Takanobu Hozumi

Takanobu Hozumi

Born: July 20, 1931
Died: October 19, 2018
in Ōhito, Shizuoka, Japan

Movies for Takanobu Hozumi...

Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure
Title: Detective Conan: Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure
Character: Kazuo Mima (voice)
Released: April 21, 2007
Type: Movie
The Isle of Koumi, a beautiful island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island, people pass an old legend down from generation to generation that there was the Seabed Palace, an ancient ruin at the bottom of the sea, where the treasure of 2 female pirates, Anne Bonnie & Mary Reed (who really existed 300 years ago), was left. When Conan and his friends visit Koumi Island while on vacation, they meet some treasure hunters. There was something suspicious about them.
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Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics
Title: Lupin the Third: Angel Tactics
Character: Chen Huan-chai (voice)
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Stolen from the famous "secret" Air Force base, Area 51, Lupin's most recently stolen treasure holds a secret. Four "Bloody Angels," the toughest women Lupin has ever faced, want the treasure for their own terrorist purposes. Meanwhile Zenigata teams up with a female police officer to hunt Lupin and the terrorists down.
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WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Title: WXIII: Patlabor The Movie 3
Character: Toshiro Kurisu (voice)
Released: March 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Set in the year 2000 (between the events of Patlabor and Patlabor 2), when the level of Labor accidents begin to escalate around Tokyo Bay, police detectives Kusumi and Hata are assigned to investigate. What they discover leads to a series of government cover-ups, conspiracy concerning a new biological weapon entitled WXIII-Wasted Thirteen and a tragic, personal connection to Hata. The only hope to stop this threat is to cooperate with the military and lead WXIII into a showdown with the Labors of Special Vehicle Division 2.
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom
Title: Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom
Character: Chapeck Hakase (voice)
Released: March 9, 2002
Type: Movie
Doraemon and friends travels into another world via the time machine; where humans and robots are living together. However they soon find out that the Empress of Robot Kingdom was trying to capture robots there and turn them emotionless. As the situation goes tense, our heroes sets out to stop the Empress and her plan.
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Dark hunter
Title: Dark hunter
Character: Shirogane Tokuzo
Released: April 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Thief Yaheiji (Keizo Kanie) helped a dying young samurai (Hiroaki Murakami), after recovering, he lost his memory and returned to Edo under the name of Yataro Tanigawa. Yaheiji meets Yataro again in Edo, by which time Yataro has become a dark hunter (Hired Assassin). The boss of thieves to whom Yaheiji obeys is killed, and Yaheiji participates in the battle to take his place Yataro helps him defeat and save his life, and Yaheiji also tries to save Yataro from the world of assassins... The drama "Dark Hunter" is based on the novel by Shotaro Ikenami, who is best known for his TV series Onihei Hankacho, Kenkaku Shobai and Fujieda Baian's Shikake-nin. The film version directed by Hideo Gosha is well known, but this version is more faithful to the original.
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Mr. Baseball
Title: Mr. Baseball
Character: Hiroshi Nakamura
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?
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雀鬼 裏麻雀勝負!20年間無敗の男[前編]
Title: 雀鬼 裏麻雀勝負!20年間無敗の男[前編]
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Shoichi Sakurai (Kentaro Shimizu) is a college student who hates mahjong, which ruined his father and mother. One day, unable to refuse his friend's invitation, Shoichi steps into a mahjong parlor and vows to take revenge on the mahjong that ruined his family. He vows to take revenge on his family for their misfortune by playing mahjong, a game he never loses. Shoichi develops a genius technique all by himself. He makes a shocking debut in Shinjuku, but this victory marks the beginning of a 20-year struggle to the death...
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Balloon
Title: Balloon
Released: May 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.
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Title: Onihei Hankachō
Released: July 12, 1989
Type: TV
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Title: Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
Released: December 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Make-Up
Title: Make-Up
Character: Ohno
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
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君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった
Title: 君のふるさとに太陽がのぼった
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 4, 1984
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Title: Tora-san Goes Religious?
