Kaku Takashina
Birthday: 1919-02-22
Place of Birth: Iioka-machi, Chiba, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Return to Kanto Prison
Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza f...
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Roar of the City
This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidd...
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The Angry Rambler
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira....
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Cell No. 8
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their bud...
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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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Black Tight Killers
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane bac...
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In Love With Him
It depicts a young man who challenges a 2600km traverse of Japan from Hidaka in Hokkaido to Kagoshim...
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Robot Detective: The Movie
Robot Detective K and his human colleagues battle the criminal organization BADDO. Theatrical relea...
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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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Confessions of a Lovelace: At Lust's End
Jun Aisaka seduces one woman after another. His victims were flirtatious married woman Noriko, stude...
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Cat Girls Gamblers: Abandoned Fangs of Triumph
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this b...
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Man Who Causes a Storm
Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him i...
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A Chorus of One Million People
A civic music group, created by Tsukasa Nitta, a high school teacher in Koriyama City, and Akiko Wat...
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Mahjong Horoki
A mahjong neophyte loses everything to game master only to hone his skills, take on all challenges a...
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Women's Police: Part II
Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi) is the recruiter and protector of hostesses at the Club Rose. One ...
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Wind Whistle in Field, Demon Sword: Matsudaira Tadateru cutting the world
Tadateru Matsudaira, the sixth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa, was exiled for not taking part in the attack ...
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Sun and Stars
It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tal...
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He Killed Dad
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murder...
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Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku
"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father...
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A Man With Dragon Tattoos
In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...
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The Story of Shunkin
Based on the novel by Junichiro Tanizaki. Story of the beautiful blind daughter of a wealthy busines...
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The Hungry Shinjuku Detective
The private eye of Shinjuku Yokubo Tantei is a lone wolf, lush, and loser but has kept his integrity...
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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General S...
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Inn of the Floating Weeds
Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison....
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Fighting Delinquents
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who sud...
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Return of the Whirlwind
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza...
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Asiapol Secret Service
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian...
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nik...
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The Human Cyclone
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of M...
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Journey to the North
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown o...
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Punishment of a Lawless Villian
In the early Meiji era, two contrasting craftsmen, who had been bound by a ten-year strong friendshi...
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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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Tattooed Life
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger...
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Ruthless Gambler
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi...
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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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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an a...
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Retaliation
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrate...
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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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The Singing Gunman
Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has b...
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Lightning
The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunction...
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Brother and Sister
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a co...
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Outlaw: Heartless
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gamblin...
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Smashing the 0-Line
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the ...
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Asia-Pol
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter att...
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The Reckless One
Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappea...
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I'll Kill the Women
A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unawa...
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The Long Death
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the ba...
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Drunken Ghost
A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave....
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Crazy Violence at Shimizu Harbor
The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retire...
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Endless Desire
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...
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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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Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munef...
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Voice Without a Shadow
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to h...
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Mehyō to Narazu Mono
A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new idea...
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Massacre Gun
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining f...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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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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The Heartbreak Yakuza
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engul...
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Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth....
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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 whic...
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Wind of Volcano
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from ...
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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight b...
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Murder Unincorporated
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate...
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The Stars and I Decided...
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of mot...
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Song of the Underworld
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out....
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Love in Ginza
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his j...
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Kanto Wanderer
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Dia...
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Living by Karate
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss....
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Gambling Kitten
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a reg...
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The Vampire Doll
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her b...
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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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Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring c...
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The Dragon Crest
A violent story of loyalty and revenge among the many "yakuza" or gambling groups in Japan....
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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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The Gun Like Lightning
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just rel...
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The Spiders' The Road to Bali
The Spiders, a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band, star. During their Asian tour spies try to smuggle ...
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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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A Warm Misty Night
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his belov...
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The Call of Blood
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father....
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The Boy Who Came Back
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with hi...
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Underworld Beauty
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds h...
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Passion and Rifle Bullets
Private Detective Ippei Shizuno faces off against a serial killer and a wealthy woman's society who ...
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Till We Meet Again
Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappoin...
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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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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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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....
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Gambler in the Sea
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching de...
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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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Merciless Bullet
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night a...
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Why Are We Young?
After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a ...
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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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Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing,...
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Frankie's Aliens
Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying sa...
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Return to Kanto Prison
Masakichi Murase has just been released from prison and appears in a fishing port town. Two Yakuza f...
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Beneath the Gallows
Who is the vicious criminal challenging the investigation team? Mysteries lead to more mysteries, an...
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Blood Shed
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he a...
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A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison...
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Doing What I Please
Koichi Haruyama, who works at the Morita Automobile Factory, was driving a convertible through Ginza...
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Japan's No. 1 Shocked Man
The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series....
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Shin yūkyōden
In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza wa...
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The Edo Murders: Sasachi's Greatest Triumph
The Edo Murders: Sasachi’s Greatest Triumph | Two bodies have been found on Tsukuda Island, hacked t...
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The Endless Duel
Following the well-received previous film “Confrontation”, Asahi returns as the wandering drifter Ma...
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The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akit...
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Three Stray Dogs
A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamo...
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Yakuza Wanderer: Villainous Livelihood
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery....
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I'll Be Deceived
A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt....
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