Meiko Kaji — Actor (62)
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Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi (2010) [Movie] TMDB
鬼平犯科帳スペシャル 高萩の捨五郎
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Hiroshi Katsuno …
other title: 鬼平犯科帳スペシャル 高萩の捨五郎
Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...
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Melody of Rebellion (1970) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
反逆のメロディー
director: Yukihiro Sawada actor: Yoshio Harada / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 反逆のメロディー / Hangyaku no merodī
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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Blood for Blood (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
流血の抗争
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Joe Shishido / Makoto Satō …
other title: 流血の抗争
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
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The Homeless (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
無宿 やどなし
director: Kōichi Saitō actor: Ken Takakura / Shintarō Katsu …
other title: 無宿 やどなし
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.
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Jeans Blues: No Future (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Meiko Kaji / Tsunehiko Watase …
other title: ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
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Tree Without Leaves (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
落葉樹
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Keiju Kobayashi / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Les Arbres à feuilles caduques / El árbol sin hojas …
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
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Main Line to Terror (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
動脈列島
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Masaomi Kondo / Jirō Tamiya …
other title: 動脈列島
Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.
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Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
曽根崎心中
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Meiko Kaji / Ryudo Uzaki …
other title: Double suicide à Sonezaki / Doble suicidio en Sonezaki …
Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous people took undue advantage of these changes before the social order was re-created. In this story, a rich merchant gives his clerk an I.O.U. instead of wages. When the impoverished clerk presents the paper to the merchant at the agreed upon time asking for payment, the man flies into a rage and pretends he never wrote it and claims the clerk is trying to defraud him. Then he sets his henchmen on the clerk to administer a beating.
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Lone Wolf & Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell (1989) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
子連れ狼
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Hideki Takahashi / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 子連れ狼
The tale of Ogami Itto and his son Daigoro has come full circle with the greatest sword actor of all time, Wakayama Tomisaburo now playing Lone Wolf's mortal enemy, the evil Lord Yagyu Retsudo, who masterminded Ogami's fall from grace. Brilliant sword actor Takahashi Hideki takes over as the former shogunate decapitator, and his stunning swordsmanship is second to none! The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun's Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
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In Tears (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
泣かせるぜ
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 泣かせるぜ
Hiroshi is the second officer on board the Hakuromaru. Lead by his captain, he heads out to town to recruit new crew members for their next voyage. Hiroshi is baffled when his captain approaches the Daigo-Kuroshiomaru crew, a notorious group nicknamed "the hoodlums of the sea". Their offer is greeted with scoffs and quickly turned down.
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Flickering Flames (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
錆びた炎
director: Masahisa Sadanaga actor: Mikijiro Hira / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 錆びた炎
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Inspector Kitahara, who received the report, goes quickly to the Tanemura home, along with other police to speak to the family of the child. Then, suddenly, the phone rings. The kidnapper wants money.
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Sengoku Rock Hagure Kiba (1973) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
戦国ロック はぐれ牙
actor: Meiko Kaji / Yōsuke Natsuki …
other title: 戦国ロック はぐれ牙
Set in the Sengoku Period, a time of turmoil and upheaval, this action period drama follows the solitary life of Sae, the "Hagure Kiba," who takes on dangerous jobs for hire.
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What Did You Eat Yesterday? (2021) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
劇場版「きのう何食べた？」
director: Kazuhito Nakae actor: Hidetoshi Nishijima / Seiyo Uchino …
other title: What Did You Eat Yesterday / 劇場版「きのう何食べた？」
Kenji is overjoyed when his usually thrifty boyfriend takes him on a trip to Kyoto for his birthday, but the trip ends up uncovering a painful topic.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701's Grudge Song (1973) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
女囚さそり　７０１号怨み節
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Meiko Kaji / Masakazu Tamura …
other title: Sasori – Grudge Song / Mélodie de la rancune …
Nami is once again on the run from the law but is saved by an old classmate who works at a strip club. Through a subsequent conversation they discover they both have a score to settle with a particular crooked cop. However, Nami has doubts about ever trusting a man.
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
女囚さそり　けもの部屋
director: Shunya Ito actor: Meiko Kaji / Mikio Narita …
other title: Sasori – Den of the Beast / La Tanière de la bête …
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
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The Voice of Sin (2020) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
罪の声
director: 土井裕泰 actor: 小栗旬 / 星野源 …
other title: 罪之声 / 罪の声
影片改编自塩田武士的同名推理小说，以昭和年间最大的未解决事件为主题，讲述新闻记者阿久津英士（小栗旬饰）和少年时期与该事件有关联的男人曾根俊也（星野源）之间的故事。
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕
director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi actor: Meiko Kaji / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler / Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: The Wildcat Gambler …
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor — martial arts legend Sonny Chiba — in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.