Yūsuke Kawazu — Actor (23)
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A Woman's Gamble (1966)
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Shigeo Tanaka actor: Kyōko Enami / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: 女の賭場
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's number one dealer.
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A Trap (1965)
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Yoji Yamada actor: Chieko Baisho / Osamu Takizawa …
other title: Drapeau dans la brume / 霧の旗
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately her naive idealism is shattered when the lawyer refuses to take the case based on her insufficient funds. What follows is a long determined revenge plot that sees the heroine become a Tokyo bar hostess and worse to punish the lawyer. The plot thickens with another murder mystery and a sleuthing reporter.
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CF Guretai (1985)
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Yasuharu Hasebe actor: Koichi Sato / Toru Minegishi …
other title: CF愚連隊
Soutaro Nagare is an assistant at a commercial film production company. However, one day at the studio, he punches a cameraman and gets fired. Taking this as an opportunity, Soutaro decided to become a director, and with a book about commercial films he had produced during his university days in hand, he began visiting various companies.
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Good-for-Nothing (1960)
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Yoshishige Yoshida actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: Bon à rien / ろくでなし
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a "good-for-nothing" from a poor background falls in love with the young secretary of his rich friend's father. The woman senses good in him and tries to lead him on the right path.
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Vixen (1969)
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Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ruriko Asaoka / Eiji Okada …
other title: Indagine su una ninfomane / 女体 …
Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to swindle him out of two million yen for alleged rape by his son. Akie, Ishida's wife and the chairman's daughter, offers her a million, but he gives her what she demands. Now Michi is not only satisfied, but she has a mad desire for Ishida and calls him every day asking for a date. His sympathy for her gradually evolves into love, and he soon allows her insatiable passion to strip him of his decency.
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An Ode to Yakuza (1970)
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Yasuzō Masumura actor: Shintarō Katsu / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: Ode Au Yakuza / やくざ絶唱 …
Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer (1981)
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Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Hiroyuki Sanada …
other title: 冒険者カミカゼ
An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.
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Blackmail Is My Life (1968)
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Kinji Fukasaku actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tomomi Satō …
other title: Kamikaze Club / 恐喝こそわが人生 …
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
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Play It Cool (1970)
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Yasuzō Masumura actor: Mari Atsumi / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: La Méduse électrique / でんきくらげ …
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.