Biography
Susumu Terajima (寺島進) is a Japanese actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films, 15 commercials, and numerous television dramas in a 20-year career. He is rarely the star of the films he participates in but is widely respected for taking his work very seriously despite how small his role may be.
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Complete Filmography

The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
This mystery TV movie depicts hope and rebirth through the lives of inmates with different circumstances and the prison guards who strive to rehabilit...

Unification of Japan 68
2025
A sudden notice of succession from the Hasekai arrived from the Marugami-kai. Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) were furious...

Unification of Japan 67
2025
Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) returned to Tokyo to confront Okada (Yuki Matsumura). However, waiting for them was a noti...

Blazing Fists
2025
Ikuto and Ryoma meet in juvenile detention and become best friends. Moved by Mikuru Asakura’s motivational speech, they pursue their dream of particip...

Unification of Japan 66
2025
The land redevelopment near Kyoto Station drew Himuro (Yasukaze Motomiya) and Tamura (Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi) to the scene. Amidst the chaos, Kenjiro (Ke...

Unification of Japan 65
2024
The incident occurred without any warning. A member of the Kyōwakai was shot in Kyoto. This shooting incident, which took place in Kansai—the very reg...

テレビ報道記者〜ニュースをつないだ女たち〜
2024

Kubi
2023
as Hanya no Sahei
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellio...

駐在刑事SP 2023
2023

The Quiet Don: Chapter 2
2023
as Sakamoto
The Kishu clan loses its leader Sakamoto (Terajima Susumu) in a conflict with the rival Shinshu Clan, and a battle for succession breaks out. Meanwhil...

The Quiet Don: Chapter 1
2023
as Sakamoto
Shizuya (Ito Kentaro), the only son of the Kanto region’s largest gang, the Shinshu Clan, which he hates being associated with, works instead for a de...

The Quiet Yakuza -Part 2
2023

Yudo: The Way of the Bath
2023
as Saku Kotaka
Two estranged brothers inherit Marukin Hot Springs, a small-town bathhouse. One sees it as an homage to their late father; the other—a struggling arch...

駐在刑事SP 2022
2022

Traveling Sandwich
2022
as Kihara Yoji
Ito Marika stars as the lead in this 2022 SP that tells the story of a group of friends, who run a food wagon serving sandwiches made with local produ...

Noise
2022
as Tadashi Okazaki
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing population and declining industries. Keita Izumi (Tatsu...

Last of the Wolves
2021
as Yoji Kakutani
After Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to preven...

Chuzai Keiji 2021 SP
2021
as Atsushi Enami
Terajima Susumu VS Dan Rei! "Chuzai San" is back with a special drama that involves a huge "parent-child" secret and bone mystery.

Hit Me Anyone One More Time
2019
as Minoru Nanjo
Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and realizes...

Love's Twisting Path
2019
as Kurohito Mizoguchi
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogu...

As a Father of Murderer Son
2018
as Igawa
Keiichi Yoshinaga, who works for a major construction company receives a sudden phone call from his ex-wife, Junko Aoba. She tells Keiichi that their ...

Imagination Game
2018
as Yasui Morioka
Makiko Hayami works hard at a large company and she is single. She has a secret that she can't tell anyone. Her secret is that she is known as a chari...

Chūzai keiji SP 2017
2017

Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger Returns: Life Theft! Champion of Earth Tournament
2017
as Mario Mori
Taking place after the end of the series, Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger Returns will focus on Zyumans and humans peacefully co-exist on Earth. It is then d...

Prison Break
2017
One late night in June 1942, Sakuma Seitaro dangles from the frame of a skylight in an isolation cell in Akita Prison. He forces open the glass window...

花実のない森
2017

Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger vs. Ninninger the Movie: Super Sentai's Message from the Future
2017
as Mario Mori
The chronology of Super Sentai may, at last, be at an end. A boy has arrived from the future to save the earth from catastrophe. Yamato and his team a...

愛を乞うひと
2017

Tensai Bakabon 2
2017
as A mysterious man selling suspicious things
Happy holidays from Bakabon and the family! Watch Papa save New Year's, learn the details of Hajime's birth, and thrill as the youngest member of the ...

Dr. Hikojiro 2
2016
as Hikojiro Oyabu
One day, Hikojiro goes to visit Sayo Kujo, an old lady who has been hospitalized. Sayo has been told that she has a year to live by assistant professo...

必殺仕事人2016
2016

Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger the Movie: The Heart Pounding Circus Panic!
2016
as Mario Mori
Step right up, everybody, the Space Circus Troupe is in town! Their ringleader, Domidoll, wants to turn all Zyumen evil and have them join his circus....

The Woman Who Took the Local Paper
2016
as Yamashita
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the loc...

Aka Medaka
2015
One of the hottest selling tickets in town is to see the hugely popular “rakugoka”, or comic storyteller, Danshun. Danshun himself was inspired as a l...

Kiyamachi Daruma
2015
as Eiiichi Arai
Shigeo Katsuura once led the yakuza that dominated the town of Kiya. Due to an accident, he lost both his arms and legs. 5 years later, to make a livi...

Dr. Hikojiro
2015
as Hikojiro Oyabu
One day, Hikojiro receives an emergency call from inn proprietress Shino Ogawa to examine Tadahiko Mori, a guest complaining of stomach pain. Mori, wh...

Partner in Crime
2015
as 秋月義彦
For the past 15 years, Fuyukawa Misaki has lived a quiet, reclusive life while keeping her secret well-hidden. With just two months left before the st...

Double Meaning: Chain Reaction
2015
Akira Mochizuki survived a kidnapping as a child. Now, she's a detective, and there are signs that the kidnapper may be back again after 20 years.

UNFAIR: the end
2015
as Tetsuo Yamazaki
Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's...

Chasuke's Journey
2015
as Kuroki
Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwell...

April Fools
2015
as Poor Kidnapper
Ayumi Nitta is a member of a hospital cleaning staff and suffers from extreme social anxiety. After having a one-night stand with genius surgeon and s...

KYOTO BLACK 2: Black Purity
2015
Oda (Yasukaze Motomiya) is a respected businessman working in the construction industry, who is also secretly the leader of a vigilante group in Kyoto...

KYOTO BLACK: Black Samurai
2015
as Terao
Oda (Yasukaze Motomiya), a respected businessman working in the construction industry, also has a secret life as the leader of a vigilante group in Ky...

Drifter Teppei
2015
as Teppei Mihogawa
Teppei Mihogawa (Susumu Terajima), is a man who plays a "lavabo" with a guitar in the night city. a girl who was attracted by Teppei's song fell in ...

実録 新選組
2014
as Hijikata Toshizo

25
2014
Detectives Shintarou Sakurai (Sho Aikawa) and Koichi Hikage (Susumu Terajima) are partners. They are also corrupt and often blackmail criminal groups ...

In the Hero
2014
as Goro Unno
48-year-old Wataru Honjo is a big fan of Bruce Lee and works as a suit actor (stunts performer wearing costumes). Even though he doesn't have the typi...

Out Burn
2014
as Shuuhei Kawakami
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime Division which deals directly with organized gangs...

When Marnie Was There
2014
as Kiyomasa Oiwa (voice)
Upon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned...

Delivery of Death
2014
as Ryuzo Nishida
Reporters Takehara and Tsumura Aki work for the magazine "Shukan Dodongo". Their chief editor tells them to monitor Okase Shohei who is an ex-bureaucr...

The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji
2013
as Akio Sakuno
Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is...

The Kiyosu Conference
2013
as Yoshitaka Kuroda
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki...

Disregarded People
2013
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relation...

The Human Trust
2013
as Tadashi Sakata
A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by ...

Double Meaning: Yes or No?
2013
as Tetsuo Yamaji
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' The ...

Odayaka
2012
Saeko and Yukako live together in a small apartment complex in Tokyo. After the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, both live in a state of unease. Saeko, who ...

Kamihate Store
2012
as Yoshio Morita
A woman run a store in a tiny seaside hamlet near the cliffs where people come to commit suicide.

西村京太郎サスペンス 秋葉京介探偵事務所~狙われた男~
2012
as Yasuhiko Tajima

Helter Skelter
2012
as Keita Tsukahara
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to reta...

Go, Masao!
2012
as Susumu Terajima
Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to ap...

Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.

Unforgiven
2012

Smuggler
2011
as Joe's friend
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.

Double Meaning
2011
as Tetsuo Yamaji
A new female detective joins the special investigations team and dives into some of their hardest cases in this follow-up to the series 'Unfair.' Just...

UNFAIR: the answer
2011
as Tetsuo Yamazaki
After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in Ho...

Ninja Kids!!!
2011
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group ...

The Face of Minami
2010
Shortly after his release, Katsurakawa begins working under Yamanaka, who is known as a businessman. Yamanaka, who did not make a backing, continued t...

Bayside Shakedown 3: Set the Guys Loose
2010
as Jôichirô Kijima
After Detective Shunsaku Aoshima is promoted to section chief he has the daunting task of dealing with eight cases at the same time, which includes a ...

Zatoichi: The Last
2010
as Tatsuji
A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle.

Go Find a Psychic!
2009
as Mr. Invincible
Once a year, on Christmas Eve, Cafe Telekinesis holds a real psychic party. At the party, psychics gather together to show off their abilities while f...

Air Doll
2009
as Police Officer Todoroki
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes for a walk around town and falls in love with Jun...

My Grandma
2008
as Kotaro Shinkai
Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the fam...

The Soup of Heaven
2008
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to...

The Yagyu Conspiracy
2008
The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starring the great Matsukata Hiroki following in the foot...

Showa Gamblers Gaiden
2008
The second installment of the Showa Gamblers series. In the mid-1950s, Orin, the daughter of Takashima Tomezō, the 8th-generation leader of the Takas...

Achilles and the Tortoise
2008
as Yakuza Pimp
Machisu is a painter. He never had the success he thinks he is entitled to. Regardless of this, he always remains trying to be successful. His wife Sa...
The Road to Sirius
2008
as Katsuya Hamai
Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising's deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that cannot be divul...

Still Walking
2008
as Sushi Deliverer
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.

The Magic Hour
2008
as Hiromi Kurokawa
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious...

All Around Us
2008
as Katsutoshi Yoshida
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure ...

Smile
2007
as Night shift security guard at Hospital
Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds hi...

Vanishing Glow
2007
as Sakazaki
Tony, Max, and Rei, who are mixed-race children of Japanese and Filipino, have lived together as brothers and sisters with no blood connection from a ...
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Born into a wealthy family, 17-year-old Masato (Emoto Tasuku) has never been deprived of material comforts, but his distant relationship with his pare...

Glory to the Filmmaker!
2007
as Young Man
Takeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a number of different genres in an effort to complete hi...

Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad
2007
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn...

UNFAIR: the movie
2007
as Tetsuo Yamazaki
When a devoted detective probes the suspicious death of her father, she uncovers massive corruption and finds herself in grave danger.

Love Letter So-renka
2006
as Ryota's father

Gamera the Brave
2006
as Osamu Nishio
A young boy in a peaceful seaside town gets more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious egg. When it hatches, out comes a baby turtle t...

Chosyu Five
2006
Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and studied in Britain in 1863 while Japan was still u...

The Catch Man
2006
Takashi, an unemployed young man, is entrusted with a "catch ball shop" by a stranger he meets in the park. While accepting people's feelings through ...

Unfair: Code Breaking
2006

Yakuza Don
2006
Kazuki moves to Tokyo, aspiring to rise to the top in his Yakuza group. Working directly under his group's kumicho (the Yakuza don) and surviving the ...

Hula Girls
2006
as Ishida
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.

Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006
as Ochiai
The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when ...

Lovely Complex
2006
as Umibozu
Koizumi Risa an unusually tall high school girl, meets the "vertically challenged" young man Otani Atsushi. They find common ground in height anxietie...

Hana
2006
as Kichiemon Terasaka
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn't an accomplished s...

Jitsuroku Shinsengumi 2
2006

LoveDeath
2006
A man and a woman are together on the 'Chrysalis Day', the fatal day everything in your life will be decided depends on how you spend the day. A viole...

Samurai Justice: The Female Bodyguard
2006
A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the granddaughter of an old friend of Akiyama Kohei, a weal...

Suite Dreams
2006
as Jose Kôchi
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci...

Dead Run
2005
as Oni Ken
Classmates Shuji and Eri becomes friends, both young people have family problems. When Eri is taken away to Tokyo by her relatives, Shuji becomes incr...

Fugitive Joichiro Kijima
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...

