Shōtarō Hayashi
Japanese actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.532 |
| Birthday | 1934-06-21 |
| Place of Birth | Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 高橋 徹, 池 徹, Shôtarô Hayashi, |
1960
Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
0/0
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
1959
Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
0/0
First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
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Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest
1969
Brothers Serving Time
8/1
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. T...
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Brothers Serving Time
1962
Keepers of Order
5/1
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by bos...
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Keepers of Order
1962
鷹天皇飄々剣 吉野の風雲児
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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鷹天皇飄々剣 吉野の風雲児
1976
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
6.286/7
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
1962
Mukōmizu no kenka kasa
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Mukōmizu no kenka kasa
1977
Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
4.6/33
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
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
1982
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.154/26
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1981
Roaring Fire
6.533/15
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. Shortly...
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Roaring Fire
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
1961
The Spear of Heroism
6/1
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The o...
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The Spear of Heroism
1960
The Three Magicians
0/0
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The Three Magicians
1958
The Beloved Imposters
0/0
1958 Mito Kōmon film.
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The Beloved Imposters
1961
Restoration Fire
7/1
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall...
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Restoration Fire
1972
Hikage-Mono
9/1
A Yakuza film directed by Kôsaku Yamashita
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Hikage-Mono
1961
Haitoku no mesu
7/1
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Haitoku no mesu
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
1985
Gray Sunset
6.2/7
Grandfather Fuyukichi Takano, a former university professor, gets fired from his museum job when he is affected by Alzheimer's disease, but his afflic...
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Gray Sunset
1969
The Yakuza Awaits
8/1
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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The Yakuza Awaits
1962
Abekobe dōchū
0/0
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Abekobe dōchū
1968
A History of the Japanese Underworld
9/1
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
1963
River Washes Away the Moon
0/0
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River Washes Away the Moon
1972
Girl Boss Guerilla
6/27
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
1977
Hokuriku Proxy War
6.857/14
A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs.
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Hokuriku Proxy War
1962
Uta matsuri Akagiyama
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Uta matsuri Akagiyama
1962
Harakiri
8.453/1261
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a plac...
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Harakiri
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.3/124
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
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
1989
Black Rain
6.582/1273
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to es...
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Black Rain
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
0/0
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 solutio...
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Father of the Kamikaze
1968
Red Peony Gambler
7.5/15
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
1967
The Gambler's Law
0/0
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The Gambler's Law
1963
Sasuke and His Comedians
6.6/5
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavengin...
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Sasuke and His Comedians
1969
The Fort of Death
6.5/10
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Oz...
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The Fort of Death
1969
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
7.3/9
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red pe...
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
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
1964
Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
7/12
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. A...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
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
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
1971
The Viper Brothers
7.7/3
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
1978
Winter's Flower
6.571/7
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...
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Winter's Flower
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
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
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
1969
Orgies of Edo
5.981/26
Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy...
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Orgies of Edo
1984
The Story of a Man Among Men
6/1
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
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The Story of a Man Among Men
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
1978
The Okinawa War of Ten Years
6.2/5
After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainla...
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The Okinawa War of Ten Years
1972
Informal Dress
0/0
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Informal Dress
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
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
1968
Wicked Priest
6.2/7
Shinkai, a Buddhist monk with a penchant for drinking and gambling, sets sinners straight with judo throws rather than sermons. After fighting off a g...
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Wicked Priest
1971
Trials of an Okinawa Village
6.375/8
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangster...
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
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
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
10/1
A traveling yakuza is sent to collect a debt owed by a man who was killed in the parlor where she dealt a game, setting in motion a chain of betrayals...
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Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
1967
Code Between Brothers 6
6.8/5
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
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Code Between Brothers 6
1966
Code Between Brothers 2
7/2
The services of a wandering gambler, Seiji, are called upon to protect the turf of his loyal friend Risaburo.
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Code Between Brothers 2
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
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
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
1981
The Blazing Valiant
6.5/2
Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa where the family had been living throughout...
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The Blazing Valiant
1976
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
7.077/13
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
1975
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
7.368/19
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
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
1969
A Gambler's Certain Death
0/0
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 t...
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A Gambler's Certain Death
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
1978
Message from Space
5.858/60
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaib...
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Message from Space
1977
Japan's Don
7.2/4
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Japan's Don
1971
Dagger
7/1
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Dagger
1962
Sakura Official
7/2
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his...
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Sakura Official
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
1972
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
7/1
Part 3 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...
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The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
1963
Road In the Mist
5/1
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.
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Road In the Mist
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6.2/4
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
1962
Shimmering Sword
0/0
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Shimmering Sword
1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
8/1
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An Eagle Eyed Lord
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
1970
Brave Red Flower of the North
6.75/4
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 Ya...
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Brave Red Flower of the North
1965
Chivalrous Nature
0/0
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Chivalrous Nature
1975
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
10/1
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
1972
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
6.8/4
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
1961
Hibari is Fashion Crazy
6/1
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone insan...
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Hibari is Fashion Crazy
1979
The Shogun Assassins
5.4/10
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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The Shogun Assassins
1971
The Man
7/1
Japanese movie.
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The Man
1961
八州血煙り笠
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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八州血煙り笠
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.577/39
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
1963
Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows
0/0
During the reign of Shogun Tsunayoshi, seven ninja of the Koga clan secretly plot against the illegitimate son of the former shogun.
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Edo Ninja Scroll: Seven Shadows
1961
The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
7.6/10
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her sister falls victim to a scheme, he and his friend...
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
1961
Ninjutsu at Osaka Castle
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Ninjutsu at Osaka Castle
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
Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
0/0
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 defen...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel
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
1978
10th Degree Earthquake
0/0
World disasters wake up prehistoric beasts at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
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