Masumi Tachibana

Masumi Tachibana

Born: November 5, 1945
in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Masumi Tachibana...

Super Bodycon Office Lady: From Back to Front
Title: Super Bodycon Office Lady: From Back to Front
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Pinku distributed by Xces.
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The Gambling Nun
Title: The Gambling Nun
Released: September 7, 1971
Type: Movie
A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game.
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Character: Nagako
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
Released: March 9, 1971
Type: Movie
The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore.
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Character: Yasuko Nagako
Released: December 3, 1970
Type: Movie
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
Title: The Silk Hat Boss 2
Released: November 21, 1970
Type: Movie
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Last Kamikaze
Title: The Last Kamikaze
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Character: Yasuko Nagao
Released: September 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.
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Postwar Secrets
Title: Postwar Secrets
Released: June 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
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The Final Gamble
Title: The Final Gamble
Released: February 11, 1970
Type: Movie
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Brave Red Flower of the North
Title: Brave Red Flower of the North
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
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 Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
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Woman
Title: Woman
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Title: Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
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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Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
Title: Woman Boss: Chivalrous Fight
Character: Misa
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Sumi Muraoka, nicknamed "Sumi Banten", due to the fact that her back is decorated with a tattoo of the goddess Banten, the woman who heads the Banten Yakuza family. She comes into confrontation with a powerful of Yakuza group Mutsumi-kai, seeking to capture all power in their hands.
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The Bad Guy Blues
Title: The Bad Guy Blues
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
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Daring Girls
Title: Daring Girls
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.
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Yakuza Law
Title: Yakuza Law
Released: June 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.
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The Cross of Vengeance
Title: The Cross of Vengeance
Released: May 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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Inferno of Torture
Title: Inferno of Torture
Character: Osuzu
Released: May 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the history of confrontation between two highly skilled masters of tattoo.
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Girl in College
Title: Girl in College
Released: March 30, 1969
Type: Movie
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Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
Title: Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love
Character: Noriko
Released: February 21, 1969
Type: Movie
A Japanese woman is raped by her boyfriend day in day out.
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A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
Title: A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
Released: February 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.
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Orgies of Edo
Title: Orgies of Edo
Character: Oito
Released: January 9, 1969
Type: Movie
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 of Torture, the politically incorrect moral lessons paint a trio of tales of tragic heroines caught up in violence, sadomasochism, incest and torture.
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The Yakuza Awaits
Title: The Yakuza Awaits
Released: January 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Gambler Biography
Title: Gambler Biography
Character: Okumi
Released: December 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Historical Yakuza gangster film set the early years of the Showa era.
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Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
Title: Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder
Released: November 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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 young son to live with his grandfather, the master of a ju-jitsu dojo during the Taisho period of the early 20th century. Shinkai then runs afoul of a gangster group using strong-arm tactics to take over the profits from local gambling. When he proves to be more than they can handle, they hire the one man who has the ability to kill Shinkai and exact revenge, Ryotatsu, the karate priest whom Shinkai blinded in the first film. This ultra-violent entry has long been considered the best movie in the series and never made its way to home video before. See a spectacular display of Wakayama Tomisaburo’s martial art expertise in this action packed film. The Holy Grail of sword movies has arrived at last! /Winterheart of CG
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I Sell My Husband
Title: I Sell My Husband
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Shogun's Joy of Torture
Title: Shogun's Joy of Torture
Released: September 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women, and the brutal punishments that ensued.
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Gambling Den's Master Clan
Title: Gambling Den's Master Clan
Released: September 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Sixth entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.
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Wicked Priest
Title: Wicked Priest
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
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 Abbot and his protege, Shinkai. When Shinkai intercedes in a fight between a rival priest and some ruffians it leads to his expulsion from the order. This story introduced us to the character of Shinkai, a "Karate Priest" and his long running feud with Ryotatsu, his greatest rival. There are touches of humor as Shinkai breaks all the commandments of a priest, including fighting, gambling, and running after women. All this leads to an awesome conclusion as he must destroy a gang of yakuza aided by corrupt priests. The fighting is fast and furious as Ryotatsu waits to see if Shinkai can live long enough to face him in the ultimate test! /Winterheart of CG
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Title: Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Character: Lady Orin
Released: July 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns herself along with her cat in a nearby marsh. A decade later, Naoshige’s efforts to steal another woman trigger a curse on him when she also commits suicide at the same marsh — forcing him to suffer the consequences of his past actions.
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Hot Springs Geisha
Title: Hot Springs Geisha
Character: Chiyo
Released: June 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Title: Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: Movie
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 railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.
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Human Torpedoes
Title: Human Torpedoes
Released: January 3, 1968
Type: Movie
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
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Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
Title: Ishimatsu the Yakuza: Something's Fishy
Released: November 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.
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Showdown of Men 3
Title: Showdown of Men 3
Released: September 28, 1967
Type: Movie
After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.
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King of the Gang
Title: King of the Gang
Released: August 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Title: Gambler: Victory Without Death
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
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Tears of Banishment
Title: Tears of Banishment
Released: June 17, 1967
Type: Movie
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
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Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
Title: Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
Released: May 20, 1967
Type: Movie
The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five players following the harsh path of a knight defeat a despicable Yakuza gang.
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Gamblers
Title: Gamblers
Released: January 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…