Tsunehiko Watase

Tsunehiko Watase

Born: July 28, 1944
Died: March 14, 2017
in Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Tsunehiko Watase (July 28, 1944 – March 14, 2017) was a Japanese actor. He is best known for portraying Rintaro Kano in Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari ("Homicide Team 9"). He won Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Japan Academy Prize for The Incident and at the 3rd Hochi Film Award for The Incident, Kōtei no inai hachigatsu and The Fall of Ako Castle.

Movies for Tsunehiko Watase...

Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Hyogo Iwamura
Released: March 25, 2017
Type: TV
10 men and women are called to Natural Island Hotel on the isolated island Heitaijima off Yachijojima by the owner Nanao Shin. They take the dinner that has been prepared while filled with a mix of expectation and anxiety about what is going to happen and why they have been invited to this island. Then they suddenly start to hear a mysterious voice reveal their past crimes. As the 10 of them go through past incidents in their mind, one of the invited guests is murdered before their eyes. That seems to be the catalyst for the murder of another guest and then yet another. Several days after the invited guests came to Heitaijima, police head over to the island following the report of murders. They discover 10 murdered bodies on this big “locked room”. Who is the murderer and why did these 10 people have to be gathered and killed? ~ Based on the novel "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, published in 1943.
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Title: 判事失格!?弁護士 夏目連太郎の逆転捜査
Released: March 24, 2017
Type: TV
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38
Title: Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 38
Character: Hideo Yoake
Released: August 29, 2015
Type: Movie
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Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo
Title: Inspector Totsugawa Series 54 - The Woman of Sunrise Izumo
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: Movie
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu
Title: Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 37 - Mystery of Double Homicides from Tokyo to Hamamatsu
Character: Hideo Yoake
Released: March 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36
Title: Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary 36
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Title: Back of Father
Character: Asakura Kenzou
Released: July 13, 2014
Type: TV
A 10-part omnibus drama by 10 different scriptwriters on the theme of fathers and their sons and daughters.
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Title: 更生人・土門恭介の再犯ファイル~罪を犯した女たち~
Released: February 21, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: よその歌 わたしの唄
Released: July 19, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: 医師・円城寺修
Released: December 5, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Antarctica
Character: Atsushi Kuramochi
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: TV
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ordered to withdraw from the Antarctic station due to severe weather conditions. The dogs have to be left behind. The following year, the next team arrives at the Showa Base station and a miraculous reunion occurs between a dog handler accompanying the new tean and two dogs, Taro and Shiro, that are brothers.
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Title: 内田康夫ミステリー 湯布院殺人事件
Released: November 19, 2010
Type: TV
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Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Title: Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Character: Ippei Mihira
Released: March 20, 2009
Type: Movie
Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fishing and are masters at it. His sister moved to Tokyo when their father died and blames it on the fishing. She thinks it's just a stupid play. Gyoshin, a bass professional fisher who lives and competes in America is in a slump and comes to the small village to try to find the joy of fishing again. Together, they all go to find the legendary big char of Yonakidani (The Crying Valley of The Night), which Sanpei's father once saw, but could never catch, before he died.
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Title: Chiritotechin
Character: Tsurezuretei Sojaku
Released: October 1, 2007
Type: TV
The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.
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Title: Homicide Team 9
Character: Rintaro Kano
Released: April 19, 2006
Type: TV
The members of this elite investigative team are unique individuals with their own personal troubles, but what unites them is their strong sense of justice. They each channel all their energy and skill to solve the most difficult cases.
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Title: 食い道楽!出張料理人 亀崎源一
Released: February 8, 2006
Type: TV
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Haru Urara
Title: Haru Urara
Character: Dai Muneishi
Released: April 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.
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Title: つぐない
Released: June 30, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: 湯けむり殺人案内 なんにも専務の名推理
Released: January 5, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Omiyasan
Character: Torii Kansaburo
Released: May 9, 2002
Type: TV
The head of the Information Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Police, Grass Wall Office (commonly known as the "Maze Division"), Kansaburo Torii, and his subordinate Yoko Nanao, use information of previous investigations to find the truth and solve the story of the pending cases that are about to expire.
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Jesus is My Boss
Title: Jesus is My Boss
Character: Yuji Kihara
Released: September 1, 2001
Type: Movie
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian evangelistic group of ex-Yakuza.
