Seizō Fukumoto — Actor (37)
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The Last Samurai (2003) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
The Last Samurai
5.7 (6 ratings) director: 爱德华·兹威克 actor: 汤姆·克鲁斯 / 渡边谦 …
other title: L'ultimo samurai / Den sidste samurai …
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
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Fireflies in the North (1984) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
北の螢
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Shima Iwashita …
other title: La luciole du nord / 北の螢
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.
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Return of the Street Fighter (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban
殺人拳２
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sonny Chiba / Yōko Ichiji …
other title: Den sorte drage vender tilbage / Sonny Chiba - Der unerbittliche Vollstrecker …
Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, and he concentrates on them.
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Min reol IMDb Douban
県警対組織暴力
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Police contre Syndicat du crime / 県警対組織暴力 …
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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Samurai Wolf II (1967) [Movie] TMDB
牙狼之介 地獄斬り
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Isao Natsuyagi / Kō Nishimura …
other title: 牙狼之介 地獄斬り / Kiba, l'enfer des sabres
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
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Doberman Cop (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ドーベルマン刑事
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sonny Chiba / Janet Hatta …
other title: Detective Doberman / ドーベルマン刑事
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth.
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Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist (1976) [Movie] TMDB
女必殺五段拳
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Etsuko Shihomi / Mitchi Love …
other title: 女必殺五段拳
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug dealing syndicate is based.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
新仁義なき戦い
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 1 / 新仁義なき戦い …
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
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Ninja Wars (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
伊賀忍法帖
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Jun Miho …
other title: Die unheimliche Macht der Ninjas / 伊賀忍法帖 …
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's plan, but to do so, he must first battle the deadly team of "Devil Monks" serving the lord. Will Jotaro succeed in his mission? And if so, will Ukio marry him, thus making him the ruler of the world?
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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan …
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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Yakuza Graveyard (1976) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
やくざの墓場　くちなしの花
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuya Watari / Meiko Kaji …
other title: やくざの墓場　くちなしの花 / Tombe de yakuza et fleur de gardénia …
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Deadly Fight in Hiroshima / Combat sans code d'honneur 2 : Qui sera le boss à Hiroshima ? …
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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The Magic Serpent (1966) [Movie] TMDB
怪竜大決戦
director: Tetsuya Yamanouchi actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tomoko Ogawa …
other title: 怪竜大決戦 / Les Monstres de l'apocalypse
In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and his wizard friend Oroki-maru. The young prince Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magic bird sent by a wizard. Ten years later, Ikazuki-maru embarks on an adventure to avenge his parents and the wizard's death with his magic powers he learned from the wizard. He kills Yuki Daijo but then must battle Oroki-maru in a battle to the death.
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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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Red Shadow (2001) [Movie] TMDB
RED SHADOW 赤影
director: Hiroyuki Nakano actor: Masanobu Ando / Jun Murakami …
other title: RED SHADOW 赤影 / Red Shadow - The Ninja Movie
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace. Akakage, Aokage, and Asuka are rookie ninjas under the tutelage of Shirokage. Their life is a series of perilous missions that entail intrigue, deception and intimidation.
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Uzumasa Limelight (2014) [Movie] TMDB
太秦ライムライト
director: Ken Ochiai actor: Seizō Fukumoto / Chihiro Yamamoto …
other title: 太秦ライムライト
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.
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Shogun's Shadow (1989) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
将軍家光の乱心 激突
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Ken Ogata / Sonny Chiba …
other title: 将軍家光の乱心 激突 / Der Schatten des Shogun …
A shogun's eldest son must do whatever it takes to survive a series of attempts on his life. He receives much-needed aid from seven warriors who are led by a strong leader.
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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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Shogun's Samurai (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
柳生一族の陰謀
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Im Schatten des Shogun / Le Samourai et le Shogun …
Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga become bitter rivals for the shogunate, and the land is split into factions, eventually erupting into warfare. Iemitsu's mentor, his fencing instructor Yagyu, is fixated upon securing Iemitsu the shogunate and ends up betraying everyone, even his own family, in pursuit of the goal.