Sonny Chiba — Actor (133)
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Dash to the Sun (1966) [Movie] TMDB
太陽に突っ走れ
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 太陽に突っ走れ
A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
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Night Bitch (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
夜の牝犬
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Mako Midori …
other title: 夜の牝犬
A playboy bartender pretends to be gay in order to approach women. He is in cahoots with another opportunist, a young woman who is trying to seduce a rich married man. Their attempts at making easy money can only end tragically.
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Game of Chance 3 (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
出世子守唄
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: 出世子守唄
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his son Kenichi. Tired of running, the two settle in a mountain town. Bungo finds work as a lumberjack for the Iwasaki family and Kenichi becomes a student at the local elementary school. Regrettably, their good fortune doesn't last. The yakuza boss, Tomitaka, wants control of the town's lumber and is willing to destroy the Iwasaki to get it. Natsue, Kenichi's estranged no-good mother, returns wanting to take part in the boy's upbringing. And shortly thereafter, a mysterious stranger arrives in town to lay claim on Bungo's life...
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
網走番外地 南国の対決
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Teruo Yoshida …
other title: 網走番外地 南国の対決
This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito.
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Game of Chance 2 (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
続浪曲子守唄
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Akiko Koyama …
other title: 続浪曲子守唄
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..
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The Rickshaw Man’s Son (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
河内遊侠伝
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Mako Midori …
other title: Tale of Kawachi Chivalry / 河内遊侠伝
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.
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King of the Gang (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ギャングの帝王
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Noboru Andō / Sonny Chiba …
other title: ギャングの帝王
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
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Game of Chance (1966) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
浪曲子守唄
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: 浪曲子守唄 / Game Of Chance
Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
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Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
にっぽん泥棒物語
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yūnosuke Itō …
other title: Les Contes du voleur japonais / にっぽん泥棒物語
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
あゝ予科練
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Koji Tsuruta / Teruhiko Saigō …
other title: あゝ予科練
The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
不良番長 猪の鹿お蝶
director: Yukio Noda actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Bunta Sugawara …
other title: 不良番長 猪の鹿お蝶
Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…