Ryuji Katagiri

Ryuji Katagiri

Born: August 14, 1947
in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan

Movies for Ryuji Katagiri...

Kingdom 3 The Man Who Became the Leader
Title: Kingdom 3 The Man Who Became the Leader
Released: July 25, 2019
Type: Movie
The third entry in the 'Kingdom' series.
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Kingdom The Man Who Became the Leader
Title: Kingdom The Man Who Became the Leader
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Yakuza original video
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The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Title: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Character: Kansuke Aramaki
Released: March 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A police detective Shoukokuji Ryuuya from the first section of Metropolitan Police Department is tasked to investigate the murder case of a woman which takes place at a grand party held by a big-time actress but faces the hurdle of finding the true culprit among the large pool of suspects.
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The Last Shot in the Bar
Title: The Last Shot in the Bar
Character: Kirihara
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In order to find a missing university student, a detective and his buddy get involved with the owner of a modeling agency.
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AIBOU: The Movie IV
Title: AIBOU: The Movie IV
Character: Kanji Uchimura
Released: February 11, 2017
Type: Movie
A mysterious international crime organization makes a demand of 900 million yen from the Japanese government for the release of hostages. The group then targets a victory parade of a world sports game to commit indiscriminate terror.
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Title: Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current
Character: Seiji Haruyama
Released: June 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 hours.
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Saraba Abunai Deka
Title: Saraba Abunai Deka
Released: January 30, 2016
Type: Movie
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AIBOU: The Movie III
Title: AIBOU: The Movie III
Character: Kanji Uchimura
Released: April 26, 2014
Type: Movie
A news report circulates about a man who died after being kicked by a horse on a small island located 300km away from Tokyo. National Police Agency director Takeru Kanbe assigns Vice Director Mineaki Kai the task of making sure rumors surrounding the incident are fully investigated. Soon, partners Ukyo Sugishita and Tooru Kai are dispatched to the island to conduct the investigation. When Ukyo and Tooru arrive on the island, which is privately owned by a wealthy businessman, they discover a unit of former Self-Defense Forces personnel who have set up a small community as they participate in training exercises. While Ukyo initially expected to be investigating an accidental death, he quickly becomes convinced it was actually murder. However, when they finally manage to uncover conclusive evidence of this, the soldiers attack.
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Phone Call to the Bar
Title: Phone Call to the Bar
Character: Kajiwara-Gumi Kumichô
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: Movie
In the Susukino red light district of Sapporo, a private detective (Yo Oizumi) drinks alcohol with his driver Takada (Ryuhei Matsuda) in his favourite bar. There he receives a phone call from a woman who identifies herself as Kyoko Kondo. The woman asks the detective to complete a simple task. The detective, having an excellent sense for danger, thinks the work is easy and accepts the case. The next day he begins the investigation.
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極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T. 2
Title: 極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T. 2
Released: April 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T.
Title: 極秘潜入捜査官 D.D.T.
Released: March 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Mission To Kill
Released: January 9, 2009
Type: TV
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
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Vengance Of A Man
Title: Vengance Of A Man
Released: September 10, 2008
Type: Movie
An executive of the yakuza osako clan leaves the underworld to raise his only son, but a war between the "Kaiyama" clan brings him back.
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AIBOU: The Movie
Title: AIBOU: The Movie
Character: Kanji Uchimura
Released: May 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A former TV presenter is murdered. On the same day, two police officers from the Metropolitan police Special Mission Task Force, Sugishita Ukyo (Yutaka Mizutani) and Kameyama Kaoru (Yasufumi Terawaki), are guarding a female Diet member, Katayama Hinako (Yoshino Kimura). The pair identifies explosives and saves her life. From the clues left at the scene, Sugishita builds up his case and finds a connection between the murder of the TV presenter and the attempted murder of the Diet member. During a painstaking investigation, the savage murder case of a young overseas volunteer five years earlier emerges in the background, and the pair prevents indiscriminate murder at the Tokyo Big City Marathon event by suppressing the perpetrator.
