Keiichi Kitagawa

Keiichi Kitagawa

Movies for Keiichi Kitagawa...

The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Title: The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Released: December 1, 1973
Type: Movie
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
Title: Yokosuka Navy Prison
Released: November 17, 1973
Type: Movie
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
Title: Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
Released: October 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Title: Quarreling with Yakuza
Released: March 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
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The Horrible Obsessions
Title: The Horrible Obsessions
Character: Yamada
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
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Yakuza Wolf: Extend My Condolences
Title: Yakuza Wolf: Extend My Condolences
Released: November 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
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The Pledge
Title: The Pledge
Released: March 23, 1972
Type: Movie
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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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
Title: Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
Released: January 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
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Sympathy for the Underdog
Title: Sympathy for the Underdog
Released: January 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
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Code Between Brothers: All New
Title: Code Between Brothers: All New
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Title: New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Released: December 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Title: Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Released: November 20, 1969
Type: Movie
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Title: Japan Organized Crime Boss
Released: July 8, 1969
Type: Movie
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 taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Title: Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Released: March 6, 1969
Type: Movie
Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Title: Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Released: October 25, 1968
Type: Movie
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
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The Cheating Underworld
Title: The Cheating Underworld
Character: Imura
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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Secret Information
Title: Secret Information
Released: May 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
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Gambler's World 2
Title: Gambler's World 2
Character: Senpachi
Released: November 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Gambler's World
Title: Gambler's World
Character: Masao
Released: July 30, 1967
Type: Movie
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Dissolution Rites
Title: Dissolution Rites
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
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Flower Cards Chivalry
Title: Flower Cards Chivalry
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
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The Golden Bat
Title: The Golden Bat
Character: Jackal
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
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Glorious Fights
Title: Glorious Fights
Released: October 29, 1966
Type: Movie
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
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The Pretty Jade
Title: The Pretty Jade
Released: September 17, 1966
Type: Movie
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
Title: Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
Released: August 3, 1966
Type: Movie
TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.
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Tokyo Drifters
Title: Tokyo Drifters
Character: Tomimoto Shohei
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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Gang's Upward Strategy
Title: Gang's Upward Strategy
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Title: Tale of Japanese Burglars
Released: May 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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Zoku ôsho
Title: Zoku ôsho
Character: Amano
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Adaptation of novel.
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Cosmetic Sales Competition
Title: Cosmetic Sales Competition
Released: June 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
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新婚シリーズ 最初が肝心
Title: 新婚シリーズ 最初が肝心
Released: February 7, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い
Title: 新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い
Released: January 23, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Title: 次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Released: January 9, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Yellow Climate
Title: The Yellow Climate
Released: September 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Darling Escape
Title: Darling Escape
Released: February 22, 1961
Type: Movie
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Devotion to Railway
Title: Devotion to Railway
Character: Eloped man
Released: November 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
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Deep River Melody
Title: Deep River Melody
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
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Tale of Young Drifter 2
Title: Tale of Young Drifter 2
Character: Hoshino
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
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Tale of Young Drifter
Title: Tale of Young Drifter
Released: July 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Title: The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Released: March 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Title: The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Released: December 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?
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Hahakogusa
Title: Hahakogusa
Character: Ichiro Kato
Released: April 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Based on the Nobu Koito story
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The Tokyo Dame
Title: The Tokyo Dame
Released: March 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
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Sister with Sister
Title: Sister with Sister
Character: Goro Tsukuda
Released: December 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
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First Love of Okon
Title: First Love of Okon
Released: July 6, 1958
Type: Movie
A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
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Romance Freestyle
Title: Romance Freestyle
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.