Shigeru Amachi — Actor (38)
Black Line (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
黒線地帯
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Shigeru Amachi / Utako Mitsuya
other title: 黒線地帯
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line’s rotten swamp of drugs, prostitution, and murder and finds unexpected help in Maya, a steamy female gambler familiar with the neon-lit streets, shadowy alleyways, and seedy nightclubs he must navigate. The closest film in the Line series to classic American film noir, Ishii’s Black Line is a pulpy assortment of crime film conventions including the starkly expressionistic black and white cinematography by Jûgyô Yoshida, a jazzy music score by Michiaki Watanabe, and a sleazy screenplay by Ishii and Ichirô Miyagawa.
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun (1983) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の左門十手無頼帖 将軍暗殺!
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Daijirō Harada / Mari Sato
other title: 地獄の左門十手無頼帖 将軍暗殺!
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch and about to be beaten up when he was saved by the quick thinking of a ferryman Sanji. The infiltration is the plan of Samon and chief elder Abe Isenokami, who has asked Samon to obtain smuggling evidence against shipping whole retailers Kawachiya Senemon and his son Sennosuke.
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records (1982) [Movie] TMDB
地獄の左門 十手無賴帖
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Daigo Kusano
other title: 地獄の左門 十手無賴帖
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.” Samon suspects that the drowning incident at the raw silk wholesaler Shinano-ya was the work of Maruya Rihei, a kimono wholesaler favored by the Ōoku, but has no evidence to prove his allegation. The elder Arao Tsushima-no-kami who is colluding with Maruya plan on building a gold mine on an uninhabited island using prisoners. Arao gives the supervision charge to Samon, who along with his comrades and Horikawa takes up his post on the island but is attacked by assassins one after another.
The Silent Gun (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
勝負犬
director: Yoshio Inoue actor: Jirō Tamiya / Shigeru Amachi
other title: 勝負犬
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.
Modern Lady Gambler (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
昭和おんな博徒
director: Tai Katō actor: Kyōko Enami / Hiroki Matsukata
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...
Two Lives, Two Yakuza (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
竜虎一代
director: Tsuneo Kobayashi actor: Koji Tsuruta / Sumiko Fuji
other title: 竜虎一代 / Ryūko ichidai
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an ambush. It turns out the man is the head of a hard working clan appointed to a railway construction project. A ruthless yakuza gang is also trying to get their share of the project and attempts to sabotage the work. After the old man dies, his son (Sonny Chiba) and daughter (Junko Fuji) try to complete the project. Tsuruta joins them while also falling in love with a local woman working in a bar (after all, Tsuruta always was more of a lover than his stoic colleague Takakura).
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
女番長ブルース 牝蜂の逆襲
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Reiko Ike / Yukie Kagawa
other title: 女番長ブルース 牝蜂の逆襲 / El contraataque de la abeja reina
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and between boyfriends. But she has to defend her choices the hard way, as her triumph and power over the girls' gang is questioned by her female rivals, and the all powerful Yakuza Boss. She inspires loyalty to her girls, and to men to the extent of many of them literally giving their lives for her - in a world of knife and gun fighting, bike and car chasing, and violent death.
Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
新選組始末記
other title: 新選組始末記
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Fire Line (1961) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
火線地帯
director: 武部弘道 actor: 吉田辉雄 / 三原叶子
other title: 火线地带 / 火線地帯
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from a rival gang. Somewhere in the process they find themselves on the run from their own gang and one of them becomes himself romantically entangled with the boss's girlfriend. An ambitious underboss of the gang offers them a way out if they murder the previous boss but things don't turn out as planned (for everyone).