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Title: 裏相棒
Character: 内村完尔
Released: April 21, 2008
Type: TV
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The King of Minami 22
Title: The King of Minami 22
Released: February 14, 2003
Type: Movie
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Tokyo Gokudo Conflict Outbreak
Title: Tokyo Gokudo Conflict Outbreak
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
The long awaited visualisation of the original manga
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Title: AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
Character: Kanji Uchimura
Released: October 9, 2002
Type: TV
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.
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The Legend of Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Title: The Legend of Ando Family: The Road to Hell
Released: December 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Genji Sokabe (Hakuryu) is a legendary hit-man who has just finished a 15-year prison stretch for killing the head of a rival gang. But Genji returns to a world where the old Yakuza codes of honour, vengeance and pride have been forgotten by a younger generation of criminals, and discovers that his old gang is now more concerned about money and finance. Taking up his guns once more, Genji sets out to teach the younger generation a lesson they will never forget.
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Family 2
Title: Family 2
Released: September 21, 2001
Type: Movie
In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike's Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
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Jingi 27: Revenge Bullet
Title: Jingi 27: Revenge Bullet
Released: March 16, 2001
Type: Movie
The organization lacking the jin that excommunicated the Kanto Ichienkai was no longer stopped, and there was a smell of kina. Chairman Sakai returns Hitoshi and Yoshiro and tries to balance the organization, but it is difficult due to the opposition of the board of directors. The one who hated the return of Jin and his friends most was Yaguchi, an emerging force who had risen to the board of directors while they were not there. However, Yaguchi also had a big fire inside the group.
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Family
Title: Family
Released: March 10, 2001
Type: Movie
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi's wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
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Road to the Don 15
Title: Road to the Don 15
Released: January 19, 2001
Type: Movie
The fifteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Title: Debt King Part VII: Millennium
Released: July 22, 2000
Type: Movie
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an online financial service.
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Nagaremono Yokohama Gokudo War 2
Title: Nagaremono Yokohama Gokudo War 2
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A fierce outlaw shakes the gangster world!
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Road to the Don 14
Title: Road to the Don 14
Released: July 14, 2000
Type: Movie
The fourteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
Title: Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
Released: July 12, 2000
Type: Movie
The final 'Kizu' film.
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Road to the Don 13
Title: Road to the Don 13
Released: April 28, 2000
Type: Movie
The thirteenth 'Road to the Don' film.
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
Friendship and violence
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Shura ga Yuku 9
Title: Shura ga Yuku 9
Released: February 18, 2000
Type: Movie
The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.
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Organized Violence Bloody Honor 2
Title: Organized Violence Bloody Honor 2
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
The Second Organized Violence film.
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Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!
Title: Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears!
Released: June 11, 1999
Type: Movie
Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if he had a dos, started working at a hunting station and a town factory. There, I met Keiko, a clerk. Keiko lived with her son, who was born to a yakuza. Seiji's former group was crushed by the Ryujinkai, and Akamatsu, who had a grudge against Seiji, was at the top. Knowing the source of Seiji, Akamatsu begins revenge using bodyguards Kobiki and others. Seiji lived in peace, but the people around him were harmed and his heart returned to "Yaksha" ...
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Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Title: Ando Gumi Gaiden Group Wolf Genealogy 3
Released: May 14, 1999
Type: Movie
The first of three V-Cinema sequels.
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Hong Kong Underworld: Kenka-Gumi
Title: Hong Kong Underworld: Kenka-Gumi
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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Another XX: Matori no onna
Title: Another XX: Matori no onna
Released: May 15, 1998
Type: Movie
4th Entry in a Four-Part-Series, following the success of the original XX-series with 7 parts: In this one Yoko is an undercover cop infiltrating the chinese mafia
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KIZU
Title: KIZU
Released: April 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Direct to video crime film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse
Title: Kizu Blood Apocalypse
Released: January 14, 1998
Type: Movie
The first 'Kizu' film.