Custom Made 10.30
2005
Sisters "Manamo" and "Minamo" live separately in Hiroshima and London since the divorce of their parents. The elder sister Manamo lives in Hiroshima w...

The King of Minami 32
2005

Funky Forest: The First Contact
2005
as Katsuichi Tanaka
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair...

Takeshis'
2005
as Takeshi's Friend / Kitano's Yakuza Neighbor
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond lookalike named Kitano, a shy convenience st...

Summer of Ubume
2005
as Goichi Harasawa
Kyogokudo is a used book seller who doubles as an onmyouji, or Heian style occultist. His friend Sekiguchi brings him the story of a woman who has bee...

Rampo Noir
2005
as (segment "Mirror Hell")
An anthology film consisting of four segments based on literary works by Edogawa Ranpo.

Negotiator
2005
as Kishima
In this movie, Japan's top negotiator confronts a formidable foe threatening Tokyo's subways. As high-stakes tension brews, Mashita must outsmart an a...

Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims
2005
as Policeman
Yaji and Kita are two men who live in Edo. They are deeply in love. Yaji is married to a woman, while Kita is an actor addicted to various drugs.

Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
2005
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is...

Fire and Ice 2
2005
Fugoh Keiji Deluxe
2005
What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako (Kyoko...

Year One in the North
2005
In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Ho...

Blood and Bones
2004
as Hee-bom Park
In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent ma...

Kiss & Hurt
2004
as Yasumi
Shun Kosaka has a dream of becoming a novelist and lives in a byte at convenience stores at night. He happened to meet Natsuki, and his life began to ...

北海水滸伝484のブルース 伝説・枯木のバラ
2004

Izo
2004
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Inst...

Fire and Ice
2004

Nobody Knows
2004
as Shinichi Izawa
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Steamboy
2004
as Alfred Smith (voice)
After receiving a package from his grandfather, Ray, a young inventor who lives in England during the mid-19th century, finds himself caught in the mi...

The Taste of Tea
2004
as Tattooed Man
A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project...

Casshern
2004
as Sakamoto
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the...

Cursed
2004
as Akira Tejima
Employees at a convenience store must get to the bottom of supernatural goings-on occurring within their workplace.

Young Thugs: Kaoru-chan's Strongest Legend Youkai Hel
2004

Flower & Snake
2004
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to t...

Shura's Blood
2004
A yakuza war breaks out in a small peaceful town in the northern region of Kanto.

Tracing Jake
2004
Inuyama is intrigued by the existence of "Jake," a mysterious crocodile that has been sighted in many countries around the world. He continues to trav...

10 Years - A Wife's Betrayal
2004
as Takamichi Mizoguchi
Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.

Winning Pass
2004
This is a story about a high school student who had it all going for him. He was great at basketball, he had a love like no other, until a day where h...

Antenna
2004
as Fallen Angel Employee
Yuichiro is a college student whose sister went missing 15 years ago. That traumatic event hangs over him like a pall as he wanders Japan's S&M clubs....
Hazan
2004
as Sabu
Biopic of ceramic artist Hazan Itaya (1872-1963).

Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
2003
In this gritty Yakuza drama about the struggles between the Kanto Yakuza forces and Tohoku forces, a newcomer of the Kishimori Group takes on the dang...

Wild Berries
2003
as Maeda
A portrait of an ordinary family that turns unstable when their frivolous son Shuji returns home after a long absence.

Jump
2003
An ordinary salary man, Junosuke, goes in search of his lover, Miharu, who disappeared one night when she handed him the key to her room, and promised...

Kakuto
2003
A very energetic, fresh and skilful début in DV from young Tokyo actor and model. Hanging out, clubbing and drugging, a young band of friends get way ...

4Teen
2003
Naoto, the son of a wealthy family, suffers from Werner syndrome, a premature aging condition; Dai is an overweight child troubled by his penniless fa...

A Snake of June
2003
as Policeman
A woman is being stalked by a stranger. His stalking turns to blackmail when he sends her copies of photos of her in an embarrassing position. Now he ...

Moon Child
2003
as Shinji
Moon Child follows a group of childhood friends as they advance in a futuristic criminal underworld. Sho feels he is doomed to walk in his idol Kei's ...

