Hiroki Matsukata — Actor (98)
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Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay (2015) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
時代劇は死なず ちゃんばら美学考
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Sadao Nakajima / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 時代劇は死なず ちゃんばら美学考
Veteran director Nakajima Sadao examines the appeal, background, context and transition of chambara, or period sword-fighting and samurai films, in Kyoto. Not only interviews with actors, choreographers and critiques are included, but the director orchestrates an original chambara scene for the documentary.
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Gambler (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
博徒
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Koji Tsuruta / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 博徒
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
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Gamblers and Racketeers (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
博徒対テキ屋
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: 博徒対テキ屋
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.
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The Killer's Killer (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
皆殺しのスキャット
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Yōko Namikawa …
other title: 皆殺しのスキャット
Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
柳生武芸帳　片目水月の剣
director: Yasuto Hasegawa actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: Yagyu Chronicles 6: The Yagyu Scroll / 柳生武芸帳　片目水月の剣
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei must stop the evil plot of Lord Hayato-no-sho, who secretly plans on overthrowing the Shogunate. This is the most exciting film in the long-running series about one of the greatest swordsmen in Japanese history. Konoe Jushiro gives one of his finest performances in this classic tale.
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
柳生武芸帳 独眼一刀流
director: Shoji Matsumura actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: Yagyu Chronicles 4: One Eyed Swordsman / 柳生武芸帳 独眼一刀流
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the Yagyu Secret Scrolls. The two scrolls are held in separate locations to assure their safety. Within them there is information other than the techniques of the Yagyu Shin-kage style. They contain a secret that could throw the country into turmoil. Clan founder Yagyu Sekishusai had split the scroll into two parts to prevent its contents from being known to the public. This is Jubei's toughest assignment yet as he puts his life on the line to save the nation!
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
水戸黄門 助さん格さん大暴れ
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: Zu, guerreros de la montaña mágica / 水戸黄門 助さん格さん大暴れ
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and coming stars, Sasaki Sukesaburo (Matsukata), the son of a widower and Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kitaoji), whose mother is a widow find themselves constantly in trouble and are forced to become two of the most powerful fighters in all Japan. The stories about Mito Komon and his travels througout Japan are many, but this is one that had yet to be told. The struggles of Suke-san and Kaku-san faced in order to join the Elder in his quest to fight against injustice and corruption during the samurai era.