Tomisaburō Wakayama — Actor (41)
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The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
続・座頭市物語
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Shintarō Katsu / Yoshie Mizutani …
other title: La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 02 : Le Secret / La historia de Zatoichi continúa …
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold (1964) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
座頭市千両首
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Shintarō Katsu / Shōgo Shimada …
other title: La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 06 : Mort ou vif / Zatoichi y el cofre de oro …
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
眠狂四郎女妖剣
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Michiko Ai …
other title: Nemuri Kyoshiro 4 La Ballade de Kyoshiro Nemuri / 眠狂四郎女妖剣 …
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!
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Red Peony Gambler (1968) [Movie] NeoDB
緋牡丹博徒
director: 山下耕作 actor: 富司純子 / 高倉健 …
other title: 红牡丹赌徒 / 緋牡丹博徒 …
明治中期，九州赌徒帮派矢野组组长被人暗杀，其独女龙子（藤纯子 饰）解散帮会，以父亲尸体旁遗落的钱包为线索四处寻找凶手。龙子怀揣小太刀，五年间走遍全国各地的赌场，因出色的赌技而赢得“红牡丹阿龙”的绰号。
在岩国某赌场，龙子拆穿庄家作弊手段，引起纠纷，幸得流浪赌徒片桐（高仓健 饰）出手相助。与片桐分手后，龙子得知曾见过杀手容貌的阿新的下落，遂启程寻找，并在道后与熊虎组组长虎吉（若山富三郎 饰）结为兄妹。经熊虎推荐，龙子和阿新前往拜会大阪千成一家第二代首领加仓井（大木实 饰），却偶然在此得知真相……
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The Devil's Bouncing Ball Song (1977) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
悪魔の手毬唄
director: 市川昆 actor: 石坂浩二 / 岸惠子 …
other title: 恶魔拍球之歌 / 悪魔の手毬唄 …
昭和6年，日本冈山县鬼首村，一名自称恩田几三的男子来到村中，推销他的圣诞树加工机器。时村中有仁礼和由良两大世家，仁礼家在战后专营葡萄酒业，风头正劲，而由良家则走向没落。为对抗仁礼一族，由良家接受恩田的推荐，进军圣诞树加工业，结果却被骗得血本无归。
自幼移居神户的青池源治郎回到村中，揭穿恩田的骗局，随后源志郎被杀。当年侦办此案的矶川警官（若山富三郎 饰）始终认为此案存有疑点，昭和27年，他从东京请来名侦探金田一耕助（石坂浩二 饰）调查。此时距惨案已有20年，各家的孩子均已长大成人。由良家的泰子（高橋洋子 饰）和仁礼家的文子（永野裕紀子 饰）同时爱上了源志郎的儿子歌名雄（北公次 饰）。但在某个夜晚，泰子被残忍杀害。这起凶案与20年前的悬案有着千丝万缕的关系，其背后隐藏着的感情纠葛也随着牺牲者的增加而渐渐浮出水面……
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] TMDB
脱獄広島殺人囚
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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Memoir of Japanese Assassins (1969) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
日本暗殺秘録
director: 中岛贞夫 actor: 片冈千惠藏 / 菅原文太 …
other title: 日本暗杀秘录 / 日本暗殺秘録 …
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.
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The Fort of Death (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
五人の賞金稼ぎ
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Tomoko Mayama …
other title: 五人の賞金稼ぎ / The Fort Of Death …
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
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The Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
四谷怪談
director: Masaki Mōri actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Akemi Tsukushi …
other title: 四谷怪談 / Yotsuya Kaidan …
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on the kabuki classic: Toukaidou Yotsuya Kaidan (1826) written by Tsuruya Nanboku and is one of the most famous ghost stories throughout Japan.
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The Phoenix (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
火の鳥
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Jun Fubuki / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: Hi no Tori / 火の鳥 …
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly advisor Sumuke, hire Yumihiko of Matsuro to hunt the phoenix so that Queen Himiko, sister of Susano-O can have eteranal life.
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The Young Rebels (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
父よ母よ!
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Gō Katō / Junko Mihara …
other title: Parents, réveillez-vous ! / 父よ母よ! …
A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.
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ESPY (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
エスパイ
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Hiroshi Fujioka / Kaoru Yumi …
other title: Espy minaccia extrasensoriale / Esupai …
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.
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Gamblers (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
博奕打ち
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Koji Tsuruta / Kyōsuke Machida …
other title: 博奕打ち
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta’s back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law and sickly grandson. His daughter, the boy’s mom, is indentured at the brothel run by boss Nakamura and daughter Matsuo. Nakamura’s two faced second in command Amatsu will not let the mother see her son…
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Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
極悪坊主 念仏三段斬り
director: Takashi Harada actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Bunta Sugawara …
other title: Wicked Priest 4: Wicked Priest Come Back / 極悪坊主 念仏三段斬り
In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is badly injured, and must face his worst enemy in what could be their final showdown.
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Mute Samurai (1973) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB
唖侍鬼一法眼
director: Takeshi Kanda actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Tony Cetera …
other title: 唖侍鬼一法眼 / Oshizamurai Kiichihōgan
A master swordsman, Kiichi Hogan, wanders Japan in search of the Spanish swordsman who murdered his parents and slashed his throat 18 years before. Renouncing any normal life the samurai has become the feared bounty hunter, "Devil" Hogan, the Mute Samurai.
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Irezumi (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
雪華葬刺し
director: Yoichi Takabayashi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Yūsuke Takita …
other title: Irezumi - Lo spirito del tatuaggio / Irezumi - Die tätowierte Frau …
To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.
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Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
妖艶毒婦伝　般若のお百
director: Yoshihiro Ishikawa actor: Junko Miyazono / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 妖艶毒婦伝　般若のお百 / Legends of the Poisonous Seductress Volume 1 - Female Demon Ohyaku
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betrayed her and her lover.
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Eighteen Years in Prison (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
懲役十八年
director: Tai Katō actor: Noboru Andō / Asao Koike …
other title: 懲役十八年
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.