Thirteen Steps
2003
as Okazaki
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.

Deka Matsuri
2003
12-part omnibus made under the rules: "the main character is a detective" "at least one gag per minute" "the length must not exceed 10 minutes"

Hard Luck Hero
2003
as Yakuza
The story of three pairs of characters involved one way or the other with the yakuza and a rigged boxing match and fleeing the thugs one way or the ot...

True Story: Okinawa Yakuza War 3
2003
Original video

A Boy's Summer in 1945
2002
Commencing well-respected Nippon director Kazuo Kuroki's sixth decade behind the camera, "A Boy's Summer in 1945" (literally "A Beautiful Summer in Ki...

Blessing Bell
2002
as Satoru Igarashi
Existential study on a misplaced workers and ex-prisoner who moves through the city and his influence on other characters' lives.

Shura Group Part 2
2002
Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai, kno...

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl
2002
as Sawada
In dreamlike mountain scenery, Toshiko makes a daring escape from her sexually warped Uncle Sonezaki. Fortunately, she met Samehada as she runs for he...

Drive
2002
as Arai Jyoun
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber w...

Harmful Insect
2002
as Male Teacher
13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suic...

Shura Group
2002
Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

True Story: Okinawa Yakuza War 2
2002
Original video
Shura Group Part 1
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...

True Story: Okinawa Yakuza War
2002
Original video

Ichi the Killer
2001
as Suzuki
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to in...

Misuzu
2001
as Kuzuhara, Shinji
Tells the life story of Teru Kaneko, who was born and raised in a small coastal town. While working as a clerk in a book shop, Teru starts writing her...

Hiroshima Yakuza War 2
2001
A new yakuza war erupts in Hiroshima

Hole in the Sky
2001
as Ichio
The film tells the story of a Drive-In worker and a young tramp who has been left alone by her boyfriend somewhere in Hokkaido. Things seem to work ou...

Distance
2001
as Minoru Kai
On the third anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the...

Chogokudo
2001
Togashi, the leader of Togashi-gumi, boasts enormous power. The leader of the Ryuokai is sent to prison because he distrusts him who controls the town...

Brother
2000
as Kato
A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his broth...

Otoko Michi 3
2000
A lone wolf hits the sneaky plot of a lone organization that is aiming to expand it's power over traces of Ninryukai!
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsubei discovers the body of a man whose face has bee...

Hysteric
2000
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tomo (Koji Chihara), a psychotic criminal with a shor...

Monday
2000
as Saburo Nakano
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what h...

Isola: Multiple Personality Girl
2000
as Katsumi Maezono
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personalit...

Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 2: The Explosion
2000
A snack bar opens in the Kirigaoka central shopping street, which has begun to co-exist with the major supermarket Angel A. The owner is Akemi, a chil...

Taboo
1999
as Spy
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors are trained in swordfighting. A number of interperso...

Dead or Alive
1999
as Inoue
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to brin...

Black Angel 2
1999
as Itakura
Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as the crime boss' bodyguard steps in the wa...

Hot Blooded Yakuza at the Shopping District! - Chapter 1: The Rage
1999
"A wave of recession hits the Kirigaoka Central Shopping Street in a certain town. One by one, the shops succumb to Angel A's pressure. Finally, the s...

Revenge
1999
Detective Tsukimoto kills his partner following a botched robbery and falls deep into debt and despair. After losing everything at the horse races, he...

After Life
1999
as Satoru Kawashima
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased,...

New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
1999
A full-scale drama that visualizes a feature-length novel by Koichi Iiboshi from "Battle Without Honor and Justice." It depicts a shocking rivalry set...

Unlucky Monkey
1998
as Yakuza
A dark and strange comedy about a bank robber with bad luck. Bungling a bank robbery turns out to be a profitable mistake for Yamazaki, an amateur cro...

Eyes of the Spider
1998
as Avenging Man
After killing the man he believes murdered his daughter, a white-collar worker returns to his mundane life, until he is approached by a man who offers...

Fireworks
1997
as Nakamura
Beleaguered police detective Nishi takes desperate measures to try and set things right in a world gone wrong. With his wife suffering from leukemia a...

Be-Bop High School 12
1997
A masterpiece that makes a mans heart cry

Postman Blues
1997
as Detective Maeda
Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate...

