Shinzo Hotta

Shinzo Hotta

Born: October 20, 1945
in Amakusa, Japan
Hotta Shinzo (ほった しんぞう, October 20, 1945) is an actor in Japan. Born in Gifuura Town, Amakusa-gun, Kumamoto Prefecture (now Amakusa city). Former stage name is Shinzo Hotta, Shinji Hotta. A real name and real name of the debut as Akio Asaka. Graduated from Osaka City University.

He passed the 11 th Toei New Faith in 1963 and joined Toei. Synchronization includes Kazuko Yayonaga and Hiroko Shima. In 1964 movie "Kunoichi Makeup" he is noted as a tall and handsome young ninja. Having a look of leading stars, days of disadvantaged good roles continue.

In the television drama "Kei Hunter", he appeared as a bad guy with a fearless appearance, repeatedly guest appearances, playing a powerful battle with Shibuya Chiba. Hotta's blog posts that exchange is continuing with Chiba who is a senior at New Face, and it has a feeling of admiration and respect. I am on good terms with Mr. Isaaki Natsatori.

Especially the TV drama "Iron King" played a villain who is not simply a villainary vengeance of minority ethnic groups although he regularly appeared in various special effects works. The villain of the special effects work of the 1970s was mainstream to separately dubbed before and after the transformation, but Horita played the voice after the transformation himself, and also acted as a villain center in the historical drama.

In the meantime, he started to work in overseas works from the 1970's, and in 2012 she appeared in Japan, China and Korea's co-operative drama "Strangers 6", a collaborative film between Japan and Korea "The Tenor's Truth". In 2013 he played the first appearance at the invitation film "Utopia Sounds" of the Frankfurt Film Festival. In the same year, he served as police chief of the day at the Anan police station of Nagano prefectural police.

Once belonged to the Fuji office.

(Wikipedia)

Movies for Shinzo Hotta...

Beyond the Fog
Title: Beyond the Fog
Released: September 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A quiet hamlet hidden in the remote mountains village of Japan. In this hamlet once lively with hikers and shops, we meet Ihika, a 12-year-old born into a family that has run an inn for generations. Her father has been living apart for a few years. Saki, Ihika's mother who married into this family, has been managing the inn with Shige, her father-in-law. One day, Shige disappears. As the inn's survival is threatened, a time of change is coming to for Ihika's family.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 12
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 12
Released: December 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The twelfth sequel to the popular series "Yakuza Emblem Legend" Hakuryu and Ichizo Matsuda team up again and expand their influence from Kansai to the whole country, advancing to the top of the Yakuza organization.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 10
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 10
Released: August 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The tenth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 9
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 9
Released: June 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The ninth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 8
Released: April 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The eighth 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7
Title: Yakuza Emblem Legend: Chapter 7
Released: February 25, 2022
Type: Movie
The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem Legend' film.
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Tsujiura Renbo
Title: Tsujiura Renbo
Released: November 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Emi, a singer-songwriter left behind by the times and her manager Shinta have to deal with the idol business, FM radio assault, rent arrears, caring for an elder agent, weddings, funerals, social network literacy, and part-time work shifts. Amidst a mountain of problems, the two meet various people and begin to wander down their own paths.
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Naked Fist Omega
Title: Naked Fist Omega
Released: October 22, 2021
Type: Movie
One day, Mio (Yume Nikaido) learns that her older sister, Tetsuko (Moe Tenshi), has been using the "Hadaka-ken" technique to protect the family home all by herself. After witnessing Tetsuko's failure to use the "Hadaka-ken" against a powerful opponent, Mio decides to learn the "Hadaka-ken" herself and fight. Will Mio be able to avenge Tetsuko's death?
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Nebagiba New World
Title: Nebagiba New World
Released: July 10, 2021
Type: Movie
A former boxing gym owner and his younger brother rise up to help a boy and his teacher's daughter from a vicious religious group that preys on good people.
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Love's Twisting Path
Title: Love's Twisting Path
Released: April 12, 2019
Type: Movie
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.
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Title: Overlord: Blood Genealogy
Character: Kiryu Washio
Released: July 22, 2018
Type: TV
When a mafia leader is killed, his son and the deadliest assassin in the mafia compete in order to be the new leader.
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Strong Man Chapter 3
Title: Strong Man Chapter 3
Released: July 14, 2017
Type: Movie
The Third and final 'Strong Man' film.
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Unification Of Japan 23
Title: Unification Of Japan 23
Released: July 7, 2017
Type: Movie
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Unification Of Japan 22
Title: Unification Of Japan 22
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 2
Title: Gokudō Tenka Fubu: Act 2
Released: February 25, 2017
Type: Movie
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Gokudō tenka fubu
Title: Gokudō tenka fubu
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
A yakuza society that has turned into a world of warring states, a story of inferiority unfolded by men who aim to unify the world with force. Conquer this turbulent world and win the unification of Japan...!!
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Trumpet of the Cliff
Title: Trumpet of the Cliff
Character: Koyama
Released: September 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Aoi studies photography at a school in Tokyo. She undergoes a heart transplant operation and goes to the island of Okinawa to recover. Her uncle lives on the island. There, she holds a camera and walks along the island. Aoi hears the sound of a trumpet. She looks up and sees a young man playing the trumpet. His name is Zio.
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Kaiju Mono
Title: Kaiju Mono
Character: Shinobido Izumi
Released: July 16, 2016
Type: Movie
When a giant monster attacks Japan, the country's only hope is a research assistant who's become monstrously big himself. But there might be a price.
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Strong Man Chapter 2
Title: Strong Man Chapter 2
Released: February 19, 2016
Type: Movie
The Second 'Strong Man' film.
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Strong Man
Title: Strong Man
Released: January 15, 2016
Type: Movie
The first 'Strong Man' film.
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Nugase no Misaki
Title: Nugase no Misaki
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Misaki Miyasaka, a transfer student, who joined the Hanayama Gakuen "Undressing Mahjong Club". She has a special ability to see the character's role when she reaches sexual cum during Mahjong. One day, Misaki and his friends are going to challenge the undressing mahjong game against the yakuza to protect the peace of the school. The second series of "Ura Mahjong Mijin Retsuden" series presented by Gambling x Dense Eros.
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Tsubushiya Reika
Title: Tsubushiya Reika
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
"When Ikasama comes out, use your hammer to crush your hands," that is the rule of Ura Mahjong. Reika, a great female sparrow, beat many men and was scared as a crusher. However, as a substitute for Yakuza, Shimizu falls into a mean trap and Reika crushes her right hand. And a year later she came back. In order to save the women who are raped and sold their bodies by making a debt with Ura Mahjong. Before that, it was Shimizu, the nemesis of the relationship. And the last big game begins when the loser loses everything.
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Illusory Kunoichi: Manuscript of the Ninja Arts
Title: Illusory Kunoichi: Manuscript of the Ninja Arts
Released: June 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Risa Goto's shocking AV debut! Set in the early Edo period, when there were female ninja called kunoichi. Her hands and feet are bound, and she is gagged and tortured. What will become of her bond with two men...? In a prison dimly lit by the flickering flame of a melting candle... she is defiled.
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Prince of Shura
Title: Prince of Shura
Released: April 25, 2013
Type: Movie
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Utopia Sounds
Title: Utopia Sounds
Released: March 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Junichi, a seasoned sound mixer, was trying to look after his dying wife. Shaken by her illness, Junichi goes out to where he and his wife had traveled to 30 years ago. In a different place, Chika and Yukko visit Yukari's home for her birthday. An exciting time for the girls alone in the house. But their friendship begins to crack when an unexpected guest arrives. Two different stories collide in an unexpected way traveling between past and present, imagination and reality.
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SAMURAI
Title: SAMURAI
Released: December 21, 2012
Type: Movie
The Self-Defense Forces received a great deal of public bashing due to the use of force at overseas dispatches. Shirakawa (White Dragon), who was leading the corps, had no choice but to leave in the form of resignation. The person who spoke to Shirakawa was Yasunaga, who is known as the mastermind of the political world.
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Don's Road 5
Title: Don's Road 5
Released: November 7, 2012
Type: Movie
The fifth 'Don's Road' film.
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西成の顔
Title: 西成の顔
Released: July 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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Wandering Warriors
Title: Wandering Warriors
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
A chivalrous action that shows the solid acting and unique presence of Riki Takeuchi
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Don's Road 4
Title: Don's Road 4
Released: March 23, 2012
Type: Movie
The fourth 'Don's Road' film.
