Hiroshi Kōno

Hiroshi Kōno

Born: March 21, 1925

Movies for Hiroshi Kōno...

Title: Blitz!! Strada 5
Released: April 5, 1974
Type: TV
Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama incorporating element of children's hero program, Tokusatsu, such as characters with superhuman motor nerves and the appearance of super machines. "Strada 5" is the name of this secret team.
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Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
Title: Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
Released: December 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Roman Porno from 1972.
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Romantic Tale: Otomi and Yosaburo
Title: Romantic Tale: Otomi and Yosaburo
Character: Genzaemon Akama
Released: July 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
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Haunted Samurai
Title: Haunted Samurai
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.
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Greatest Boss Of Japan
Title: Greatest Boss Of Japan
Released: April 18, 1970
Type: Movie
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.
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Penitentiary Brothers
Title: Penitentiary Brothers
Character: Tsuruga
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Title: Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Released: July 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film
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100 Gamblers
Title: 100 Gamblers
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.
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Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Title: Rising Dragon: Red-Hot Iron Skin
Released: March 29, 1969
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film
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Outlaw: Kill!
Title: Outlaw: Kill!
Released: March 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.
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I Shall Not Forget
Title: I Shall Not Forget
Released: December 28, 1968
Type: Movie
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to find out what she knew. Okabe investigates Yosuke's death, but someone kills the people who provide clues one after another. Okabe follows Rumi, a woman at a bar who was close to Yosuke, to Mt. Hiei, and to his surprise learns that Yosuke is still alive.
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Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Title: Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
Released: November 2, 1968
Type: Movie
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.
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Ukiyo-e Artist
Title: Ukiyo-e Artist
Released: October 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.
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Retaliation
Title: Retaliation
Released: October 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
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Outlaw: Heartless
Title: Outlaw: Heartless
Released: August 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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Tattooed Life
Title: Tattooed Life
Character: Kurosawa
Released: November 13, 1965
Type: Movie
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.
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Murder Unincorporated
Title: Murder Unincorporated
Character: Sakurada
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!
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Gambling Kitten
Title: Gambling Kitten
Character: Hamanaka gang boss
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.
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Story of a Prostitute
Title: Story of a Prostitute
Character: Kuramochi
Released: February 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.
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A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Title: A Man's Crest: Fight Challenge
Released: December 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.
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Tiger of the Sea
Title: Tiger of the Sea
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
Title: The Flower and the Angry Waves
Released: February 8, 1964
Type: Movie
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity of a worker while the young woman becomes a waitress in a restaurant.
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Kanto Wanderer
Title: Kanto Wanderer
Character: Meguro
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: Movie
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Title: Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary
Released: August 31, 1963
Type: Movie
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Youth of the Beast
Title: Youth of the Beast
Character: Seizô Honma
Released: April 21, 1963
Type: Movie
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Hana to ryu
Title: Hana to ryu
Released: December 26, 1962
Type: Movie
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
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Children of Izu
Title: Children of Izu
Released: November 21, 1962
Type: Movie
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Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Title: Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa
Released: October 21, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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零戦黒雲一家
Title: 零戦黒雲一家
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
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I Hate But Love
Title: I Hate But Love
Released: July 9, 1962
Type: Movie
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote village. When his controlling manager, the woman he loves, follows, the two must reconcile while dodging reporters.
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Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
Title: Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
Released: May 20, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Kimagure tosei
Title: Kimagure tosei
Released: February 18, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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The Man with a Shotgun
Title: The Man with a Shotgun
Character: Dry Goods Henchman #1
Released: June 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
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He Killed Dad
Title: He Killed Dad
Released: January 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.
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The Angry Rambler
Title: The Angry Rambler
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.
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The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Title: The Rambler on a Pearl Farm
Released: September 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming.
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The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Title: The Man with a Sinister Laugh
Released: August 6, 1960
Type: Movie
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister.
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Smashing the 0-Line
Title: Smashing the 0-Line
Released: June 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
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Wind of Volcano
Title: Wind of Volcano
Released: May 28, 1960
Type: Movie
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.
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A Turning to Hell
Title: A Turning to Hell
Character: Otaguro
Released: October 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Title: The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Released: January 9, 1955
Type: Movie
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Riverside Fish Market Empire
Title: Riverside Fish Market Empire
Released: March 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki
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新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Title: 新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie