Known For
Complete Filmography

OL punisher Mae she turns into a swimsuit
1990
An OV drama in which an office lady trio sanctions men in the company.

Yakuza Ladies 2
1987
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence. As she...

Space Girl Morumo 1/10
1987
Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.

Beautiful Teacher in Torture Hell
1985
as Satoshi Tanokura(田野倉聡)
A female teacher who is skilled in kendo is assigned to a rural high school in a beautiful remote valley. But she is soon trapped in a wide conspiracy...

She Cat
1983
as Taro Irijika
Dr. Cat Kagami was hoping to leave her torrid past behind, but a failed assassination attempt has now put her square in the crosshairs of a team of br...

Crimson Night Dream
1983
as Yoshizô Gotô

Flames of Blood
1981
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a...

Port Arthur
1980
as Satoru Nakamura
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
as Tsuneo Muraoka
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight...

The Revolt
1980
When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miy...

Run Truck Rascal, Run!
1979
as Sekine
Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving i...

Star of David: Beauty Hunting
1979
as Yasuhisa / Tatsuya's stepfather(神納康久)
The film portrays the life of Tatsuya, a young man of proper descent whose outward respectability hides his urges for rape and torture. This handsome ...

The Most Dangerous Game
1978
The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle...

Boxer
1977
as Yamamoto
In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and sta...

Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as new alliances and enemies are formed.

Karate for Life
1977
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a ...

Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
1977
as Masahiko Miyawaki
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.

Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu
1977
After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

The Classroom of Terror
1976
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by ...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss
1976
as Funada
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constan...

The Racketeer Ishimatsu
1976
as Shinichi Hoshino
Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.

Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy
1976
Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling! The female ninjas are sent undercover (sometimes ...

The Killing Machine
1976
Mr. Soh, a righteous man with a cold stare and fists of steel, returns to a lawless post-war Japan in 1946. He protects the weak, defends the poor and...

Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.

Confessions of Lady Mantis
1975
Midori Satsuki stars as a serial seducer who destroys one man’s life after another. Finally she seduces a professional killer, with disastrous consequ...

Story of a Nymphomaniac
1975
as Kihei
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to u...

Detonation: Violent Riders
1975
Wild-hearted mechanic boy Iwaki falls in love with the innocent but gang tied Michiko.

Gambling Den Heist
1975
as Kuniyoshi
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Shimane Prison Riot
1975
as Yakuza
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail h...

The Murder Corps
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...

Wolf Guy
1975
as Keiichi Manabe
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of...

13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats
1975
as Ryunosuke Daimon
Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to e...

The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1975
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1974
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang ...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
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...

The Rapacious Jailbreaker
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.

Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
1974
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.

Violent Fraternity
1974
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Girl Boss: Crazy Ball Game
1974
Released from reform school, the Girl Boss and her girl gang enter into conflict with another girl gang who are allied to the powerful Yakuza Boss.

A Single Flower Withered
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...

The Executioner
1974
Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura wor...

Yokosuka Navy Prison
1973
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
as Muraoka
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...

The Secret Sexual Life of College Girls
1973

Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
1973
as Maehara
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and h...

Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
1973
as School Principal
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is de...

The High Cost of Virginity
1973
1973 Toei movie.

Dangerous Trade in Kobe
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.

Female Yakuza Tale
1973
as Kinzô
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is tor...

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
1973
as Minoru Toyama
Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than refo...

Hell Riders in Kyoto
1973
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even wi...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973
as Tsuneo Muraoka
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love...

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
1973
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline b...

Sex and Fury
1973
as Naozô Iwakura
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
as Doi
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.

Girl Boss Revenge: Sukeban
1973
as Bandô
The Kanto Gypsies, a tough girl gang, hide out from the law in the middle of a disputed gang territory, where they end up getting kidnapped by siniste...

The Red Silk Gambler
1972
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tige...

Terrifying Girls' High School: Women's Violent Classroom
1972
as School Official
Delinquent girl boss meets and conflicts with an orphan girl who lives an isolated life after the dramatic deaths of her parents. She plays the piano,...

Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
1972
as gambler
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Mon...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
1972
as Monkumatsu
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...

Girl Boss Guerilla
1972
as Ryotan
Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there.

Turtle Geisha
1972
as Danpei
Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a...

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
1972
A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction.

The Erotomaniac Daimyo
1972
as Tadateru Ogura
Kiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu clan. However, the lord's sexual inexperience and Kiyoh...

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
1972
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears, Tsu...

Delinquent Street
1972

Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
1972
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help gui...

A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
1971
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.

The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and ...

Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
1971
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor
1971
The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō. It is the ninth and last film in the Duty of Brotherhood series...

Story of Japanese Bad Men
1971
Toei yakuza film.

Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
1971
Many persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls, "the sensation of worms wiggling about"... that won h...

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
1971
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her ...

Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
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...

Fun on the Run
1970
as Sagawa
Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.

The Silk Hat Boss 2
1970
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

Japan's Number One Yakuza Man
1970
The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

House of Gamblers
1970
Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family go...

Kanto Street Peddlers Clan: Violent Loyalty
1970
The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.

Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
1970
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

Brave Red Flower of the North
1970
An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in Ya...

Gambler's Legacy
1969
A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of...

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
1969
Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her si...

Okatsu the Fugitive
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...

The Private Police
1969
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans ...

Bloody Territories
1969
as Masakichi 'Masa' Jinno, Kansai Syndicate vice-chair
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...

The Biggest Gamble
1969
as Yoshioka
When Honjo is selected as Kansai district's chairman, Iwasa of the rival gang asks Itsuki to do everything possible to have Honjo step down, which put...

Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
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...

A Modern Yakuza: The Code of The Lawless
1969
Just released on parole, one young man hurtles towards a face-off with the gangsters controlling Shinjuku and its lucrative prostitutes.

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
1968
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. ...

Ukiyo-e Artist
1968
A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign o...

Ohyaku: The Female Demon
1968
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and...

Enlisted Yakuza
1968
It is the third film in the Gokudo series. In this episode, set in 1937, the main character of the series gang leader Shimamura is drafted into the mi...

Wicked Priest
1968
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief ...

Outlaw: Heartless
1968
as Shinzeki
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This...

Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
1968
as Kuroiwa Shuzen
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns hersel...

Industrial Spy
1968
as Eiichiro Matsui
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...

Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
1968
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A ra...

Big Time Gambling Boss
1968
as Kôhei Ishido
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...

Three Seconds to Zero Hour
1967
as Komiya
“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone...

Heiji, the Detective
1967
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seig...

Everybody, Let's Go!
1967
as Iwasaki
A new stationmaster is appointed to a dilapidated local line. On top of the failing local line feuding for hot spring customers with a bus company loo...

Gambler's World
1967
as Kodama

North Sea Chivalry
1967
Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the ...

The Chivalrous Life
1967
Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against othe...

Code Between Brothers: Three Brothers of Kanto, Part II
1967
The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five players...

Showdown of Men 2
1967
Part two.

Gamblers
1967
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tatt...

Wild Spirit
1967
as Sarumura
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...

Wrath of Daimajin
1966
as Daizen Matsunaga
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A b...

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
1966
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Modern Yakuza: Chivalry
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...

Gambler
1964
as Senzo Samizo
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but...

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo
1963

The Image of Mother
1963
as Shotencho no Matsugoro
A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistreat the poor and homeless.

Tange Sazen
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 ...

あらくれ荒野
1963

Zatoichi the Fugitive
1963
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after he...

The Confusing Journey of Jirocho
1963
An entertaining historical drama featuring popular comedians from the Kansai region of the time, such as Makoto Fujita, Minoru Shiraki, and Gannosuke ...

A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
1963
as Maeda Kaga no kami
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soo...

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
1962

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern
1962
One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from hom...

Taiyō Sensei Seishunki
1962
Movie directed by Kunio Matoi

Koina no Ginpei
1961

Osaka Tough
1961
The film takes place in a dark area of the giant city of Osaka and tells about a group of people who find themselves at the bottom of society, and abo...

Shin nitōhei monogatari medetaku gaisen no maki
1961
Second "Pfc. Story" sequel and the ninth and final sequel to "Story of Second Class Private", the only one in both series not directed by Seiichi Fuku...

Samurai Desperadoes
1960

Honno-Ji in Flames
1960
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the...
Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
1960
First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Sword of Vision
1959
as Naraya Toshiro
Yagyu Jubei proves his skills in this early adventure film.

The Hidden Treasure
1959
Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Takamaru and Kikumaru
1959
Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a vil...

Denshichi Torimonochō onna hada jigoku
1959
1959 Japanese movie

Tomboy Samurai
1958
The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man an...

Akagi no komori-uta
1957
Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara

Stories about Jirocho: Ishimatsu and Oiwake Sangoro
1957
as Oiwake Sangoro
Ishimatsu is strong in fights, but weak in relationships with women and enjoys great popularity among them, and we see how an exciting historical dram...

Song of the Underworld
1956
as Mitsuo Tsuruta
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshi...
Kingorô no omawari-san
1956
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.
Kobushidake denki
1956
1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Kobushidake denki : hito hada jigoku
1956
快傑耶茶坊
1956
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

The Samurai of Edo
1955
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restora...

My Pistol Is Quick
1954