Tatsuo Endō
Kjent for: Acting
Fødselsdag: 1928-01-30
Fødselssted: Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Også kjent som: Tatsuo Endo, 遠藤辰雄, 远藤辰雄
Karaoke
Kodama learns that his old classmate Hayashi is getting married to an idol, and organizes a junior high school reunion.
Utgivelse : 1999.06.12Popularitet : 1.222
The End of Summer
The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...
Utgivelse : 1961.10.29Popularitet : 9.515
Daimajin
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Utgivelse : 1966.04.17Popularitet : 5.286
Zorome no San Kyoudai
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together...
Utgivelse : 1972.01.15Popularitet : 1.14
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu...
Utgivelse : 1972.12.30Popularitet : 7.736
The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
Utgivelse : 1973.02.17Popularitet : 2.666
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, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
Utgivelse : 1972.08.25Popularitet : 2.521
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to...
Utgivelse : 1974.08.31Popularitet : 2.085
New Tale of Zatoichi
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have...
Utgivelse : 1963.03.15Popularitet : 8.766
Love Under the Crucifix
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Utgivelse : 1962.06.03Popularitet : 2.139
Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
The second part of the Gamblers series.
Utgivelse : 1967.05.03Popularitet : 0.657
Drunken Harbor
Third film of the yoidore hakase series
Utgivelse : 1966.12.24Popularitet : 0.713
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 home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...
Utgivelse : 1973.04.28Popularitet : 5.195
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...
Utgivelse : 1964.07.11Popularitet : 3.109
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same...
Utgivelse : 1973.04.21Popularitet : 6.758
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are...
Utgivelse : 1969.04.10Popularitet : 2.498
Samurai Wolf
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...
Utgivelse : 1966.11.19Popularitet : 2.84
Osaka Tough
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and...
Utgivelse : 1961.05.09Popularitet : 2.605
Three Yakuza
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...
Utgivelse : 1965.05.22Popularitet : 2.086
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 who are wrapped up in a clan war over local...
Utgivelse : 1973.02.03Popularitet : 6.534
Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he...
Utgivelse : 1970.05.01Popularitet : 2.988
Audition
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their...
Utgivelse : 2000.03.03Popularitet : 24.747
Roaring Fire
On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash....
Utgivelse : 1981.08.08Popularitet : 3.941
Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza...
Utgivelse : 1968.11.22Popularitet : 2.935
Brothers'Code - The Back Relation
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left...
Utgivelse : 1968.08.27Popularitet : 2.406
Assassins for sale
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...
Utgivelse : 1963.03.08Popularitet : 0.467
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 supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...
Utgivelse : 1965.09.18Popularitet : 1.296
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 of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double...
Utgivelse : 1974.11.22Popularitet : 5.262
Cops vs. Thugs
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the...
Utgivelse : 1975.04.26Popularitet : 2.967
Sex and Fury
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...
Utgivelse : 1973.02.17Popularitet : 19.628
Wicked Priest
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief...
Utgivelse : 1968.08.14Popularitet : 8.263
Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...
Utgivelse : 1972.12.16Popularitet : 2.345
Return of the Outlaw
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
Utgivelse : 1968.06.28Popularitet : 1.688
The Yakuza Awaits
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
Utgivelse : 1969.01.09Popularitet : 4.169
Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is...
Utgivelse : 1973.09.01Popularitet : 3.37
A History of the Japanese Underworld
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
Utgivelse : 1968.01.14Popularitet : 1.203
Ladies in Torture I
This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.
Utgivelse : 1995.02.22Popularitet : 2.31
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 of their warlord by using the skin of Princess...
Utgivelse : 1983.12.10Popularitet : 6.754
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
Utgivelse : 1971.10.01Popularitet : 1.569
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
Utgivelse : 1964.02.08Popularitet : 1.975
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
Utgivelse : 1965.08.25Popularitet : 1.204
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 maintained her youth by drinking the blood of young men...
Utgivelse : 1980.01.17Popularitet : 1.287
Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
Utgivelse : 1974.08.10Popularitet : 0.934
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, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s...
Utgivelse : 1968.10.25Popularitet : 1.647
Life of Matsu the Untamed
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Utgivelse : 1965.07.14Popularitet : 1.351
Female Yakuza Tale
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is...
Utgivelse : 1973.06.06Popularitet : 5.031
Four and A Half Mats
Fukazawa Shino is a prostitute in the late Meiji period. Shino was deceived by Tatsukichi and sold. One day Shino came to like a thief (Yoshioka) who...
Utgivelse : 1966.02.17Popularitet : 1.698
A Wanderer's Notebook
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...
Utgivelse : 1962.09.29Popularitet : 5.29
Silk Hat Boss
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series...
Utgivelse : 1970.02.21Popularitet : 1.736
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 befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
Utgivelse : 1965.08.12Popularitet : 2.14
Human Torpedoes
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Utgivelse : 1968.01.03Popularitet : 1.725
Legend of the Devil
A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The...
