Kōji Takada — Playwright (88)
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Gambler: Victory Without Death (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
博奕打ち 不死身の勝負
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Koji Tsuruta / Kyōsuke Machida …
other title: 博奕打ち 不死身の勝負
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by serving as a pit boss for a struggling coal mine in Kyuushu. Quickly there's trouble with the local mining competition, who doesn't always play a fair game. True to his hot-headed nickname, Tsune only gets into deeper trouble.
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Sworn Brothers (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
博徒一代　血祭り不動
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Jūshirō Konoe …
other title: 博徒一代　血祭り不動
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
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Eight Men to Kill (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
賞金首 一瞬八人斬り
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Minoru Ōki …
other title: Bounty Hunter 3: Eight Men to Kill / 賞金首 一瞬八人斬り …
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.
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Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
東京－ソウル－バンコック　実録麻薬地帯
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Sonny Chiba / Yoko Horikoshi …
other title: 東京－ソウル－バンコック　実録麻薬地帯 / Tokyo Seoul Bangkok Drug Triangle
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
十兵衛暗殺剣
director: Junji Kurata actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Chōichirō Kawarasaki …
other title: 十兵衛暗殺剣 / Yagyu Chronicles 9 Assassins Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing school has opened in Edo, claiming to be the true Shinkage style. Yagyu Jubei faces his biggest challenge yet when the master of the new school claims he is the legitimate successor of Shinkage and tries to take the Yagyu's political power.
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
柳生武芸帳　片目水月の剣
director: Yasuto Hasegawa actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: Yagyu Chronicles 6: The Yagyu Scroll / 柳生武芸帳　片目水月の剣
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei must stop the evil plot of Lord Hayato-no-sho, who secretly plans on overthrowing the Shogunate. This is the most exciting film in the long-running series about one of the greatest swordsmen in Japanese history. Konoe Jushiro gives one of his finest performances in this classic tale.
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Spring Bell (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
春の鐘
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Kinya Kitaoji / Yoshiko Mita …
other title: 春の鐘 / Haru no Kane
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.