Seizaburō Kawazu — Actor (23)
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
洲崎パラダイス 赤信号
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Michiyo Aratama / Yukiko Todoroki
other title: Susaki Paradise - Red Light District / Le Paradis de Suzaki
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
Daredevil in the Castle (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
大阪城物語
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Toshirō Mifune / Kyōko Kagawa
other title: 大阪城物語 / The Story of Osaka Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
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…
Invisible Man (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
透明人間
director: Motoyoshi Oda actor: Seizaburō Kawazu / Miki Sanjō
other title: Invisible Avenger / 透明人間
When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.
Gorath (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖星ゴラス
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yumi Shirakawa
other title: Ufos zerstören die Erde / Le Choc des planètes
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Dogora (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Robert Dunham / Yōsuke Natsuki
other title: Dogora il mostro della grande palude / X 3000 - Fantome gegen Gangster
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
Sex & Fury (1973) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb
不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Reiko Ike / Christina Lindberg
other title: 猪鹿蝶 / 不良姐御伝 猪の鹿お蝶
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering prominent politician Kurokawa and Christina, an American spy posing as a gambler.
Mothra (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
モスラ
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Frankie Sakai / Hiroshi Koizumi
other title: Mothra bedroht die Welt / MOTHRA
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
The Last War (1961) [Movie] IMDb
世界大戦争
director: Shūe Matsubayashi actor: Frankie Sakai / Akira Takarada
other title: Todesstrahlen aus dem Weltall / La Derniere Guerre de l'Apocalypse
A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966) [Movie] TMDB
丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Keiko Awaji
other title: 丹下左膳 飛燕居合斬り / Samouraï sans honneur
Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.
A Geisha (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
祇園囃子
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Michiyo Kogure / Ayako Wakao
other title: La musica di Gion / 祇園囃子
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men.
The Last Gunfight (1960) [Movie] TMDB WikiData
暗黒街の対決
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Koji Tsuruta
other title: 暗黒街の対決 / Ankokugai no Taiketsu - The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruyama of the Kozuka gang, probably at the hands of one of the Oka gang. During a gang gunfight, Maruyama is rescued by Detective Fujioka and the two become friends. But Maruyama insists on avenging his wife's murder, even if it means conflict with his new friend.
Samurai Saga (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
或る剣豪の生涯
other title: Samurai saga / 或る剣豪の生涯
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of his own heart.
Chûshingura (1962) [Movie] TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻
director: Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Samurai Town Story Part I (1928) [Movie] TMDB
浪人街 第一話 美しき獲物
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Kōmei Minami / Tōichirō Negishi
other title: 浪人街 第一話 美しき獲物
All that remains of the first Samurai Town Story is the concluding battle.
The 47 Ronin (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban
元禄 忠臣蔵
director: Kenji Mizoguchi actor: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki / Kan'emon Nakamura
other title: I 47 ronin ribelli / 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.
Street of Ronin (1957) [Movie] TMDB
浪人街
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Seizaburō Kawazu
other title: 浪人街
Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period. Starring the great Konoe Jushiro, Ronin Gai is populated by an ensemble of colorful characters, social outcasts who patronize a restaurant and bar on the outskirts of Edo. Among them are masterless samurai reduced to drunkenness and debauchery. One disgraced and disillusioned former warrior gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to retrieve a famous knife from a corrupt lord. This is the third version directed by Makino Masahiro and is considered a true classic.