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Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
Title: Furyō shōnen 3, 000-ri no sō-ban (atama)
Released: March 11, 2012
Type: Movie
The movie is based on an autobiographical book titled “Tokyo Furyou Shounen Densetsu.” The book was written by Endo Natsuki, who was once affiliated with the biker team and band COOLS that was formed in the 1970s by Tachi Hiroshi (61) and Iwaki Koichi (60). The story for the film takes place at a technical high school in the 1970s, where it is said that half of the school’s 3,000 students are juvenile delinquents. Saito plays a student named Sendo, who is aiming to be number one out of all of them. Naturally, the movie will incorporate a lot of action scenes as he brawls his way to the top.
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Don's Road 3
Title: Don's Road 3
Released: February 2, 2012
Type: Movie
The third 'Don's Road' film.
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God of Delinquency When the Lapis Lazuli Cries
Title: God of Delinquency When the Lapis Lazuli Cries
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: Movie
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Don's Road 2
Title: Don's Road 2
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The second 'Don's Road' film.
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Conqueror of Shura 2
Title: Conqueror of Shura 2
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: Movie
The second 'Conqueror of Shura' film.
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Don's Road
Title: Don's Road
Released: January 14, 2011
Type: Movie
The first 'Don's Road' film.
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Shinigami no Yaiba
Title: Shinigami no Yaiba
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
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Black Mafia - The End
Title: Black Mafia - The End
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
End of duology
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Road to New Don 3
Title: Road to New Don 3
Released: July 25, 2008
Type: Movie
The third 'Road to New Don' film.
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Blackmail Ichidaiki
Title: Blackmail Ichidaiki
Released: February 6, 2008
Type: Movie
Shinjiro Iijima (Hakuryu) is a blackmail genius who never misses his prey. Using a robbery brought in by the local gangster Kasahara (Kazuki Namioka) as a joke, he sets up a blackmail trap, but there is a big mystery behind the robbery. Iijima, who pursues the case, finally reaches a local authority. And there's an even bigger shadow behind it... What is Iijima's trap for blackmailing the world...!
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
Title: Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
Released: December 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The third 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Blood Tears of Shura
Title: Blood Tears of Shura
Released: July 17, 2007
Type: Movie
2007 Original Video.
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Hellcage: Inmate 611 Part 2
Title: Hellcage: Inmate 611 Part 2
Released: March 25, 2007
Type: Movie
It doesn't matter who you are or what you've done. Once you're inside Japan's most notorious women's prison, the only way to get out is to play the system by its own twisted rules. Crooked guards? Bribe them. Corrupt administrators? Blackmail. And when all else fails, find an outside ally with inside connections to stage an escape. But when conflicting schemes overlap and collide, everything goes up in flames and it's the inmates who will burn. One third of the way into her sentence for the possession of illegal drugs, Reika, prisoner number 48, discovers that she's up for parole. Better yet, she's gathered enough dirty laundry on the warden and his cronies that she might be able to walk free, but only as long as nothing upsets the delicate status quo. Too bad that a former lover is setting up a jailbreak at the same time, and now the ultimate fate of Reika, Saya and the other inmates hangs on the outcome.
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Hellhole: Inmate 611
Title: Hellhole: Inmate 611
Released: January 25, 2007
Type: Movie
It's called the House of Evils, where beasts in human flesh prowl the corridors and the most dangerous residents aren't the luscious inmates, but the predatory guards. For the crime of assaulting her lover, Saya Mizushima has been sentenced to three years in the most brutal prison facility in Japan. It wasn't supposed to be a life sentence, but unless the woman now known as Inmate 611 can learn how to hold her own against both the ruthlessness of her fellow inmates and the brutal harassment of the guards, she's got little chance of walking out with both mind and body intact. Stripped, shackled, but not yet broken, an international chain gang of red hot models and actresses lead by Akira Kiuchi, Harumi Nemoto , Youko Kamon, Yoshimi Asada and Kei Mizutani prepare to march into the flames of the damned in HELLHOLE: INMATE 611!
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Road to New Don
Title: Road to New Don
Released: January 15, 2007
Type: Movie
The first 'Road to New Don' film.
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Shura Gaido-Attack on the Headquarters
Title: Shura Gaido-Attack on the Headquarters
Released: March 2, 2006
Type: Movie
A gangster, Tetsuo Onijima (Hakuryu), attacks and imprisons a hostile giant organization
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Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
Title: Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
Released: November 11, 2005
Type: Movie
The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the yakuza.
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Road to the Don Gaiden White Tiger Conference
Title: Road to the Don Gaiden White Tiger Conference
Released: October 13, 2004
Type: Movie
'Road to the Don' spinoff.
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True Record: Incident - Ome
Title: True Record: Incident - Ome "Sisters" Dismemberment Murder
Released: January 9, 2004
Type: Movie
A splatter horror film based on an actual bizarre murder case. Satomi is arrested for the murder of her sister who lives with her...
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Yakuza Demon
Title: Yakuza Demon
Released: June 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Seiji and Yoshifumi are the only members of the Muto branch of the Date Family. The two respect and love their leader, Mr. Muto, like a father and the three share a firm bond. But their fate is sealed when the Family is involved in a conflict. Muto is unable to pay his share of funds for the oncoming battle but tells executives of the Family that he would fight at the front line instead. In the wish to protect Muto, Seiji has him arrested by the police. Ignoring the Family executives' mocks of "Muto escaped to prison", Seiji prepares for the battle and attacks like a demon on behalf of his boss...
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Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Title: Road to the Don Theatrical Version
Released: June 18, 2003
Type: Movie
A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version of the popular video series adapted from the original work by Murakami Kazuhiko.
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New Yanmama Trucker Namida Kaido Bakusou Kaguya Hime!
Title: New Yanmama Trucker Namida Kaido Bakusou Kaguya Hime!
Released: July 9, 2002
Type: Movie
The fifth 'Yanmama Trucker' film.
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Title: True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Released: April 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
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民事介入暴力 非合法領域2
Title: 民事介入暴力 非合法領域2
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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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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New Yanmama Trucker Clash! Yume Kaido Hen
Title: New Yanmama Trucker Clash! Yume Kaido Hen
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
The fourth 'Yanmama Trucker' film.
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Agitator
Title: Agitator
Character: Kijima
Released: October 28, 2001
Type: Movie
When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead body is found. Soon, inter-family retaliation follows, resulting in the death for a prominent crime boss. Devastated by this turn of events, the temperamental Kenzaki vows to avenge his boss's death and, as bloody violence ensues, the body count reaches excessive proportions.
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Title: Mirai Sentai Timeranger
Character: Onikane
Released: February 13, 2000
Type: TV
It's the 30th century and time travel is illegal. To help monitor and police time crimes, the Time Protection Department is founded. But when Don Dolnero and his nefarious gang manage to trick four new TPD cadets into allowing them travel to the 20th century, the four cadets are forced to pursue them for the sake of history. There, in a time foreign to them, the cadets enlist Tatsuya Asami, a young martial artist, to aid their mission. Together, these five youngsters become the Timerangers. And though they try to live as ordinary 20th-century citizens, the Timerangers dedicate their lives to stopping Dolnero and others that may follow in his footsteps, attempting to forever alter the proper timeline!
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Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
Title: Yanmama Trucker Hiryuden
Released: July 22, 1999
Type: Movie
Girlboss trucker film.
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Fallen Angels II
Title: Fallen Angels II
Character: Morishita
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
Authentic eroticism returns in part two of this much-anticipated sequel. Reveals the hearts and bodies of five young women who descend into a life of compromise for the sake of money...
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Yanmama Gurentai 2
Title: Yanmama Gurentai 2
Released: June 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Second movie in the Yanmama Gurentai series
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King of Sha-kin
Title: King of Sha-kin
Released: October 11, 1997
Type: Movie
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked businessmen in an attempt to solve their respective financial woes.
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Shura ga Yuku 2
Title: Shura ga Yuku 2
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
A small group of men stigmatized for killing the gang leader tries to survive the group and take revenge on the man who killed them, while being involved in the conflict between the two major powers of Kanto and Kansai. The second movie of the live action adaptation series.
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Captive TORIKO The Body
Title: Captive TORIKO The Body
Released: July 13, 1995
Type: Movie
The third Toriko film.
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Lifetime Insecurity
Title: Lifetime Insecurity
Released: October 29, 1994
Type: Movie
In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.
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Title: Tokusou Robo Janperson
Character: Tsuyoshi Kinameri
Released: January 31, 1993
Type: TV
Tokusou Robo Janperson was the 1993 installment in Toei Company Limited's Metal Hero Series. The series revolved around Janperson, a robotic detective who patrolled the streets of Tokyo and fought against three different underworld organizations who used super technology to subjugate the masses. Unlike most Metal Heroes, a monster-of-the-week was rarely shown and most of the villains are criminals akin to television police dramas. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Jumperson.