Released: December 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated, Tora-san wearing the priest's robe delivers the memorial speech, much to his family's surprise. Thinking he's found his true calling, Tora-san decides to join the order, and falls for the priest's divorced daughter.
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Harmagedon
Title: Harmagedon
Character: Kafū
Released: March 12, 1983
Type: Movie
From the depths of space he is coming... Ancient beyond understanding, his power is immeasurable. He has destroyed half the universe and is on his way here. He is… Genma. Only two people are aware of the imminent catastrophe: Princess Luna, a modern day prophetess and Vega, a cybernetic crusader from a world long since ravaged by Genma. Determined to spare the Earth from a similar fate, Luna and Vega must try to mobilize the most potent psychics in the world. Together, this army of fledging psychic warriors must succeed where billions have tried... and failed. But will they be able to gather their champions in time? Genma’s agents are already on Earth to ensure that their master meets with no opposition!
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Seitarō Asagura
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Tokiwa's doctor
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: 古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ
Character: Natsume
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: TV
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The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
Title: The King and His Vassal 2 - The Great Riot of Edo
Released: August 30, 1982
Type: Movie
The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemon Ookubo (Eijiro Tono) heard of it from Tasuke, and ask about it to Iemitsu (Ken Tanaka). However, on the contrary, Hikosaemon received penitence for a bribe that he doesn't know.
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
Title: Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 3
Released: July 30, 1982
Type: Movie
The final part takes Shingo into a confrontation with his friend Yagyu Katsunoshin’s uncle in a duel that could change the destiny of Japan.
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The King and His Vassal
Title: The King and His Vassal
Released: August 30, 1981
Type: Movie
This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). Takechiyo got sick of daily run-of-the-mill tasks, and it put him off being the Shogun, saying "there is no truth". Then, Hikozaemon Ookubo took him to Tasuke Isshin to bring him up into a full-fledged and admirable man.
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The Demon
Title: The Demon
Character: Mizuguchi
Released: October 7, 1978
Type: Movie
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
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Female Teacher
Title: Female Teacher
Character: Abe(安部教頭)
Released: October 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.
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Doberman Cop
Title: Doberman Cop
Character: STV Station Director
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.
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The Castle of Sand
Title: The Castle of Sand
Character: Matsuzaki
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.
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The Legend of Love & Sincerity
Title: The Legend of Love & Sincerity
Released: July 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?
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Miyamoto Musashi
Title: Miyamoto Musashi
Character: Gion Toji
Released: July 13, 1973
Type: Movie
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
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Professional Killers
Title: Professional Killers
Character: Bunkichi Tsujiya
Released: June 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...
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Living Together
Title: Living Together
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Two former design school classmates, 21-year-old office worker Kyoko and illustrator Jiro, run into each other on the street and soon begin living together. With great care for their feelings, the two embark on a genuine love affair, expressed through their taboo and tension-filled cohabitation. Whilst hurting each other, they continue to explore the boundaries of their relationship in this boldly controversial film.
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Cross-Currents
Title: Cross-Currents
Released: September 9, 1972
Type: Movie
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
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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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Title: Kogarashi Monjiro
Character: Torakichi
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
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Tora-san's Love Call
Title: Tora-san's Love Call
Character: Osamu
Released: December 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.
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Patience Has An End
Title: Patience Has An End
Released: June 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
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Farewell, My Beloved
Title: Farewell, My Beloved
Released: February 21, 1969
Type: Movie
During the early days of the war a young student, Makito (Kazuo Funaki), falls in love with Yuko (Mayumi Ozora), the widow of a naval officer. She, however, is living with the memories of her husband and it is her younger sister, Yumiko (Nana Ozaki), who grows fond of the student. Then, one day, a young naval officer, Tadayuki (Ken Ogata), a friend of her late husband, comes to see the widow and she becomes attracted to him. Though Makito is inspired to study for the navy, he is much upset when he learns that Yuko and Tadayuki are to marry.
