Takuzō Kawatani
Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 165 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3157 |
| Birthday | 1941-07-21 |
| Place of Birth | Changchun, Jilin, China |
| Also Known As | Takuzo Kawatani, |
1969
Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
0/0
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Mats...
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Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
1969
Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
6.167/9
Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jai...
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
1967
Shogun and His Mistress 2
4.5/4
In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean. Wh...
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Shogun and His Mistress 2
1968
Red Peony Gambler
7.467/15
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years ol...
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Red Peony Gambler
1970
Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
6.441/17
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
1974
Student Yakuza
7/1
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.
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Student Yakuza
1989
Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!
10/1
Episode-length Osomatsu-kun film, released as a feature of the Toei Manga Movie Festival. Loosely based on a manga chapter, the film revolves around a...
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Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu!
1972
Eight Men to Kill
6.7/3
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 thr...
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Eight Men to Kill
1971
A Scarred Life
8/2
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 (big...
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A Scarred Life
1969
Gambler's Legacy
6.667/3
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 of...
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Gambler's Legacy
1973
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
9/1
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and h...
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
1974
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
10/1
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to d...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
1976
A Kawachi Rascal's Song
0/0
Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talen...
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
1975
Pimp Heaven
3/3
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fir...
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Pimp Heaven
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.6/35
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own...
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Yakuza Graveyard
1974
Jeans Blues: No Future
7.625/8
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends...
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Jeans Blues: No Future
1978
Empire of Passion
6.869/134
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
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Empire of Passion
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
6.75/4
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, Tsu...
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The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1970
Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
9/1
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...
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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
1973
The Kyoto Connection
4.947/19
Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes h...
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The Kyoto Connection
1967
Three Gamblers
8.5/4
Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro’s family.
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Three Gamblers
1986
Death Shadows
6.3/15
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officia...
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Death Shadows
1969
Kanto Street Peddlers
0/0
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into c...
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Kanto Street Peddlers
1978
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.114/22
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1971
Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
0/0
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiro...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
1985
Tracked
5.7/10
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous cr...
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Tracked
1991
Heat Wave
5.929/14
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
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Heat Wave
1975
Virgin Breaker Yuki
4.8/5
Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill...
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Virgin Breaker Yuki
1977
Decapitation of an Evil Woman
6.2/4
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Po...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
1987
The Great Department Store Robbery
9/1
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The Great Department Store Robbery
1982
Kidnapping Blues
9/1
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not...
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Kidnapping Blues
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.6/5
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.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1973
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
6.2/9
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than refo...
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1984
For Kayako
6.4/5
A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.
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For Kayako
1975
Story of a Nymphomaniac
5.167/6
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to u...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
1965
Blood of Revenge
6.667/6
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 son and...
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Blood of Revenge
1976
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
8.5/2
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1972
Hikage-Mono
9/1
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Hikage-Mono
1970
House of Gamblers
7/2
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 go...
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House of Gamblers
1974
Woman Mobsters
0/0
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female...
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Woman Mobsters
1994
The Man Who Shot the Don
9/1
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.
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The Man Who Shot the Don
1992
The Dream of Russia
6.273/11
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Rus...
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The Dream of Russia
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
7.279/43
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 thei...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1991
Hokui 15° no duo
0/0
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Hokui 15° no duo
1976
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
6/6
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother,...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1975
The Karate 3
6/2
This is the third and final film of the ZA KARATE trilogy. Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion. Local Japanese karate sch...
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The Karate 3
1968
Return of the Outlaw
9/1
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Return of the Outlaw
1972
Modern Lady Gambler
7/2
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. W...
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Modern Lady Gambler
1970
A Wad of Notes
7.2/6
A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back an...
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A Wad of Notes
1974
人妻セックス地獄
5.5/2
1974 Japanese film.
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人妻セックス地獄
1973
Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
8/3
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 de...
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
1969
Yakuza Law
6.083/18
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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Yakuza Law
1968
Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
6.667/3
The long awaited second film in the Wicked Priest series is a masterpiece of sword swinging fury as Shinkai is asked by a man on the run to bring his...
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
1965
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
7.5/2
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.
