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Joe Shishido
Born: 6th Dec 1933 Kita, Osaka, Japan - Died 18th Jan 2020
Dept: Acting
Beloved Japanese actor most recognizable for his intense, eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He has appeared in over 200 films but is best known in the West for his performance in the cult film Branded to Kill (1967). In Japan, he is also known by the nickname "Joe the Ace" (エースのジョー Ēsu no Jō) for his popular role in the Western Fast-Draw Guy (1961).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 244
Film: 232 (95%)
Television: 12 (5%)
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Filmography
Original title: ファイナル・ジャッジメント
2012
26-year-old Shogo Washio sense danger from the expansion of Asian superpower nation Ouran. Shogo Washio teams up with Kenzo Nakagishi and establishes ... view
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Lao Porto
Original title: ケータイ刑事 THE MOVIE3 モーニング娘。救出大作戦!〜パンドラの箱の秘密
2011
Kai, Mei, and Yui are high school students. The three girls are also detectives and they solve cases using their reasoning abilities. It's also a secr ... view
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Original title: ヌードの夜／愛は惜しみなく奪う
2010
A beautiful mother and her two daughters run a bar in a town. They have a dream of becoming rich, reforming the building, and living as celebrities. W ... view
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Naoki Yamagami
Original title: THE CODE/暗号
2009
For 60 years, the group of detectives known as "Detective Office 5" has raised the bar for detective work. The agents of Detective Office 5 are a grou ... view
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Detective 500
Original title: 転校生 -さよなら あなた-
2007
After his parent's divorce, Kazuo Saito moves with his mother from Onomichi and must leave his girlfriend behind. At his new school, Kazuo is surprise ... view
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Yoshinosuke Yoshida
Original title: キサラギ
2007
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true ci ... view
Character:
Ooiso Long Beach Host
Original title: 誇り高き野望5
2006
Kano Kenji, second-in-command of the Matsuura family, is released from prison and comes into conflict with Sunagawa Tatsusaburo, 6th leader of the Mor ... view
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Original title: 誇り高き野望4
2006
After the retirement of boss Tokumaru, Sunagawa succeeds him as the sixth head of the Morita family, and Kano Kenji seizes the opportunity to plot the ... view
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Original title: 誇り高き野望2
2006
Tatsusaburo Sunagawa, the assistant underboss of the Morita Family, ousts Yukichi Matsuura, Matsuura Family head, from his position as underboss of th ... view
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Original title: 誇り高き野望
2006
Osaka, 1993. Sunagawa, assistant to the Morita Family underboss, proposes the establishment of a "Commercial Mutual Aid Association" as a future sourc ... view
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Original title: 殺し屋という名の外科医
2006
A trainee at a university hospital named Yoshioka, was in charge of a patient but the patient dies due to a failure with a heart transplant. One day, ... view
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Original title: 探偵事務所５~５ナンバーで呼ばれる探偵達の物語~
2005
In a small nook of Kawasaki Private investigator 591 and adultry specialist investigator 522 embark on separate investigations that leads them both to ... view
Character:
500
Sep 2005 (first aired)
This anthology-style mystery series is part of the D‑5 PROJECT, centered around Detective Office 5 - a long-running private detective agency in Kawa ... view
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Chief 500 (3 ep.)
Unknown/various (50 ep.)
