Yasuhiko Shima

Yasuhiko Shima

Born: March 23, 1913
Died: March 16, 1991
in Sumida City, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Yasuhiko Shima...

Japan's Don
Title: Japan's Don
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: Movie
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Company Buggers
Title: Company Buggers
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Cops vs. Thugs
Title: Cops vs. Thugs
Character: Mayor Mukai
Released: April 26, 1975
Type: Movie
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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Title: Professional Killers
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: TV
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
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Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
Title: Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
Character: Takarabe Zenbei
Released: October 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
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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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Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Title: Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Character: Zenjiro Yasuda
Released: October 16, 1969
Type: Movie
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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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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Desperate Hoodlum
Title: Desperate Hoodlum
Released: November 2, 1968
Type: Movie
Second part of the Zenka mono series.
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Industrial Spy
Title: Industrial Spy
Character: Executive A
Released: May 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
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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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Phantom Monster Agon
Title: Phantom Monster Agon
Character: Dr. Ukyo
Released: January 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A re-edit of the 1964 Agon miniseries created by screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, who wrote the majority of the original Showa Godzilla films. It was released by Toho Video in the 1980s and on dvd in 2005.
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A Lustful Man
Title: A Lustful Man
Released: March 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.
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Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Title: Jirocho - The Chivalrous
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
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The Demon of Mount Oe
Title: The Demon of Mount Oe
Released: April 27, 1960
Type: Movie
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual epic told with mesmerizing extravagance!
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Bonchi
Title: Bonchi
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.
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風来物語任侠篇
Title: 風来物語任侠篇
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Lord Pretends
Title: The Lord Pretends
Character: Toneri Uchijima
Released: September 13, 1959
Type: Movie
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A Thousand Flying Cranes
Title: A Thousand Flying Cranes
Character: Tangonokami Hara
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Gay Masquerade
Title: The Gay Masquerade
Released: November 29, 1958
Type: Movie
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Title: Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mogol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
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Conflagration
Title: Conflagration
Released: September 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
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White Snake Woman
Title: White Snake Woman
Released: June 15, 1958
Type: Movie
While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of servants and onlookers suddenly come upon an apparition of a ghostly white-draped female figure floating down to the ground. As she turns to face the crowd, the woman reveals the disfigured right side of her face. As the procession stands in utter horror, the ghost then takes flight again and down a side street. After the shock wears off, the bride is checked on and everyone is safe in the group. Once the wedding party finally arrives at the groom's home, they apologize for the delay... and proceed to open the kago, only to realize that the bride-to-be is now missing... and all that's left in the carriage is a single white snake slithering about.
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Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Title: Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
Released: March 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
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Freelance Samurai
Title: Freelance Samurai
Released: December 15, 1957
Type: Movie
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
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Night River
Title: Night River
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.