Kaku Takashina — Actor (54)
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Fighting Delinquents (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
くたばれ愚連隊
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Mayumi Shimizu …
other title: くたばれ愚連隊 / Go to Hell, Hoodlums!
This rarely seen gem from master Suzuki casts teenage heartthrob Koji Wada as a young misfit who suddenly finds himself the unwitting pawn in an escalating family feud that ultimately leads to tragedy. Lean, mean, and stylish as always, this tale of youth-gone-wild is both vibrant and touching. Suzuki contrasts tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernism. Also released under the title "Go To Hell, Hoodlums!", this is a melodrama as colorful, shocking, and exhilarating as one would come to expect from Japan's master filmmaker.
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Song of the Underworld (1956) IMDb TMDB
Chitei no uta
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Hiroshi Nawa …
other title: Chitei no uta
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
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Love in Ginza (1962) IMDb TMDB
銀座の恋の物語
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 銀座の恋の物語
Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...
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Asia-Pol (1967) IMDb TMDB
亚洲秘密警探
director: Akinori Matsuo actor: Fang Ying / Jimmy Wang Yu …
other title: Mr. Kugelblitz schlägt zu / Asia-pol …
Yang Ming Xuan intercepts a truckload of contraband, but the criminals stage a brazen helicopter attack, ruthlessly eliminating their own operatives and destroying most of the shipment before it can be confiscated. In the process, Ming Xuan's partner is killed, and the young agent is brought to the unwelcome attention of the leader of the smuggling operation.
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The Flower and the Sword (1964) IMDb TMDB
男の紋章　花と長脇差
director: 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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Endless Desire (1958)
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)
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.