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Original title: 誇り高き野望3
2005
Cheating by Kageyama, a member of the Amagasaki Daimon-gumi, is discovered at the gambling den of the Matsuura family. The Matsuura family is subordi ... view
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Original title: 花と蛇2 パリ／静子
2005
The beautiful Shizuko and her husband Toyama Takayoshi have a loving relationship, But Takayoshi is getting older and isn't always able to perform. Hi ... view
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Original title: 同窓會
2004
The final chapter of director Mukai Hiroshi's trilogy on the theme of aging, in which "Going West" raised the issue of human memory and "Hometown" add ... view
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Original title: 新・日本の首領II 非情篇
2004
Second film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata. ... view
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Original title: 新・日本の首領 波涛篇
2004
First film of the yakuza series starring Hiroki Matsukata. ... view
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Original title: 極道ジハード ～聖戦
2002
The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Takechi under the supervision of Takashi ... view
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Original title: 溺れる魚
2001
When corporate executives are blackmailed into public displays of nudity on the busy streets of Shinjuku, the big guns are called out to locate "Obore ... view
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Ace no Jo
Original title: 渋谷ミッドナイト・ウォー 暗黒街
2001
Shigemitsu Kamio, a member of a Shibuya color-gang who is respected even by other chīmers (delinquents), carries the bitter secret of having killed h ... view
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Original title: 借王 -THE MOVIE 2000-
2000
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an o ... view
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Original title: 故郷
1999
Tokiko Haebaru, a 76-year-old grandmother living in Nago, Okinawa. She soon embarks on a marathon across Japan. ... view
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Original title: 愛する
1997
Mitsu works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu, a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some deception, Tsuto ... view
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Chinen
Original title: 秋桜 コスモス
1997
Akiko returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick wit ... view
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Original title: 罠 THE TRAP
1996
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string ... view
Character:
Jo Shishido
Original title: 復讐の帝王
1995
Tatsuya Shijo was leading a blissful life with her wife and daughter. But all hell came down when a madman murdered his wife and daughter and bizarrel ... view
Character:
Kazunari Inaba
Jul 1995 (first aired)
A young man who showed little promise while a high school student becomes a master detective, just like his grandfather. ... view
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Fujio Tashiro (2 ep.)
Original title: 遙かな時代の階段を
1995
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a bor ... view
Character:
Jo Shishido
Original title: 女ざかり
1994
A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials. ... view
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Hashizume
Original title: 我が人生最悪の時
1994
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing bro ... view
Character:
Joe
Original title: 雀鬼3 治外法権麻雀
1994
Shoichi Sakurai, who started his own trading company and is obsessed with business, is approached with a mineral resource deal. However, it is a trap ... view
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Original title: ＪＡＣＫ ＫＮＩＦＥ 狼たちの賭け
1993
Kojiro Shimizu challenges the work of Kenzo Kitakata, a popular writer who depicts romance, violence and friendships between men! Hard Boiled action w ... view
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Original title: 落陽
1992
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement. ... view
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Original title: 8マン・すべての寂しい夜のために
1992
After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific exper ... view
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Dr. Tani
Original title: Danger Point: 地獄への道
1991
Killers Ken and Joji undertake the killing of a man named Sakai. He utters some interesting last words before being shot dead, leading Ken and Joji on ... view
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Original title: ご存知！旗本退屈男Ⅵ 伊達家に倒幕の陰謀！
1991
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that powerfu ... view
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Original title: 神様のピンチヒッター
1991
Ryo, Eiji and Katsuya assemble as usual in an underground car park, only this time, the woman who has always accompanied them is missing. Driving int ... view
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Original title: ネオ チンピラ 続 鉄砲玉ぴゅ～
1991
In the sequel to 1990's classic Neo Chinpira, Junko (Sho Aikawa) attempts to take out Kazama and then goes on the run. However, he quickly begins to f ... view
Character:
Junichi Mizuta
Apr 1991 (first aired)
A story of a man and a woman who meet amid the Great Tokyo Air Raid in 1945. ... view
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角倉勘次 (312 ep.)