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TV Program That Even Monkeys Can Shoot
Title: TV Program That Even Monkeys Can Shoot
Character: Shirai Organization Director
Released: February 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A comedy drama that depicts the behind-the-scenes situation of television production.
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Title: Special Rescue Exceedraft
Character: Ryozo Kojima
Released: February 2, 1992
Type: TV
Special Rescue Exceedraft is the last part of the Rescue Heroes Trilogy in Toei Company's Metal Hero Series of superhero TV series. It was aired in Japan from February 2, 1992 to January 24, 1993. The series was initially conceived as taking place in a new continuity, leading to weaker ties to Solbrain and Winspector.
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A Legend of Turmoil
Title: A Legend of Turmoil
Character: Noboru Yamaguchi
Released: January 15, 1992
Type: Movie
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
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Title: Super Rescue Solbrain
Character: Messiah
Released: January 20, 1991
Type: TV
After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.
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Title: Special Rescue Police Winspector
Character: Jyoji Kageyama
Released: February 4, 1990
Type: TV
Special Rescue Police Winspector is a "Special Rescue Police Winner" who loves peace, believes in friendship, and confronts crimes to save lives! (From the opening narration) In 1999, advanced science and technology enriched people's lives, but the damage caused when they were misused for crimes or went out of control and went out of control was also great. The Special Rescue Police Winspector (abbreviated as WSP ) was established to deal with such a situation . Their purpose is not only to investigate crimes and arrest suspects, but also to save the lives of those involved in crimes and disasters.
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Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Title: Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
Released: February 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
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Praying Mantis
Title: Praying Mantis
Released: April 8, 1983
Type: Movie
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive, is a hairdresser Masako. A detective in charge of an embezzlement case is tracking the whereabouts of disappeared money and suspects Masako. One year later, a real estate company president dies a suspicious death in front of Masako at her beauty salon. Was it an accidents or murder?
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Title: Pro Hunter
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: TV
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Nun Story: Frustration in Black
Title: Nun Story: Frustration in Black
Released: January 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A pious woman takes her vows but discovers that the nunnery is awash in sin and perversity.
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Rape Shot: Momoe's Lips
Title: Rape Shot: Momoe's Lips
Character: Tadokoro
Released: June 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Toru, a down and out tabloid reporter is looking for his next “big” story. In order to get paid decent money in the supermarket rag business, you need to find controversy! The elusive “Momoe” is forbidden fruit, so he sets his sights on Miki Yoko, an up and coming young singing sensation. She’s young and beautiful and Toru thinks her record company is pumping her full of drugs. He will do anything to get a story, even assaulting her and tailing her everywhere she goes. One night, she is kidnapped right in front of him and, with his reporter instincts at work, Toru’s life spirals into a torrid world of sex, drugs, and corruption in the entertainment business. In his quest for a huge story, will he come out unscathed?
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Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
Title: Message from Space: Galactic Wars The Movie
Character: Captain Kogar
Released: July 22, 1978
Type: Movie
The movie version of Ryu and Hayato fighting against the Gavanas Empire.
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Title: Message from Space: Galactic Wars
Character: Koger
Released: July 8, 1978
Type: TV
The 15th solar system is invaded by the Stressos. Two men, Ryû and Ayato, and a man-ape, Baru, organize the resistance. They are helped by Eolia, a mysterious woman traveling on a three masted space ship.
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Ninja Captor: The Movie
Title: Ninja Captor: The Movie
Character: Retsufu Fuma
Released: December 19, 1976
Type: Movie
A group of modern-day ninjas fight the Fuma Clan.
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Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl
Title: Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl
Character: Kyôji Etô
Released: October 9, 1976
Type: Movie
A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.
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Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
Title: Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
Released: August 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy of the '70's, Masashi Ishibashi.
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Okasareru
Title: Okasareru
Character: Asaoka
Released: July 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was threatened by a man acting like a yakuza and wanted to sell smuggled, irregular jewelry at the store. When the husband could not refuse complications ensued.
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Exposure: Call Girl's Testimony
Title: Exposure: Call Girl's Testimony
Character: Tange
Released: June 26, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of a mixed-race call girl with a high-class clientele.