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Title: The Bubble
Released: January 5, 2001
Type: TV
It's the glittering 80s, and Japan's bubble economy is in full swing. There is a fortune to be made for those who have the brains, determination and pure luck. Tetsuya and Tomoyo are two ordinary, but ambitious people in their prime who have chosen to take part in the money game. They hook up with self-made billionaire Okitsu, who guides them through the "Bubble." A master of the game, Okitsu plays for revenge, not money. He conspires to destroy Kurihara, a ruthless financier whose sole weakness is his only daughter. The plot twists amid a complex web mired in greed, desire and dreams. Spinning with intrigue, the ultimate game of wits has begun for stakes too deadly to imagine.
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Title: 殺意の涯て-広域指定188号の女
Released: December 23, 2000
Type: TV
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Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
Title: Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: The Black Sunflower Woman
Character: Yoake Hideo
Released: December 12, 1998
Type: Movie
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Let's Get Happy
Title: Let's Get Happy
Released: December 9, 1998
Type: Movie
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it is reported that the leader of the hostile organization was assassinated by someone.
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Andromedia
Title: Andromedia
Character: Toshihiko Hitomi / Mai's Father / Ai's Creator
Released: July 11, 1998
Type: Movie
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous brother-in-law, wanting to get his hands on the technology for profit, sends his client to steal it and Mai’s father is killed in the process. Learning of her capture, Mai’s old friends race to free AI from her captors so that she won’t fall into the corporate clutches that threaten to erase her soul.
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Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer
Title: Investigative Notes of a Taxi Driver: Murder of the Killer
Character: Yoake Hideo
Released: April 18, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: 海を渡った愛と殺意
Released: December 29, 1997
Type: TV
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Steel & Lead
Title: Steel & Lead
Character: 探偵
Released: November 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Title: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: November 8, 1997
Type: Movie
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
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Crest of Betrayal
Title: Crest of Betrayal
Character: Yasubei Horibe
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Title: Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Character: Akira
Released: July 3, 1993
Type: Movie
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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Emperor of Upheaval
Title: Emperor of Upheaval
Released: June 12, 1993
Type: Movie
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
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Title: The Fire Still Burns
Character: Fujiwara no Hidehira
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: TV
This drama tells the story of the Oushu Fujiwara clan spanning generations, 140 years in the late Heian era. They established their domain in Touhoku area (North-east area of Japan), independent from the rule of Minamoto clan.
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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
Title: Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
Released: May 8, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Taxi Driver's Mystery Diary
Released: May 9, 1992
Type: TV
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One Bowl of Kakesoba
Title: One Bowl of Kakesoba
Character: Proprietor of Hokkaitei
Released: February 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One New Year's day, a haggard-looking mother and her two adorable moppets poke their heads into the restaurant and ask for a single bowl of kakesoba. Noticing that the trio is looking a little low in the heels, she puts in an extra scoop of noodles. The youngest boy declares that the soba is delicious. The next year, the same threesome appears again asking for one bowl of kakesoba. This time the old man dumps in two helpings. He is struck by how much the youngest looks like their own son who was hit by a truck three years previous. The following year, the three return and this time the mother tells her story...
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Maji!
Title: Maji!
Released: April 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.
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Heaven and Earth
Title: Heaven and Earth
Character: Usami
Released: November 24, 1990
Type: Movie
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across the countryside, engaging in massive battles of cavalry and infantry. Younger and less brutal, Kagetora must find the strength to be as brutal as his opponent, but at what cost?
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1750 Days of Turbulence
Title: 1750 Days of Turbulence
Released: September 15, 1990
Type: Movie
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Title: Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Released: April 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life of Uesugi Kenshin, who rose from a son out of favor with his...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
Title: Four Days of Snow and Blood
Character: Ryoji Ishihara
Released: June 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
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Sensei
Title: Sensei
Character: Akira Nakajima
Released: April 8, 1989
Type: Movie
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Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Title: Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Released: January 14, 1989
Type: Movie
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife as a spirit. The leading role is Tamba Tetsuro's biological son, Tamba Yoshitaka.
