Shōtarō Hayashi
Birthday: 1934-06-21
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Biography: Japanese actor.
Movies
Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....
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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh ...
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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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Keepers of Order
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama a...
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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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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic...
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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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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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Roaring Fire
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real...
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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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The Spear of Heroism
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already i...
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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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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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Gray Sunset
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he ...
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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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Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in tru...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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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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Black Rain
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
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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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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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Sasuke and His Comedians
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan childr...
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The Fort of Death
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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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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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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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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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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The Viper Brothers
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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Winter's Flower
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year...
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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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Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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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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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 Story of a Man Among Men
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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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 Okinawa War of Ten Years
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered....
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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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Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinaw...
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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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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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Code Between Brothers 6
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern J...
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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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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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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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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controll...
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The Blazing Valiant
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in ...
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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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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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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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A Gambler's Certain Death
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards...
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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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Message from Space
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders ...
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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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Sakura Official
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...
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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: 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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Road In the Mist
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish li...
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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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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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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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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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Hibari is Fashion Crazy
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However,...
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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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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows
During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegi...
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her s...
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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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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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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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