Akira Hirasawa

Akira Hirasawa

Born: March 3, 1940
Died: May 1, 1984
in Ina, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

Movies for Akira Hirasawa...

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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Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Title: Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
Released: October 18, 1974
Type: Movie
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.
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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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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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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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Yashiro Mitsuharu
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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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
Title: Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?
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The Brawling Angel
Title: The Brawling Angel
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Character: Junai Kurokuwa
Released: April 22, 1972
Type: Movie
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
Released: January 11, 1972
Type: Movie
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
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Trials of an Okinawa Village
Title: Trials of an Okinawa Village
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.
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Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
Title: Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
Character: Tsutomu Matsumoto
Released: October 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
Released: June 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
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Fate Deals the Card of Death
Title: Fate Deals the Card of Death
Released: February 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.
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Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
Released: March 5, 1970
Type: Movie
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
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Kanto Street Peddlers
Title: Kanto Street Peddlers
Released: November 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into conflict with an unholy alliance of evil Yakuza bosses (Watanabe, Amatsu and Kawazu).
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The Biggest Gamble
Title: The Biggest Gamble
Released: September 14, 1969
Type: Movie
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which puts Itsuki between a rock and a hard place.
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The Cross of Vengeance
Title: The Cross of Vengeance
Released: May 24, 1969
Type: Movie
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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Brothers Serving Time
Title: Brothers Serving Time
Released: May 3, 1969
Type: Movie
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. Tatsu and the sworn brothers he acquires weren’t really gangsters before their prison time, just ruffians. Prison, however, introduces them to plenty of gangland characters and three years later, they’re out of prison and enmeshed in the yakuza world.
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Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
Released: February 1, 1969
Type: Movie
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her femininity with a red peony tattoo and lives in world of chivalry and honor of the yakuza. This story takes place in the middle of the Meiji era in Nagoya. Oryu is wandering the country, training herself to reinstate her family name. With a written recommendation from Kumatora, she appears at the door of the Nishinomaru family. At the same time, the family is preparing for the gambling competition at the Netsuda Shrine Festival, which they have been hosting for generations. Meanwhile, the crooked Kinbara family is plotting to take over the competition. And now Oryu is forced to get involved in the struggle…
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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
Title: Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
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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Red Peony Gambler
Title: Red Peony Gambler
Released: September 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father's death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.
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Industrial Spy
Title: Industrial Spy
Released: May 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
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Big Time Gambling Boss
Title: Big Time Gambling Boss
Released: January 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.
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Heiji, the Detective
Title: Heiji, the Detective
Released: October 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro.
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Code Between Brothers 5
Title: Code Between Brothers 5
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
Title: Gambler: Victory Without Death
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
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Showdown of Men 2
Title: Showdown of Men 2
Released: March 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Part two.
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Samurai Wolf
Title: Samurai Wolf
Released: November 19, 1966
Type: Movie
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
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The Flower and the Dragon
Title: The Flower and the Dragon
Released: November 20, 1965
Type: Movie
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.