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The Silk Road
Title: The Silk Road
Character: Li Yuanhao
Released: June 25, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wangli. While sacking a fortress, Xingde discovers Tsurpia, princess of the Uighur. He hides her; they fall in love. When he's sent away to study Xixian, he leaves Tsurpia in Zhu's care, but returns to find her engaged to Li. Tragedy follows, and he and Zhu enter a pact to take revenge when Li arrives at Dun-Huang, the region's seat of learning and culture. Against overwhelming odds, they find a surprising way to leave a monument to their life and love.
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Carmen 1945
Title: Carmen 1945
Released: April 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named Paradise. The hookers live in a bombed-out building, but they accept the precarious situation with typical resolve.
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Golf Before Dawn
Title: Golf Before Dawn
Released: December 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Comedy film.
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Tokyo Blackout
Title: Tokyo Blackout
Character: Asakura Tatsuya
Released: January 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.
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Death Shadows
Title: Death Shadows
Released: September 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.
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Beyond the Shining Sea
Title: Beyond the Shining Sea
Character: Atsushi Tanii
Released: July 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid cousin.
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Title: Sanada Taiheiki
Character: Sanada Nobuyuki
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: TV
The drama tells the story of the Sanada family. Originally serving the Takeda Clan they ruled the northern district of Shinano. The story begins right after the death of Takeda Shingen, continues through the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu who founded the Tokugawa shogunate and covers roughly the period 1580-1610.
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Title: Marriage Counselor Tora-san
Character: Tony
Released: August 4, 1984
Type: Movie
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attracted to Tora-san's wandering existence. Tora-san becomes attracted to a female barber, but must break off their relationship so that she too can live a secure life. She instead gets into an abusive relationship with a motorcyclist.
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Curtain Call
Title: Curtain Call
Character: Takuji Shinozaki
Released: July 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her real father, "Daddy-Long-Legs", who sends a bouquet of flowers every birthday, once she can wear a special pair of pointe shoes. The day finally arrives and Miho's small adventure begins.
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The Street of Desire
Title: The Street of Desire
Character: Sadaichi Yamakoshi
Released: April 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
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Title: ランドセルと目玉焼き
Character: Kunio Hayasaka
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: TV
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Antarctica
Title: Antarctica
Character: Ochi
Released: July 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
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A Bridge of Tears
Title: A Bridge of Tears
Released: June 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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Time and Tide
Title: Time and Tide
Character: Yasu-san
Released: March 18, 1983
Type: Movie
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
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Amagi Pass
Title: Amagi Pass
Character: Matsunojo Tajima, the cop
Released: February 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a printing shop owner, was visited by a retired policeman who came from Amagi Pass. The truth then started to reveal itself.
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Lovers Lost
Title: Lovers Lost
Character: Kozo Watanabe
Released: June 12, 1982
Type: Movie
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
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Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Title: Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
Released: June 4, 1982
Type: Movie
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the baffling case.
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Fossilized Wilderness
Title: Fossilized Wilderness
Character: Sousuke Nishina
Released: April 17, 1982
Type: Movie
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Gate of Youth 2
Title: Gate of Youth 2
Character: Tadao Ishii
Released: January 23, 1982
Type: Movie
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Title: Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
Character: Makoto Sakuma
Released: December 19, 1981
Type: Movie
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
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Call from Darkness
Title: Call from Darkness
Character: Kazuo Harada
Released: September 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now Tatsuo, seized with the idea that he too may disappear, has had a nervous breakdown. Aizawa suggests that Tatsuo recount his dreams as a means of solving the mystery, since human beings have an instinct that foretells the near future in the form of a dream. Keiko and Tatsuo eventually discover that the three disappearances have a strange connection…
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Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Title: Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Released: June 26, 1981
Type: Movie
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysterious encounter.
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Morning Moon Is Cruel
Title: Morning Moon Is Cruel
Character: Kusakabe
Released: June 21, 1981
Type: Movie
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.
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Gate of Youth
Title: Gate of Youth
Character: Kanayama
Released: January 15, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of his life. Shinsuke's father a group leader at the mine, dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a friendly Harley-riding yakuza boss. This movie has it all, drama, romance, sex, yakuza and violence! It is based on a story by Hiroyuki Itsuki that was originally serialized in the magazine Shukan Gendai in 1969-70.