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The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1974
Third Generation Boss
8/1
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.
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Third Generation Boss
1965
Code of Ruffians
7.5/2
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the sc...
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Code of Ruffians
1991
Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
4/1
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...
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Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
1968
Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
7/2
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 ra...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
1969
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
6.571/7
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threat...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
1973
The High Cost of Virginity
0/0
1973 Toei movie.
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The High Cost of Virginity
1988
Mother
8.5/2
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life...
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Mother
1977
Short and Fat
8/1
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
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Short and Fat
1987
Ronin on a Mission
0/0
Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi la...
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Ronin on a Mission
1995
The King of Minami: Sweet Trap
0/0
#10 in the series, after "Bankruptcy Takeover."
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The King of Minami: Sweet Trap
1982
The Buddy: Yaji and Kita
0/0
Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from mask...
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The Buddy: Yaji and Kita
1972
Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
7.286/7
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother...
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
1985
Tora-san's Island Encounter
8.333/3
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested in...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
1987
River of Fireflies
9/1
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcomi...
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River of Fireflies
1979
Goodbye, Flickmania
8/1
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film...
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Goodbye, Flickmania
1969
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
7.5/2
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
1989
Harimao
8/1
A movie about Yutaka Tani, also known as " Malay Tiger Harimao, " who was active on the Malay Peninsula during the Pacific War
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Harimao
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.355/69
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 love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1987
Guys Who Never Learn
9/1
Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.
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Guys Who Never Learn
1970
Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
7.667/3
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruct...
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Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
1976
A Savage Beast Goes Mad
6.857/7
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fi...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
1978
Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
9/1
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud.
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Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
1976
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
7/12
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constan...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976
The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
5.7/3
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.
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The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
1974
The Fancy Man
0/0
A first-class heel exploits a spinster's hunger for love. She is a trusted employee in a bank and embezzles money to secure his love.
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The Fancy Man
1977
Doberman Cop
6.483/29
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grisly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into t...
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Doberman Cop
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
7.4/10
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading pol...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
1976
The Yakuza Code Still Lives
8/2
After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.
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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
1975
Gambling Den Heist
7.25/4
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
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Gambling Den Heist
1985
The Burmese Harp
5.857/7
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lif...
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The Burmese Harp
1975
Cops vs. Thugs
6.071/28
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac...
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Cops vs. Thugs
1973
Yakuza of the Present
7/1
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his f...
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Yakuza of the Present
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.711/19
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1969
Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
6.5/2
Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.
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Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
10/1
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.374/119
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.009/54
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
7.044/45
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 di...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
7.333/18
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The nex...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
1975
Shimane Prison Riot
6.5/2
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail h...
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Shimane Prison Riot
1977
The Smart Aleck Ten
10/1
Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.
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The Smart Aleck Ten
1991
Maji!
6/1
Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.
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Maji!
1974
Code of Wolves
7.5/2
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Code of Wolves
1976
Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District
0/1
The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows...
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Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District
1987
Eien no 1/2
8/2
An unemployed young man who has just broken up with his girlfriend meets a woman at a bicycle race. They start dating but then strange things then beg...
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Eien no 1/2
1972
Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses
4.3/6
The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogun with a double, while he learns about...
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Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses
1972
The Red Silk Gambler
7.5/4
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tige...
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The Red Silk Gambler
1969
Yakuza on Foot
7.5/2
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, thing...
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Yakuza on Foot
1989
Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
6.365/48
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middl...
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
1971
Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
7.333/3
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and come...
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
1972
Girl Boss Guerilla
6/26
Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.
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Girl Boss Guerilla
1967
Code Between Brothers 5
7.2/5
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 from A...
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Code Between Brothers 5
1971
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
7.75/6
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
1974
Return of the Street Fighter
6.048/94
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the...
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Return of the Street Fighter
1972
Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
7.9/5
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help gui...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
1968
Wicked Priest
6.214/7
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...
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Wicked Priest
1977
The Life of Chikuzan
8.2/5
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi...
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The Life of Chikuzan
1973
Aesthetics of a Bullet
7/2
A small time crook who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets himself into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a succes...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
1975
Evil Doers
0/0
Hiroki Matsukata plays Ogata, an Osakan restaurant worker that gets sent to prison for murder. The film details his subsequent attempts to escape. I...
