Tatsuo Endō
Birthday: 1928-01-30
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Biography: Tatsuo Endō (遠藤太津朗, Endō Tatsuo, 30 January 1928–7 July 2012) was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Manhichioyabun on the television jidaigeki series Zenigata Heiji.
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Karaoke
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior h...
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The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his ...
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Daimajin
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi...
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King of Pornography
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimens...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, ...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and make...
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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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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a...
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. ...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. H...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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Samurai Wolf
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a...
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Osaka Tough
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who...
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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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Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin w...
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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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Audition
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...
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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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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting h...
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he me...
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Master Dochu, Grudge and Love
Who are “Dochu-shi?” They are street thieves. Ankuro’s blissful holiday with his parents is shattere...
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Assassins for sale
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the...
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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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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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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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Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two fac...
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Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school prin...
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Ladies in Torture I
This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan....
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face...
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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 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano
Kaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has maintai...
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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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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life...
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Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...
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Female Yakuza Tale
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs in...
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Four and A Half Mats
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. ...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook featu...
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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 Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate be...
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Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of th...
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Legend of the Devil
A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family...
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Yakuza Hooligans
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to jo...
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Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investiga...
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Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi
Ryoko, a beautiful and renowned chief surgeon at a medical university, begins to groan and claw at h...
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The Black Cat Mansion of Hatred
Mysterious incidents occur around geiko in Fukagawa, and there is always the presence of a black cat...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and e...
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles
The female ninjas need to protect their particular master's unborn infant from enemies. They use all...
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 4: Rebel Forces at the Threshold
The female ninjas have to stop an alliance from carrying out their dastardly deeds, which includes b...
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Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles 3: Sacred Book of Sexual Positions
The government is worried that the Emperor will have no children because he can’t get an erection. T...
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The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensi...
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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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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 Chivalrous Life
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with...
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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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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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King of the Widow-Killers
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night ...
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The Funeral Racket
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....
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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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Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course ...
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Doberman Cop
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly mur...
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Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Z...
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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutiona...
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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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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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Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betra...
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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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Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirst...
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Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s th...
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Yakuza on Foot
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug traffic...
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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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Nothing But Bones
The harrowing joruney of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's ...
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Brothers of Capones
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trad...
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The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss....
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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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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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Lone Wolf Isazo
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship a...
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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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Showdown of Men 3
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to savin...
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...
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Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and ru...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, t...
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The Path of the King
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have...
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Gambler's World 2
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks....
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determ...
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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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The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a co...
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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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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Team of Ruffians
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission....
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A Yakuza Has His Way
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the c...
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Seven Gamblers
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with ...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro ...
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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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Ninja's Mark
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she...
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The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talent...
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Japan's Top Gangster
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on th...
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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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Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi T...
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The Boss
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous w...
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Samurai Geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business fro...
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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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Rabble Tactics
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to ke...
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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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Yakuza Ladies 2
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza ...
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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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Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lin...
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Giant Rumble
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greates...
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Game of Chance 3
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped th...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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The Story of a Geisha
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan....
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A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself de...
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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 Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after...
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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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Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territo...
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Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Kats...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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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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Tears of Banishment
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name....
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to becom...
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Gamblers and Racketeers
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which s...
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Naked Ambition
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poison...
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Crimes of Sex
An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes....
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangste...
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Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested...
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Prison Gambler
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained...
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Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose trav...
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Gambler
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He...
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Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. ...
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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carrie...
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The Street Fighter
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnapper...
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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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The Thieves' Who's Who
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person....
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d...
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The Bandits
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mount...
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Yukyo-retsuden
A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now...
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Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering
A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a re...
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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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A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword
The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the rol...
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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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The Insatiable
Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant gi...
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Blood and Diamonds
A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begi...
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Escape from the Soviet Union: Female Military Doctor and Fake Madman
The film depicts a psychological battle involving suspense and romance between the protagonist, who ...
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Kill the Killer!
JA woman is witness to a murder but flees the scene, leaving behind only a handkerchief with her nam...
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Ant Hell War
The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima...
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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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Daybreak Chorus
In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope
The frozen corpse of a young apprentice monk is found near Kirara Hill in Rakuhoku. Detective Hayaka...
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Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is par...
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Dead Woman's Tattoo
The fifth volume of the Ningyo Sana Torimonocho series. Based on the original work by Seishi Yokomiz...
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Eyes, the Sea and a Ball
A teacher in a poor island community tries to improve his students' spirits by entering them in a vo...
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