Hiroshi Date

Hiroshi Date

Born: August 22, 1931
in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Hiroshi Date...

Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
Title: Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga
Released: August 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Live-action adaptation of the "Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga" manga by Akira Miyashita.
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Crimson Night Dream
Title: Crimson Night Dream
Character: Yakuza A
Released: August 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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Festival Champ
Title: Festival Champ
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his colleague's love letter to her but forgetting to mention it's from another man.
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Karate Warriors
Title: Karate Warriors
Released: April 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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Violent Fraternity
Title: Violent Fraternity
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
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Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
Title: Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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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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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Character: Sameshima's Henchman
Released: July 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
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Three Little Geisha
Title: Three Little Geisha
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: Movie
A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.
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The Bodyguard
Title: The Bodyguard
Released: June 30, 1973
Type: Movie
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Title: Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
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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A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Title: A Narcotics Agent's Ballad
Released: September 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld.
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Street Mobster
Title: Street Mobster
Character: Kawabe
Released: May 6, 1972
Type: Movie
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
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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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Okatsu the Fugitive
Title: Okatsu the Fugitive
Released: October 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
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A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Title: A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw
Released: May 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.
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Quick-draw Okatsu
Title: Quick-draw Okatsu
Released: April 10, 1969
Type: Movie
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of her brother, and real child of the man who adopted her. Her brother unfortunately has a gambling habit, and it plunges the family into trouble when he loses a lot of money in a crooked dice game. After releasing he is unable to pay the debt he owes; the blame is shouldered by the father, who is killed, leading Okatsu on a path of revenge.
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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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Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Title: Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Released: April 20, 1967
Type: Movie
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Title: Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Released: January 13, 1966
Type: Movie
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.
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The Life of a Horse-Trader
Title: The Life of a Horse-Trader
Released: August 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woman Yuki at a vague shop after violence.
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Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
Title: Drifting Detective: Tragedy in the Red Valley
Released: June 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The great Sonny Chiba stars as Goro Saionji, a drifting thrill-seeker. Out to investigate a suspisious plane crash in the Red Valley, he uncovers a plot involving yakuza and a shady land developer to evict an old farmer off of his land to build a sky resort. Goro must now help the old farmer and his daughter and take those criminals on.