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Title: Ninja Captor
Character: Retsufū Fūma/Nindō Kurayami
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: TV
Ninja Captor is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series aired from April 7, 1976 to January 26, 1977 on TV Tokyo 12 Channel, produced by Toei Company, Ltd. This Sentai-esque series aired during the run of Shotaro Ishinomori's original Super Sentai series, Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and was notably first superhero team show produced by Toei under the Saburo Yatsude/Hatte pseudonym. Daisuke Izumo graduates from the Wind-Demon Stealth-Army, a secret army aiming for the conquest of Japan. He instead escapes, and becomes the leader of the "Captor," a ninja team supervised by Mujin Tendou. The Captor team's mission is to battle the ninja sent out by the Wind-Demon General, Retsufuu Fuuma. This show used to be considered by some to be a part of the Super Sentai franchise* , but was later excluded. In 2013, it got a Shout-Out in the fourth episode of Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger: Season 2.
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All Together! Seven Kamen Riders!!
Title: All Together! Seven Kamen Riders!!
Character: Great General Darkness
Released: January 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The special opens with Tachibana Tōbei taking some children to a Kamen Rider roadshow. Just as he's reminiscing about all the heroic modified humans he's lived alongside- Ichigō, Nigō, V3, Riderman, X, Amazon, Stronger and Tackle- the first seven Riders gradually show up to greet him in their human guises, unrecognised by the crowds. When it's revealed that the kaijin onstage are 'real', not actors, the Riders transform to save the crowd and Rider actors, uniting their power to defeat the Delzer Army's true leader, Great General Darkness in his hideout beneath the stadium.
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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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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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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Title: A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: Movie
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Character: Furuya
Released: December 30, 1972
Type: Movie
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
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Yakuza Wolf: Extend My Condolences
Title: Yakuza Wolf: Extend My Condolences
Character: Tameji Okuma
Released: November 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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Yakuza Skirmishes
Title: Yakuza Skirmishes
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
Character: Furuya
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
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Gang Warfare
Title: Gang Warfare
Released: April 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
Title: The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
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Go Go Kamen Rider
Title: Go Go Kamen Rider
Character: Ken Nomoto / Tokageron
Released: July 18, 1971
Type: Movie
The Shocker Organization sends two of its Inhumanoids to destroy an atomic plant, but their plan is foiled by an invisible barrier that surrounds the complex. Because of this, they abduct a top soccer player and convert him into Tokageron, a lizard Inhumanoid capable of kicking a 5 kg bomb to destroy the plant's barrier. Kamen Rider must once again combat the Shocker and prevent them from destroying the atomic plant.
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Title: Kamen Rider
Character: General Monster / Yamorijin
Released: April 3, 1971
Type: TV
Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Title: Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Character: Noro Jinbei
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...
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Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Title: Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
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Samurai Geisha
Title: Samurai Geisha
Released: July 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. With a stellar all-star cast, thrilling story and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, makes this into a classic Yakuza movie!
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Broken Swords
Title: Broken Swords
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira. Remake of Hakuôki AKA Samurai Vendetta (1959).
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
Character: Ninomiya
Released: November 22, 1968
Type: Movie
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town's businesses, murders him, Oryu is obliged to protect his children and business.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
Title: A History of the Japanese Underworld
Released: January 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
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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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Classmates
Title: Classmates
Released: June 3, 1967
Type: Movie
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
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Eighteen Years in Prison
Title: Eighteen Years in Prison
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
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Golden Ninja
Title: Golden Ninja
Released: December 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodstained footman seems to be the only survivor, and his image haunts the pair for the next twenty years. As they are serving a prison sentence a plan is hatched to get them released so they can lead their captors to the hidden gold on Hikone Beach. Danger and excitement await the two as they run into unexpected and dangerous obstacles!
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Yakuza Hooligans
Title: Yakuza Hooligans
Character: Yoshizawa
Released: May 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.
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Yakuza G-Men
Title: Yakuza G-Men
Character: Kawakami
Released: November 13, 1965
Type: Movie
34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.
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Three Yakuza
Title: Three Yakuza
Released: May 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Title: Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: Movie
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
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The Spying Sorceress
Title: The Spying Sorceress
Released: December 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Second part of the series where sex magic skills of female and Iga ninjas clash over enourmous treasure of the Toyotomi family, discovered in connection with the plot to overthrow the shogunate.