Yoshi Katō — Actor (110)
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Solar Eclipse (1975) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
金環蝕
director: 山本萨夫 actor: 仲代达矢 / 三国连太郎 …
other title: 金環蝕 / 金环蚀
When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.
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Double Suicide (1969)
心中天網島
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Kichiemon Nakamura II / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Doppio Suicidio ad Amijima / Double suicide à Amijima …
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the strict social and moral codes of 18th-century Japan. But when he meets the lovely courtesan Koharu, he becomes a man obsessed. Koharu returns his love, even foregoing other customers while Jihei schemes to somehow buy her freedom. His efforts yield ruinous consequences for his business and his family life, and Koharu is meanwhile purchased by another client.
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Blind Woman's Curse (1970) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
怪談昇り竜
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Meiko Kaji / Hoki Tokuda …
other title: 怪談昇り竜 / Maldição da Mulher Cega …
Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai (1963)
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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An Actor's Revenge (1963)
雪之丞変化
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Kazuo Hasegawa / Fujiko Yamamoto …
other title: La rivincita di Yuki-no-jo / La Vengeance d'un acteur …
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
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The Betrayal (1966)
大殺陣 雄呂血
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kaoru Yachigusa …
other title: 大殺陣 雄呂血
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.
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Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny (1972) IMDb TMDB
影狩り　ほえろ大砲 　
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ryôhei Uchida …
other title: 影狩り　ほえろ大砲 　
The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody adaptation of the manga by Takao Saito. Despite the Shadow Hunters's remarkable skill, this mission is no walk in the park, and in order to survive they must face a relentless army of ninjas and female warriors willing to sacrifice their lives to disrupt the delivery and claim the cannon for themselves.
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Dragon Princess (1976) IMDb TMDB
必殺女拳士
director: Yutaka Kohira actor: Etsuko Shihomi / Yasuaki Kurata …
other title: 必殺女拳士
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.
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The River Fuefuki (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
笛吹川
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Takahiro Tamura / Hideko Takamine …
other title: 笛吹川 / La Rivière Fuefuki …
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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The Christian Revolt (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
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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Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure (1964) IMDb TMDB
眠狂四郎勝負
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kōichi Aihara …
other title: 眠狂四郎勝負 / Nemuri Kyoshiro 2: Shôbu …
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
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Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: 八つ墓村 / 八墓村
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse was placed on it centuries earlier by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of the novel by Seishi Yokomizo.
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Silence (1971)
沈黙 SILENCE
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: David Lampson / Mako …
other title: Silencio / 沈黙 SILENCE …
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)
仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kinya Kitaoji …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Deadly Fight in Hiroshima / Combat sans code d'honneur 2 : Qui sera le boss à Hiroshima ? …
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
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Revenge (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
仇討
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: La Vengeance / Venganza de sangre …
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
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The Third Ninja (1964) TMDB
第三の忍者
director: Toshikazu Kono actor: Kotaro Satomi / Kôji Nanbara …
other title: 第三の忍者
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.
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Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
座頭市血笑旅
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Nobuo Kaneko …
other title: Combatti, Zatoichi, combatti! / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 08 : Voyage meurtrier …
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.
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The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
赤穂城断絶
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: A Queda do Castelo Ako / Last of the Ako Clan …
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Fumio Watanabe …
other title: Lobo Solitário 1: A Espada da Vingança / Okami - Das Schwert der Rache …
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.