Isao Tamagawa

Isao Tamagawa

Born: January 11, 1922
Died: January 1, 2004
in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Isao Tamagawa...

A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
Title: A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the Hirosaki Senior High School Alumni Association that also incorporates footage from contemporary Hirosaki, and features cameos by regular Suzuki performers like Tamagawa Isao and Nogawa Yumiko.
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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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Kagero-za
Title: Kagero-za
Character: Clerk
Released: August 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Port Arthur
Title: Port Arthur
Character: Kanemoto Matsumura
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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Zigeunerweisen
Title: Zigeunerweisen
Character: Doctor Amaki
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways.
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Title: The Fierce Battles of Edo
Released: May 31, 1979
Type: TV
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The Fall of Teenager
Title: The Fall of Teenager
Released: February 24, 1979
Type: Movie
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members and rape.
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Take Me Away!
Title: Take Me Away!
Character: Shintaro Ishiguro
Released: July 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO.
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Sweet Revenge
Title: Sweet Revenge
Character: Detective Oka
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, specifically to accost Otsuka, Japan's top criminal defence lawyer, and plead with him to take her brother's case. They live in Kitakyushu which, though a city, she contends that the local lawyers are not up to the job. Otsuka contemptuously brushes her off. A year passes. Masao has suicided in jail, his appeal having failed due to the lack of interest and competence of the local defence lawyer. Kiriko returns to Tokyo, planning revenge on Otsuka for refusing the case and causing her brother's death.
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The Visitor in the Eye
Title: The Visitor in the Eye
Character: Detective Geta
Released: November 26, 1977
Type: Movie
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but is advised that she will never regain the sight in her eye.
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Mount Hakkoda
Title: Mount Hakkoda
Character: Captain Okitsu
Released: June 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Title: A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
Character: Mori
Released: May 21, 1977
Type: Movie
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
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Utamaro's World
Title: Utamaro's World
Released: February 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.
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Cobra 2
Title: Cobra 2
Character: Tomoda
Released: June 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Japanese crime film.
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Graveyard of Honor
Title: Graveyard of Honor
Released: February 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Title: Super Robot Red Baron
Character: Inspector Ippei Kumano
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: TV
Super Robot Red Baron is a Japanese tokusatsu series that aired from April 4, 1973, to March 27, 1974. Its story was later retold in the anime Red Baron and it had a sequel titled Super Robot Mach Baron.
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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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Shadow Hunters
Title: Shadow Hunters
Released: June 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Title: Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Character: Saburo Aizawa
Released: June 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of China. Based on the novels by Jumpei Gomikawa, who also penned The Human Condition.
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Hazardous Graduation
Title: Hazardous Graduation
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
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The Militarists
Title: The Militarists
Character: Tsukamoto
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
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Penitentiary Brothers
Title: Penitentiary Brothers
Released: July 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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Safari 5000
Title: Safari 5000
Released: July 19, 1969
Type: Movie
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enlisted to race in an annual endurance race, The East African Safari Rally. Peripheral to this is the story concerning Godai's former lover Yuko (Ruriko Asaoka), a fashion designer, and her friend Anna (Emmanuel Riva), who happens to be Pierre's wife.
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The Rough One
Title: The Rough One
Released: June 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the young hoods run afoul of their underworld idols when they rob the wrong gang, led by brutal boss Konno. When Zenkichi's pals start to bite the dust, he hooks up with a more traditional yakuza, Tetsugoro, to retaliate.
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若い川の流れ
Title: 若い川の流れ
Released: October 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship. For the sake of the company's managing director and his wife, Misako recommends her colleague Tensuke Sone to Fusako, the managing director's daughter and best friend. Fusako and Sone meet at the executive director's Karuizawa villa, but for some reason Kensuke becomes angry when he learns that Misako is the one who recommended him...
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Outlaw: Heartless
Title: Outlaw: Heartless
Character: Gohara
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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The Sands of Kurobe
Title: The Sands of Kurobe
Character: Sayama
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.
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Japan's Longest Day
Title: Japan's Longest Day
Character: Colonel Okitsugu Arao - Chief of Military Affairs Section
Released: August 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Branded to Kill
Title: Branded to Kill
Character: Michihiko Yabuhara
Released: June 15, 1967
Type: Movie
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Fighting Elegy
Title: Fighting Elegy
Character: Principal
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
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Zero Fighter
Title: Zero Fighter
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
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Tokyo Drifter
Title: Tokyo Drifter
Character: Umetani
Released: April 10, 1966
Type: Movie
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
Title: Kokoro no sanmyaku
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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The Stars and I Decided...
Title: The Stars and I Decided...
Character: Iwakichi Mori
Released: August 14, 1965
Type: Movie
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
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The Ghost of the Hunchback
Title: The Ghost of the Hunchback
Released: August 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
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Seishun no Sabaki
Title: Seishun no Sabaki
Released: April 14, 1965
Type: Movie
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family at school. One day, his father, Tatsuzo, becomes the guardian of the Yamanaka-gumi.
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Story of a Prostitute
Title: Story of a Prostitute
Character: Narita
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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Kwaidan
Title: Kwaidan
Character: (segment "In a Cup of Tea") (uncredited)
Released: January 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
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Title: Taikouki
Character: Matsubara Takumi
Released: January 3, 1965
Type: TV
Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan.
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The Flower and the Sword
Title: The Flower and the Sword
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
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Profit from Killing
Title: Profit from Killing
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki returns to his hometown after being released from Abashiri prison, and he is noticed when he saves a student from gangsters from the Hanamura gang. But this was only the beginning of a bloody struggle...
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Homecoming
Title: Homecoming
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.
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Gate of Flesh
Title: Gate of Flesh
Character: Horidome
Released: May 31, 1964
Type: Movie
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.
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Pale Flower
Title: Pale Flower
Character: Police Officer
Released: March 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in bad company while gambling.
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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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Tale of Army Brutality
Title: Tale of Army Brutality
Released: June 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.
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Tokyo Bay
Title: Tokyo Bay
Character: Ryohei Inoue
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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Actress
Title: Actress
Released: November 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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Twice on a Certain Night
Title: Twice on a Certain Night
Released: June 8, 1956
Type: Movie
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn.
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The Street Without Sun
Title: The Street Without Sun
Character: Moriyama
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie