Masaharu Arikawa
Birthday: 1930-10-13
Place of Birth: Kita, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
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 Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and s...
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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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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 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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While Traveling
In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...
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Sex and Fury
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by u...
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The Third Ninja
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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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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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler ...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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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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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 Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of...
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Yagyu Chronicles 3: The Valley of Outlaws
This time, sword-saint Yagyu Jubei battles the evil corruption in Akizuki Village, with the help of ...
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is ...
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The Shogun and His Mistresses
Three tales of women that resided in the Shogun's harem (o-oku) during the Edo period....
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Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the de...
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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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Warrior of the Wind
A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and roman...
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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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Appassionata
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter S...
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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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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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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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The Viper Brothers
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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Samurai Wolf II
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their execut...
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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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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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The Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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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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Industrial Spy
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corpo...
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza ...
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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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Yakuza G-Men
34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to fin...
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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 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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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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Pride
Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime min...
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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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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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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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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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Kisaragi Sword
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexpe...
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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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Yakuza Graveyard
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotia...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell
The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all...
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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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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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Bloodiest Flower
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator an...
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyam...
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Samurai Reincarnation
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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Gate of Youth
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....
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Fine Man
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes ...
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Three Gamblers
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio en...
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The Flower and the Dragon
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing ...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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Yakuza Ladies
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful g...
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The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The...
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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 Shogun's Vault II
A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s...
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price...
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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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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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Tokaido Fullhouse
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kir...
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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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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form o...
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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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Drunken Sword
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authori...
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Gokudo of Kamagasaki
Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...
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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
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by ...
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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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Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza
Tokijiro has the unfortunate duty according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when...
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The Third Contest
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Conseque...
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