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Writhing Tongue
Title: Writhing Tongue
Character: Akira Miyoshi
Released: November 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.
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The Wicked
Title: The Wicked
Released: June 28, 1980
Type: Movie
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
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Virus
Title: Virus
Character: Yasuo Tatsuno
Released: June 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
Released: April 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.
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Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Title: Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Character: Lower Hanzo
Released: February 23, 1980
Type: Movie
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.
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Heaven Sent
Title: Heaven Sent
Character: Shinsaku Miura
Released: December 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a six-year-old child at their door, claiming that Shinsaku—or four other men—is the child's father! Sayoko and Shinsaku set out on a journey to find the real father.
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The Three Undelivered Letters
Title: The Three Undelivered Letters
Character: Minegishi
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional household, and gets entangled in a sinister plot of murder.
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G.I. Samurai
Title: G.I. Samurai
Character: Hayato Yano
Released: September 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
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The Fall of Ako Castle
Title: The Fall of Ako Castle
Character: Kobayashi Heihachiro
Released: October 28, 1978
Type: Movie
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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August without Emperor
Title: August without Emperor
Character: Akimasa Fujisaki
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.
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The Incident
Title: The Incident
Character: Takeshi Hanai
Released: June 3, 1978
Type: Movie
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged with the murder. At Ueda's trial, a complex story unfolds.
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Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
Title: Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
Character: Ashizawa
Released: April 29, 1977
Type: Movie
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
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Japan's Don
Title: Japan's Don
Character: Takeshi Nomizo
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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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Title: The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Character: Hiroshi Kategaru
Released: September 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody fight with rival yakuza on the streets of Okinawa.
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Title: Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Character: Shuji Takagi
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Title: A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Character: Shin Hayami
Released: May 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Title: Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Released: February 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
Title: Operation Plazma in Osaka
Released: January 31, 1976
Type: Movie
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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The Decisive Power of Aikido
Title: The Decisive Power of Aikido
Released: November 22, 1975
Type: Movie
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed aikido and where he has learned martial arts.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
Character: Kunimitsu Sugawa
Released: November 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. But when he's released, he discovers that he and Tetsu have been all but forgotten by the Owada. Feeling betrayed, Shuji takes matters into his own hands and becomes an unsuspecting pawn in an internal conflict and an assassination attempt on the Owada boss. And now angered, Shuji seeks revenge...
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Pimp Heaven
Title: Pimp Heaven
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is fired from his job. Having nowhere else to go, Shohei reluctantly becomes the manager of the place... The film is a comedy full of pathos about the connection between strippers called "special delivery" and the "pimps" who hang on to them.
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Title: Unified Shadows
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
During the Tenpo period, the three samurai under the command of the Nanba magistrate were responsible for handling exceptional cases. However, their true identities as shadow assassins were hidden because they were secretly sent to eliminate villains who had escaped punishment by the law.
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Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Title: Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Title: New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Character: Noboru Kitami
Released: December 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Title: The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Released: December 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Title: Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Released: November 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
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Violent Fraternity
Title: Violent Fraternity
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
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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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Father of the Kamikaze
Title: Father of the Kamikaze
Released: September 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
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Third Generation Boss
Title: Third Generation Boss
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
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The Karate Man and the Spy
Title: The Karate Man and the Spy
Released: July 4, 1974
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Title: The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Tattooed Hitman
Title: The Tattooed Hitman
Character: Kenichi Furuta
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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Jeans Blues: No Future
Title: Jeans Blues: No Future
Character: Jiro Katagiri
Released: March 30, 1974
Type: Movie
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
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Woman Mobsters
Title: Woman Mobsters
Released: March 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female accomplice, is tossed in a women's prison where she meets Yuki, and the two of them manage to escape. Their plan is meet up with the robber who avoided capture, get ahold of the cash, and get for away from the big city.
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Student Yakuza
Title: Student Yakuza
Released: February 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.
