Kōji Wada — Actor (29)
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The Black Sheep (1967)
青春の海 IMDb TMDB
Shōgorō Nishimura actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Tetsuya Watari …
other title: 青春の海
Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep running into, but can't help but to feel sympathy for. Of course, rumours start fast in a small town, but delightfully she doesn't really care at all. This is another very solid Shogoro Nishimura film.
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The Young and Bad (1962)
若くて悪くて凄いこいつら IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 若くて悪くて凄いこいつら
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
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Bright Sea (1963)
光る海 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Mitsuo Hamada …
other title: 光る海 / La Mer étincelante
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
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Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977)
ブラックジャック　瞳の中の訪問者 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Nagisa Katahira / Joe Shishido …
other title: The Visitor in the Eye / ブラックジャック　瞳の中の訪問者
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 that she will never regain the sight in her eye leaves her heartbroken. As a last resort, she undergoes a costly surgery from the mysterious doctor known as Black Jack, where after a successful operation, a mysterious figure starts to emerge in her vision, and only she can see it.
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961)
海峡、血に染めて IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: 海峡、血に染めて
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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The Guys Who Put Money on Me (1962)
俺に賭けた奴ら IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Tamio Kawachi …
other title: 俺に賭けた奴ら
An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.
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Fighting Delinquents (1960)
くたばれ愚連隊 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Mayumi Shimizu …
other title: くたばれ愚連隊 / Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
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Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
河内カルメン WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
Seijun Suzuki actor: Yumiko Nogawa / Kōji Wada …
other title: 河内カルメン / Carmen de Kawachi …
Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster (1967)
大巨獣ガッパ
Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yōko Yamamoto …
other title: Gappa - Il mostro che minaccia il mondo / Gappa - Invasion der fliegenden Bestien …
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.
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Proof of the Man (1977)
人間の証明
Junya Satō actor: Mariko Okada / George Kennedy …
other title: 人間の証明 / Sombras de una guerra …
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.