Original title: 汚れし者の伝説
1991
A brilliant hitman and a veteran former hitman join forces to take revenge on the murdered woman and challenge the criminal organization. ... view
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Original title: コードネーム３４８ 女刑事 サシバ
1990
Special female detective Hanyu Asuka, codenamed 348 (Sashiba), receives a secret mission from the police commissioner to solve the blackmail case invo ... view
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Original title: ネオ チンピラ 鉄砲玉ぴゅ～
1990
Junko pretends to be a yakuza and gets more than he bargained for when he is tasked with avenging the murder of a fellow gang member. If he turns the ... view
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Junichi Mizuta
Original title: のぞみ♡ウィッチィズ
1990
Nozomi is a former actress who moves back to Japan from New Zealand. Upon arriving, she meets her fellow high school student neighbor Ryotaro Shiba, w ... view
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Ryotaro's father
Original title: 君は僕をスキになる
1989
Meet Chika. She thinks she's been jinxed: she's going to be dumped on Christmas Eve. Enter Tomako, who likes reading and making pudding. Although they ... view
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Original title: 赤いカラスと幽霊船
1989
A fantastic adventure of a brother and sister flying a ghost ship, guided by a red crow, in search for an old captain. The ghost ship was designed by ... view
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Captain
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Original title: 帝都物語
1988
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming cit ... view
Character:
Tokuji Hayakawa
Original title: 帝都物語
1988
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming cit ... view
Character:
Noritsugu Hayakawa
1987
In this second film compiled from episodes of a Japanese TV serial, Captain Joe, reformed interstellar marauder Ken and the rest of the crew of the Ba ... view
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Captain Joe
1987
An alien is pursued as a traitor by his own race because he refuses to kill humans. ... view
Character:
Captain Joe
Original title: ボクの女に手を出すな
1986
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan h ... view
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Bar Owner
Original title: 野ゆき山ゆき海べゆき
1986
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea ... view
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School Principal
Original title: 片翼だけの天使
1986
A divorced man meets a kindly Korean prostitute whom he cannot get from his mind. Things don’t prove to be straightforward for either of them. ... view
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Original title: みんなあげちゃう
1985
A beautiful day Rokurou, a student, was to masturbate when a beautiful girl knocks on his door: You need a girl? And so begins the story. Rokurou did ... view
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Priest
Original title: カリブ・愛のシンフォニー
1985
The love story of an architect and a fashion designer in Mexico. ... view
Character:
Shunsuke Saichu
Original title: アゲイン
1984
An anthology that embodies the essence of Nikkatsu action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to ... view
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Original title: すかんぴんウォーク
1984
Yuji decides to run away from home to become an actor. Along the way, he meets Yoshio, an aspiring rock musician and Ami, an idol who, despite her suc ... view
Character:
Tatsuya Sekikawa
Original title: 俺っちのウエディング
1983
On her wedding day, Makiko is stabbed by a woman in wedding dress. The wound isn't serious but the attacker blows herself up and can't be identified. ... view
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Original title: 化石の荒野
1982
Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his ... view
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Original title: 転校生
1982
9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies ar ... view
Character:
Kouzou Saitoh
Original title: 北斎漫画
1981
The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Ba ... view
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Jyuppensha Ikku
Original title: ブルージーンズメモリー BLUE JEANS MEMORY
1981
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The thre ... view
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Original title: 土佐の一本釣り
1980
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi. ... view
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Nov 1980 (first aired)
Set mainly in and around the Aizumi Police Station, this detective drama depicts a detective with a past as a former delinquent who fights against the ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Original title: 看護婦のオヤジがんばる
1980
“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh. Keiko even had to wo ... view
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Apr 1979 (first aired)
The struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch.
Takeshi Hayano originally belonged to the Traffic Division but was t ... view
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Unknown/various (26 ep.)
Oct 1978 (first aired)
A maverick man arrives at Yūhigaoka School. The drama incorporates educational issues as well as family problems and adult romance, and can be enjoye ... view
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Unknown/various (40 ep.)
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
Character:
Tominoichi
Apr 1978 (first aired)
Ken, a member of the marauding group from the planet Varna known as the Wolf Attackers, and particularly feared for his combat prowess as 'Star Wolf', ... view
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Captain Joe (24 ep.)
Original title: ブラックジャック 瞳の中の訪問者
1977
Komori Chiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day while training, her coach hits a ball into her eye on accident. At the hospital, the news ... view
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Black Jack
1977
Terrorists hijack an oil tanker and threaten to blow it up unless Japan meets their demands. ... view
Character:
Chief Engineer Kosai
Original title: 仁義と抗争
1977
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okina ... view
Character:
Katsuya Sekikawa
Original title: 俺の空
1977
Based on the manga of the same name. Originally published in the Japanese magazine Weekly Playboy. It follows Ippei Yasuda, son of a prominent family, ... view
Character:
Genjiro Yasuda
Original title: 悲愁物語
1977
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity. ... view
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Cop
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: アラスカ物語
1977
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the ... view
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Nov 1976 (first aired)
In the big city where loyalty is rare and justice comes hard, a stoic detective (Tetsuya Watari) and his old friend, a sharp-eyed reporter (Yujiro Ish ... view
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Unknown/various (31 ep.)
Original title: 任侠外伝 玄海灘
1976
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across th ... view
Character:
Sawaki
Jan 1976 (first aired)
Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The dr ... view
Character:
Gendō (52 ep.)
Original title: 東京湾炎上
1975
Global South guerrillas hijack the Japanese oil tanker Arabian Light, threatening to blow it up in Tokyo Bay, unless the Cabinet complies with an econ ... view
Character:
Chief Engineer Kosai
Original title: 新仁義なき戦い
1974
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 attemp ... view
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Hachiro Tachibana
Original title: 仁義なき戦い 完結篇
1974
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in thei ... view
Character:
Katsutoshi Otomo
Original title: 東京ド真ン中
1974
Set in the downtown area in the heart of Tokyo, this film depicts the lives of poor but kind-hearted people. ... view
Character:
Hyodo
Apr 1974 (first aired)
Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama in ... view
Character:
Takamura Terujiro / Jupiter (13 ep.)
Original title: 三池監獄 兇悪犯
1973
In the 20th century, the Japanese government exploits prisoners as expendable slave laborers in a coal mine, which results in conflict between the pri ... view
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Original title: 铁娃
1973
Story is about how a revolutionist, played by Cheng Pei Pei, taking on the identity of a Captain's (Ou Wei) long lost sister who is actually dead. Che ... view
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Original title: 新兵隊やくざ 火線
1972
The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in Man ... view
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Original title: 初笑いびっくり武士道
1972
The story of a timid samurai attempting to rid his name of the stigma attached to it. ... view
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Original title: 不良少女 魔子
1971
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer ... view
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Yasuoka
Original title: 極楽坊主
1971
A genius gambler and born hunter is a Buddhist monk by occupation. A raunchy comedy about a lecherous monk who, despite serving the solemn Buddha, kee ... view
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Original title: 流血の抗争
1971
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has ... view
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Naoto Tezuka
Original title: おくさまは18才 新婚教室
1971
Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple. ... view
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Original title: 谷岡ヤスジのメッタメタ ガキ道講座
1971
Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the bre ... view
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Mujitori
Original title: 男の世界
1971
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tada ... view
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Original title: 新ハレンチ学園
1971
Former students of the notorious Harenchi Gakuen college open a new school for dissident youths after their former school is ruined by disputes. ... view
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Gebageba
Original title: ハレンチ学園 タックル・キッスの巻
1970
Students against teachers in the wildest kiss-stealing, petting-orgy ever. ... view
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Macaroni
Original title: 新網走番外地 大森林の決斗
1970
Prisoner Katsuji must fend for himself and his prison mates in the fierce battle involving a family feud. ... view
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Original title: ハレンチ学園 身体検査の巻
1970
In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked ... view
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Macaroni
Original title: 喜劇 男は愛嬌
1970
One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Ba ... view
Character:
Kobe Saburo
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Original title: ハレンチ学園
1970
Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip. ... view
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Macaroni
Original title: 捨て身のならず者
1970
A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels. ... view
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Original title: 日本最大の顔役
1970
A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city. ... view
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Original title: やくざの横顔
1970
Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he conside ... view
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Original title: 傷害恐喝 前科十三犯
1969
Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group ... view
Character:
Seiji Okitsu
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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
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Imano's Bodyguard
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
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Original title: 野蛮人のネクタイ
1969
Motozo Imamura, a.k.a. Gen, grew up in an upper-class family, but he never went to school and spent his days playing around. One day, he walked into a ... view
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Original title: やくざ渡り鳥 悪党稼業
1969
A humorous yakuza action melodrama with gangsters, drugs and that old comedy-standby, white slavery. ... view
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Original title: 地獄の破門状
1969
It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor ... view
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Original title: 夜の牝 花と蝶
1969
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting ... view
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Original title: 縄張はもらった
1968
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with ano ... view
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Hino
Original title: 星影の波止場
1968
Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this ... view
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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