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East China Sea
Title: East China Sea
Released: October 5, 1968
Type: Movie
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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My Destiny
Title: My Destiny
Released: June 30, 1968
Type: Movie
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Gambler's World
Title: Gambler's World
Character: Detective Yamauchi
Released: July 30, 1967
Type: Movie
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The X from Outer Space
Title: The X from Outer Space
Released: March 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
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Our Young World of Music
Title: Our Young World of Music
Character: Cabaret manager
Released: November 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Japanese youth film.
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The Lovable Tramp
Title: The Lovable Tramp
Released: November 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
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The Kii River
Title: The Kii River
Character: Ishida
Released: June 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.
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Gamblers' Luck
Title: Gamblers' Luck
Released: March 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge themselves on cruel landlords, animate the corpse of a money-lender in order to frighten people. Then they assist at the marriage of a lovely girl and almost kill themselves gambling to provide her with a dowry.
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The Betrayers Out!
Title: The Betrayers Out!
Released: January 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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The Abalone Gals
Title: The Abalone Gals
Released: June 26, 1965
Type: Movie
South of Tokyo is a small island until quite recently relatively unchanged since feudal times. Now, however, it is being made into a tourist's playland and the girls, who had been abalone divers, now become geisha, and the old ways of the island are all topsy-turvy. One of the girls, more sensitive than the rest, sees that here, too, people are motivated only by greed and decides to leave and try to find a better life elsewhere.
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A Trap
Title: A Trap
Character: Manager of the Minase
Released: May 28, 1965
Type: Movie
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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Snow Country
Title: Snow Country
Released: April 10, 1965
Type: Movie
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.
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Twilight of Tokyo
Title: Twilight of Tokyo
Character: Harada
Released: April 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Title: The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
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The Scarlet Camellia
Title: The Scarlet Camellia
Released: November 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.
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Assassination
Title: Assassination
Character: Tetsutaro Yamaoka
Released: July 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.
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The Irresponsible Fool
Title: The Irresponsible Fool
Released: April 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.
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The Night We Danced
Title: The Night We Danced
Released: December 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Follows the lives of three sisters who have a dance act together.
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She and He
Title: She and He
Character: Doctor
Released: October 18, 1963
Type: Movie
As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world.
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Rush to Our Sweetheart
Title: Rush to Our Sweetheart
Released: February 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Japanese comedy film.
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Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
Title: Ano hashi no hotori de dai 2-bu
Released: September 30, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Ano hashi no hotori de
Title: Ano hashi no hotori de
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Akitsu Hot Springs
Title: Akitsu Hot Springs
Released: June 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction between a spineless intellectual and a strong woman is conventional, but its enactment is radically new.
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Tokyo Bay
Title: Tokyo Bay
Character: Ono
Released: May 27, 1962
Type: Movie
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling investigation through Tokyo's underworld.
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Kiriko no unmei
Title: Kiriko no unmei
Released: May 27, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Drunkard's Paradise
Title: Drunkard's Paradise
Released: February 4, 1962
Type: Movie
A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that focuses on why people drink alcohol.
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The Strangers Upstairs
Title: The Strangers Upstairs
Released: December 15, 1961
Type: Movie
After moving in to their dream home, newlyweds decide to rent out their second floor to save money. They soon discover the woe of being landlords.
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A Good Man, A Good Day
Title: A Good Man, A Good Day
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings. When his daughter Tokiko is asked to marry a colleague, she and her mother are overjoyed, but Hitoshi is not satisfied with the situation.
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Epitaph to My Love
Title: Epitaph to My Love
Character: Eisuke Miyamoto
Released: May 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Chiee loses her memory. A romance movie whose original work by Ayako Sono was made into a melodrama by a combination of Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji.
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Zero Focus
Title: Zero Focus
Character: Mr. Honda
Released: March 19, 1961
Type: Movie
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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Everything Goes Wrong
Title: Everything Goes Wrong
Character: Kôsuke Asuka
Released: October 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
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Tower of Lilies
Title: Tower of Lilies
Released: January 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.