Rinichi Yamamoto — Actor (24)
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Sympathy for the Underdog (1971) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
博徒外人部隊
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: Guerre des gangs à Okinawa / 博徒外人部隊 …
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
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The Mad Fox (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
恋や恋なすな恋
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Hashizo Okawa / Michiko Saga …
other title: 恋や恋なすな恋 / La renarde folle
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover's twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
飢餓海峡
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Sachiko Hidari …
other title: Lo stretto della fame / Le détroit de la faim …
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
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Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌
director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Jūzō Itami …
other title: 修羅雪姫 怨み恋歌 / 修罗雪姬2：怨恨的恋歌 …
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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Red Peony Gambler (1968) [Movie] Douban TMDB
緋牡丹博徒
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 緋牡丹博徒 / Lady Yakuza 1 - La pivoine rouge …
Ryuko was raised by her father, a gambler named Senzo Yano in Kumamoto, Kyushu, after her mother died when she was little. When she turned 18 years old, her father was attacked and killed by a stranger in alley. Ryuko then dissolves her yakuza family, and, carrying the wallet left by the killer, she sets out on a journey to avenge her father's death. Five years later, she wanders the nation, known only as! Red Peony Oryu who has a red peony tattooed on her shoulder and has the defiance and courage of a man. She meets Katagiri - a loner gambler, Kumatora - boss of a family in Shikoku, and Otaka - female boss of the Doman Family in Osaka. With their help, she finally catches up with the man who murdered her father.
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The Great Duel (1964) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
大殺陣
director: Eiichi Kudo actor: Tōru Abe / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: 大殺陣 / Le Grand attentat …
A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunashige, the next Shogun. The best strategist in Japan, Yamaga, leads a plot to stop the Elder, but his cabal is betrayed and most of the conspirators are captured and tortured.
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Revenge (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
仇討
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: La Vengeance / Venganza de sangre …
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights (1962) [Movie] TMDB
宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 般若坂の決斗 / Les moines lanciers du temple Hozoin
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
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A Kamikaze Cop (1970) [Movie] TMDB
やくざ刑事
director: Yukio Noda actor: Sonny Chiba / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: やくざ刑事 / Kamikaze X-27
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
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Brave Red Flower of the North (1970) [Movie] TMDB
日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 日本女侠伝 真赤な度胸花
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 Yakuza film history, Fuji Junko and Takakura Ken. Since the death of death of her father, Yuki who has traveled from her home in the southernmost part of Japan must fight corrupt local officials seeking to fill her late father's post. As her life is in danger a mysterious rifleman, played by Takakura Ken watches from the shadows. Can she finish the work her dear departed father started in an untamed land?
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Takeshi Katō …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War / 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争 …
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976) [Movie] TMDB
新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 新仁義なき戦い 組長最後の日 / Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 3 : les Derniers Jours du boss
The eighth sequel of the series by the successful “Fukasaku and Bunta” collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and “bleed in vain” in gang wars.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) [Movie] TMDB
昭和残侠伝
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: 昭和残侠伝
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
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Empire of Passion (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
愛の亡霊
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Takahiro Tamura / Kazuko Yoshiyuki …
other title: L'impero della passione / O Império da Paixão …
In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much younger lover and the two conspire to murder him.
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The Bodyguard (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ボディガード牙
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Mari Atsumi …
other title: Kiba, der Leibwächter - Seine Rechte mäht wie eine Sense / Le garde du corps …
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
1970s action japan martialarts sonnychiba