The King of Kita: Roar of Darkness
1997
The mysterious death of the perpetrator of sexual violence against women continues. Former lawyer Toshisuke Honmoto begins to work on solving the case...

Making-of Kids Return
1996
as Himself
Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.

Two Punks
1996
as Masao
Centering on a young drifter almost casually drawn into violence--a crime drama about a boy and a man equally ill-equipped for criminal life and strai...

Be-Bop High School 6
1996
This is a quarrel of abandoned gangsters and stubbornness.

Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Hero
1996
as Aoyagi Mikio
Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

Kids Return
1996
as No. 2 in Local Gang
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer,...

Gonin 2
1996
as Kudo
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama burns for revenge against the mobsters who raped and...

Lustful Revenge
1996
After reading about beautiful women killed in a gruesome manner during the recent months, Akiko tries to nail down the sick serial killer herself. Wha...

Confinement Escape: Indecent Prey
1996
The skillful trap of the company takeover that a husband contrives! The deceived wife is kept, and it continues being violated by a ferocious man…. Th...

Not in the Textbooks!
1995
Pinku film adapted from popular adult comic series “Not in the textbooks!”. This direct-to-video “v-cinema” is the directorial debut of Shinji Aoyama.

チンピラ・ドリーム チャラで死ねるか!
1995
Three men and a woman are connected by a strange encounter.

MARKS
1995
as Junichi Terajima
Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later i...

Getting Any?
1995
as Injured Yakuza
While pursuing his dream of having car sex, a goofy middle-aged man makes all the wrong moves and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.

Welcome Home
1995
as Takashi Kitazawa
Yuriko, once a concert pianist, now practices home-making while husband Takashi stays out late with co-workers, leaving her to decay into severe menta...

Yakuza Taxi
1994
as Katsumasa Kudô
The Yakuza clan Inoshika decides to help a small family business, Taxi Tanaka, lured by the clan Jinryûkaï and deeply in debt.

Elephant Song
1994
as Yoshiki
Coffee-shop waitress Kanako, divorced with a young son, finds herself obliged to honour a rash promise she made to a long-time customer. He always wan...

The Wild Beat: Requiem of Betrayal
1994

Warrior's Justice 3 - Termination
1994
Kojima Takeshi, who has strayed from the yakuza world, launches a gang that draws a line in the sand with today's yakuza society. However, the Sekiyam...

Many Happy Returns
1993
as Man beaten up in alley
Kazuo encounters a religious group travelling around Japan performing "miracles". He discovers they are fakes, but is intrigued by the showmanship of ...

Sonatine
1993
as Ken
Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a few of his henchmen to help end a gang war, suppo...

Nanmin Road
1992
The story of four Vietnamese people moving to Japan.

Twilight Mystery Murder Game
1991
A murder game with four men and three women has begun on an uninhabited island. It's a substitute for killing each other and raping each other. Howeve...

A Scene at the Sea
1991
as Light Truck Man
A deaf garbage collector happens upon a broken and discarded surfboard. The discovery plants in him dreams of becoming a surf champion. Encouraged by ...

The Man With No Name
1991
A detective infiltrates the yakuza

Inamura Jane
1990

Violent Cop
1989
as Kiyohiro's Henchman #2
A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and Yakuza activities.

Music Box
1989
A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

Crime Hunter: Bullets of Rage
1989
as Yakuza (uncredited)
After his parter Ahiru is gunned down in the process of arresting criminal Bruce Sawamura, cop Joe "Joker" Kawamura goes rogue and tries to get reveng...

So What
1988
as Thug
In a small town, high school students in their final year try to balance their studies while also playing together in a rock band.

Bu-ra-i no onna
1988
A group of friends get together to remember a decessed classmate. One of them is a detective who loves one of the women. But the woman is in love the ...

The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engulfed in the underground world of intergang warfare.

A Homance
1986
A homeless man suffering from memory loss is unbeatable in a fight. He becomes involved with the Yakuza. It is based on a manga by Carib Marley.

Cabaret
1986
as (uncredited)
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist start...

Go for Broke
1985
At a Japanese school, a desperate student council struggles with a recurring problem. The aggressive and relentless members of the Yagyu biker gang st...

Ran
1985
as Foot soldier (uncredited)
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his kingdom between...

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