Rinichi Yamamoto — Actor (24)
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Invasion of the Neptune Men (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
宇宙快速船
director: Koji Ota actor: Sonny Chiba / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: L'astronave fantasma / Uchû Kaisokusen …
Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by children. When they are attacked by a group of metallic aliens, Iron Sharp drives the aliens away. The resourceful Tachibana helps develop an electric barrier to block the aliens from coming to the Earth. After several losses by the aliens, they announce that they will invade the Earth, throwing the world into a state of panic.
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The Eleventh Hour (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
どたんば
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Takashi Shimura / Shinjirō Ehara …
other title: どたんば / The Eleventh Hour 1957
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
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Blood of Revenge (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
明治侠客伝 三代目襲名
director: Tai Katō actor: Koji Tsuruta / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: Le Sang de la vengeance / 明治侠客伝 三代目襲名
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded son and suffer the throes of his impossible love for beautiful geisha Hatsue.
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Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
月光仮面　怪獣コング
director: Satoru Ainoda actor: Fumitake Ōmura / Michiko Shirakawa …
other title: 月光仮面　怪獣コング
Fourth Moonlight Mask theatrical film.
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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?
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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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The Street Fighter (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
激突! 殺人拳
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sonny Chiba / Etsuko Shihomi …
other title: Den sorte drage / Der Wildeste von allen …
Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Great Killing (1964) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
大殺陣
director: Eiichi Kudo actor: Tōru Abe / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: The Great Duel / 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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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 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.