Yūzō Hayakawa — Actor (26)
The Black Trademark (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒の商標
director: Tarō Yuge actor: Ken Utsui / Yukiko Fuji
other title: 黒の商標
Ide of the Kokusai Rayon Company visits a supermarket and finds cheap shirts being passed off as his company's products. But a closer look reveals that the last letter of "Kokusai" has been changed to "n" and reads "Kokusan." The buyers, however, are all under the impression that they are buying Kokusai shirts. Ide begins an investigation to find out where the shirts are being made, but before he is able to uncover anything, he is killed on a train and his little black book, filled with secret data, is stolen. Sugino then starts a one-man search for both the killer and the factory turning out the cheap shirts.
House of Evil Spirits (1980) [Movie] TMDB
悪霊の棲む館
other title: 悪霊の棲む館
A suspense work starring Junko Natsu. One night, Saiko Ogata, a popular female DJ on a late-night radio music program, discovers a strange letter among a pile of postcards. It was a letter written in the style of a 5 or 6-year-old child, beginning with, "Mom, I am in a dark and cold world right now." Saiko is shocked. That letter was a letter from her own child, whose father was Kazuo Yamazaki, whom Saiko had fallen in love with six years ago when they were trainees at a certain theater company, and who had sprouted in Saiko's womb but passed away without being born...
Lowly Ronin 4: Living Hell (1983) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Suronin Makari Toru 4 Sarumo Jigoku Nokorumo Jigoku
other title: Suronin Makari Toru 4 Sarumo Jigoku Nokorumo Jigoku
The "lowly ronin" meets a child who is being chased by men that killed his father before his eyes. Feeling indebted to the child for buying him dinner, the Ronin takes the child back to his village. There, the Ronin reluctantly gets involved in a pathetic revolt by the cowardly villagers against their tyrannical governor. Mifune at his best!
Back Stairways (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
裏階段
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yōko Tsukasa
other title: 裏階段
A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.
Naked Ambition (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
おんな極悪帖
other title: おんな極悪帖
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".
The Killer's Killer (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
皆殺しのスキャット
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Yōko Namikawa
other title: 皆殺しのスキャット
Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago. When he visits the graveyard with his father to pray at his mother's tomb, his father is shot by someone. Now he thirsts for revenge.
The Woman Gambler (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
女賭博師
director: Tarō Yuge actor: Kyōko Enami / Saeda Kawaguchi
other title: 女賭博師
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two female gamblers vie for the same man in a high-stakes, best-of-seven showdown—from which only one will emerge victorious. Amid the tense atmosphere, Natsue, a highly skilled card dealer, gracefully reveals her hand with the flick of her slender fingers. At that precise moment, across the table, Takiko’s face goes ashen—she’s just lost the fateful game her lover had wagered his fortune on. The next day, Takiko and her boyfriend attempt a double suicide in despair, but she survives alone. Consumed by twisted emotions toward Natsue, a man named Isobe manipulates Takiko. Under his influence, Takiko seduces Tagami—who is Natsue’s fiancé—setting the stage for a dangerous and tangled web of love, revenge, and deceit.
Love and Greed (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
「女の小箱」より夫が見た
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Ayako Wakao
other title: 「女の小箱」より夫が見た / Otto ga mita 'Onna no kobako' yori
Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.
Superexpress (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
黒の超特急
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Jirō Tamiya / Yukiko Fuji
other title: Le Train super-express noir / 黒の超特急
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Vixen (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
女体
director: 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.
Two Wives (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
妻二人
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Ayako Wakao / Mariko Okada
other title: Deux épouses / Two wives
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...