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Tatsuo Umemiya
Born: 11th Mar 1938 Harbin, Manchukuo, Empire of Japan [now Harbin, Heilongjiang, China] - Died 12th Dec 2019
Dept: Acting
Tatsuo Umemiya (梅宮 辰夫, Umemiya Tatsuo, 11 March 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and talent Anna Umemiya.
The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows.
Umemiya died of kidney failure on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 240
Film: 221 (92%)
Television: 19 (8%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Reality, TV Movie, Horror
Filmography
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The time is the 1980s . Japan 's organized violence achieved national unification through numerous fierce conflicts, collusion with the political and ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 日本統一３
2013
Factional infighting erupts under the new leadership of Kudo (Hakuryu), the second chairman of the Kyowakai, worsening relations between the Mikami-gu ... view
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Tadao Kawabata
Original title: 日本統一２
2013
Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya), who joined Kyowakai, steadily rose through the ranks with his calm and clear mind. Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) was also r ... view
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Tadao Kawabata
Original title: 日本統一
2013
Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi), local delinquents from Yokohama, used their fists to dismantle a local yakuza gang. This ... view
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Tadao Kawabata
Original title: 『日本統一』総集編 I 野望勃発編
2013
A complete digest of “Unification of Japan” from “Unification of Japan 1” to “Unification of Japan 10”! ... view
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2009
Makino Kuniyasu is consulted about the succession issue of the Joshu Okubo family. At that time, Makino is attacked by the Arabu Alliance Moriwaki Gro ... view
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Original title: 特命係長 只野仁 最後の劇場版
2008
Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young idol, Sylvia , who is the main character at the "Flow ... view
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Juzo Kurokawa
Sep 2007 (first aired)
A new dramatization of "Hadaka no Taishō (The Naked General)" series about the wandering painter Kiyoshi Yamashita, starring Tsukaji Muga. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 2007 (first aired)
Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young itamae (cook for Japanese dishes) struggl ... view
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Komiya Ryuuji (11 ep.)
Original title: 新・日本の首領 完結編
2006
Ninth and last film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata. ... view
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Original title: 逃亡者 木島丈一郎
2005
This work is a spin-off drama from the film " Negotiator: Mashita Masayoshi ," which was released in May 2005 as a spin- off project "Dancing Legend M ... view
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Original title: カポネ 六本木錬金の帝王
2004
With the help of the real-life pachislot gambling group "Capone," the film depicts the friendship between a man who gambles and a man who lives in the ... view
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Original title: 実録・東北やくざ戦争 覇桜の道
2003
In the early hours of August 5th, 1928, a baby was born into the family of the gang leader, Gizo Ato (played by Ryuutaro Hara) from the Ato family in ... view
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Jul 2003 (first aired)
After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai a ... view
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Guest (3 ep.)
Jul 2003 (first aired)
Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the em ... view
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总裁 (41 ep.)
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Original title: 修羅の群れ 第1部 怒濤編
2002
Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain j ... view
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Original title: 実録・大阪やくざ戦争 報復
2001
An incident occurred where a member of the Sannokai who sparked a dispute at the gambling house was shot dead by a member of the Umeyama group dividin ... view
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Original title: 実録・広島やくざ戦争
2000
After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city. ... view
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Original title: ドリームメーカー
1999
Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work to ... view
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Jul 1997 (first aired)
In this engaging comedy, a husband and wife enter a journey of self-discovery when they enter their child into a drama school. Just where does a paren ... view
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Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Original title: 流れ板七人
1997
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete ... view
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Seizo Matsuki
Original title: 修羅がゆく4 東京大戦争
1997
The fourth of the extreme actions that depicts the men who are confronting the war set by the Kansai yakuza who are planning to advance to the Kanto r ... view
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Apr 1996 (first aired)
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it ... view
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Skit Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: 極道おとこ塾
1995
A rough man who has been hit by the times hits an established organization! ... view
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Jan 1995 (first aired)
The wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's marriage in this hard-edged drama of misdirected passion. T ... view
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Unknown/various (11 ep.)
Jul 1994 (first aired)
Shirota Shintaro lives with his wife Atsuko, his four children, Shitaro's father Fukuzo, and a dog. He is forced to make room for his sister Megumi an ... view
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Shirota Shintaro (12 ep.)
Original title: 首領を殺った男
1994
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked. ... view
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Oct 1993 (first aired)
Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off f ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 継承盃
1992
A bumbling stockbroker-turned-yakuza is tasked with ensuring that an alcoholic boss is up to the task of arbitrating his syndicate's succession ceremo ... view
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Toshimitsu Hanamura
Original title: 略奪愛
1991
The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furu ... view
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Original title: ジゴロ・コップ 六本木・赤坂 美少年倶楽部
1991
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhi ... view
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Original title: お熱いのがお好き
1991
Detective investigates a murder connected to cocaine in a coin locker ... view
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Original title: 河内残侠伝 軍鶏（シャモ）
1991
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work. ... view
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Original title: 花の降る午後
1989
A widowed restaurateur is faced with scandal after discovering her late husband had a child out of wedlock. Hearing that two criminals had attempted t ... view
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Original title: 226
1989
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 po ... view
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Owner of Hotel Sanno
Original title: せんせい
1989
In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays. The only person who is seriously worried about t ... view
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Ken Tadokoro
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Oct 1988 (first aired)
Eiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence. However, it was only Tsuneyoshi Mito, the younger brothe ... view
Character:
Takejiri Kenzo (1 ep.)
May 1988 (first aired)
To infiltrate a violent school campus an elite police officer puts his career on hold to go undercover as a teacher. With the help of his team on the ... view
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Kenichiro Totsuka (15 ep.)
Apr 1988 (first aired)
Detective Kichinosuke Yasuura, also known as "Yasu-san", A detective with a sense of humanity and justice that deviates from the framework of the poli ... view
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Yokomizo Shigetada (25 ep.)
Original title: 化身
1986
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine. ... view
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Original title: 最後の博徒
1985
A made man during the height of Hiroshima's yakuza turf war must maneuver through the violence and betrayal inside the criminal underworld. ... view
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Otomo
Original title: 生きてるうちが花なのよ死んだらそれまでよ党宣言
1985
Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her ... view
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Original title: カポネ大いに泣く
1985
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune. ... view
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Kyubei Hori
Original title: 素晴らしきサーカス野郎
1984
Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori and others that he's the culprit. In order to unrav ... view
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Detective Hattori
Original title: 乾いて候 お毒味役必殺剣
1984
The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the sh ... view
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Original title: ヘッドフォン・ララバイ
1983
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students. ... view
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Original title: 佐武と市捕物控 岡っ引無情
1982
During a gathering of detectives, Satake is the only one not indulging in the hospitality of a wealthy money exchanger. His senior, Yasuke, leaves the ... view
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Original title: 制覇
1982
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy. ... view
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Muraoka
Original title: 大日本帝国
1982
Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War. ... view
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Original title: 鬼龍院花子の生涯
1982
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H ... view
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Original title: 傘次郎・新子捕物日記 夫婦十手
1982
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the ... view
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Original title: 佐武と市捕物控 地獄の白狐
1982
In the town of Edo, a series of bizarre incidents occur, where people are kidnapped, have fox masks placed on their faces, and are then thrown out, dr ... view
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Original title: ザ・ヤジキタ
1982
Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from mask ... view
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Saigo Takamori
Original title: 佐武と市捕物控 斬る
1981
Sabu, a low-ranking samurai, finds himself unable to apprehend the ruthless leader of a violent gang of thieves, which leads to a scolding from his fe ... view
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Jul 1981 (first aired)
Fuji drama specials based on the eponymous manga by Shotaro Ishinomori. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: 佐武と市捕物控
1981
In Edo, a group of masked samurai stormed a seafood wholesaler, killing the head clerk and robbing the money. They then crossed paths with Ichi, a bli ... view
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1981
Hamakichi was a former detective respected by everyone but he was arrested after he helped a criminal flee for money, which he needed for his child’ ... view
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Original title: 傘次郎・新子捕物日記 夫婦河童
1981
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysteri ... view
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Original title: ダンプ渡り鳥
1981
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets. ... view
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Masao Machida
Original title: 時の娘
1980
A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former Yoshiwa ... view
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Sotaro
Original title: 仁義なき戦い 総集篇
1980
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight ... view
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Shinichi Iwai
Original title: 日本の黒幕
1979
Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight. ... view
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Original title: 真田幸村の謀略
1979
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu. ... view
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Sanada Nobuyuki
Original title: 闇の狩人
1979
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to ... view
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Kawazu
Original title: 総長の首
1979
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld. ... view
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Original title: 悪魔が来りて笛を吹く
1979
Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the bac ... view
Character:
Shunroku Kazama
Original title: 雲霧仁左衛門
1978
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to ... view
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Jûdayû Araki
Original title: 青春の門 自立篇
1977
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu. ... view
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Original title: やくざ戦争 日本の首領
1977
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters. ... view
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Fukushima
Original title: やくざの墓場 くちなしの花
1976
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own ... view
Character:
Goro Iwaki
Original title: 沖縄やくざ戦争
1976
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody ... view
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Kaizu
Original title: トラック野郎 望郷一番星
1976
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own. ... view
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Prisoner
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
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Jun'ichi (1 ep.)
