Kaku Takashina — Actor (19)
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Endless Desire (1958) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
果しなき欲望
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Misako Watanabe …
other title: Desiderio inappagato / Desejo Insaciável …
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
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Underworld Beauty (1958) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
暗黒街の美女
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Michitarō Mizushima / Mari Shiraki …
other title: 暗黒街の美女
The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.
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Retaliation (1968) [Movie] TMDB
縄張はもらった
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Akira Kobayashi / Jō Shishido …
other title: 縄張はもらった
Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.
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The Vampire Doll (1970) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
幽霊屋敷の恐怖 血を吸う人形
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Kayo Matsuo / Akira Nakao …
other title: A Noite do Vampiro / Legacy of Dracula …
A young man goes missing after visiting his girlfriend's isolated country home. His sister and her boyfriend trace him to the creepy mansion, but their search becomes perilous when they uncover a gruesome family history.
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
「無頼」より 大幹部
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 「無頼」より 大幹部 / Hoodlum - Leading Mobster …
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.
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Voice Without a Shadow (1958) [Movie] TMDB
影なき声
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Yôko Minamida / Hideaki Nitani …
other title: 影なき声
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.
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Black Tight Killers (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
俺にさわると危ないぜ
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Akemi Kita / Mieko Nishio …
other title: Les tueuses en collants noirs / 俺にさわると危ないぜ
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.
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Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968) [Movie] TMDB
無頼　黒匕首
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 無頼　黒匕首
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
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Outlaw: Heartless (1968) [Movie] TMDB
無頼非情
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 無頼非情
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
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Massacre Gun (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
みな殺しの拳銃
director: Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Jō Shishido / Hideaki Nitani …
other title: みな殺しの拳銃
Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.
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Kanto Wanderer (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
関東無宿
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 関東無宿 / Il vagabondo del Kanto
Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.
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Smashing the 0-Line (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
密航０ライン
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Yuji Odaka …
other title: 密航０ライン
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
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The Boy Who Came Back (1958) [Movie] TMDB
踏みはずした春
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Sachiko Hidari / Akira Kobayashi …
other title: 踏みはずした春 / Le Printemps a manqué son pas
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
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Murder Unincorporated (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
大日本殺し屋伝
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Jō Shishido / Yōko Yamamoto …
other title: 大日本殺し屋伝
When the mysterious “Joe of Spades” (Jo Shishido) executes one of the bosses of a powerful syndicate, his colleagues, fearing for their own lives, call on the services of assassin agency Murder Unincorporated to take care of the problem. This unique entry showcases some of the most peculiar killing tactics to ever hit Japanese cinema!