Kōjirō Kusanagi — Actor (45)
Cruel Gun Story (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
拳銃残酷物語
director: Takumi Furukawa actor: Joe Shishido / Chieko Matsubara
other title: 拳銃残酷物語
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Madadayo (1993) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb
まあだだよ
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Tatsuo Matsumura / Kyōko Kagawa
other title: Madadayo - Il compleanno / まあだだよ
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset of WWII. The story is told mostly in vignettes as he is cared for by former students in his old age.
Danger Pays (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
危いことなら銭になる
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Joe Shishido / Hiroyuki Nagato
other title: 危いことなら銭になる / Les Apprentis faux-monnayeurs
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....