Akira Kobayashi — Actor (17)
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The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era (1957) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
幕末太陽伝
director: 川岛雄三 actor: 弗兰克堺 / 左幸子 …
other title: 幕末太阳传 / 幕末太陽伝 …
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
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The Boy Who Came Back (1958) [Movie] TMDB
踏みはずした春
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Sachiko Hidari / Akira Kobayashi …
other title: 踏みはずした春 / Le Printemps a manqué son pas
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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Kanto Wanderer (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
関東無宿
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 関東無宿 / Il vagabondo del Kanto
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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Tokyo Mighty Guy (1960) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
東京の暴れん坊
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 東京の暴れん坊 / The Tokyo Mighty Guy
Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...
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Violent Streets (1974) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
暴力街
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Noboru Andō / Akira Kobayashi …
other title: Quartier violent / 暴力街 …
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
仁義なき戦い 完結篇
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Jō Shishido …
other title: 仁義なき戦い 完結篇 / 无仁义之战 完结篇 …
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
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Black Tight Killers (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
俺にさわると危ないぜ
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Akemi Kita / Mieko Nishio …
other title: 俺にさわると危ないぜ / Les tueuses en collants noirs
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics / 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦 …
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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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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Rusty Knife (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
錆びたナイフ
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: Rusty knife / 錆びたナイフ …
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga (1980) [Movie] TMDB
仁義なき戦い 総集篇
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 仁義なき戦い 総集篇
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.
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Retaliation (1968) [Movie] TMDB
縄張はもらった
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Akira Kobayashi / Jō Shishido …
other title: 縄張はもらった
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
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A Legend of Turmoil (1992) [Movie] TMDB
修羅の伝説
director: Seiji Izumi actor: Akira Kobayashi / Takanori Jinnai …
other title: 修羅の伝説
A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza family. When his boss gets shot, he decides to go after the plotters.
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Anatomia Extinction (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
限界人口係数
director: Yoshihiro Nishimura actor: Kisei Ishizuka / Jun Sasaki …
other title: 限界人口係数
A salaryman sees a murder in the subways and is soon pursued by the killer, who wants him to join a group called The Engineers, who have taken it upon themselves to reduce Japan's overpopulation. Despite not wanting any part of joining, the man begins to mutate, running throughout Japan and fighting his urge to kill.
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Three Seconds to Zero Hour (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
爆破３秒前
director: Motomu Ida actor: Akira Kobayashi / Hideki Takahashi …
other title: 爆破３秒前 / Three Seconds Before the Explosion
“I like shady dealings,” purrs undercover superspy Yabuki en route to infiltrating a sadistic, trigger-happy gang of international jewel thieves. Gone renegade from the shadowy espionage bureau that honed his killer instincts to a razor’s edge, the implacable Yabuki teams up with fellow mercenary crime fighter Yamawaki. Together, they follow a trail of stolen gems leading from the final days of WWII to a contemporary conspiracy that reaches into the highest corridors of corporate power and nefarious international villainy.
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The Rambling Guitarist (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ギターを持った渡り鳥
director: Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Joe Shishido …
other title: ギターを持った渡り鳥 / The Wandering Guitarist
Arriving in the town of Hakodate, a wandering musician, Shinji Taki, is soon recruited by the local gang as a hired hand. However, with the arrival of a sinister gunman, Taki's mysterious past catches up with him.