...
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Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!
Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely ba...
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Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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A Scarred Life
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set abo...
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Gambler's Legacy
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mit...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the de...
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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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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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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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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro K...
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Empire of Passion
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...
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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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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carrie...
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The Kyoto Connection
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He ta...
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Three Gamblers
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio en...
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Death Shadows
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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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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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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Tracked
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whethe...
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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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Virgin Breaker Yuki
Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. Duri...
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Kidnapping Blues
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch ...
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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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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested...
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For Kayako
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kaya...
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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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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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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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House of Gamblers
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h...
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Woman Mobsters
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, ...
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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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The Dream of Russia
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across ...
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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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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a...
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The Karate 3
This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as th...
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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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A Wad of Notes
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school prin...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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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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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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Code of Ruffians
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it w...
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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 ...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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Mother
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving a...
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Short and Fat
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga ...
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Ronin on a Mission
Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and ...
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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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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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Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), run...
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River of Fireflies
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classma...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friends...
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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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Harimao
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Penins...
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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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Guys Who Never Learn
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time....
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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept...
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonat...
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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...
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after Wor...
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The Fancy Man
A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and em...
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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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The Burmese Harp
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to ...
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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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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...
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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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Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their politic...
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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 rest...
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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 bun...
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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutiona...
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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...
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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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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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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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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 y...
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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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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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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 ...
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Eien no 1/2
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. ...
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Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replace...
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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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Yakuza on Foot
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, t...
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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 ...
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Code Between Brothers 5
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi s...
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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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Return of the Street Fighter
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from c...
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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 al...
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Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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The Life of Chikuzan
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sha...
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Evil Doers
Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The ...
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Turtle Geisha
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the...
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The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talent...
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Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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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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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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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered ...
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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 Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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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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A Lively Geisha
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes t...
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Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga...
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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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Crane
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Cra...
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controll...
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Momotarō Zamurai III
Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...
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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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A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...
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Sure Death! 3
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assass...
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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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Succession
A former stockbroker-turned-yakuza must make sure his alcoholic boss is up to the task of swearing i...
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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 vil...
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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 Third Gangster
A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving mem...
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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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The Silk Hat Boss 2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highl...
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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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Oxen Split Torturing
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are per...
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Samurai Geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro...
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Killer's Mission
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...
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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...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...
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Let's Shoot Ridiculously
Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a membe...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. H...
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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 Protector
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her fath...
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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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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler...
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