Osman Yusuf

Osman Yusuf

Born: May 23, 1920
Died: August 29, 1982
in Ottoman Empire
Japanese actor of Turkish nationality. He had permanent residency in Japan before the war. Appeared in movies and television programs as a valuable foreign actor who can speak Japanese lines

Movies for Osman Yusuf...

Brain 17
Title: Brain 17
Character: Prisoner
Released: June 6, 1982
Type: Movie
Brain is the world's greatest computer, and also the most intelligent being on planet Earth. One day, Brain decides to abandon its terrestrial moorings, and it's up to The Defenders to track it down. Unfortunately, Brain has developed an amazing army of deadly giant robots, including one with a huge "17" emblazoned on its chest-plate, with which it plans to subjugate its creators. A young boy whose family was killed by Brain's followers manages to activate Daitetsujin 17, which thereafter comes to his rescue whenever he is in danger from Brain's minions.
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Port Arthur
Title: Port Arthur
Released: August 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Title: Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Hell's Angels: Crimson Roar
Title: Hell's Angels: Crimson Roar
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
After a fight with a local girl gang, Yoko serves time in prison. After her release the world she once knew has changed. When she is drugged and raped by a local yakuza she seeks revenge…
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Title: J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
Character: Captain Robert
Released: April 2, 1977
Type: TV
Cyborg warriors were created by the Special Science Investigation Squad to bear nuclear, gravitational, magnetic, and electrical forces. They fight the crime empire known as "Crime".
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Title: Ronin in a Lawless Town
Character: Hebon-sensei
Released: April 28, 1976
Type: TV
A wildly unusual story set in the earliest days of the Meiji era. The story centers around a gathering place called The Mermaid Saloon, where scantily clad pearl divers put on a show while two residents of the inn upstairs...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
Title: Prophecies of Nostradamus
Character: Foreigner
Released: July 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
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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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The Street Fighter
Title: The Street Fighter
Character: King Stone
Released: February 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
Title: Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
Character: Nick
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.
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The Horrible Obsessions
Title: The Horrible Obsessions
Character: Cummings
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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Red Target
Title: Red Target
Released: April 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.
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Sympathy for the Underdog
Title: Sympathy for the Underdog
Character: Carter
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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The Silk Hat Boss 2
Title: The Silk Hat Boss 2
Released: November 21, 1970
Type: Movie
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Title: Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate
Released: October 17, 1970
Type: Movie
An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.
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Brothers of Capones
Title: Brothers of Capones
Released: May 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Superbly entertaining action comedy with Tomisaburo Wakayama as Kuriyama Capone who learned his trade under Al Capone in Chicago. The film follows his first venture to Japan with gangster brothers Frank (Shingo Yamashiro) and Joe (Fumio Watanabe). And being chased by gangster and the FBI, including the granddaughter of Eliot Ness. The whole thing is a good amount of fun, the performances especially (Wakayama, Yamashiro, Watanabe in a rare heroic role), making this one of routine director Takashi Harada’s best pictures.
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A Yakuza Goes Home
Title: A Yakuza Goes Home
Released: January 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!
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All Monsters Attack
Title: All Monsters Attack
Character: Plane Passenger
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the schoolboy alone. Constantly teased by a bully nicknamed Gabara, his only friends are toy consultant Shinpei and fellow classmate Sachiko. Ichiro turns to escapist dreams of Monster Island where he befriends the equally bullied Minilla.
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Team of Ruffians
Title: Team of Ruffians
Character: von Stein
Released: September 19, 1969
Type: Movie
Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.
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Killer's Mission
Title: Killer's Mission
Character: Captain Segal
Released: August 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Title: Battle of the Japan Sea
Character: Russian Officer
Released: August 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.
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Latitude Zero
Title: Latitude Zero
Character: Man with Gun (uncredited)
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They are rescued by an atomic super submarine named The Alpha under the command of Captain McKenzie. The group is quickly taken to a vast underwater city known as Latitude Zero, a fantastic, Atlantean type utopia, a world beneath the ocean with its own sun. It is soon discovered that Captain McKenzie is at war with the evil Dr. Malic, a cruel scientist who wishes to rule mankind all the while conducting genetic experiments on humans and animals. Malic sends his agents to kidnap Dr. Okada, a human scientist who has created a serum that can immunize exposure to radiation.
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Yakuza on Foot
Title: Yakuza on Foot
Character: Bill Smith
Released: March 30, 1969
Type: Movie
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, things get botched pretty badly. Shimamura must travel to save her and recoup his employers’ losses.
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Mexican Free-for-All
Title: Mexican Free-for-All
Released: April 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.
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Army Intelligence
Title: Army Intelligence
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Kazuo, a Japanese army intelligence agent, reveals a foreign intelligence network in Japan and then sent to Borneo Island with a special mission.
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Son of Godzilla
Title: Son of Godzilla
Character: Submarine Captain
Released: December 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Reporter Goro Maki stumbles upon scientists conducting weather experiments on Sollgel Island in the South Seas. He discovers the island is inhabited by giant mantis and a woman named Saeko who's been cast away since the death of her father. The pair soon find a helpless infant monster that Godzilla must adopt and learn to raise as one of his own.
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King of the Gang
Title: King of the Gang
Released: August 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
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King Kong Escapes
Title: King Kong Escapes
Character: Submariner (uncredited)
Released: July 22, 1967
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the robot Mechani-Kong is unable to do the task. This leads to the machine and the real Kong engaging in a tremendous battle atop Tokyo Tower.
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What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Title: What's Up, Tiger Lily?
Character: Gambler
Released: November 2, 1966
Type: Movie
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
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Tokyo Drifters
Title: Tokyo Drifters
Character: Building
Released: June 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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Atragon
Title: Atragon
Character: Mu Submarine Crewman
Released: December 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's only defense.
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Element of Surprise
Title: Element of Surprise
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
1963 Toei war / action film.
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Duel of the Underworld
Title: Duel of the Underworld
Released: July 13, 1963
Type: Movie
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Sarariiman monogatari Taiki bansai
Title: Sarariiman monogatari Taiki bansai
Released: February 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
Title: King Kong vs. Godzilla
Character: Submariner
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach. He orders his staff to Faro Island to capture King Kong for exploitation. As Godzilla re-emerges, a media frenzy generates with Pacific looking to capitalize off of the ultimate battle.
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Gorath
Title: Gorath
Character: South Pole Base Worker
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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The Last War
Title: The Last War
Character: Alliance Correspondent
Released: October 8, 1961
Type: Movie
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
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Mothra
Title: Mothra
Character: Nelson's Rolisican Henchman
Released: July 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
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Red Flowers of Hell
Title: Red Flowers of Hell
Released: May 3, 1961
Type: Movie
1961 gangster film.
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Pigs and Battleships
Title: Pigs and Battleships
Character: US Soldier
Released: January 21, 1961
Type: Movie
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
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Daredevil in the Castle
Title: Daredevil in the Castle
Released: January 3, 1961
Type: Movie
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
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Battle in Outer Space
Title: Battle in Outer Space
Character: Bystander
Released: December 26, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1965, the space station JSS-3 is destroyed by a fleet of UFOs, which then begin a global siege on Earth, using rays to manipulate gravity and control the minds of men. In response, a global council meeting is held to determine the source of the attacks and prepare a rocket ship armada for a counter-attack, a true battle in outer space. . . The film is a sequel of sorts to Toho's THE MYSTERIANS in the reprise of the Etsuko Shiraishi character of that film as its heroine. It was edited to 74 minutes for its American release.
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Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Title: Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Character: American Sailor (uncredited)
Released: May 3, 1945
Type: Movie
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.