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Steel & Lead
Title: Steel & Lead
Character: 西村刑事
Released: November 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
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Jingi 12: Bloody Territory (Sima)
Title: Jingi 12: Bloody Territory (Sima)
Released: October 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A small family in a hot spring town. Okita, an executive of the Togawa group, visits Hitoshi and appears in the Shima of the sand group. However, he is stabbed to death by someone. Since Togawa-gumi is under the Kanto Ichienkai and Okita was once a member of Jin's office, Jin will deliver the bones of Okita alone to Togawa-gumi. Asuka Togawa, acting head of the Togawa group, misunderstands Jin as a member of the Narushima group who is in a local conflict and drives him away. Jin will be involved in the conflict over the interests of Togawa-gumi, Narushima-gumi, and the hot spring town.
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Title: D×D
Released: July 5, 1997
Type: TV
Two young men have a special ability: they can sense ghost spirits. With this special ability they try to solve mysteries / crimes.
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Maji! 6: Raging Fire
Title: Maji! 6: Raging Fire
Released: June 26, 1997
Type: Movie
Shirogane Maji (Tamotsu Ishibashi), now the head of the Kozugumi, is summoned by Akame Shinzan, the Kozugumi's substitute lender, and is told that there is a movement to revive the Shuyukai, which had been under excommunication. The new Shuyukai is headed by former Shuyukai executive Mikogami (Ryuji Katagiri), who is the new head of the group at the behest of Hirojikai chairman Taichi Hirosaki (Ren Osugi), who bears the same cursive badge of wind as Honkaku. Hirozaki has only one goal: to eliminate Motoki, who has quickly risen to the same position as himself. Immediately, Hirozaki orders Mikogami to begin raiding the territory of the child gang.
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Doberman Deka
Title: Doberman Deka
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
V-Cinema version of Doberman-Deka Kano faces a group of foreign thieves who killed all the guests and hostesses at a club in Ginza. There was a drug smell behind the thieves.
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Another XX: Red Murderer
Title: Another XX: Red Murderer
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
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Chimpira Blues Do Stupid!
Title: Chimpira Blues Do Stupid!
Released: January 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A comedy in which Furaibo and a detective work together against a bomber.
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Shura ga Yuku
Title: Shura ga Yuku
Released: June 24, 1995
Type: Movie
Terrible ! Bloody conflict , outbreak !! The overwhelmingly popular graphic novel serialized in Manga Goraku is finally made into a moviel Draw the hard life of men running through the times , including Show Alkawa !!! First film of the live action series.
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Kiriko
Title: Kiriko
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
1994 sequel to Satoru Kobayashi's "The Blind Cat".
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The Blind Cat
Title: The Blind Cat
Released: July 14, 1993
Type: Movie
The first film about Kiriko - a blind woman with a sword.
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Catch Up
Title: Catch Up
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
An investigation into the obsession of a former detective the loser of life!
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Kim's War
Title: Kim's War
Released: April 5, 1991
Type: Movie
After shooting a gangster in self-defense, Kim Hui Ro takes refuge at a hotel and takes the guest hostages. Realising his position, he invites the press inside and explains why he was driven to his crime.
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Carlos
Title: Carlos
Released: January 25, 1991
Type: Movie
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
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Killing Melody Lady Smith
Title: Killing Melody Lady Smith
Released: December 28, 1990
Type: Movie
A painfully splendid adventure has begun!
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Like a Beast
Title: Like a Beast
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
The second popular explosion! The man who aims at the top of the organization with indomitable fighting spirit has transformed into a ferocious beast! A powerful hero that shines like a comet!
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The Shootist 2
Title: The Shootist 2
Released: August 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Sequel to 'Sniper THE SHOOTIST'
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Crime Hunter 3 Killing Bullet
Title: Crime Hunter 3 Killing Bullet
Released: February 13, 1990
Type: Movie
Little Tokyo, USA In a lonely hotel room, Little Tokyo's Detective Joker was waiting for a woman. The rain grew stronger and filled the storm. And the woman came to the room where the Joker was staying. The woman's name is Serika. She was Joker's former lover. Serika came to ask for help. Appeal to the Joker with a scared "murdered" voice. There, a mysterious group appears in the hotel lobby. Nicole and her friends control the buying and selling of cocaine in the Little Tokyo area. The Joker desperately protects Serika, but Nicole and others take him away.
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Beppin Town
Title: Beppin Town
Released: October 18, 1989
Type: Movie
An amateur op (detective) with a career as a former legal instructor . From the search for a runaway daughter requested by Akiko "Beppin" to the murder case. A mystery drawn with a hard-boiled touch set in Kobe (some locations in Ashiya and Yokohama ). The scenery of Kobe before the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake is included in various background scenes, and you can see the buildings and scenery that can not be seen now.
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Crime Hunter - Bullets of Rage
Title: Crime Hunter - Bullets of Rage
Character: Bobcat
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
After his parter Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get revenge. Since Bruce's last coup was stealing 5 million dollars in donations from a church, he is joined in his quest by nun Lily.
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Goryokaku
Title: Goryokaku
Released: December 30, 1988
Type: Movie
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country. Survivors of the Shinsengumi were among the followers of Enomoto Takeaki who took them to the northernmost island of Ezo where they fought their final battle at the star shaped fort, Goryokaku. The Japanese Civil Wars fought in the name of the emperor signaled the complete end of the feudal system and Japan’s entry into the modern world as those brave samurai tried to halt progress and learned that the age of modern warfare and weaponry had passed them by. Swords were no match for rifles and cannons, nor was any man a match for the power of the imperial flag. Japanese loyalty to the emperor has long defined the nation and culture despite the changing times.
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Matamata Abunai Deka
Title: Matamata Abunai Deka
Released: July 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Detectives Takayama and Oshita participate in a major drug bust which arouses suspicion that the government may be secretly involved.
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Those Swell Yakuza
Title: Those Swell Yakuza
Released: June 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Title: The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Released: October 17, 1987
Type: Movie
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto.
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Ojôsan tantei Tokimeki renpatsu!
Title: Ojôsan tantei Tokimeki renpatsu!
Character: Bartender
Released: August 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Two female university students open a detective agency and use their feminine charms to find a missing girl for a client. But they soon get in over their heads as the trail leads them to the seedy underworld of massage parlors and criminal gangs.
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Night Train
Title: Night Train
Character: Jagara no Kei
Released: January 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love.
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A Homance
Title: A Homance
Character: Ikehiro
Released: October 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.
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Death Shadows
Title: Death Shadows
Character: Otomatsu
Released: September 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.
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Oar
Title: Oar
Character: Kimoto
Released: January 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Drama about the difficult relationship between a former wrestler, his wife and their adopted children.
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Title: Someday, Someone Will Be Killed
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya (Noriko Watanabe) meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins...
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Gemini Woman
Title: Gemini Woman
Character: Doctor
Released: August 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A man catches the eye of an elegant lady at a bar. She relents to his advances. In the morning he throws her out of his apartment. He will soon regret his mistake when she slowly plots revenge.
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She Cat
Title: She Cat
Character: Abe
Released: December 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of brutal killers. Now no one is safe, including her lesbian co-worker and a mysterious woman with a terrible secret that could bring down an entire Japanese company. Cat must take the law into her own hands and enact her own special kind of revenge!
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Ginpei From Koina: Migratory Bird of Winter
Title: Ginpei From Koina: Migratory Bird of Winter
Released: August 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Shimoda, Izu, the venerable Amimoto Onabe family is repeatedly harassed by the upstart Hotate family, who targeted their fishing grounds. Ginpei, the head of the Onabe family, is in love with Oichi, the only daughter of Gohei, the adviser. Ginpei is told that he plans to have her marry Unokichi. Finally, the Onabe family and the Hotate family get into a fight, and Ginpei kills Tajiro, the hotate family’s proxy. Ginpei leaves Oichi in Unokichi’s care and sets off on a treacherous journey. Five years later, while traveling, Ginpei learns that the boss of the Onabe family has died and that the Hotate family is in trouble… Ginpei then returns to Shimoda.
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Kawasaki Vice Squad
Title: Kawasaki Vice Squad
Released: July 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A photographer who takes pictures of a rendezvous between a politician, company president and yakuza boss is later found dead and the film missing.
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Lovers Lost
Title: Lovers Lost
Character: Noguchi
Released: June 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Title: Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.
