Kōjirō Hongō — Actor (26)
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
小雨の夜に散った恋
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Raizō Ichikawa
other title: 小雨の夜に散った恋
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
The Hidden Festival (1998) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
秘祭
director: Taku Shinjo actor: Mitsuko Baisho / Gitan Ohtsuru
other title: 秘祭
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.
Lefty Fencer (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女左膳 濡れ燕片手斬り
other title: Lady Sazen and the Drenched Shallow Sword / 女左膳 濡れ燕片手斬り
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Last Run: 100 Million Yen's Worth of Love and Betrayal (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ラスト・ラン~愛と裏切りの百億円
director: Takashi Miike actor: Koichi Iwaki / Hisako Manda
other title: ラスト・ラン~愛と裏切りの百億円
Former Formula 2 driver Morita, known as 'Kamikaze Run', is asked by Onodera, an old friend and current representative of a large trade company, to function as intermediary for an auction of vintage cars owned by Morita's former rival Gianpiero, until an accident ended both careers. Onodera invites Morita to stay in his house until the auction, but his wife seems to have a past connection with the guest, while his son takes a huge liking to him, to Onodera’s raising frustration on both fronts. Meanwhile, his wife’s younger sister has a relationship with a young driver, while Onodera cooperates with billionaire Kurosawa and Morita’s ex-lover, Kyoko, in order to rig the auction.
The Woman Gambler (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女賭博師
director: Tarō Yuge actor: Kyōko Enami / Saeda Kawaguchi
other title: 女賭博師
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two female gamblers vie for the same man in a high-stakes, best-of-seven showdown—from which only one will emerge victorious. Amid the tense atmosphere, Natsue, a highly skilled card dealer, gracefully reveals her hand with the flick of her slender fingers. At that precise moment, across the table, Takiko’s face goes ashen—she’s just lost the fateful game her lover had wagered his fortune on. The next day, Takiko and her boyfriend attempt a double suicide in despair, but she survives alone. Consumed by twisted emotions toward Natsue, a man named Isobe manipulates Takiko. Under his influence, Takiko seduces Tagami—who is Natsue’s fiancé—setting the stage for a dangerous and tangled web of love, revenge, and deceit.
The Lord and the Gambler (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
濡れ髪三度笠
other title: 濡れ髪三度笠
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
Sentimental Mobsters (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ぐれん隊純情派
other title: ぐれん隊純情派
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
Etajima, the Naval Academy (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
other title: 海軍兵学校物語 あゝ江田島
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account.
Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.