Original title: 実録外伝 大阪電撃作戦
1976
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover. ... view
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Original title: 極道社長
1975
Daigoro Koiwa and Katsuo Rokujo, who met by chance, open a recession-resistant funeral business and a urinary treatment business, and put it on track, ... view
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Sumitomo Mitsui
Original title: 暴力金脈
1975
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ... view
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Original title: 資金源強奪
1975
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor. ... view
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Noshiro
Original title: 日本暴力列島 京阪神殺しの軍団
1975
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan ... view
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Original title: 県警対組織暴力
1975
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the ac ... view
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Lt. Kaida
Original title: 仁義の墓場
1975
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa. ... view
Character:
Kozaburo Imai
Original title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
1974
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. ... view
Character:
Yuji Suenaga
Original title: 極道VS不良番長
1974
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang. ... view
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Original title: 安藤組外伝 人斬り舎弟
1974
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs. ... view
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Original title: 任侠花一輪
1974
Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While at a red-light district in Chiba, Shiratori finds ... view
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Original title: あゝ決戦航空隊
1974
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 solutio ... view
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Original title: 山口組外伝 九州進攻作戦
1974
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 ... view
Character:
Ichiro Ishino
Original title: 夜の演歌 しのび恋
1974
Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same tim ... view
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Original title: 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦
1974
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new di ... view
Character:
Shinichi Iwai
Original title: 実録安藤組 襲撃篇
1973
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi. ... view
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Original title: 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
1973
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new frien ... view
Character:
Shinichi Iwai
Original title: 実録・私設銀座警察
1973
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group o ... view
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Original title: やくざ対Gメン 囮
1973
Using a lesser mobster as bait a government agent infiltrates a narcotics-smuggling gang to try to capture the boss. But his survival has a price. ... view
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Ryusuke Akutsu
Original title: 夜の歌謡シリーズ 女のみち
1973
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul. ... view
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Original title: 仁義なき戦い
1973
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. ... view
Character:
Hiroshi Wakasugi
Original title: 不良番長 骨までしゃぶれ
1972
This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pin ... view
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Original title: ポルノの帝王 失神トルコ風呂
1972
Hiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is touched by) it, is blessed by good fortune. After buyin ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 のら犬機動隊
1972
This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pin ... view
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Original title: 銀蝶渡り鳥
1972
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 ... view
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Original title: 悪の親衛隊
1971
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind. ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 手八丁口八丁
1971
This is the Twelfth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 やらずぶったくり
1971
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground. ... view
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Original title: ポルノの帝王
1971
Dumb Tatsuo Umemiya / Shingo Yamashiro comedy about a young bloke whose dick grows to inhuman dimensions (obviously a role tailor made for star Umemiy ... view
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Original title: 未亡人ごろしの帝王
1971
The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by ... view
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Original title: 関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩火祭り
1971
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil Hiro ... view
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Takashi Shinohara (Taku The Heart)
Original title: 不良番長 口から出まかせ
1970
Interesting fights between the "Capone Group" and "Jumbo Group". ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 暴走バギー団
1970
Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization. ... view
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Original title: 最後の特攻隊
1970
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 T ... view
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Original title: ずべ公番長 夢は夜ひらく
1970
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by ... view
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Shinjiro Asahi
Original title: 女たらしの帝王
1970
A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women. ... view
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Hiroshi Matsunaga
Original title: 不良番長 出たとこ勝負
1970
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money. ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 一獲千金
1970
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters. ... view
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Original title: 関東テキヤ一家 喧嘩仁義
1970
The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara. ... view
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Shiota
Original title: 血染の代紋
1970
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opport ... view
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Hayami
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Original title: 不良番長 どぶ鼠作戦
1969
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters. ... view
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Original title: 妖艶毒婦伝 お勝兇状旅
1969
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to ma ... view
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Original title: 前科者 縄張荒し
1969
The third film in the Zenka-mono series.At the beginning of the Showa period, Matsukichi Iwaki was released from prison after 10 years in prison. Mats ... view
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Original title: 不良番長 猪の鹿お蝶
1969
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he ... view
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Hiroshi Kosaka
Original title: 盛り場ブルース
1968