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Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
Title: Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
Character: Kuroki Tatsuya
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
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Title: Katsu Kaishu
Character: Tanaka Shinbei
Released: January 6, 1974
Type: TV
Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "
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Karate Killer
Title: Karate Killer
Released: October 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Character: Kuramoto Takeshi
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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The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Title: The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
Character: Mao
Released: September 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Title: A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Character: Watarai Kikuo
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: Movie
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
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Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Title: Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
Character: Yôichi Kikumura
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their separate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
Title: Hell Riders in Kyoto
Released: April 28, 1973
Type: Movie
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even with his Bosozoku buddies, who slowly but surely distance themselves from him. Junya falls in love with the equally speed-hungry Hiroko.
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Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Title: Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).
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The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
Title: The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
Released: February 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. After serving four and a half years in prison, Masa and his brother Katsuji leave Kobe to go to Nagoya to help a hostess get her daughter back from her mother. As they arrive in Nagoya, they get into a scuffle with the local yakuza affiliate. Sugawara and Kawaji's chemistry is even more evident here than usual, the storyline is alright if melodramatic. Delightful start with Tatsuo Endo as a nice guy prison guard! How many times have you seen that? And we got Kyosuke Machida (henchman) with cool beard and the always good Tsunehiko Watase (young hood) on board as well. One of the best films in the series.
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Aesthetics of a Bullet
Title: Aesthetics of a Bullet
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a successful big-shot and embarks the life of a yakuza hitman.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity
Character: Toshio Arita
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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The Horrible Obsessions
Title: The Horrible Obsessions
Character: Masayuki Shinshiro
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
Character: Goro Yuki
Released: November 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
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Yakuza Skirmishes
Title: Yakuza Skirmishes
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Title: The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Released: August 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Title: Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Character: Genta
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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Shōwa Gokudōshi
Title: Shōwa Gokudōshi
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
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Gang Warfare
Title: Gang Warfare
Released: April 14, 1972
Type: Movie
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Character: Ryûji
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
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Zorome no San Kyoudai
Title: Zorome no San Kyoudai
Released: January 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together in their hometown, Nakano Village, after getting word of their father's critical condition. In a Nakano Village divided by a clash between local pig bristle brush manufacturers and the village chief's group over factory expansion, the latter resorts to harassing the brush manufacturers associated with the Wadakura family. Tadayoshi and the villagers attempt to take on the village office but encounter opposition from the Wadakura family's interference. Meanwhile, Jinzuke finds himself at odds with the Wadakura family over territorial disputes in Tsuruhashi. He faces off against them, striving to thwart their factory plans...
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Wolves of the City: First to Fight
Title: Wolves of the City: First to Fight
Released: December 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Pinku from 1971.
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A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
Title: A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
Released: November 19, 1971
Type: Movie
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
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The Armed Organization
Title: The Armed Organization
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
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Troops of Darkness
Title: Troops of Darkness
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
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The Gambler's Counterattack
Title: The Gambler's Counterattack
Character: Takeji
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.
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The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
Title: The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
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Wolves on Motorcycles
Title: Wolves on Motorcycles
Released: July 31, 1971
Type: Movie
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Character: Mari's friend
Released: April 28, 1971
Type: Movie
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts working for him. At the same time a recently released from prison, and now ill Yakuza is trying to make a new life for himself and his girl, a friend of Reiko's, who also just graduated from reform school. A fateful car crash brings the two on a collision course with each other and the brutal Yakuza clan, which can only end bloody vengeance.
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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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Kantō tekiya ikka: Goromen himatsuri
Title: Kantō tekiya ikka: Goromen himatsuri
Released: February 13, 1971
Type: Movie
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Sympathy for the Underdog
Title: Sympathy for the Underdog
Character: Susumu Seki
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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Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Title: Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
Released: December 3, 1970
Type: Movie
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors.
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Inside a Girl's Dormitory
Title: Inside a Girl's Dormitory
Released: November 21, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Last Kamikaze
Title: The Last Kamikaze
Released: October 29, 1970
Type: Movie
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
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The Experience
Title: The Experience
Released: October 6, 1970
Type: Movie
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
Title: Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
Released: August 1, 1970
Type: Movie
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
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Three Pretty Devils
Title: Three Pretty Devils
Released: June 13, 1970
Type: Movie
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.
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Prison Tales
Title: Prison Tales
Released: April 10, 1970
Type: Movie
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Killer's Hit List
Title: Killer's Hit List
Released: January 31, 1970
Type: Movie
A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase, Yoshida and Sato called PRISONERS' BACK LIST.