Chōichirō Kawarasaki — Actor (47)
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Giant Rumble (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ôdeiri
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Ôdeiri
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home town. Swearing allegiance to his fiancée’s father, a decent boss, he had taken to the road after a gang fight until things cooled down. While honing his sword skills in his travels, everything in the town had changed and he descended into a virtual hell of violence. Opponents were being slaughtered by a former samurai ‘Bodyguard’ played by Tanba Tetsuro at the height of his amazing career. While these two master swordsmen are fated to meet, before that can even happen they must survive one of the longest, bloodiest swordfights in movie history!
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Someday, Someone Will Be Killed (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
いつか誰かが殺される
director: Yōichi Sai actor: Noriko Watanabe / Masato Furuoya …
other title: いつか誰かが殺される
While trying to search for her missing father, Atsuko Moriya meets a group of outcasts that help her. Having only an encrypted disk in her possession and while being chased by unknown people, Atsuko tries to solve the mystery of her family origins.
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The Gate of Youth (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
青春の門
director: Kirio Urayama actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Ken Tanaka …
other title: 青春の門 / La Porte de la jeunesse
Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every aspect of the life of the characters. Shinsuke's father dies while bravely using dynamite to rescue a group of trapped Korean miners. Several older men attempt to help he and his mother cope, including a kind Korean and a Harley-riding yakuza.
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Shiro and Marilyn (1988) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
マリリンに逢いたい
director: Junichi Suzuki actor: Masaya Katō / Narumi Yasuda …
other title: マリリンに逢いたい / Marilyn ni Aitai
Based on a true story. Shiro, a dog who lives in an inn on Akajima in Okinawa, swims to the opposite shore on Zamami to see his love, a dog named Marilyn. Shiro is portrayed by the real-life Shiro.
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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Panic in High School (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
高校大パニック
director: Gakuryu Ishii / Yukihiro Sawada actor: Shigeru Yamamoto / Miyoko Akaza …
other title: Panique au Lycée / 高校大パニック …
A high school student rallies his classmates into rebelling violently when the administration refuses to take responsibility for the suicide of one of the students.
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Tokyo Bordello (1987) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB
吉原炎上
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Yûko Natori / Rino Katase …
other title: 吉原炎上 / Yoshiwara enjo …
A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of the brothel has hopes to make her a great new addition which will attract the richest of customers. But after several months of training, she tries to flee Yoshiwara when the time has come for her to take her first customer...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
子連れ狼 その小さき手に
director: Akira Inoue actor: Masakazu Tamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 子連れ狼 その小さき手に / Baby Cart vol.08 : Le conflit final …
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
武士道残酷物語
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ineko Arima …
other title: Bushido / Bushido - Schwur der Gehorsamkeit …
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ken Takakura …
other title: 宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 / Le Duel de l'aube …
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
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Gonza the Spearman (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
鑓の権三
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Hiromi Go / Shōhei Hino …
other title: 鑓の権三 / Gonza le lancier …
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with Bannojō for the honor to perform the tea ceremony to celebrate the birth of an heir to the lord of their clan. To see the sacred tea scrolls Gonza promises to marry the daughter of the family which possesses them, even though he is unofficially engaged to another. When studying the scrolls with Osai, the mother of the house, Bannojō sneaks into the house and steals their obis and runs through the town proclaiming the two as adulterers.
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The Ninja Hunt (1964) [Movie] TMDB
忍者狩り
director: Tetsuya Yamanouchi actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 忍者狩り
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord.
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The Christian Revolt (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
天草四郎時貞
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Hashizo Okawa / Ryutaro Otomo …
other title: 天草四郎時貞 / Le Révolté …
In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.
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Cruel Story of the Shogunate's Downfall (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
幕末残酷物語
director: Tai Katō actor: Hashizo Okawa / Chōichirō Kawarasaki …
other title: Contes cruels au pays du soleil couchant / 幕末残酷物語
A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true identity and intentions.
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Castle of Owls (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
忍者秘帖 梟の城
director: Eiichi Kudō actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Minoru Ōki …
other title: 忍者秘帖 梟の城
Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an assassination attempt to be carried out by the Iga Clan of ninja spies. Master spy Juzo Tsuzura (Ryutaro Otomo) is assigned the task, but first he must defeat a former Iga spy who has become a traitor, and outwit the treacherous woman that is trying to seduce him.
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 二刀流開眼 / A deux sabres …
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Wakaba Irie …
other title: 宮本武蔵 一乗寺の決斗 / Seul contre tous à Ichijoji …
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
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Tokaido Fullhouse (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
勢揃い東海道
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Chiezō Kataoka / Utaemon Ichikawa …
other title: 勢揃い東海道
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent gang battles in Japanese history. Forced by the situation to choose between family and yakuza honor, Nikichi faces off against the vile combination of Ano-Toku and Kurokoma Katsuzo, villains so low as to ambush their foes using snipers. Nikichi, who owes allegiance to Boss Jirocho of Shimizu asks Jirocho to spare Ano-Toku’s life until events force a showdown between the 30 member Shimizu gang and a force of over 200 men fighting on Ano-Toku’s behalf. Meanwhile, a mysterious samurai may hold the key to deciding the outcome of this battle!
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The Conspirator (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
反逆児
director: Daisuke Itō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Hiroko Sakuramachi …
other title: 反逆児
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.