Utgivelse : 1996.11.09Popularitet : 1.446
Yakuza Hooligans
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of...
Utgivelse : 1966.05.15Popularitet : 1.516
Heiji, the Detective
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend...
Utgivelse : 1967.10.10Popularitet : 1.367
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 her throat after rejecting an advance from Tamura,...
Utgivelse : 1986.08.16Popularitet : 0.952
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...
Utgivelse : 1973.09.25Popularitet : 5.838
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 bizarre ninjitsu sex magic to aid them in their...
Utgivelse : 1994.03.24Popularitet : 12.116
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. The female ninjas try to find a sacred book...
Utgivelse : 1993.05.21Popularitet : 13.738
Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles
The female ninjas need to protect their particular master's unborn infant from enemies. They use all types of intimate tricks to obtain the work done.
Utgivelse : 1991.10.21Popularitet : 13.505
The Dropout
Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced...
Utgivelse : 1982.10.02Popularitet : 1.827
Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...
Utgivelse : 1974.09.14Popularitet : 2.784
The Chivalrous Life
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...
Utgivelse : 1967.05.30Popularitet : 1.204
The Protector
Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...
Utgivelse : 1966.04.13Popularitet : 0.986
Hokuriku Proxy War
In the setting of the Hokuriku region, where the snow and cold winds rage, for the first time in true-life yakuza film history, director Kinji...
Utgivelse : 1977.02.26Popularitet : 2.071
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 they promise each other to meet again a year...
Utgivelse : 1971.02.13Popularitet : 1.097
Prison Boss
Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.
Utgivelse : 1968.04.18Popularitet : 1.824
The Funeral Racket
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
Utgivelse : 1968.11.04Popularitet : 0.922
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...
Utgivelse : 1972.03.04Popularitet : 2.906
Flames of Blood
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...
Utgivelse : 1981.01.01Popularitet : 1.28
Doberman Cop
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into...
Utgivelse : 1977.07.02Popularitet : 3.454
Zatoichi's Cane Sword
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...
Utgivelse : 1967.01.03Popularitet : 3.698
Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.
Utgivelse : 1969.06.14Popularitet : 1.517
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
Utgivelse : 1973.01.13Popularitet : 8.63
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 pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...
Utgivelse : 1974.01.15Popularitet : 3.862
Modern Lady Gambler
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life....
Utgivelse : 1972.05.26Popularitet : 1.664
Brothers Serving Time
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers....
Utgivelse : 1969.05.03Popularitet : 1.758
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...
Utgivelse : 1965.12.24Popularitet : 3.752
Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie...
Utgivelse : 1969.02.22Popularitet : 2.019
Yakuza on Foot
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal,...
Utgivelse : 1969.03.30Popularitet : 2.676
Gambler's Legacy
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo...
Utgivelse : 1969.12.27Popularitet : 1.224
Brothers of Capones
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows...
Utgivelse : 1970.05.23Popularitet : 1.532
Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
Utgivelse : 1971.10.01Popularitet : 1.001
The Sucker's Blunt Dagger
A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss.
Utgivelse : 1971.04.16Popularitet : 1.124
A Scarred Life
Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun...
Utgivelse : 1971.07.17Popularitet : 1.637
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is...
Utgivelse : 1972.01.22Popularitet : 2.378
Lone Wolf Isazo
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...
Utgivelse : 1968.04.19Popularitet : 6.487
Code Between Brothers 2
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
Utgivelse : 1966.08.13Popularitet : 1.443
Showdown of Men 3
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
Utgivelse : 1967.09.28Popularitet : 1.354
Code Between Brothers 3
A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.
Utgivelse : 1966.12.30Popularitet : 1.193
The Yakuza Code Still Lives
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
Utgivelse : 1976.12.04Popularitet : 2.356
Blood of Revenge
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...
Utgivelse : 1965.09.18Popularitet : 2.478
Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and...
Utgivelse : 1971.01.23Popularitet : 1.175
The Path of the King
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...
Utgivelse : 1971.03.06Popularitet : 0.683
Gambler's World 2
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
Utgivelse : 1967.11.23Popularitet : 0.879
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
Utgivelse : 1978.09.09Popularitet : 2.142
House of Gamblers
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...
Utgivelse : 1970.03.29Popularitet : 1.462
The Hard Core Criminal
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the...
Utgivelse : 1973.05.12Popularitet : 0.922
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
Utgivelse : 1974.12.07Popularitet : 0.936
Rise and Fall of Chivalry
A reformed gangster agrees to help a former yakuza member.
Utgivelse : 1970.02.21Popularitet : 0.871
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...
Utgivelse : 1966.11.09Popularitet : 2.265
Team of Ruffians
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
Utgivelse : 1969.09.19Popularitet : 2.035
A Yakuza Has His Way
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family...
Utgivelse : 1972.07.03Popularitet : 1.181
The Marked Man
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
Utgivelse : 1968.05.01Popularitet : 1.853
Seven Gamblers
Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.
