
Birthday:
03-26-1948
(76 years)
Birthplace:
Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
event1974
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A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.
Road to the Don 14
event2000
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The fourteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 17
event2001
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The seventeenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 16
event2001
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The sixteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 15
event2001
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The fifteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 12
event2000
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The twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 13
event2000
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The thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 18
event2001
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The eighteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Road to the Don 19
event2001
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The nineteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
Judo for Life
Act like Naoya Ichijo
event1970
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Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Act like Akio Saeki
event1974 star_border 7.3
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While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
Jirocho of Shimizu 4: The Cold Wind of the North, the Revenge of the Righteous
event1983
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After the first anniversary of Ishimatsu's death, Jirocho Shimizu sets off on a pilgrimage. During his travels, he encounters a woman and local fishermen in desperate need of help. However, more trouble brews when Katsuzo Kurokoma returns to extract revenge on Jirocho.
Human Torpedoes
event1968
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Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
event1968 star_border 6
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The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Act like Koji
event1980
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Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
event1991 star_border 4
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When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.
Father of the Kamikaze
event1974
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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 solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Act like Akira Nishimoto
event1976 star_border 6.4
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The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
event2003
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In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the dangerous task of launching a new office in rival territory.
Gambling Code and Feuds
event1977
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It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.
Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
event1969 star_border 7.5
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Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Shinjuku Swan
event2015 star_border 5.6
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Shiratori Tatsuhiko works as a scout for Burst, a talent agency in Kabukichō, Shinjuku's red light district. In a business where money means everything Tatsuhiko finds himself in a constant struggle between rival talent scouts and the yakuza.
Momotarō Zamurai III
event1994
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Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must now wage a furious battle against the terrible “Ran” clan, villains in league with Ohara Ukon, a bitter samurai nursing a grudge against the shogunate. Together the ruthless conspirators will threaten the foundations of shogunate rule over Japan. Only the relentless slashing sword of Momotaro may save the nation from the Ran clan's army of killers.
Mighty Shosuke
event1960
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A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord.
Classmates
event1967 star_border 6.5
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A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Crimes of Sex
Act like Mamoru
event1969
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An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.
新・ミナミの帝王~ニンベンの女~
event2018
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The King of Minami Returns 15
Yawara no hoshi
event1970
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1970 Japanese movie
Yell
(120 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.5
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NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on.
Bushimeshi!--The Samurai Cook
(3 ep.)
event2017 star_border 8
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Set during the Bakumatsu (final years of the Edo period). Sakai Banshiro is a lower-class samurai. Leaving his family behind, he works at the lord’s castle. He consoles and solves worries of the people by making food from recipes sent from his wife.
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