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Original title: 君は恋人
1967
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to st ... view
Character:
President Shishido
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Original title: 紅の流れ星
1967
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always ma ... view
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Original title: みな殺しの拳銃
1967
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-hea ... view
Character:
Ryûichi Kuroda
Original title: 亚洲秘密警探
1967
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives a ... view
Character:
George
Original title: 殺しの烙印
1967
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin. ... view
Character:
Gorô Hanada
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:
Shuji Kamimura
Original title: アジア秘密警察
1966
A major international action film filmed on location in Hong Kong, depicting the activities of Asian Interpol, the Asian branch of a secret police org ... view
Character:
George Eaton
Original title: あなたの命
1966
A moodo/akushon yakuza picture with heavy emphasis on poignant seishun romance. ... view
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Original title: 骨まで愛して
1966
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pret ... view
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Original title: 日本任侠伝 血祭り喧嘩状
1966
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swe ... view
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Seiji
Original title: 賭場の牝猫 捨身の勝負
1966
Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburba ... view
Character:
Kokichi Yamaguch
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: マカオの竜
1965
Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong t ... view
Character:
Aizu
Original title: 三匹の野良犬
1965
A gripping action film starring Akira Kobayashi, Joe Shishido, and Koji Wada. A man accused of diamond theft and imprisoned escapes during transport, ... view
Character:
Original title: 大日本殺し屋伝
1965
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, ... view
Character:
Jiro (Joe of Spades)
Original title: 命しらずのろくでなし
1965
Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing. ... view
Character:
Tornado George / Jouji Tatsumaki
Original title: 現代悪党仁義
1965
Zenroku Nichigami, a charismatic con artist, is tasked with collecting a debt from the elusive Shishiro Oba. As he delves deeper, Zenroku uncovers a w ... view
Character:
Character:
Original title: 早射ちジョー 砂丘の決斗
1964
An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia organizatio ... view
Character:
Joe of Aces
Original title: 海賊船 海の虎
1964
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth. ... view
Character:
Original title: 肉体の門
1964
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintainin ... view
Character:
Shintaro Ibuki
Original title: 抜き射ちの竜 拳銃の歌
1964
A man who has left the yakuza world is drawn back into the fray for his younger brother in this gunfighting action film. ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃残酷物語
1964
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's ... view
Character:
Togawa
Original title: 東海遊侠伝
1964
The film is set in Fukagawa in the early Showa period and depicts a fateful confrontation between two men who rise and fall in a black stream, trying ... view
Character:
Original title: 地獄の祭典
1963
A master rifleman challenges a family of yakuza who have stolen his favorite gun. ... view
Character:
Tetsu the Otter
Original title: 遊侠無頼
1963
A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimately confronts the local yakuza. ... view
Character:
Original title: 関東遊侠伝
1963
This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the fat ... view
Character:
Masa from Kanto
Original title: 探偵事務所23 銭と女に弱い男
1963
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! ... view
Character:
Hideo Tajima
Original title: 赤い靴とろくでなし
1963
An action comedy that depicts two men fascinated by a woman in red high heels who are convinced to confront a vicious yakuza gang.
The 2nd of the 3 p ... view
Character:
Original title: 野獣の青春
1963
When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence. ... view
Character:
Jôji 'Jo' Mizuno
Original title: 悪名高きろくでなし
1963
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind ... view
Character:
Tatsumaki Takeji (Tornado Joe)
Original title: 探偵事務所２３ くたばれ悪党ども
1963
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military mu ... view
Character:
Hideo Tajima
Original title: 危いことなら銭になる
1962
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs wi ... view
Character:
Jôji Kondô
Original title: 硝子のジョニー 野獣のように見えて
1962
Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and he ... view
Character:
Jô
Original title: 紅の銃帯
1961
Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine. ... view
Character:
Original title: 俺は地獄へ行く
1961
Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and Jo ... view
Character:
Joji Dan
Original title: ノサップの銃
1961
Set against the backdrop of the vast wilderness of Hokkaido and the Sea of Okhotsk, Ace Joe arrives in the town of Nosappu and explodes with exhilarat ... view
Character:
Original title: 赤い荒野
1961
The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over ... view
Character:
Joji Sakuma
Original title: 海の勝負師
1961
Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic. ... view
Character:
Original title: 助っ人稼業
1961
Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent ... view
Character:
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Original title: 早射ち野郎
1961
One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the arm ... view
Character:
Joe the Ace
Original title: ろくでなし稼業
1961
A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers. ... view
Character:
Eiji Yano (Joe of Aces)
Original title: 太平洋のかつぎ屋
1961
Tetsuji Tachibana was fired as a pilot after Jim gave false testimony in an accident caused by Captain Jim's intoxication. Only Junpei Nambu, the edit ... view
Character:
Original title: 波涛を越える渡り鳥
1961
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: 拳銃無頼帖 明日なき男
1960
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says th ... view
Character:
Jo of the Colt
Original title: 大暴れ風来坊
1960
Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira. ... view
Character:
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: 南海の狼火
1960
Set in Uwajima, Shikoku, an action film starring Akira Kobayashi who uncovers evils related to pearl farming. ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃無頼帖 不敵に笑う男
1960
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his mi ... view
Character:
Ken
Original title: 赤い夕陽の渡り鳥
1960
The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town ... view
Character:
Original title: 海を渡る波止場の風
1960
An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the r ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃無頼帖 電光石火の男
1960
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a ... view
Character:
Goro
Original title: 渡り鳥いつまた帰る
1960
The 3rd film of the famous "Wataridori" (The Rambler) series from Nikkatsu. The young rambler, Shinji Taki (Akira Kobayashi), with his guitar arrives ... view
Character:
Original title: 海から来た流れ者
1960
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃無頼帖 抜き射ちの竜
1960
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is empl ... view
Character:
Gin of the Colt
Original title: 口笛が流れる港町
1960
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from tu ... view
Character:
Original title: 銀座旋風児 黒幕は誰だ
1959
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the second in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which As ... view
Character:
Original title: ギターを持った渡り鳥
1959
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of ... view
Character:
George
Original title: 二階堂卓也 銀座無頼帖 銀座旋風児
1959
The first in the Ginza Whirlwind Child series. A poignant action giant depicting the activities of Mait Guy Akira, who calls people to Ginza Boring Ma ... view
Character:
Masa
Original title: 非情な銃弾
1959
Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sa ... view
Character:
Yukie's lover
Original title: 東京の孤独
1959
A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love. ... view
Character:
Original title: 拳銃0号
1959
Eric, an American, arrives at an international tourist hotel and loses his self-defense Colt. It was Kudaira, a beggar, who discovered it, and immedia ... view
Character:
Original title: 傷つける野獣
1959
A tense action game that skillfully intertwines the human love between a criminal, his sister and his lover, and the desperate pursuit of a detective ... view
Character:
Original title: 今日に生きる
1959
In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught in a conflict between two transportation compani ... view
Character:
Original title: 影なき声
1958
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss ... view
Character:
Hamazaki
Original title: 踏みはずした春
1958
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past. ... view
Character:
Original title: 錆びたナイフ
1958
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughin ... view
Character:
Shimabara
Original title: 裸女と拳銃
1957
A Tokyo newspaper reporter goes after the Japanese king of cocaine trafficking but he's tricked by a woman who works for the gangster and gets framed ... view
Character:
Original title: 江戸の小鼠たち
1957
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling aga ... view
Character:
Hidematsu
Original title: 誘惑
1957
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student ... view
Character:
Goro Yasui
Original title: 勝利者
1957
Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He l ... view
Character:
Boxer Ishiyama
Original title: 「廓」より 無法一代
1957
The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period. ... view
Character:
Original title: 川上哲治物語 背番号１６
1957
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami. ... view
Character:
Masaki Yoshihara
Original title: 牛乳屋フランキー
1956
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a di ... view
Character:
Zenkichi Matsubara
1956
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone. ... view
Character:
Original title: 東京バカ踊り
1956
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo baka odori" by Haruo Oka and Chiyoko Shimakura. ... view
Character:
Original title: 神阪四郎の犯罪
1956
Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. T ... view
Character:
Original title: 第８監房
1956
A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city. ... view
Character:
Original title: 沙羅の花の峠
1955
This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusing on simple human love in a heartwarming episode t ... view
Character:
Original title: 月夜の傘
1955
Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two p ... view
Character:
Original title: 女中ッ子
1955
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her fami ... view
Character:
Original title: おふくろ
1955
Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizu ... view
Character:
Original title: 警察日記
1955
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office ... view
Character:
Patrolman Yabuta
Original title: スラバヤ殿下
1955
Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend ... view
Character:
Applied Atomic Energy Research Institute Worker with a Tohoku Accent
Original title: 女人の館
1954
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashir ... view
Character:
Okada (employee of Inogawa's company)
Original title: 黒い潮
1954
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Ak ... view
Character:
Newspaper Reporter