The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted. ... view
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Original title: 夜の手配師
1968
Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then, ther ... view
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Original title: あゝ予科練
1968
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schoo ... view
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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:
Takeshi Kogure
Original title: 不良番長
1968
The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films. ... view
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Original title: 代貸
1968
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Repre ... view
Character:
Kazusaburo Funakoshi
Original title: 続決着
1968
Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro. ... view
Character:
Goro
Original title: 人間魚雷 あゝ回天特別攻撃隊
1968
Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War. ... view
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Masa
Original title: 続・渡世人
1967
Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks. ... view
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Otojirô
Original title: 柳ヶ瀬ブルース
1967
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase. ... view
Character:
Jiro Fukumoto
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Original title: 花札渡世
1967
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is stay ... view
Character:
Ryuichi Kitagawa
Original title: 残侠あばれ肌
1967
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and co ... view
Character:
Eijiro Kikukawa
Original title: 北海の暴れ竜
1966
The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local ga ... view
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Original title: 男度胸で勝負する
1966
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother. ... view
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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
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Original title: 遊侠三代
1966
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a ... view
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Original title: 夜の牝犬
1966
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a ... view
Character:
Shigeru Shoji
Original title: おんな番外地 鎖の牝犬
1965
Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series ... view
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Original title: 昭和残侠伝
1965
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keepin ... view
Character:
Goro
Original title: かも
1965
A man who hunts for women and sells them to bars and cabarets. This film depicts the lives of men and women who breathe the dark side of the city and ... view
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Original title: 孤独の賭け
1965
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his propri ... view
Character:
Toshihiko Takagi
Original title: ひも
1965
The "Nighttime Youth Series" vividly depicts the lives of men and women consumed by lust and desire in the nighttime entertainment districts of a neon ... view
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Original title: 廓育ち
1964
Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a ge ... view
Character:
Shigemi Nitta
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Original title: ギャング忠臣蔵
1963
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era ... view
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Original title: 海軍
1963
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his ... view
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Character:
Hideo Matsunaga
Original title: 人生劇場 続 飛車角
1963
Upon his release from the prison, Hishakaku joins the Kikkyo family who is struggling to regain their turf from their rival, Domoto family. To recipro ... view
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Original title: 最後の顔役
1963
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, ... view
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Original title: 人生劇場 飛車角
1963
After eloping with a prostitute named Otoyo, Hishakaku takes refuge in the Kogane family’s turf. Indebted to Boss Kogane for his kindness, Hishakaku ... view
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Original title: ギャング対Ｇメン 集団金庫破り
1963
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop. ... view
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Original title: 暗黒街の顔役 十一人のギャング
1963
Two men head a team who steal a factory payroll valued at 500 million yen. Then a hoodlum gang goes after the team for the money. ... view
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Original title: ギャング対Ｇメン
1962
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood. ... view
Character:
Kuroki
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Original title: ギャング対ギャング
1962
The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his fo ... view
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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
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Munekata
Original title: 誇り高き挑戦
1962
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the ... view
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Original title: 乾杯！ごきげん野郎
1961
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent. ... view
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Original title: 霧と影
1961
A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death ... view
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Original title: アマゾン無宿 世紀の大魔王
1961
Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot ... view
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Original title: 第三次世界大戦 四十一時間の恐怖
1960
The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ul ... view
Character:
正木記者
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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
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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:
Kenji Mamiya
Original title: 大いなる旅路
1960
The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war . ... view
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Original title: 天下の快男児 万年太郎
1960
An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company. ... view
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Original title: 高度7000米 恐怖の四時間
1959
Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror. ... view
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Fujio
Original title: 月光仮面 悪魔の最後
1959
The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s. ... view
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Planet Prince / Waku-san
Original title: 遊星王子
1959
Attracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of Krangkor, the dark planet, descends on Earth to steal ... view
Character:
Prince of Space / Wally
Original title: 遊星王子
1959
A mysterious hero must intervene when a nefarious presence from outer space arrives to steal a powerful new rocket fuel. ... view
Character:
Planet Prince / Waku-san
Original title: 少年探偵団 敵は原子潜航艇
1959
Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut. ... view
Character:
Kogoro Akechi