Hisataka Kai — Playwright (23)
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City Boys, City Girls (1958)
東京野郎と女ども WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ren Yoshimura actor: Shinichi Yanagisawa / Shin Morikawa …
other title: 東京野郎と女ども
Having left his hometown, Shinichi Sakashita was searching for an agency where his senior colleague worked, hoping to find him a job. However, the agency turned out to be a sister-boy placement service specializing in gay boys. Due to a misunderstanding by his senior colleague, Shinichi was registered as a member and decided to become a sister-boy himself…
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Black Strait (1964)
黒い海峡 IMDb TMDB
Mio Ezaki actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 黒い海峡
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.
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Immortal Guy (1967)
不死身なあいつ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Buichi Saitō actor: Akira Kobayashi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 不死身なあいつ
Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea off the coast of Kobe. However, three months later, Kosuke suddenly appears in Kagoshima and reunites with his partner, the vagrant Kumagoro. However, Kosuke's relief does not last long, he learns from Kumagoro that Toseikai are acting ruthlessly here too.
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Fearless Comrades (1966)
不敵なあいつ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Shōgorō Nishimura actor: Akira Kobayashi / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: 不敵なあいつ
The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal death at the hands of the gang leader. He goes on a trip with a guitar in his hand and ends up in Yokohama. The guitar he plays at the bar in the evening was given to him by his late best friend. At the bar, Kosuke meets Kumagoro. Kosuke saves Kumagoro from bandits. Kumagoro is a funny man, he came to this city to reunite with the woman he swore to marry. Kosuke decides to settle in this city and help him find his beloved, but the future of this city is not cloudless either, because the cruel Yakuza is in power in the city, and soon Kosuke will have to fight with him...
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The Reckless One (1967)
命しらずのあいつ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Akinori Matsuo actor: Akira Kobayashi / Bonta Tōkyō …
other title: 命しらずのあいつ
Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of the Muraoka clan, made Takehara disappear in order to keep him silent. The third film in the series.
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san (1961)
ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ中乗りさん IMDb TMDB
Masamitsu Igayama actor: Hibari Misora / Ken Takakura …
other title: Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-San / ひばり民謡の旅シリーズ　べらんめぇ中乗りさん
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Masasaburo, the founder of Sado Masa, one of the oldest lumber merchants in Kiba, has recently become very old and ill, and his tomboyish daughter Nobuko, a native of Edo, cannot stand the methods of Tadayoshi, who has risen to prominence through unscrupulous business practices. In a thrilling period drama in which Hibari plays a chic and stubborn lumberyard girl who, together with her partner Takakura Ken, punishes an evil lumber merchant. A thrilling youth drama that combines familiar songs with the stubbornness and love of Hibari and Takakura.
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The Scarred Crest (1964)
新・男の紋章　度胸一番 IMDb TMDB
Eisuke Takizawa actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 新・男の紋章　度胸一番
A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.
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The Flower and the Sword (1964)
男の紋章　花と長脇差 IMDb TMDB
Eisuke Takizawa actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 男の紋章　花と長脇差
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means necessary.
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Fight of the Gamblers (1963)
男の紋章　風雲双つ竜 IMDb TMDB
Akinori Matsuo actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 男の紋章　風雲双つ竜
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.