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Takamaru Sasaki
Born: 30th Jan 1898 Shibecha, Hokkaido, Japan - Died 28th Dec 1986
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 151
Film: 148 (98%)
Television: 3 (2%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Western, Family
Filmography
(No release date supplied. Possibly still in production.)
1960 Toei movie. ... view
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Original title: 反逆の旅
1976
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu ... view
Character:
Original title: 十六歳の戦争
1976
A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past. ... view
Character:
Kōzaburō
Apr 1976 (first aired)
Ninja Captor is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series aired from April 7, 1976 to January 26, 1977 on TV Tokyo 12 Channel, produced by Toei Company, Ltd. Thi ... view
Character:
Hakūn Togakushi (43 ep.)
Feb 1976 (first aired)
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard ... view
Character:
Takada (1 ep.)
Oct 1974 (first aired)
In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautiful Japanese cities to the ground. A wea ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Original title: 激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦
1971
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army ... view
Character:
Original title: 新座頭市 破れ！唐人剣
1971
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering ... view
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Character:
Original title: 不良番長 一獲千金
1970
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters. ... view
Character:
Original title: 花と涙と炎
1970
Seijuro Fujihana, head master of the Fujihana dance school, is a proud and lonely artist. And because of his character, his group lacks the prosperity ... view
Character:
Yamazaki
Character:
Original title: 新網走番外地 流人岬の血斗
1969
Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the dock ... view
Character:
Original title: 日本海大海戦
1969
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a ... view
Character:
Consultant Kuki
Original title: 広域暴力 流血の縄張
1969
A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign ... view
Character:
Godô Yamanouchi, the mediator
Original title: 日本暴力団 組長
1969
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is ta ... view
Character:
Kita Kido
Original title: あらくれ
1969
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 ... view
Character:
Original title: 博徒百人
1969
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes reveng ... view
Character:
Original title: 首
1968
It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a su ... view
Character:
Original title: 産業スパイ
1968
Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a ne ... view
Character:
Araki
Original title: 博奕打ち 総長賭博
1968
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the off ... view
Character:
Gisuke Kawashima
Character:
Original title: 東京市街戦
1967
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the nam ... view
Character:
Original title: 智恵子抄
1967
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her fami ... view
Character:
Koun Takamura
Original title: 上意討ち 拝領妻始末
1967
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision ... view
Character:
Kenmotsu Sasahara
Original title: 拳銃は俺のパスポート
1967
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy. ... view
Character:
Otawara
Original title: 阿片台地 地獄部隊突撃せよ
1966
Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama se ... view
Character:
Original title: 殺るかやられるか
1966
When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin. ... view
Character:
Original title: 3匹の狸
1966
A conman team swindles through jewel scams, marriage fraud, and fake school admissions. Their schemes bring quick riches but collapse before escape, l ... view
Character:
Original title: 日本仁侠伝 花の渡世人
1966
In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in ... view
Character:
Original title: 昭和最大の顔役
1966
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role. ... view
Character:
Original title: 大菩薩峠
1966
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s ... view
Character:
Ishinsai Nakamura
Original title: 忍びの者 新・霧隠才蔵
1966
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord ... view
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Original title: 暴れ豪右衛門
1966
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees ... view
Character:
Goro Shiro
Original title: 男の紋章 竜虎無情
1966
A young gambler returns from prison to find his gang scattered, and many gone over to his old rival. But their rivalry is not only a matter of gamblin ... view
Character:
Original title: 怪獣大戦争
1965
Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world f ... view
Character:
Chairman of Earth Committee
Original title: 新鞍馬天狗
1965
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for t ... view
Character:
Original title: けものみち
1965
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns down their home to start anew. She is soon entang ... view
Character:
Dietman Okamura
Original title: 海の若大将
1965
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, boar ... view
Character:
武田教授
Original title: 姿三四郎
1965
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up ... view
Character:
Inuma
Original title: 黒い猫
1965