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Evil Doers
1972
Turtle Geisha
5.143/7
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a...
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Turtle Geisha
1976
The Three Ginza Rascals
10/1
Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.
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The Three Ginza Rascals
1970
Silk Hat Boss
9/1
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 sta...
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Silk Hat Boss
1970
The Silk Hat Boss 2
6.5/2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
1974
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
5.6/5
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
1976
Operation Plazma in Osaka
7.667/3
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976
Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
9/1
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Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
1972
Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
9/1
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.
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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
1974
The Street Fighter
6.81/113
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress...
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The Street Fighter
1972
The Pledge
5.833/6
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Pledge
1967
Eleven Samurai
7.466/29
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, t...
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Eleven Samurai
1970
A Lively Geisha
6.25/4
Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When she learns of the trouble Yukichi's busi...
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A Lively Geisha
1967
Heiji, the Detective
5.375/4
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seig...
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Heiji, the Detective
1969
The Biggest Gamble
7/2
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which put...
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The Biggest Gamble
1988
Crane
6.833/3
Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will be...
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Crane
1974
Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
6.5/4
The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When...
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Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
1994
Momotarō Zamurai III
0/0
Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must now wage a furious battle against the terrible “R...
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Momotarō Zamurai III
1975
Company Buggers
7/2
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Company Buggers
1970
A Yakuza Goes Home
10/1
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he...
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A Yakuza Goes Home
1986
Sure Death! 3
7/2
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers...
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Sure Death! 3
1973
The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
7/2
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on...
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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
1992
Succession
7.5/2
A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremo...
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Succession
1971
Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
5/3
As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Be...
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Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
1968
Gamblers: The Raid
10/1
5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Gamblers: The Raid
1975
Scoundrel Boss
7/1
Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and a urinary treatment business, and put it on track,...
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Scoundrel Boss
1995
The Third Gangster
8/1
A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decid...
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The Third Gangster
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
9/1
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6.25/4
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...
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The Tattooed Hitman
1968
Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
7.15/10
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 gang...
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
1970
The Silk Hat Boss 2
6.5/2
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
1993
Baian the Assassin: Showdown
0/0
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly...
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown
1973
Dangerous Trade in Kobe
7/4
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.
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Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1986
Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma
8/1
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1991
Deer Friend
7/1
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1985
Kimi ga kagayaku toki
0/0
A one armed boy wants to become a football (soccer) player.
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Kimi ga kagayaku toki
1976
Oxen Split Torturing
5.818/33
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a youn...
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Oxen Split Torturing
1969
Samurai Geisha
7.5/2
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era...
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Samurai Geisha
1969
Killer's Mission
6.75/12
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a co...
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Killer's Mission
1971
Fate Deals the Card of Death
8.5/2
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 late...
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
1972
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
7/1
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is t...
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A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
1991
Let's Shoot Ridiculously
0/0
Takashi Kashiwagi, who once participated in Koshien as a high school baseball player, is now a member of the Mutsumi Imai Federation
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Let's Shoot Ridiculously
1993
Haruka, Nostalgia
6.5/4
Ayase Shinsuke, a popular writer of a series of girl novels, visits Otaru, the town he grew up in. He meets a strange boy who calls himself by the aut...
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Haruka, Nostalgia
1971
The Viper Brothers
7.667/3
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets...
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The Viper Brothers
1991
The Man Who Became The Don
7/1
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1966
The Protector
8.5/2
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 co...
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The Protector
1971
The Man
7/1
Japanese movie.
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The Man
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
7/2
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
1971
A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
9/1
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
1983
Kigeki kazoku dōmei
0/0
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Kigeki kazoku dōmei
1971
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
10/1
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1969
Japan Organized Crime Boss
7.5/10
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is ta...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
1979
本日ただいま誕生
0/0
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本日ただいま誕生
1993
Rainbow Bridge
8/1
Set in Edo-era Kyoto, this drama depicts the adolescent battles and the love between parents and children who are born and raised in the same tenement...
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