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Fossilized Wilderness
Title: Fossilized Wilderness
Released: April 17, 1982
Type: Movie
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Moa sekushi kemono no yoni mo ichido
Title: Moa sekushi kemono no yoni mo ichido
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Released: August 7, 1981
Type: Movie
A couple of delinquents doing small time con jobs steal the car of a local councilman. Inside the car they find a stuffed panda. Suddenly the two find themselves targeted by the yakuza. It seems they will do anything to retrieve the panda. But why?
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Title: Pro Hunter
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: TV
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The Execution Game
Title: The Execution Game
Released: November 17, 1979
Type: Movie
The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
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Dead Angle
Title: Dead Angle
Released: July 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Released: May 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a group of childhood friends, belonging to different yakuza families, are caught in the middle. Lies, deceit, and backstabbing are in play resulting in a bloodbath and a quest for revenge...
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0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-
Title: 0計画を阻止せよ-総理大臣誘拐!!-
Character: Jiro Taketani
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
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The Most Dangerous Game
Title: The Most Dangerous Game
Released: April 7, 1978
Type: Movie
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
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Doberman Cop
Title: Doberman Cop
Character: Sanada
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
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 the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.
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Nuns That Bite
Title: Nuns That Bite
Released: April 8, 1977
Type: Movie
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
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Hokuriku Proxy War
Title: Hokuriku Proxy War
Released: February 26, 1977
Type: Movie
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 Fukasaku shows battles among yakuza who value land over tradition. Hiroki Matsukata stars as Noboru Kawada, a Hokuriku yakuza who will use any measure for survival, disregarding parents, brothers, and tradition.
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The General and His Empire of Joy
Title: The General and His Empire of Joy
Released: February 11, 1977
Type: Movie
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his latest escapade of banging a samurai's wife, he finds that his love Okoyo (Eiko Matsuda), has managed to be recruited as one of Shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna's (Kantaro Suga) concubines. While attempting to win her back, Zenjiro becomes involved in increasingly murderous palace intrigues.
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Japan's Don
Title: Japan's Don
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
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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The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Title: The Yakuza Code Still Lives
Released: December 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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 Most Perverted Post War Crimes
Title: The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
Released: June 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Title: Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Character: Imagawa
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Character: Toshio Kirino
Released: May 15, 1976
Type: Movie
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 fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
Released: April 24, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Title: Operation Plazma in Osaka
Released: January 31, 1976
Type: Movie
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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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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 next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
Title: Story of a Nymphomaniac
Character: Oshichi's customer
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. To even attempt that she first needs to get out of the Buddhist monastery she is working at...
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Company Buggers
Title: Company Buggers
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Title: The Viper Brothers and the Young General
Released: March 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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The Karate 3
Title: The Karate 3
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
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 schools are not happy that a Chinese master will take over the Japanese karate organization and will do everything they can to prevent it.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: Movie
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 attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
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The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Title: The Street Fighter's Last Revenge
Character: Ôwada's Thug / Dracula
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
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 crossed. So he wants the tape back.
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The Karate 2
Title: The Karate 2
Character: Kijin-ryu Disciple
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and must faces dozens of worldwide pretenders, such as the Guillotine Brothers of New Guinea, Killer Samson, Dracula Jack (Bolo) who all want a shot at him at all cost and also to steal the famous Orikirimaru Sword.
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Code of Wolves
Title: Code of Wolves
Released: October 5, 1974
Type: Movie
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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
Released: June 29, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Return of the Street Fighter
Title: Return of the Street Fighter
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: Movie
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 police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
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The Tattooed Hitman
Title: The Tattooed Hitman
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: Movie
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 is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?
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The Street Fighter
Title: The Street Fighter
Character: Hanada
Released: February 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: Movie
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 dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Released: September 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
Title: Hell Riders in Kyoto
Released: April 28, 1973
Type: Movie
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him. Junya falls in love with the equally speed-hungry Hiroko.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
Character: Kawaguchi Yoshio
Released: April 28, 1973
Type: Movie
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 with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Mesaki Takeshi
Released: January 13, 1973
Type: Movie
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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Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Title: Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
Released: May 27, 1972
Type: Movie
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.