Takuzō Kawatani — Actor (44)
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Code of Wolves (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
実録飛車角　狼どもの仁義
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kyōsuke Machida …
other title: True Account of Hikashaku: A Wolf’s Honor and Humanity / 実録飛車角　狼どもの仁義
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Baian the Assassin: Showdown (1993) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決
director: Haruhiko Mimura actor: Ken Watanabe / Isao Hashizume …
other title: 仕掛人　藤枝梅安スペシャル　対決
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, at night, he is a highly skilled assassin, taking on contracts to quietly eliminate those whose existence is deemed toxic to society. Baian's latest target, assigned by his boss Otowa, is Shirakoya Kikuemon, the head of a powerful organization in Osaka.
In the past, Baian had been indebted to Shirakoya, but due to a conflict involving the swordsman Kosugi Jūgorō, their relationship has turned adversarial. After his lover is abducted, Shirakoya storms into Edo. With his life now targeted, Baian resolves to confront Shirakoya in a desperate final showdown.
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Shimane Prison Riot (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
暴動島根刑務所
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: 暴動島根刑務所 / Bodo shimane keimusho
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
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The Life of Chikuzan (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
竹山ひとり旅
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Ryūzō Hayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: La vida de Chikuzan / 竹山ひとり旅 …
After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shamisen player and folk-song collector named Takahashi Chikuzan became a musical sensation. This biographical drama chronicles his wanderings and his life, with a particular focus on his humble beginnings as a peasant on a remote and arid island.
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Goodbye, Flickmania (1979) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー
director: Masato Harada actor: Takuzō Kawatani / Naohiko Shigeta …
other title: さらば映画の友よ インディアンサマー
Set at the height of the Japanese student rebellion in 1968, the film tells the story of the friendship between two very different men—a fortyish film maniac who spends nearly all his time at the movies and a 19-year-old going through the final rites of passage from adolescence to adulthood.
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Okoma, the Orphan Gambler (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女渡世人
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sumiko Fuji / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: 女渡世人
Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting to take over a rustic hot-spring town. Handling a gun and sword as skillfully as a man, Fuji Junko portrays an appealing personality that differs from Oryu in the Red Peony Gambler series. Tsuruta Koji stars as the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji that tops the list of an impressive all-star cast that includes Endo Tatsuo, Kogure Michiyo, Ashiya Gannosuke, Kitamura Eizo, and many others. This film is an authentic yakuza movie that conveys the true "Matatabi" (wandering gambler) feeling.
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
狂った野獣
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Tsunehiko Watase / Maki Tachibana …
other title: 狂った野獣
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
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The Burmese Harp (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ビルマの竪琴
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Kiichi Nakai …
other title: ビルマの竪琴
In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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The Third Gangster (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
第三の極道
director: Takashi Miike actor: Kiyoshi Nakajo / Takuzō Kawatani …
other title: The Third Yakuza / 第三の極道
A small yakuza gang is taken to war by a more powerful rival after a violent bar brawl involving members of both gangs. Young boss, Masaki, must decide whether to disband his dwindling gang or fight.
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River of Fireflies (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
螢川
director: Eizō Sugawa actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 螢川
During the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his classmate Eiko Tsujisawa while agonizing about his upcoming high school examinations. When he was little, he and Eiko had heard that in April of a year when the winter has been very harsh, any couple finding fireflies together needs to get married. However, his family's situation does not allow Tatsuo to continue his worrying about such things for very much longer.