Seizaburō Kawazu
Birthday: 1908-08-31
Place of Birth: Nihonbashikakigaracho, Tokyo, Japan
Biography: Seizaburō Kawazu (河津 清三郎 Kawazu Seizaburō) was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Yojimbo (1961), Tōmei ningen (1954) and Rōnin-gai (1957). He died on February 20, 1983.
Movies
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to d...
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The Inner Palace Conspiracy
A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...
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Wild Spirit
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the S...
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Bodyguard from Hell
Kitagawa, a drug control officer in the Kanto Shinetsu area, was ordered to investigate the situatio...
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Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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The Insect Woman
A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...
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Yasubei Nakayama
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge aga...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie...
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The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
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A Geisha
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, ...
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Hail the 3 Gents
A lighthearted satire of Japan’s postwar corporate elite, The Executive Gentleman’s Register blends ...
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New Tale of Zatoichi
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...
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Mothra
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expediti...
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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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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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
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Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
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The Last War
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only ...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
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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The Storm of the Pacific
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanes...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discov...
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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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Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
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East China Sea
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of...
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The Straits of Love and Hate
A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man....
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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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Invisible Man
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to...
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The Woman and the Pirate
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there wa...
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Utamaro, Painter of the Woman
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
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Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime gar...
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Return of Gun Dog
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu se...
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Evening Calm
A girl rebels against her mother, who runs a brothel in Yokohama, and attempts to find freedom on he...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor...
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The Approach of Autumn
A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with...
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Gorath
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although...
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Marriage of the sky and the sea
A love comedy directed by Osamu Takahashi based on an original screenplay by Kei Tasaki....
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Dogora
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamond...
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Victory Is Ours
A sailor tries to help his younger brother, a horse-racing jockey, escape from the yakuza after doub...
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The Gay Masquerade
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo...
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Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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Daikichi Konomura
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...
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Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light distric...
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The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, e...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
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Glorious Fights
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
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The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Interpol Code 8
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas....
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Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure....
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Street of Ronin
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject ...
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Satan's Town
A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their rela...
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Snake Woman's Curse
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haun...
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Ghost Man
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Ki...
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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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The Cruel Sea
It is 1921 and a town has a newspaper which prints urgent bulletins as required. The Washington-base...
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Gambler's Farewell
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza ...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time le...
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Judo Showdown
In the end of 19th century Japan, followers of judo and jujitsu battle for supremacy in Japanese mar...
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Stop the Old Fox
Historical and political detective. The main characters are drawn into court intrigues, and the inve...
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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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Beheading Place
This film tells the story of a ronin falsely accused of a crime and unable to convince others of his...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Hazardous Graduation
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tab...
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Those Who Make Tomorrow
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the gr...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4
Fierce war breaks out when Shujiro’s rival clan attempts to sabotage his lucrative construction busi...
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Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for ...
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The Dawn of Freedom
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to...
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Honno-Ji in Flames
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Ka...
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Scars of Honor
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th...
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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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Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed ...
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The Bullet and the Horse
A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to...
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Pure White Nights
"Pure White Nights" - A romantic tale that depicts love between married people and the psychology o...
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The Gambler's Counterattack
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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Clothes of Deception
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist boar...
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Game of Chance 2
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman or...
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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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Tales of Ginza
In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband...
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Evil Man of Edo
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on th...
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City of Love
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose f...
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province....
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Jirocho, the Hunted
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the r...
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Last of the Wild Ones
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....
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Autumn Interlude
The story began in the early summer of 1942 when 'Tatsurou' met 'Setsuko' at Karuizawa. Its love at ...
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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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Semyonov's Gold Ingots
Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General S...
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The Opium War
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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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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The Paradise Island Story
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific....
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The White Orchid
A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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Gamblers
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, w...
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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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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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Samurai Town Story Part I
All that remains of the first Samurai Town Story is the concluding battle....
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Dokonjo Taisho
Ryosuke Kotaki's life motto was his grandfather's will, "Study, make money, drink alcohol, and win t...
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A Man of the Arts
Based on Matsutaro Kawaguchi's novel "Geido Ichidai Otoko." Considered a lost film....
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The Frolic of the Beasts
The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though he...
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The Swishing Sword
A beautiful girl who seeks revenge, disguises herself by dressing up in men's clothes, geisha, etc. ...
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfri...
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At the Time Men Have Seen Blood
A group of men obsessed with oil gather in a remote oil field region. Ichiro Kitazawa (Tatsuzaki) wa...
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The Dead Beauty Incident
A dead beauty is found in the trunk. Kubota (Miaki), Okayama (Kawazu) and Tsuji (Funakoshi) begin in...
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A Female Doctor's Examination Room
A doctor is surprised when her long-lost love is transferred to the same hospital, and even more sur...
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The Terror of Z
Marune Santaro directed this actionner about two fearless Kobe Harbor Patrol Officers who fight to k...
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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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Executive Chair
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip...
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The Bathroom Murder
While enjoying a ski trip, Detective Ippei Shizuno sprains his leg and is carried into a hotel. At t...
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Travel Stories of a Company President
It is the 16th series of the call series with the highest masterpiece among the "President" series. ...
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Travel Stories of a Company President Part II
While on a business trip to Kyushu, a paint company president competes with a rival firm for a key o...
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Company President Travels Abroad
Executives from a Japanese department store travel to Hawaii to acquire land for expansion but becom...
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Company President Travels Abroad Part II
As Marukyū Department Store plans its Hawaii expansion, company executives become sidetracked by loc...
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Five Gents and a Chinese Merchant
An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep u...
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Reign of Terror
Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for dr...
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A Woman's Fight
Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio....
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The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power...
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Showdown on Pier No.3
Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track. Clues lead Detective...
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