Birthday: 1929-09-01
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Tomisaburō Wakayama (若山 富三郎), born Masaru Okumura (奥村 勝) was a Japanese actor. His son is actor Kiichriō Wakayama.
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Iz...
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The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was r...
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Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to d...
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Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...
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The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the ...
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Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, l...
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Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...
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Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...
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Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...
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Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, ...
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Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...
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With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...
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An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....
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A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make...
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A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but ...
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This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a swor...
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Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
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Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment ...
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The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexpe...
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Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha w...
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Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...
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[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother die...
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After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a se...
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A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Ory...
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Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft...
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Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and see...
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A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five...
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Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple...
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Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police det...
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Magistrate Toyama no Kin-san is ordered to catch the phantom thief Nezumi Kozo, who is robbing daimy...
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[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread...
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In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterio...
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A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her s...
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1999 TOKYO CITY. "WILD Cats" and "COBLA", two major organizations that engage in a fierce battle fo...
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Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period....
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To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate...
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A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....
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Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutiona...
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Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the ...
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Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
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Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting...
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Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
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Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shi...
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During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as ...
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The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesa...
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Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...
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The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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Ninth installment in the "Gokudo" series. Depicts the activities of Shimamura Seikichi and his hench...
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A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offens...
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Nishina Saburouta is powerful but corrupted priest. One night, an old samurai who couldn't bear him ...
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The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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In the 12th century, Buddhism was still a relatively new religion in Japan. At that time, one school...
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As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a vil...
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In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carrie...
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A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the co...
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Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered b...
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The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...
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A two-part series of ninjutsu films directed by Masahiko Izawa, director of Yagyu Bugeichou (1961), ...
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In the streets of Edo, influential official merchants are being brutally murdered one after another,...
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The head clerk of a decorative shop that captivates Edo girls with goods from the Nanban trade is mu...
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When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in ...
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When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...
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In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighbor...
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A thrilling entertainment mystery period drama directed by Daisuke Yamazaki, depicting the remarkabl...
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Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangl...
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When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have...
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In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there'...
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This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also ...
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Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events...
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Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in ...
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With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up s...
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Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring r...
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Yokomizo, a police officer in the traffic police force, is looking forward to watching his son Kazuh...
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Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and...
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When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the p...
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Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who pl...
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While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and...
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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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The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...
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Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i...
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One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody sho...
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The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
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Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his mi...
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Some of the finest jidai-geki actors appear in this exciting and entertaining tale of intrigue and a...
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With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life...
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The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...
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It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the s...
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A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts re...
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A fierce succession battle ignites at a newspaper company when the president passes away....
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A mysterious coin found at a murder scene stirs the curiosity of young actress detective Oshichi and...
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Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of h...
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When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict betw...
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The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all...
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...
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President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...
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Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his ...
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The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel ar...
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Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro...
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[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This fi...
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The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When t...
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Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a ...
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This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assass...
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When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samura...
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As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...
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Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place...
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The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red...
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During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful...
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While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. Af...
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The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner....
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After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring...
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A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mit...
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From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as t...
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Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep...
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A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h...
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An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer...
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Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad...
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Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurat...
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Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey afte...
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Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her ...
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Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose ...
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Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks....
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A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei...
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Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gan...
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During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with th...
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Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....
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Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has...
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Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The ...
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The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the c...
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The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while t...
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A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitia...
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Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this ta...
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Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the ...
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Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting i...
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The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami....
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Tomisaburo Wakayama is back with a new take on the classic Yamamoto Shugoro masterpiece “Ame Agaru” ...
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Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
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Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by ...
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A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the l...
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One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...
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Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama a...
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Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his B...
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Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their d...
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Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...
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Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards...
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Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the...
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Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect hi...
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Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan’s gypsies’) in order to steal the shogunat...
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A married long-distance truck driver falls for a significantly younger waitress at a roadside diner....
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The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the 'Ooku' (the women's quart...
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Set in Osaka's Shinsekai, the film depicts the lives of Ayumu Tobita (Hidekazu Akai), who makes a li...
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The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...
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Terajima, an ex-yakuza and current nightclub owner, is brought back into the world of crime when his...
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Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, w...
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A mysterious thief called "Yami no Kiba" (Fang of Darkness), who sneaks into the residences of the s...
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The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an al...
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A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famo...
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A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after ...
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Two high school girls get mixed up in murder while investigating the disappearance of a classmate....
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Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...
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Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
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Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era....
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Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who di...
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Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women...
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the Americ...
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A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a re...
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The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomiz...
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The fourth episode of the popular detective series starring Tomisaburō Wakayama. Featuring mysteriou...
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During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powe...
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The second installment of the detective series starring Tomisaburō Wakayama. Depicting the remarkabl...
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Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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After more than 200 years of Isolation, Japan is ready for a modern samurai who isn't afraid to use ...
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An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story ...
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