Tomisaburō Wakayama — Actor (129)
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I Am A Man of Honor (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
トラック野郎　男一匹桃次郎
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kin'ya Aikawa …
other title: Truck Rascals 6, I Am A Man Of Honor / トラック野郎　男一匹桃次郎
The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB
兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Bunta Sugawara / Saburo Kitajima …
other title: 兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.
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Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
新選組始末記
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Shigeru Amachi …
other title: 新選組始末記
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
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Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
日本暴力団 組長
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Koji Tsuruta / Bunta Sugawara …
other title: Le Caïd de Yokohama / 日本暴力団 組長 …
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
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Code Between Brothers 3 (1966) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB
兄弟仁義　関東三兄弟
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Saburo Kitajima / Kōtarō Satomi …
other title: 兄弟仁義　関東三兄弟
A man finds great camaraderie while traveling.
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Eighteen Years in Prison (1967) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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.
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Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
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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Irezumi (1982) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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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Mute Samurai (1973) [TV] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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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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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Gamblers (1967) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
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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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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The Young Rebels (1980) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
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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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 Ghosts of Yotsuya (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
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 Fort of Death (1969) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
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.