Helping her mother manage a nightclub, young Emiko quickly realizes how difficult life is. ... view
Character:
Original title: 顔役
1965
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is o ... view
Character:
Original title: 殺られてたまるか
1964
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki retur ... view
Character:
Original title: 新・男の紋章 度胸一番
1964
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the s ... view
Character:
Original title: 眠狂四郎円月斬り
1964
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into mo ... view
Character:
The Honorable Elder Mizuno Tadakuni
Character:
Original title: 紫右京之介逆一文字斬り
1964
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of ... view
Character:
Original title: 恐怖の時間
1964
A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it ... view
Character:
Original title: 丹下左膳
1963
In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu ... view
Character:
Original title: 巨人 大隈重信
1963
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom ... view
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Original title: ハワイの若大将
1963
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous screening with Matango. Filmed on location in Hawaii. ... view
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矢内教授
Original title: 柳生武芸帳 剣豪乱れ雲
1963
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago. ... view
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1963
This movie depicts the confrontation between a man entangled in a despicable trap and the shadow of murderous intent, and the efforts of a journalist ... view
Character:
Original title: この首一万石
1963
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, ... view
Character:
Original title: 五人のあばれ者
1963
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal. ... view
Character:
Original title: 七人の刑事
1963
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out f ... view
Character:
Ebihara
Character:
Nobuaki Kawashima
Original title: 宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗
1962
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle aft ... view
Character:
Terumasa Ikeda
Original title: 金門島にかける橋
1962
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a ... view
Character:
Original title: 涙を、獅子のたて髪に
1962
A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand b ... view
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Character:
Original title: 雲に向かって起つ
1962
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Naka ... view
Character:
Original title: 太平洋のGメン
1962
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama. ... view
Character:
Kanji Matsuno
Original title: 妖星ゴラス
1962
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is en ... view
Character:
Prime Minister Seki
Original title: 天草四郎時貞
1962
In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro A ... view
Character:
Original title: 酔っぱらい天国
1962
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 focus ... view
Character:
Original title: さすらい
1962
Satake Shoji had been a trapeze artist in the Ezaki Circus, but when Shingo, his team mate, slipped and fell to his death, he had felt responsible and ... view
Character:
Original title: 北帰行より 渡り鳥北へ帰る
1962
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, ... view
Character:
Original title: 妻あり子あり友ありて
1961
Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes ... view
Character:
Shinzo Matsuyama
Original title: 花のお江戸のやくざ姫
1961
Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo 's father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword called ... view
Character:
Sakai Uenosuke
Original title: 花と嵐とギャング
1961
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons. ... view
Character:
Kawakita
Original title: 豪快千両槍
1961
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The o ... view
Character:
Original title: 魚河岸の女石松
1961
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological ... view
Character:
Original title: 丹下左膳 濡れ燕一刀流
1961
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family. ... view
Character:
Original title: ゼロの焦点
1961
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 ... view
Character:
Original title: 甘い夜の果て
1961
An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder. ... view
Character:
Original title: ガス人間第一号
1960
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's ca ... view
Character:
Police Chief
Original title: 大草原の渡り鳥
1960
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from ... view
Character:
Original title: 血は渇いてる
1960
An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own ad ... view
Character:
Character:
Original title: にっぽんGメン 摩天楼の狼
1960
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels all ... view
Character:
Character:
Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan Kido
Original title: いろはにほへと
1960
The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out ... view
Character:
Original title: 殺られてたまるか
1960
The son of the murdered Yakuza, Kenji, at the request of his mother, worked in a stable company. However, soon the girl Kenji Amy, who was in favor of ... view
Character:
Kensuke Senba
Original title: 電送人間
1960
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims. ... view
Character:
Dr. Niki
Original title: 黒い画集 あるサラリーマンの証言
1960
Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lo ... view
Character:
Judge
Original title: 非情都市
1960
Modern comedy social drama about a reporter (Mihashi) for the Toto Shimpo determined to scoop his rivals during the murder investigation of the presid ... view
Character:
Original title: べらんめえ芸者
1959
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum ... view
Character:
Senda
Original title: 婦系図 湯島に散る花
1959
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree". ... view
Character:
Sakai Shunzo
Original title: べらんめぇ探偵娘
1959
Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case. ... view
Character:
Original title: 激闘
1959
The president of the Hong Kong Almond Cola company, Liu's grandfather, signed a purchase and sale agreement with Showa Nakajima from Japan, and shortl ... view
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Character:
Original title: 水戸黄門 天下の副将軍
1959
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the successi ... view
Character:
Original title: 独眼竜政宗
1959
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune ... view
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Character:
Manager Hayashi
Original title: 人間の條件 第１部純愛篇／第２部激怒篇
1959
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuri ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
Original title: 大東亜戦争と国際裁判
1959
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the ... view
Character:
Counsel Kiyose
Character:
Hikotarô
Original title: 森と湖のまつり
1958
A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Ta ... view
Character:
Yamashiro-ya
Original title: 月光仮面 絶海の死斗
1958
The masked hero 'Moon Light Mask' battles the villainous 'Skull Mask' and his numerous masked henchmen who are trying to steal the secrets of the dead ... view
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Character:
Original title: 怪猫からくり天井
1958
Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered Mata ... view
Character:
Original title: 重役の椅子
1958
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss. Thr ... view
Character:
Takada
Original title: 血まみれの決闘
1957
Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love ... view
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Character:
Original title: 隼人族の叛乱
1957
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival. ... view
Character:
Original title: 源氏九郎颯爽記 濡れ髪二刀流
1957
Genji Kurô is a master swordsman and entrusted with protecting the ancient sword Kaen by the Otsubo family. ... view
Character:
Original title: 蜘蛛巣城
1957
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spi ... view
Character:
Kuniharu Tsuzuki
Original title: あなた買います
1956
A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers. ... view
Character:
Shiraishi
Original title: 三つ首塔
1956
Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never ... view
Character:
Original title: まらそん侍
1956
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda ... view
Character:
Original title: 電光空手打ち
1956
Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃対拳銃
1956
The orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the Pacific War becomes obsessed with taking revenge on hi ... view
Character:
Toshiaki Soma
Original title: 宮本武蔵完結編 決闘巌流島
1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He' ... view
Character:
Omitsu's father
Original title: 旗本退屈男謎の伏魔殿
1955
In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the wom ... view
Character:
Original title: 疾風の晴太郎
1955
A historical drama directed by Yukiya Sato, and co-written by Rokuhei Susukita and Jiro Okuzawa. Seitarou, who travels from trip to trip, was asked b ... view
Character:
Original title: 隼の魔王
1955
Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was k ... view
Character:
Inspector Osawa
Original title: 密輸船
1954
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequ ... view
Character:
Wang Taishing
1954
In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of fire by a ... view
Character:
Original title: かくて自由の鐘はなる
1954
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English. Des ... view
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Samurai passing each other
Original title: 悪魔が来りて笛を吹く
1954
The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melod ... view
Character:
Character:
Kizô Tomoda
Original title: お祭り半次郎
1953
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather t ... view
Character:
Original title: 太平洋の鷲
1953
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w ... view
Character:
Chief of Staff, Combined Fleet
Original title: 戰艦大和
1953
The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshid ... view
Character:
Captain Aruga
Original title: 悲劇の将軍 山下奉文
1953
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the ... view
Character:
Character:
Sanjuro Mizuno
Original title: 思春期
1952
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast. ... view
Character:
Yasuzo, Haruo's father
Character:
Chisaka Hyobu
Character:
1951
Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京の門
1950
Based on a serialized newspaper novel by Taijiro Tamura. People living in the darkness of the city, Tachikawa Maki publishes the Ginza Minpo, a small ... view
Character:
Kazuyoshi Tokita
Original title: 暴力の街
1950
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses. ... view
Character:
Kano