Yoshio Harada — Actor (93)
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Out of Focus (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
盗写1/250秒 OUT OF FOCUS
director: Masato Harada actor: Ryudo Uzaki / Yuko Saito …
other title: 盗写1/250秒 OUT OF FOCUS
A magazine publisher called Out Of Focus hires a new female camerawoman. This company is located in Tokyo. The new photographer moves from outside the city to Tokyo and upon arrival and on her first day is tasked with immediately snapping pictures. Her boss sends her on a mission with a senior colleague. The senior cameraman uses rogue ways surprising his new colleague. A new assignment related to a former Japanese Prime Minister falls on her lap. The court does not look fondly at photography of this kind.
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Song of Vengeance (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
復讐の歌が聞える
director: Masahisa Sadanaga / Shigeyuki Yamane actor: Yoshio Harada / Ryōhei Uchida …
other title: 復讐の歌が聞える
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of the company with a long-standing grudge who is responsible, but he died in the first ten minutes of the movie. Or did he? This may aptly be described as a giallo-noir for the unrelenting string of murders by a mystery man and the black-and-white gritty urban setting.
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The Fearless Avenger (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
無宿人御子神の丈吉 川風に過去は流れた
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Yoshio Harada / Atsuo Nakamura …
other title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 川風に過去は流れた
Thirsting for revenge, Jokichi rashly attempts to assassinate the evil Chogoro but ends up being captured by yakuza. His life is spared by Boss Juzaburo, in order that the harmony of an important commemoration not be further disturbed. Though now even more of an outcast, Jokichi is asked by another Yakuza boss, Umezo, to guard Oyuki, the wayward daughter of Juzaburo. The tragic consequences of this assignment will lead him into a deadly trap and a final confrontation with Chogoro.
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The Whispered City (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
ざわざわ下北沢
director: Jun Ichikawa actor: Yoshio Harada / Tomoko Kitagawa …
other title: ざわざわ下北沢
Director Jun Ichikawa spins this affectionate portrait of the people who populate Shimokitazawa, a bohemian corner of Tokyo filled with small theater companies and smoky coffeehouses.
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Ready to Shoot (1990) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
われに撃つ用意あり
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Yoshio Harada / Kaori Momoi …
other title: われに撃つ用意あり / Ware ni Utsu Yōi Ari
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.
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Summer of the Lion Kings (1991) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
獅子王たちの夏
director: Banmei Takahashi actor: Show Aikawa / Koji Matoba …
other title: 獅子王たちの夏
Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the yakuza world he had envisioned. At that time, Katsu, who met Osamu who belongs to the conflicting Dainippon Kyokushinkai, feels the real gangster scent of Osamu.
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Hangyaku no Tabi (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
反逆の旅
director: Yūsuke Watanabe actor: Yoshio Harada / Yoko Takahashi …
other title: 反逆の旅
Hiroshi Kakurai is an assassin who was thinking of retiring. He travels to an island in the Seto Inland Sea and begins to live peacefully with Shinobu, a woman he has fallen in love with, but the intensity of his love for her begins to drive him towards destruction...
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Onibi: The Fire Within (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
鬼火
director: Rokurō Mochizuki actor: Yoshio Harada / Reiko Kataoka …
other title: Onibi - Feuerkreis / 鬼火
After spending over half his life in prison, ex-hitman Kunihiro is determined to go straight. But the shortcomings of the new gangs mean that he is soon having to call on his old-school yakuza talents. And when he falls for Asako, a beautiful piano player, she unknowingly ignites a fire within Kuni that will immolate everything and everybody around him. Regarded by many as his masterpiece, Onibi has all the hallmarks of a Mochizuki film, with the gangster elements tightly compressed and controlled to allow space in which a subdued romance can bloom. Coming from a background in porno cinema, this master of sexual relations injects a fresh passion and tension into the macho world of the yakuza film.
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A Yakuza in Love (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
恋極道
director: Rokurō Mochizuki actor: Eiji Okuda / Yūna Natsuo …
other title: 恋極道
When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are quickly blurred. Through great ups and downs their love will be tested, but the ultimate test lies in whether or not they will survive the downward pull of the lifestyle they have chosen.
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Slaughter in the Snow (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
無宿人御子神の丈吉 黄昏に閃光が飛んだ
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Yoshio Harada / Hajime Araki …
other title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 黄昏に閃光が飛んだ
In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?
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Melody of Rebellion (1970) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
反逆のメロディー
director: Yukihiro Sawada actor: Yoshio Harada / Meiko Kaji …
other title: 反逆のメロディー / Hangyaku no merodī
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
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Play it, Boogie-Woogie (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
スローなブギにしてくれ
director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Atsuko Asano / Masato Furuoya …
other title: Play It Boogie Woogie / スローなブギにしてくれ
A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent chaotic relationships.
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The Triple Cross (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
いつかギラギラする日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Kazuya Kimura …
other title: Double Cross - Das Action-Massaker / Un jour étincelant …
Following the bloody aftermath of a heist, three robbers are double-crossed by a new accomplice, who is then tracked down amid escalating carnage and spectacular car chases.
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Cabaret (1986) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
キャバレー
director: Haruki Kadokawa actor: Hironobu Nomura / Takeshi Kaga …
other title: キャバレー
A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist starts playing at a particular nightspot, a thug from the Yakuza adopts him as a special friend for no greater reason than he plays one of his favorite songs well. As the dangerous life of the gangster intertwines with that of the musician, it brings harm to the musician's girlfriend, who is raped. This changes the young saxophonist's attitude about his patron, but his Yakuza "friend" is still too embroiled in his own problems to worry about anything else.