Utgivelse : 1966.07.09Popularitet : 2.472
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 series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is...
Utgivelse : 1967.07.15Popularitet : 2.17
Code Between Brothers 5
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...
Utgivelse : 1967.08.12Popularitet : 1.444
Ninja's Mark
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...
Utgivelse : 1968.01.27Popularitet : 1.936
The Three Ginza Rascals
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
Utgivelse : 1976.10.01Popularitet : 2.295
Japan's Top Gangster
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
Utgivelse : 1973.08.11Popularitet : 2.864
The Pledge
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
Utgivelse : 1972.07.30Popularitet : 2.988
Zatoichi the Outlaw
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Utgivelse : 1967.08.12Popularitet : 5.057
Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...
Utgivelse : 1969.10.04Popularitet : 1.484
The Boss
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...
Utgivelse : 1965.01.03Popularitet : 1.472
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Utgivelse : 1971.07.31Popularitet : 1.438
Samurai Geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji...
Utgivelse : 1969.07.31Popularitet : 2.635
Rabble Tactics
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...
Utgivelse : 1963.07.13Popularitet : 1.145
Bloodiest Flower
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining...
Utgivelse : 1971.04.03Popularitet : 0.919
Yakuza Ladies 2
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence....
Utgivelse : 1987.10.10Popularitet : 3.098
Golden Ninja
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When...
Utgivelse : 1966.12.13Popularitet : 1.184
The Murder Corps
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of...
Utgivelse : 1975.05.24Popularitet : 1.686
The Great Duel
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...
Utgivelse : 1964.09.05Popularitet : 0.954
Game of Chance 3
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with...
Utgivelse : 1967.10.21Popularitet : 1.803
Hoodlum Match
A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.
Utgivelse : 1965.02.13Popularitet : 1.248
Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A...
Utgivelse : 1968.01.27Popularitet : 2.574
The Story of a Geisha
In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.
Utgivelse : 1977.08.27Popularitet : 1.364
A Yakuza Goes Home
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...
Utgivelse : 1970.01.20Popularitet : 1.439
Three Gamblers
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
Utgivelse : 1967.01.12Popularitet : 0.697
The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father
Utgivelse : 1963.03.31Popularitet : 1.498
A Gambler's Certain Death
Part 7 in the Gambling Den series. This time Koji Tsuruta is a gambler who feels sympathetic towards a woman whose naive husband is driven to a debt...
Utgivelse : 1969.09.06Popularitet : 1.104
Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by...
Utgivelse : 1973.01.13Popularitet : 3.568
Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...
Utgivelse : 1968.11.06Popularitet : 0.965
Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...
Utgivelse : 1964.05.20Popularitet : 4.108
Tears of Banishment
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Utgivelse : 1967.06.17Popularitet : 1.704
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 a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...
Utgivelse : 1965.11.20Popularitet : 1.918
The Rickshaw Man’s Son
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a...
Utgivelse : 1967.12.01Popularitet : 1.488
Gamblers and Racketeers
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will...
Utgivelse : 1964.12.24Popularitet : 1.73
A Madcap Corporation
A comedy of a yakuza family that goes into show business.
Utgivelse : 1983.12.17Popularitet : 2.287
Naked Ambition
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin...
Utgivelse : 1970.04.04Popularitet : 1.79
Crimes of Sex
An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
Utgivelse : 1969.03.08Popularitet : 1.44
Gamblers: The Raid
5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
Utgivelse : 1968.03.30Popularitet : 0.975
Gambling Den's Master Clan
Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
Utgivelse : 1968.09.03Popularitet : 1.404
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 gangsters threaten their very existence.
Utgivelse : 1969.11.20Popularitet : 1.321
Flower Cards Chivalry
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both...
Utgivelse : 1967.03.10Popularitet : 1.883
Prison Gambler
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...
Utgivelse : 1964.10.21Popularitet : 3.018
Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has...
Utgivelse : 1978.12.23Popularitet : 1.977
Gambler
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group,...
Utgivelse : 1964.07.11Popularitet : 1.002
Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...
Utgivelse : 1963.11.20Popularitet : 1.747
Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of...
Utgivelse : 1970.02.21Popularitet : 3.043
The Street Fighter
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress...
Utgivelse : 1974.02.02Popularitet : 8.846
The Tattooed Hitman
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
Utgivelse : 1974.04.27Popularitet : 2.726
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price.
Utgivelse : 1973.06.07Popularitet : 0.713
Brave Red Flower of the North
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in...
Utgivelse : 1970.01.09Popularitet : 2.556
Night Train
A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
Utgivelse : 1987.01.17Popularitet : 2.19
The Thieves' Who's Who
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
Utgivelse : 1966.02.26Popularitet : 1.203
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...
Utgivelse : 1965.04.03Popularitet : 1.028
The Bandits
Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.
Utgivelse : 1968.05.21Popularitet : 0.918
Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering
A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of...
Utgivelse : 1970.08.28Popularitet : 1.381