Tatsuo Endō — Actor (82)

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Fate Deals the Card of Death (1971)
博奕打ち いのち札 IMDb TMDB
other title: 博奕打ち いのち札
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss who can help her family business.

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Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
あゝ決戦航空隊 IMDb TMDB
other title: Â kessen kôkûtai / あゝ決戦航空隊
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.

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Samurai Geisha (1969)
日本女侠伝 侠客芸者 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 日本女侠伝 侠客芸者 / Nihon jokyo-den: kyokaku geisha
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era. A stellar all-star cast, a thrilling story, and Takakura Ken's violent swordplay, make this a classic Yakuza movie!

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Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope (1981)
京都妖怪地図2 きらら坂に住む400歳の氷女 TMDB
other title: 京都妖怪地図2 きらら坂に住む400歳の氷女
The frozen corpse of a young apprentice monk is found near Kirara Hill in Rakuhoku. Detective Hayakawa from the Kyoto Prefectural Police grows suspicious of the fact that someone froze to death in the middle of summer and visits his nephew Saburo, who works at a cryogenics research institute. Shortly after, the frozen body of Saburo’s father, Takayoshi, is also discovered. Recently, Takayoshi had been closely involved with a designer named Saori.

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Kyoto Yokai Map 1: A 900-Year-Old New Bride Living in Sagano (1980)
京都妖怪地図1 嵯峨野に生きる900歳の新妻 TMDB
other title: 京都妖怪地図1 嵯峨野に生きる900歳の新妻
Kaori, a doll hairdresser, is a demonic woman who has been alive for over 900 years. She has maintained her youth by drinking the blood of young men while waiting for her husband, who disappeared shortly after their wedding. However, when Kinosaki, who looks exactly like her husband, uncovers her true identity, Kaori transforms into a terrifying figure.

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Modern Lady Gambler (1972)
昭和おんな博徒 IMDb TMDB
other title: 昭和おんな博徒
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...

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Golden Ninja (1966)
冒険大活劇 黄金の盗賊 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 冒険大活劇 黄金の盗賊
Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. When the leader cuts down the rest of the team, a bloodstained footman seems to be the only survivor, and his image haunts the pair for the next twenty years. As they are serving a prison sentence a plan is hatched to get them released so they can lead their captors to the hidden gold on Hikone Beach. Danger and excitement await the two as they run into unexpected and dangerous obstacles!

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Yakuza Ladies 2 (1987)
極道の妻たちII WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 極道の妻たちII
Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence. As she grows into her new role, she manages to assert control and increase the influence of her organization. But when her husband is released from prison, she finds him a changed man, lacking the character necessary to be a powerful yakuza leader. Conflict ensues and their marriage is challenged by a desire for power.

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Game of Chance 3 (1967)
出世子守唄 IMDb TMDB
other title: 出世子守唄
Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his son Kenichi. Tired of running, the two settle in a mountain town. Bungo finds work as a lumberjack for the Iwasaki family and Kenichi becomes a student at the local elementary school. Regrettably, their good fortune doesn't last. The yakuza boss, Tomitaka, wants control of the town's lumber and is willing to destroy the Iwasaki to get it. Natsue, Kenichi's estranged no-good mother, returns wanting to take part in the boy's upbringing. And shortly thereafter, a mysterious stranger arrives in town to lay claim on Bungo's life...

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The Rickshaw Man’s Son (1967)
河内遊侠伝 IMDb TMDB
other title: Tale of Kawachi Chivalry / 河内遊侠伝
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.

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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (1969)
緋牡丹博徒 二代目襲名 IMDb TMDB
other title: Lady Yakuza 4 - L'Héritière / Lady Yakuza Red Peony Gambler 4: Second Generation Ceremony …
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livelihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.

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Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group (1973)
恐怖女子高校 不良悶絶グループ IMDb TMDB
other title: Terrifying Girls' High School 3 : Delinquent Convulsion Group / 恐怖女子高校 不良悶絶グループ
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.

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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation (1968)
緋牡丹博徒 一宿一飯 IMDb TMDB
other title: Lady Yakuza 2 - La règle du jeu / Lady Yakuza Red Peony Gambler 2: Gambler's Obligation …
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town’s businesses, murders him, Oryu is obliged to protect his children and business.

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Silk Hat Boss (1970)
シルクハットの大親分 IMDb TMDB
other title: シルクハットの大親分
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler series. Having made a fortune in the Russo-Japanese War, the Kumatora Family migrates to Kyushu to take on a military-related job. There they encounter the evil and malicious interference of the Chindai family of Kumamoto, and Boss Kumatora boldly fights back with the help of O'Ryu the Red Peony. A super entertaining film with non-stop comedy and action directed by Suzuki Norifumi.

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Ninja's Mark (1968)
忍びの卍 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 忍びの卍
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even discovering their leader, a beautiful young girl named Kagiroi. Guessing that she is the daughter of some ousted daimyo anxious to get back into favor, he is about to unmask her when he is taken prisoner...

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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation (1968)
兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃 WikiData TMDB
other title: 兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.

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Kanto Street Peddlers: Royal Temple Duel (1970)
関東テキヤ一家 天王寺の決斗 IMDb TMDB
other title: 関東テキヤ一家 天王寺の決斗
The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he defends a blind girl at a street market. The area is targeted by rotten yakuza (Asao Koike and Tatsuo Endo), who have lured local senior female boss (Nijiko Kiyokawa’s) rebellious but not entirely indecent son Goro Ibuki to their side.